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Sen Durbin, "Who gave the order to flag Epstein records related to Trump?"

Pam Bondi, "I'm not going to discuss anything about that with you"

#octoberrecipe

Carbonara is a pasta dish made with fatty cured pork, hard cheese, eggs, salt, and black pepper. It is typical of the Lazio region of Italy. The dish took its modern form and name in the middle of the 20th century. The cheese used is usually pecorino romano.
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Tonight!

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will be Rachel Maddow's guest.

9pmET on MSNBC

We don't give enough credit to journalists who risk life and limb to bring us the truth

We used to have Presidents who loved the American people.

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

"“If the deputy director wants to do something and needs a legal opinion about whether or not he can do it, he can’t advise himself...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

apnews.com/article/chic...

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

🚨 Keefer v. Biden Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES petition by Republican Pennsylvania legislators invoking the discredited ISL theory to challenge a pro-voting executive order passed by President Joe Biden along with other Pennsylvania-specific voting policies. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Utah Republicans Advance New Gerrymandered Congressional Map Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans in Utah advanced a new congressional map favored to help their party retain total political control in the Beehive State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

#motivationmonday #ethadereme #realtor

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” — Nelson Mandela

Democrats came back to work this week to prevent a government shutdown.

Republicans were on vacation.

Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

On Wednesday, over 550 celebrities relaunched a group first organized during the post-World War II Red Scare: the Committee for the First Amendment. Their intent is to stand up in what they call a "defense of our constitutional rights,"

www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

Father David Gierlach on the need for America to face the two original sins of its founding—the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans.

Only by facing ourselves can we truly move forward as a nation.

This is all they want. They don’t care about a trial or a conviction.

Meet Russ Vought: Trump's Shutdown Architect.

Father Michael Pfleger calls out Trump and says that the "state of emergency is in America"

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Lawrence O’Donnell is right: the fight for Virginia’s future is the fight for America’s future. The most important election this year is Abigail Spanberger for Governor. Power, rights, and democracy itself are on the line—let’s raise hell and win. 🔥 #VoteVA
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

The American people aren’t buying the Trump/GOP lies.

Nearly half blame Trump and the GOP for the shutdown.

Trump thinks if he causes Democrats enough pain, they will cave. Not realizing the pain he’s causing is on both sides of the aisle. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown
Breaking through the noise.

It was a perversion of the US military and all it used to stand for.

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Howard Lutnick calls Epstein the 'greatest blackmailer ever' on podcast Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein the "greatest blackmailer ever" while speaking on a New York Post podcast. Also, a new poll shows 77% of Americans want all of the Epstein file...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein the "greatest blackmailer ever" while speaking on a New York Post podcast. Also, a new poll shows 77% of Americans want all of the Epstein files released.

@jakelahut.writes.news joins Katy Tur to discuss.
www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...

She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook