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ICE conducts 'Knock and Talk' in Fremont, raising concerns among community leaders U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, or ICE, showed up in Fremont early Saturday morning. It happened in a very diverse community and some activists are concerned that certain ethnic group...

Link to reported Fremont ICE activity:

ICE ordered to stop knock-and-talk tactic for immigration arrests in LA In a decision this week, a federal judge said the tactic violated the Fourth Amendment. Rather than blocking the practice altogether, he barred ICE's LA office from using it.

ICE conducting "knock and talks" in Fremont, CA.
"According to a plaintiff expert witness cited in Wright’s ruling, knock-and-talks accounted for at least 27% of residential arrests for the period during which data was available, including at least 8% of all arrests in 2022."

Travel budgets have been locked down quite a bit at companies in order to "save money".

Timeless representation of what was elected to office. Liars, the lot of them. Vance even admitted he was willing to create stories to get attention.

@schiff.senate.gov I am one of your voting constituents.

Stop caving to the GOP. Tell Schumer to stop caving.

Start protecting your constituents from Trump's cruelty and the GOP enabling of it.

If you were legally able to vote on California's Prop 50 and didn't, why didn't you?

The US needs voter participation now more than ever.

Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.

Must look pretty bad for the numbers to drop enough that they aren't publishing them. What I saw of the 2023 layoff was overrepresented by women, older employees, and minority groups. And if those make up a smaller fraction of the workforce to begin with, yeah your total numbers are going to crater.

Trump wants to make people angry and desperate enough such that he gets to declare martial law. He doesn't understand the danger of creating more people who feel they have nothing to lose. I'm sure the J6ers he pardoned think they can get away with anything and what happens when they get desperate?

Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law – #146 in State of Oregon v. Trump (D. Or., 3:25-cv-01756) – CourtListener.com FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW: For the reasons provided, this Court GRANTS declaratory relief and permanent injunctive relief, as stated herein, and in the accompanying Judgment. See attache...

Trump violated the tenth amendment.

It is past time for Congress to impeach.

Who's in power right now? Oh, it's the GOP enabling Trump's constitutional crimes.

It's like she knows she's going to lose reelection and is getting paid off to do these things on her way out.

California Proposition 6: Limit forced labor Proposition 6 would amend the California Constitution to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude in state prisons.

We tried to limit prison labor in "liberal" California last year. We failed miserably. 😞

CONCLUSION For the above reasons, this Court concludes that Plaintiffs have demonstrated that Defendants violated 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and the Tenth Amendment and satisfy the requirements for a permanent injunction. Therefore, this Court PERMANENTLY ENJOINS Defendants24 Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Department of Defense, Kristi Noem, and the U.S. Department of 24 As this Court may lack jurisdiction to enjoin President Trump in the performance of his official duties, see Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 802–03 (1992) (plurality opinion); Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 475, 501 (1866), this injunction applies only against the other Defendants. PAGE 105 – FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051;

Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051; 2. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 5, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Texas National Guard, to the extent that it deploys members of the Texas National Guard in Oregon, Ex. 6; 3. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 16, 2025 Memorandum to the extent that it authorizes the deployment of federalized members of the California and Texas National Guards to Oregon, Ex. 2; and 4. any memoranda deploying members of any other State’s National Guard to Oregon based on the same predicate conditions that were relied upon to authorize the above orders. This Court retains jurisdiction pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, to enforce the terms of this permanent injunction against any party.

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.

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How much do you want to bet they started playing with AI because they were told it will reduce costs and nevermind about "glitches" that just make life harder for patients?

JFC, Blue Shield. I've been taking various meds for years and suddenly you're requiring prior authorization when they have already been approved for years?

All you are doing is making it take longer for me to get my medications and potentially harmfully delaying my access.

What is wrong with you?

Racism is absolutely an amusing punchline to people making racist jokes. *And* the people who make those jokes are racist.

I had to grow up with racists existing on both sides of my family (yes, even as a BIPOC). This is lived experience.

When a white man tries to tell me, a BIPOC, the goals of someone making a racist joke is... 🙄

(saying it is a joke isn't to *just* excuse the racism. Racism's still a joke to them and attempts to normalize/propagate denigration/racism/stereotypes for their amusement at the expense of BIPOC)

Google Stock Slips despite Revealing ‘Project Suncatcher,’ Its Boldest AI Idea Yet - TipRanks.com Shares of Google ($GOOGL) fell today, even though the tech giant revealed “Project Suncatcher,” one of its boldest ideas yet. The plan is to launch solar-powered sa...

Great. More sky pollution planned now thanks to Google (Starlink was bad enough). We're headed toward WALL-E skies. Can you imagine a data center of satellites clogging the night sky?

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Gavin Newsom shocks LGBTQ allies with criticism of transgender athletes Newsom said it was "deeply unfair" for transgender athletes to participate in girls' sports, breaking years of advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community.

Now that Mamdani won, can we please hold Governor Newsom accountable and *not* elect him as the Democrat for president in the primary for the anti-trans remarks he made in his interview with (*checks notes*) Charlie Kirk?
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we're allowed to want better for ourselves than aging rapists and the rape apologists who support them

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach.

If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

It's being discussed in non-public forums I'm in

Tesla Shifts Its Engineering Headquarters Back To California The automaker’s engineering headquarters will now be just over 30 miles from Twitter, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought last year.

Not only are they still here, but idiots like Musk tried to take their company to Texas and *had to return* in less than 2 years.

These are millions who will go without health insurance. We know what happens next; increased emergency room use, overburdening of emergency services, increased financial burden on taxpayers, and an increase in chronic illness, disability, and preventable death.

"Trump used to be a democrat and therefore we should ignore his sexual assault, harassment, and felonies!"

Like seriously, how comfortable is Brian Mann with sexual harassment?

They always go after minority groups first for layoffs. This is also how it appeared in the Google layoffs (a "strange" larger percentage of minority groups, parents, and people on medical leave). This is the result of unconscious (and conscious) bias.

The image shows a large century plant, or Agave americana, with a tall flowering stalk growing from its center approximately 20 feet in height. The plant is located in a landscaped area in front of a beige stucco sided house, and other plants, including a cactus, are visible nearby. The century plant has a rosette of stiff, sword-shaped leaves that can grow up to six feet long. The leaves have strong spines along their edges and a single spine at the tip. The plant is known for its unique flowering habit, blooming only once in its lifetime with a towering flower stalk that can reach heights of up to 30 feet.

The image shows an Agave americana on the side of a beige painted house, commonly known as a century plant, with a very tall flower stalk about 2 stories in height. The plant is a type of succulent that forms a large rosette of blue-green leaves. The flower stalk, which can grow up to 30 feet tall, is covered with yellow flowers. The plant blooms only once in its lifetime, typically after 10 to 30 years, and then dies.

I have never seen flower spikes this tall in the entirety of my life. A search on the internet sadly tells me these are death blooms and that the plant will die after this. #flowersky

Every reporter needs to ask Republicans blaming Democrats for the shutdown what concessions they are prepared to make to reopen the government.

The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

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Because rules/norms were made only to constrain the "outgroup".