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Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

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Ah yes let us not judge her based on the words that come out of her own mouth but rather whether or not she created shareholder value

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

Under the Desk News issued a video about the connection between real estate management companies and these "immigration" raids (The Chicago raid wasn't about immigration. Something far more sinister drove it.).

I decided to look up what's happening with propery management companies.

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Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized.

We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon.

She issued that order

ATTN: PA VOTERS

🚨IMPORTANT🚨

VOTE YES TO RETAIN 💥DEM MAJORITY 💥 PA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
Christine Donohue
Kevin Dougherty
David Wecht

‼️If using mail in ballots, the Supreme Court Justices are
located on the flip side.

‼️In the voting booth, they will be located at the bottom of the screen.

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

First thing I saw this morning.

Judge Diane Goldstein's house ablaze. She recently told the regime no.

Her husband, and children are ok. Thankfully they were able to escape. By jumping out of a window.

Wtaf America?

#SheShed

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

TIME MAG - “The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire…” (Stephen miller in particular has been lashing out at judges)

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Screenshot of court order, which reads in part: “A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion land a trial on the meries under Rule 65(al(2) is set for October 29, 2025l before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.”

While we were sleeping:

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from deploying any federalized National Guard—Texas, California, the state’s own—in Oregon.

That’s big news. Even bigger: She’s decided to hold a trial on the merits. That is: She’s putting people under oath.

We’re trying to Imagine the reaction from Tennessee Republicans if New York deployed the National guard into Tennessee without @GovBillLee’s approval to to enforce a policy Tennesseans were overwhelmingly against

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Christian nationalist fascism: when they lower masked Gestapo goons from helicopters in the night to smash apartment windows, terrorize residents, and zip-tie and kidnap children for not being white looking enough— and then violate the 1st Amendment by reciting scripture from a government account.

If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

Referring to the abuse visited upon over a thousand girls as a “red herring” is nasty work, you asshole.

primary anybody who doesn't talk like this

Gov. Newsom says Trump administration has deployed California National Guard troops to Oregon The move comes one day after a federal judge blocked the president's plan to deploy Oregon National Guard troops in Portland.

WTF. Federal court ruled against Trump sending OR National Guard to Portland. So…he’s sending CALIFORNIA National Guard to Oregon. Time for another lawsuit! #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

‘Stakes Are High:’ Big Law Alerts Clients on Trump’s Domestic Terrorism Order Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

Some of the nation’s largest law firms warn clients to prepare for politically motivated federal probes stemming from Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, which could be used to stifle dissent and revoke tax-exempt status from left-leaning nonprofits. https://bit.ly/4gXSqC8

It Sure Looks Like This MAGA Influencer Is Committing Voter Fraud Jack Posobiec keeps voting in a swing state he doesn’t live in.

Jack Posobiec, of “Pizzagate” fame, has been voting in Pennsylvania for nearly a decade while living in Maryland. trib.al/uJhfGZW

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.

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.

Trump is defunding the police where he can so he can fill the void with his masked Gestapo. He did it in DC, and he tried it in New York but balked. Additionally, Pam Bondi is investigating the Portland police bureau because they arrested a right wing agitator. Pay attention.

History repeats.

Four U.S. citizen children were detained in an ICE raid—zip-tied, separated, held for hours.

Imagine if these were your precious little ones! Can you close your eyes to this depravity? Please don't.

Remember

If this could happen to these little kids, it can happen to yours.

Speak out now!

Most American Jews say Trump is using antisemitism as an 'excuse' to silence free speech at universities Most Jewish Americans disapprove of the Trump administration withholding funds from colleges to address anti-Jewish sentiment, according to a new survey.

Even among Jewish-Americans. www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

Our cities are under siege

Print with two stylised figures facing left holding umbrellas as if battling gusts of strong winds, behind the sky swirls in blue and white

Sybil Andrews,
The Gale (1930)
Linocut, Art Deco style print from the Modernist Printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Unfit for Office Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.

“Which raises the question: If Trump can’t tell the truth even when it counts most, with legal jeopardy on the line and lawyers there to help prepare him, is he able to apprehend the truth at all?”

“This is not normal for a functioning adult.”

Read this.