Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Massive Voter Purge Database Hits Snags Read more here.

NEW: A federal judge criticized pro-voting groups, who are suing to block the Trump administration from using a citizenship verification system to purge state voter rolls, over their “muddled” filing and gave them until Wednesday to bolster their argument.

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Federal Judge Skewers Top Trump Officials Over ‘Troubling’ Statements Against Abrego Garcia Read more here.

A federal judge criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top Trump administration officials for making “troubling” statements against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly sent to El Salvador, that threaten his right to a fair trial. https://bit.ly/47vjJQ2

Pritzker: "Farmers are under attack...by the reckless policies of the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress...When Donald Trump tweets from his golf course when he feels personally slighted by a foreign leader, Illinois farmers are losing their livelihoods."

Pritzker: "To add insult to injury, while our farmers are losing markets, Donald Trump is providing a $20 billion handout to Argentina...What happened to America First?"

White House fires board that reviews presidential construction projects in Washington The president plans to build a triumphal arch along the Potomac River and a new ballroom on the White House grounds.

The White House fires all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that would have reviewed President Trump’s ballroom construction project, a White House official confirms to NBC News.

The Department of Energy said it was saving taxpayers $7.56 billion. The actual amount is much less The termination of 223 projects will likely put companies out of business and lead to layoffs … and lawsuits.

The DOE said it canceled more than $7.5 billion in energy projects. The actual amount appears to be much less. And many projects had broad support.

UK lawmakers question Prince Andrew's use of Windsor mansion A British parliamentary committee questioned on Wednesday whether Prince Andrew should still be living in a mansion on the Windsor Estate, west of London, in a rare political intervention sparked by the royal's ties to U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

UK lawmakers question Prince Andrew's use of Windsor mansion reut.rs/47g7lEE

DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack Read more here.

NEW: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave — just hours after filing a memo accurately describing Jan. 6 as “a mob of rioters attacking the U.S. Capitol.”

Another extreme example of interference with DOJ independence by the Trump White House.

Republicans are taking away health care from 15 million Americans.

They are doubling premiums for 20 million.

Now, they are illegally withholding emergency SNAP funding that keeps millions of children from going hungry.

All so they can give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1%.

Mike Johnson Lies to Reporter’s Face About If He’s Seen Protest Video House Speaker Mike Johnson played dumb about a video he was already asked about days prior.

It’s not clear what’s worse: the idea that Johnson would hear a report about the use of excessive force against a faith leader and never think about it again—or that he actually expects Americans to believe he never heard about it in the first place. trib.al/tKL2i8J

But many Salt Lake City service providers expressed anxiety about the plan. The proposed site is near the airport, in a remote spot where pasture is gradually giving way to industrial warehouses. The nearest public bus stop is about two miles away, an hour’s walk over stretches of road that have no sidewalks. “What makes you think anybody’s going to stay there?” said Dr. Plumb, the Democratic state senator. “Oh, excuse me — they don’t have the right to leave. That’s what is going to make them stay there.” Among the biggest outstanding questions about the project is how to pay for it. Mr. Shumway has estimated $75 million in construction costs, followed by yearly operating costs of $34 million. Some of the costs might be trimmed by offering mental health care on an outpatient basis, through a federal clinic Mr. Shumway hopes to locate there. He has also proposed redirecting about $17 million in federal homelessness grants now overseen by community groups and largely used for housing. “If you start fiddling with that money, you’re going to be pulling people out of housing into homelessness,” Josh Romney, son of the Republican former Senator Mitt Romney and the chair of Shelter the Homeless, a nonprofit organization that owns the city’s existing shelters, warned the services board last month.

you know things are bad when Romney's son is like "you guys are going to take money to intern the homeless?"

Senate votes to block tariffs on Brazil. It shows some pushback to Trump trade policy The legislation would terminate the national emergencies that Trump has declared to justify the tariffs. Kaine is planning similar resolutions applying to Trump's tariffs on Canada and other nations.

The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday evening that would nullify President Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, including oil, coffee and orange juice, as Democrats tested GOP senators’ support for Trump’s trade policy. https://to.pbs.org/4oId7Ve

It already happens, people will put off this stuff until they visit family. Have heard stories of people getting all their medical done at once and still paid under what it would have been here. So yes it is in some cases cheaper to take a whole vacation and get medical work done at the same time.

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

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Defense Department takes steps to fire civilian employees with 'speed and conviction' A Pentagon official said the policy has been in effect for about a month now.

A day before the federal government shut down this month, a senior Pentagon official signed a memo that could make it easier for the Defense Department to fire employees.

8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on 10/18

France revamps rape law after Gisele Pelicot case Senators approved changes to France's rape law on Wednesday to include consent, bringing the legislation more into line with more than a dozen other European countries in a move that was given new impetus by the Gisele Pelicot mass rape trial.

France revamps rape law after Gisele Pelicot case reut.rs/49pCBCj

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

"I quit. I quit the Republican party and my job as an accomplice to the party in the throes of an authoritarian cult." www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

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Nothing says “America First” like selling out U.S. beef and soybean farmers to buy Argentine beef instead. #ArgentinaFirst

The President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau wants it known how damaging Trump's announcements are for the beef industry. With a vacant seat in the midterms, would you trust a Republican to fix the problem they've made?

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

This isn't complicated, he's just straight up extorting the Justice Deparment and looting taxpayers to put $230 million in his own pocket. Don't hold your breath waiting for any Republicans in the party to speak up about this either. https://nyti.ms/4oxtpQW

$20 Billion for an Argentina bank bail out to help Trump's rich friends
$173 Million for Kristi Noem's jet
$250 Million for a ballroom only billionaires have access to, not you

Millions are about to see healthcare costs rise & farmers are going bankrupt, and suddenly there's $0 for them

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak