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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."

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

bingo

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

Lawmakers demand information about potential use of Paragon spyware by ICE The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech."

The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech.”

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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FACT OF THE DAY. 7 October 1919. Netherlands airline company Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) was founded. It’s the oldest airline company in the world and is still operating under its original name.

PERSON OF THE DAY. 7 October 1959. Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza) died (aged 38). The cause of his death was a sudden pulmonary embolism. At the time of his death Lanza was the most popular tenor in the world. His wife Betty was totally devastated and died 5 months later of a drug overdose.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A baked potato seller in London (1890). 📷 Edgar Scamell

GOP Fights to Deny Missouri Voters a Voice on Trump-Ordered Gerrymander Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

Missourians are mobilizing to give voters a chance to block the state’s new Trump-ordered gerrymander that could hand the GOP one congressional seat at the cost of Black voters. But Republican leaders are doing everything in their power to silence them.
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Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Punishing Abrego Garcia for Challenging Removal to El Salvador Read more here.

A federal judge ruled that senior DOJ officials' comments created a "realistic likelihood" of vindictiveness in its criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Abregio Garcia is now entitled to a hearing to argue for tossing his case on these grounds. https://bit.ly/48jnA4D

Over the weekend, Trump announced the deployment of hundreds of Texas’ National Guard troops to Chicago. Illinois sued to block.

🧵 Here’s where things currently stand:

🔺 An Illinois federal judge ordered a hearing Thursday to decide whether to block the deployment. Details on the time to come.

Meet Adam Kincaid: The Hidden Hand Behind the Texas GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab Read more here.

When it comes to redrawing maps that expand Republican power, Adam Kincaid is your artist. His most recent work? Texas’ mid-decade gerrymander that could secure five more GOP seats in Congress. And today, he’ll defend it in court.

Colleges Must Pursue All Legal Paths for Diversity (opinion) They should continue to consider socioeconomic and geographic indicators in admissions, eight state attorneys general write.

Colleges must choose courage over fear to keep diverse student bodies.

Attorneys General across the U.S. agree: State leaders and institutions must use every legal tool to ensure fairness, equity, and a strong future for our country.

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Everything that’s currently happening to American farmers as of today, was laid out bar for bar, line for line in chapter 10 of project 2025. Mind you 2025 was published and available to the public in 2023. April 2023 to be specific.

We aren't learning.

We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.

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In Testimony, Top Texas Republican Remembers Another Conversation With GOP Mapmaker Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A top Texas Republican revealed in federal court Monday he didn’t tell legislators about a phone call with the national GOP operative who drew the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fellow flotilla activists are alleging Greta Thunberg was horrifically mistreated in Israeli detention.

If this is how Israel treats a high-profile detainee like Greta Thunberg, I want you to consider how they treat Palestinian detainees.

You don’t have to imagine it. It’s been widely documented:

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

Why do we have insurance companies?

I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

18 months ago.