You can also get lots of current/former ATF employees to say "duh yes obviously this would be enormously helpful to us, the current system is stupid"

mysafespace We're Democrats in the House and Senate. We love DEI, transgender for everyone, healthcare for illegals and shutting down the government! We couldn't care less if our military gets paid or Americans' ...

Your tax dollars are funding this. Is this okay with you? Would it be okay if a Democrat was in the White House and they set up a site mocking Republicans? If you think this is wrong, call Congress and tell them 202-224-3121. Leave a voice message
#MomSky
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What a surprise

Bickering over Bovino: Lawyers complain to judge of obstruction, 'sandbagging' during deposition A court transcript reveals that questions were posed to U.S. Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino about his communications with Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secr...

Bickering over Bovino: Lawyers complain to judge of obstruction, sandbagging during deposition

NEW from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Dolly Parton releases “9 to 5” 45 yrs ago today.

“I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”

Practically every day we encounter someone who still has no idea ICE shot and killed someone in Chicago already. This happened before many people tuned in (and many have already tuned out again).

Again, if any of us had done what she did at the airport, we would have been face down on the ground.

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

Stormzy was down but he wasn't out.

He has a lot of training, rest and medicines to go but if this doesn't put a huge smile on your face nothing will!!

Dissecting the Trump Administration’s Effort to Circumvent the War Powers Resolution for Boat Strikes Analysis of Trump administration's claim that War Powers Resolution's regulating US troops in "hostilities" does not apply to boat strikes.

Over the weekend, NYT and WaPo reported the Justice Department's argument for why War Powers Resolution should not apply to boat strikes.

It comes down to definition of the word “hostilities.”

Former State Dept attorney @bcfinucane.bsky.social writes the DOJ argument is "incorrect and dangerous.”

Opinion | Zohran Mamdani and the future of the Democratic Party How did a socialist with almost no governing experience become New York’s mayoral frontrunner?

So the evidence that he's "fixated with Israel" is that reporters ask him about Israel, and instead he wants to talk about affordability? That is some incisive analysis, such a mystery why subscriptions have plummeted.

Link if you can stomach it:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

What does it say about the state of Civ-Mil relations in Israel that a flag officer, on purely moral grounds, illegally authorized the leak a video of IDF prison guards literally sodomizing a detainee within an inch of his life...and the govt characterized it as a PR attack on Israel's image

🧾 Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes' Mehdi debunks the president's lies, unpacks the failure of our mainstream media, and has the latest from Gaza, as well as Trump's 'Great Gatsby'-esque Halloween party.

"Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'"

In today's 'First Draft' morning newsletter from Zeteo, I counted and debunked at least *17 obvious, brazen lies* that the president told CBS's Norah O'Donnell, and that she just let slide:

They Dread Trump But Can’t Stop Fighting Each Other: Meet the Democrats Will this week’s election results bring clarity or just add to the confusion?

Democrats may be united around the proposition that Trumpism is an existential threat to the country, but they can't agree on which type of candidate and approach to politics they need.

The latest edition of The Opposition from @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/they-dread...

Good fucking morning to everyone except Donald Trump, who admitted on CBS yesterday he has no idea who he’s pardoning. After all the whining about Biden using the autopen, you don’t even ask who your people are putting in front of you? Most corrupt president in American history.

Johnson bragged last week about taking healthcare away from those who don't work.

Maryland Democrats Refuse to Join Redistricting Fight Read more here.

Maryland appears unlikely to help Democrats counter the GOP’s nationwide gerrymander plot. Top lawmakers said that the Senate would not be moving forward with a plan to eliminate the state’s one Republican congressional seat. https://bit.ly/4hF2L6v

The key players behind Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50 campaign Many of the advisers guiding Democrats’ mid-cycle redistricting push have been in the trenches with the California governor for years.

The key players behind Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50 campaign

Phrased differently, that means adding $552bn in market cap since Thursday's close.

That is more incremental market cap than the TOTAL market cap of all but 15 US companies. It's more than the total market cap of Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo...combined. Or bigger than Goldman Sachs + Coca-Cola.

Yes, Trump REALLY opened the market for US soybean farmers in China. Now they can sell fewer crops there than they’ve sold in the last 6 years (BTW-that dip in 2018 was from the last Trump tariff war)

And he’s helped create markets for cattle ranchers..from Argentina

Make America great again, baby

It is past time for Trump thug criminals to be charged.

The man dressed himself up as a pope and is threatening to send troops thousands of miles away to start a “holy war”

Maybe he saw Kingdom of Heaven recently and thought, that looks cool

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

this man has been on a daily mission to meet new yorkers everywhere from a brooklyn club crawl at 2am to a canvas walk at 6am and imagine this is the question you ask him

I have several follow-up questions about their first date.

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

They were sleeping, driving, walking in Memphis. Then Trump’s police task force came.

Law enforcement surge established to focus on violent crimes has ensnared innocent residents going about their everyday lives.

@wendicthomas.bsky.social @kathsburgess.bsky.social for @propublica.org @mlk50.com

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Last week a House committee said Biden’s pardons should be “null and void” if signed by autopen

@mmfa.bsky.social found that pardoned J6ers have said during podcast interviews that Trump didn’t even sign their pardons. Now he seems totally unaware of this pardon
www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

A shocking report that pervasive racism has been discovered in the Republican Party.

Trump has now said he won't attend the tariffs oral argument at SCOTUS this week, but he's keeping up the hyperbolic rhetoric based on what experts say is an upside-down argument about the economic impacts of striking them down.

Those impacts are laid out in this story from the other week: