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"A dark day": Pentagon confiscates badges of Defense reporters The Pentagon Press Association said the move raises public accountability concerns and weakening free speech.

“Media companies broadly rejected the pledge, claiming it would criminalize national security reporting.

"Blocking journalists from doing their jobs for not complying with the whims of Pete Hegseth is a direct attack on press freedom.

Debbie Brockman, who works at WGN-TV in Chicago, plans to "pursue all legal avenues available" after being violently detained for seven hours. She was finally released without any charges being levied against her, her lawyers said.

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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Cover of "is 5" by e. e. cummings

#OTD in 1894 poet and essayist e. e. cummings was born.

"Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century."

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Books by cummings at PG:

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#literature

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State Voters, Courts, and GOP Governors slam Trump’s militarization of cities

Trump and chief attack dog Stephen Miller bit off more than they can chew. Their cities based on obvious lies has antagonized voters, outraged judges, and triggered public opposition from two GOP governors—a rare act of defiance that may trigger more defections. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Ketanji Brown Jackson rebukes Supreme Court's "harmful interference" The justice's dissent came as the court allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections from over 300,000 Venezuelans.

"I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance."
-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
SCOTUS

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This Is Fascism

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Crypto spent millions to defeat Sherrod Brown and elect allies. It's ready for a repeat in 2026 The cryptocurrency industry spent millions last year to unseat a longtime critic, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and install its allies in Washington.

In 2024, GOP backers poured more than $40 million into the Ohio Senate race — more than four times their spending in any other Senate contest — to defeat Sherrod Brown. Brown is running again for the seat he held for three cycles before a GOP car salesman replaced him.

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Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees.

Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/y6RQqAa

With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.

KBJ’s blunt question today about the Supreme Court’s culture war hypocrisy kind of floored me, because it’s the kind of meta-criticism that we aren’t used to hearing from the justices.

It’s the second day of the term, and things are that dire already. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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More Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, putting retirement out of reach, report finds Roughly 42% of younger working adults — spanning Gen Z, millennials and Gen X — report having no money left over after covering their daily expenses.

Advice to "Just Save More" ignores reality as Millions are Caught in a "Financial Vortex"

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Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.

🧵 We have the tail-end of a couple of Gulf hurricanes heading towards us in Ireland. I like when there are dark skies & colours are more pronounced. I see colours as energy & that’s why I love using them powerfully in my one-off ink drawings. You can see them if you scroll down in this thread! [1]

The assumption that the side “causing” the shutdown is destined to lose is faulty when the president is underwater on every issue, the economy is in decline, and he seems obsessed with everything but the shutdown issues (persecuting his enemies, politicizing the military, etc.).

Arizonans just elected Adelita Grijalva to represent them in Washington, and there’s no reason to delay seating her. Speaker Johnson should swear her in immediately so she can get to work.

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

Bullying ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been returned to duty. Who's surprised?🙄

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YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.

"This is straight influence-peddling," said @ericgoldman.bsky.social "This YouTube settlement is not a sign of any legal merit."

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Mike DeWine’s betrayal on fair maps will haunt Ohio for years: Leila Atassi Gov. Mike DeWine once vowed to lead Ohio out of gerrymandering, but after Issue 1’s defeat he broke his promise, leaving voters stuck with rigged maps and a democracy weakened by partisan manipulation...

MEANWHILE IN OHIO: Gerrymandering in Ohio has carved up Black/urban communities to weaken their voices—and ignored repeated court rulings. GOP Ohio has manufactured supermajorities to ram through laws most Ohioans don’t support.
This is the theft of democracy.

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Among the first things Dems should legislate—if they win 2026: return to the previous version of the Telecommunications Act, thereby limiting the number of TV/Radio stations any entity can own—locally and nationally.
Bill Clinton really f**ked up when he allowed this corporate takeover in the 90s.

Why show the FOX feed when his video is available on his account?

South Koreans Describe Fear and Anger After Georgia ICE Raid Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the United States under murky circumstances, they had always planned to return home.

"'My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,' Mr. Park said. 'I don’t think I would go there again to work.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...