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Donate and let Russ match your donation to a local food bank!! So generous!

Journalist @davidsirota.com says that while the U.S. is "immersed in corruption" in a way that feels inevitable, it is the result of a decadeslong "master plan" by the wealthy to deregulate campaign finance and weaken anti-bribery laws.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/28/david_sirota

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

A deeply disturbing plan, but one thing important to clarify here is that these contracts would be for skiptracing, i.e. establishing locations, and NOT for carrying out arrests.

So this would not see private contractors grabbing people — although it could mean contractors surveilling immigrants.

On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, Border Patrol agents tore through Chicago and the suburbs.

In Albany Park, they fired pepper-spray balls and arrested U.S. citizens.

In Evanston, a weapon was repeatedly pointed at protesters.

They grabbed workers in Hoffman Estates, landscapers.

And house painters and laborers in Edison Park, Skokie and Niles.

“Feels like state-sponsored terror."

Jamaican Americans Mobilize for the Island’s Recovery After Hurricane Melissa Power lines, roads, and bridges were damaged, and more than half a million people were left without electricity.

Power lines, roads, and bridges were damaged, and more than half a million people were left without electricity.

The Democrat that runs against Cliff Bentz must address this.
www.ocpp.org/2022/11/03/3...

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

His Brother Admitted To A Murder. He Is Set To Be Executed For It. Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.

Tremane Wood is currently on death row, despite his older brother admitting to killing victim Ronnie Wipf in 2002.

Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.

Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.

Trump Is Punishing Blue States by Defunding Their Infrastructure Projects Trump is cancelling billions of dollars in federal funding for congressionally approved projects already underway.

Trump is cancelling billions of dollars in federal funding for congressionally approved projects already underway.

“The driver’s family identified him as Carlos Jimenez, 24, a U.S. citizen, and said he was on his way to work at a food bank when the shooting occurred.”

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash

I watched the entirety of JD Vance's speech at Ole Miss. The NYT account here fails to reports many of the outrageous things he said, and indeed, it sane washes much of what it does report. Take his accusation that Native Americans engaged in a ritual of human sacrifice, a blood libel.

Complete insanity. Right in front of her daughter. This thug has no ID or anything.

What are we doing?

coloradosun.com/2025/10/30/c...

Federal agents execute warrants in Pasadena; DHS leads operations Federal agents and officers cleared the scene after law enforcement activity drew a crowd earlier today, Pasadena Police Department officials said.

“They began banging hard on the door, tore off the cameras so we couldn’t see them, and eventually cut off our electricity.”

When asked if she knew why federal agents were after her husband or if he had committed a crime, Barrón said, “No, never any crime..."

www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Opinion piece in Portland Press Herald, gifted by the author, on the giant floating city blocks that visit Portland, polluting ocean and air.

She encourages Mainers to contact city councilors in advance of their Nov 12 meeting, at which discussion of cruise ship's scrubber wash will take place.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

this is blood libel gutter racism of the kind that you only encounter if you or your staff are spending a lot of time in online spaces that are avowedly white supremacist

"But Her Emails" he cried softly

What Stuart Stevens says is perfectly obvious, and something you will not see reflected in any of the major media coverage.

Another video about that bsky.app/profile/hist...

This guy's video explains what's happening.

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston

A fun and safe Halloween evening to everyone, especially the kids.

"Spanberger is almost certainly gonna win by a large margin. And what we won't see are 1,000 think pieces saying 'Republican attacks on trans kids didn't work. They have to choose a new message.'"

Check out my full election preview pod with @davidnir.com: www.publicnotice.co/p/election-p...

The two agents in the foreground here appear to be with BORTAC, Border Patrol’s tactical unit and part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

You can tell by the writing underneath “POLICE” on their plate carriers.

More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy A POLITICO review of the rulings shows judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have rebuked the administration’s new interpretation of immigration law.

NEW: More than 100 federal judges have now rejected the Trump administration’s new policy to lock up nearly everyone facing deportation — including 12 judges appointed by Trump, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Only 2 judges have sided with ICE.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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