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NEW — The remaining American members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla being held in Israeli prison have been freed, a family member of one confirmed to me. They were driven to the Jordanian border and will be staying the night in Jordan before flying home.

Video of them today saying “Free Palestine”:

I simply do not understand the relentless effort to rehab Marjorie Taylor Greene

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Whole lot of rancid replies here, unsurprisingly.

the trump administration attempted to assassinate a critic and when she lived, they prosecuted her for surviving

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

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French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

N.Y.C. Mayor's Race > Who's Running Capitalizing on Adams's Departur By Kellen Browning Photographs by Jordan Gale Reporting from Portland, Ore. Oct. 4, 2025 Too extreme. Too inexperienced. An absolute disaster. Mainstream politicians are sharpening their attacks, and the wealthy are threatening to move away as a socialist revolution sweeps through the city. They're not talking about Zohran Mamdani or his plans for New York City. Rather, they are agonizing over the scene in Portland, Ore., where the democratic socialist principles espoused by Mr. Mamdani - the front-runner to become New York's next mayor — have already taken root at City Hall.

Am I going insane or does the top of this NYT story on Portland read like vintage Breitbart?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Def. atty continues his argument, says "violent terrorist organizations" are trying to doxx agents.

This prompts open laughter in the courtroom.

"Well, I think we have a different idea of what's going on in Chicago," Ellis tells the def. atty, who is appearing remotely.

"There needs to be some way to identify them," Ellis continues, asking if feds have badge number or any other identifying mark for people who may be abused by immigration agents.

I'm floored. Ellis essentially just told the govt. to suck it up. Cites incidents of judges getting doxxed.

"It's unfortunately part of the cost of doing business as a public servant," she says.

She adds that violations of ICE agents' rights can't be addressed if they won't identify themselves.

She concedes it can be "scary" to be followed home or harassed, but adds,

"That doesn't mean you get to do this job and be anonymous."

what has to be better understood is that for reactionaries and reactionary centrists across the country, 2020's summer of protests never ended and this is their bid to finally *win*

Will this get brought up? Feel like it's pretty pertinent.

2024 was an anti-incumbent year around the globe largely because of forces beyond any one lawmaker's control and I feel like that's where all analyses should start and I don't really know how much more complicated it should get than that.

ICE/DHS will operate either way. it's a question of how heavily armed and unaccountable their backup is.

we lost in 2024. this is what that looks like.

everything Pritzker is doing right now is aimed at undermining the case to send in national guard units to Chicago

1. i was told this couldn’t happen and we were losing
2. Highly skeptical he means it and can do it
3. Fuck it ask for more now

@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social you gotta watch this in realtime

Ellia further breaches that feds have turned chemical weapons on unarmed press and protestors, says "we have to live in reality."

"They're responding to being attacked," defense attorney says of the federal agents in response.

Sighs in the courtroom.

@unraveledpress.com & other press have been threatened, shot with less-lethals and arrested while reporting on federal immigration activities in Chicagoland and on the resulting protests at Broadview.

I'm now at a hearing asking the federal court to rein ICE & co in. I'll let you know how it goes.

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

Again, with a completely hostile media environment, over half of Americans have come to see the truth about what Israel is doing in Gaza. It's genuinely quite remarkable.

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

Every major Republican commentator is openly telling Trump to break the Constitution and ignore court orders.

When they moaned about court rebalance "delegitimizing the institution" they were lying.

They don't care. They just want absolute power. They are fascists.

Beginning November 1st, 2025, all Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks coming into the United States from other Countries will be Tariffed at the Rate of 25%. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

my life is that I record a podcast episode all about tariffs and leave the booth just to find out there are more tariffs

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here: https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

Considering how her rise to fame came from defending transgender children in the state legislature when that was being challenged nationally, I'm happy that she hasn't forgotten her roots.

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.