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I’m so sorry. He looks like the very best kitty 💔

THIS IS AN AMAZING STORY! I had to put it in multiple documents for you to read. I GUARANTEE it’s with the read.

Thank you—yes, this is good stuff!

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

Willful ignorance is hardly an excuse. He is doing the things he promised to do. Sure, some people may not have voted for him *because* of his hateful, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, antitrans rhetoric, but it also wasn’t a dealbreaker for them.

Don’t be an apologist for people who aren’t sorry.

It sounds that way. Which honestly doesn’t make it any better.

The GOP has decided they’re cool with it after all, as long as it applies just to women and brown people.

That’s the real terror, David.

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

WHAAAAT

Vanderbilt professors recommend against signing Trump higher ed compact Professors at Vanderbilt University have recommended against an agreement calling for the university to comply with directives from the Trump

Vanderbilt is one of the colleges sent Trump's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. Those who agree get preferential access to student loans, research funding and approval of student visas.

Professors don't want the university to sign on: wpln.org/post/vanderb...

Statement by the Vanderbilt AAUP Executive Committee on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” October 6, 2025 On October 2nd, Vanderbilt was among nine universities “invited” to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” with the federal government. The Compact, however, i…

Vandy AAUP on the Compact. Share widely!

"We join the @aaup.org National Leadership in urging the Board of Trust, Chancellor Diermeier, Provost Raver, & the Vanderbilt leadership to completely reject this Trump loyalty oath & any other that seeks to commandeer Vanderbilt’s institutional autonomy."

Vanderbilt campus groups push back against Trump administration higher ed ‘compact’ • Tennessee Lookout A demand that Vanderbilt University sign onto a “compact” with the Trump administration is drawing pushback from some campus groups.

Vanderbilt campus groups push back against Trump administration higher ed ‘compact’ tennesseelookout.com/briefs/vande... @tennesseelookout.com

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

If you are an alum of:

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UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
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U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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Exactly, this.

Every now and again, Rand Paul gets something right. This is one of those times.

Them: Unless you fund it, we’ll never be able to afford to bring all these benefits to your community

Me: what benefits?

Them: ALL the benefits

Me: Nah, I’ll pass

My bet is No. They’re feckless.

How much $ has Vance made off of distressed farm land through his investment in Acre Trader? Can we FOIA that?

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files The documents by the estate of convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein were released by Congressional Democrats.

The fact that Elon musk, Peter Thiel, and Steve Bannon all being in the Epstein files dropped out of the news way too fast www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is a good explainer by folks doing the work here in Chicago about why Pritzker can't just start ordering the ISP to arrest ICE.

This is why I can’t support NPR. Absolute garbage. They couldn’t find a single person to point out how a housing-first solution would solve the “inconvenience” issue without violating people’s rights? And that it would be far cheaper, to boot? Shameful.

Hey friends-

It’s really hard being alive right now for those of us who care about things like humanity, decency, the environment, democracy, etc,

If you are here still fighting for what is right I love u.

None of this is easy. Please take care of yourselves. Logging off sometimes is A-OK.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

I’m sorry but the fact that this is not everywhere is kind of malpractice

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Poll shows how U.S. views of immigration have changed since Trump took office Since taking office, Trump has called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do all in its power to deliver “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.