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There are 4 articles on front of NYT on meetings between Trump & Mohammed bin Salman: none of them mention hotel Saudi is gifting Trump in exchange for US military support that they reported on in 1 (completely isolated) article 4 days ago.

100s of articles normalizing Trump >> 1 isolated article.

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

it didnt need to be a male. it simply needed to be ANY OTHER PERSON THERE.

Why did not a single male reporter who were standing next to the president and the female reporter he called "piggy" say a word to the president about this and call him out then and there? Those who keep quiet in these moments are part of the problem.

Experts Say Blue States Can Stop Paying Federal Taxes. There’s Precedent If we could use nullification for people to get high, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism?

Soft secession

Legislation creates a Federal Tax Escrow Account in the state treasury. Instead of employers forwarding collected federal taxes to Washington, they send them to the state. The state holds the money in escrow. A legislative panel reviews federal spending for constitutional compliance.

Trump Hid That Ghislaine Maxwell Is Applying for a Commutation: Dems Democrats are accusing Donald Trump of covering it up.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party when an authoritarian is invading our cities, terrorizing our communities, and corruptly self-enriching at the expense of the rest of us. We want to celebrate a Democratic Party that fights back. But after this latest surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand one that fights.

Syria’s willingness to join the U.S.-led fight against ISIS, even as he faces deep internal divisions, Kurdish tensions, and regional pressures back home. news via @aaronparnas.bsky.social

Syria’s interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa, once a jailed jihadist leader, is meeting President Trump at the White House after rapidly reinventing himself on the world stage, securing the lifting of major terrorism designations and sanctions, and signaling..

though the administration has not provided public evidence that the targeted vessels were carrying narcotics or posed a threat. via @aaronparnas.bsky.social

US defense secretary Pete Hegseth said six people were killed after American forces carried out two more strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in international waters off South America, part of a Trump-ordered campaign that critics call extrajudicial killings..

.. that anyone who does so in future elections will be protected by him. it is disgusting. every day, the shit he does just continues to go on and get more and more surprising. #fucktrump #nokings

#trump issues pardons to people involved in denying the election results in 2020. this is outrageous.

many of those people pled guilty. the fight of prosecutors for democracy have been spat in the face by trump but it also is a strong message from him..

@schumer.senate.gov 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.

NFL teams can’t use Bluesky Bluesky isn’t ready for game day yet.

This is interesting — NFL teams WANT TO use Bluesky, but aren’t allowed to! The NFL, which has deals with X and Meta, told the New England Patriots to shut down their Bluesky account.

Not okay, NFL.

want to vote out the people who have caved and given into MAGA nutjobs? people will lose ACA coverage or face massive hikes.

gutless cowards. you cant overcome an authoritarian regime based on “their word” (which means absolutely nothing). what a sad, sad day.

via @aaronparnas.bsky.social

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.

Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!

Find them here: reps.fyi

independent democratic media like @meidastouch.com and @aaronparnas.bsky.social have sent emails and/or made videos. senate has reconvened.

No.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️

You cannot (accurately!) yell "fire, fire, fire!" as you enter a home & then not break down doors & windows to get people out. Otherwise, your cries of alarm are untrue or you're not up to leading.

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Not enough of these guys fear primaries.

Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.

He's literally CLOSING HIS EYES IN THE PHOTO YOU POSTED. His eyes are closed. Do you think it's an optical illusion?

i wouldnt piss on him if he was on fire.

I have so much contempt for Schumer but his defenders who insist that he’s actually a master tactician who’s working for us are arguably even more contemptible