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Boston Police Can No Longer Use Facial Recognition Software | Built In Boston The law makes it illegal for city officials to “obtain, retain, possess, access, or use” facial recognition technology, acknowledging that it “has the potential to harm communities of color who are al...

Some good news!

“Boston City Council has voted unanimously to ban its government from using facial recognition technology, including the police department, making it the largest city on the East Coast to do so.”

www.builtinboston.com/articles/bos...

‼️New Jersey‼️ Virginia ‼️

I cannot state this any more plainly, if you do not get out and vote for Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger - THIS 👇👇👇is coming to your streets, your grocery stores, your businesses and your SCHOOLS

#VoteNJ #VoteVA

It’s been really disheartening to see the things people say about those who use SNAP. Many seem to have little understanding of why the program exists in the first place.

NEW: The full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to rehear arguments on whether to block President Trump from taking control of 200 Oregon National Guard troops.

This is good news. Military troops have no place on our streets.

California says it will monitor the Trump Justice Department's election watchers.

State Attorney General Rob Bonta says California will deploy its own election observers after Pam Bondi said the DOJ would monitor polls in five counties.

The states say suspending SNAP "is both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act," and "irreparably harming their states."

"A harm that increases every day SNAP benefits are delayed."

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE EXTENDS BLOCK ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S MASS LAYOFFS DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino agrees to meet with judge every weekday until next hearing Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol official who has emerged as the public face of President Donald Trump's immigration blitz in Chicago, was in federal court Tuesday. Bovino will return to the cou...

Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino has agreed to meet with Judge Sara Ellis to give updates *every weekday* over the feds' treatment of protesters in Chicago.

Ellis has asked that by the end of the week, Bovino provide all use of force reports and body-worn camera footage since Sept. 2.

Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say U.S. military officials involved with President Donald Trump's expanding operations in Latin America have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, three U.S. officials say, a development that raises new questions about a military buildup that Venezuela fears may lead to an invasion.

Flagging via Reuters: U.S. military officials involved with Trump's military operations in Latin America have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, three U.S. officials say, a development that raises new questions about a military buildup that Venezuela fears may lead to an invasion.

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.

Breaking WaPo:

The White House just fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of Trump's construction projects, including his planned arch in Washington. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

ACLU reporting that “several of the 6 women detained at South Louisiana ICE Center in Basile, LA, & Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA were pregnant & have miscarried while in custody.”

0 outrage from MAGAs about these fetuses. They were never about life. They are only about control of women.

Important #Maddow reporting tonight about dangerous "spyware" being deployed to track people via their phones.

#msnbc
#surveillance
#surveillancestate

Holy sh!t!
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ICE agent accused of drunken driving with kids in car in Florida Keys A federal immigration agent from Miami is facing DUI and child endangerment charges after deputies say he was driving drunk with his two children in the car.

www.local10.com/news/florida...

bulldozed by trump now.

designed by trump megadonor timothy mellon's stepmother.

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Trump cuts probably hindered warning process for Alaska storm that displaced hundreds, experts say Reductions in weather balloon launches could have degraded forecasts that residents depend on to prepare

"A majority of western Alaska’s weather balloon network was not operating during the landfall of the storm last weekend due to staffing constraints inflicted by the Trump administration..."

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Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters:

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Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

"I'm the speaker and the president," Trump has joked, according to two people who heard the remark and relayed it on the condition of anonymity because of concern about sharing private conversations with him.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. She was elected more than a month ago.

Heads up: Indiana's Republican governor just called a special session to consider a new congressional map.

Trump and JD Vance have been pressuring Republicans in the state for months to further gerrymander their map.

Can some other official swear her in? Why does it have to be the Speaker of the House?

3 signs that Republicans have no intention of allowing fair elections ever again:
1. Mike Johnson refuses to swear in a duly elected Democrat.
2. The Texas GOP does a mid-decade remap to steal 5 House seats.
3. Trump is still trying to bury the truth about his plot to overturn the 2020 election.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Mike Johnson is still covering up for people who rape children.

Thanks for mentioning Mitch McConnell. He flies under the radar way too much for the amount of damage he has done to our democracy. Citizen's United. Forcing horrific Republican justices onto the SCOTUS. Refusal to permanently remove Trump from office when he was impeached TWICE.

Mitch McConnell protected Trump after his coup attempt because McConnell thought it was good politics.
Mike Johnson is blocking a vote to release the Epstein files because he thinks it’s good politics.
Republicans think trying to nullify elections and covering up child rape are good politics.

Any media person who blames "our divisive politics" for the current shutdown is doing a favor for the Republicans who refuse to negotiate with Democrats to end it.

If MSNBC showed 3 minutes of cats playing with yarn instead of showing John Kasich making vague comments blaming both sides, the audience would be far better off.

When Democrats and Republicans face off about soaring health care costs and food for the working poor, Republicans have a distinct advantage because they just don't give a damn.