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Chicago churches urge calm resistance ahead of expected federal intervention As Chicago braced for an immigration enforcement crackdown and a possible National Guard deployment, churches across the city turned up their response from the pulpit.

"Rev. Hatch urged congregants of a prominent Black church on Chicago’s West Side to carry identification, stay connected to family, and protest...

'You need to start telling people about your whereabouts, so you don’t disappear,' he said during Sunday services...

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

two theories about this:
1. pritzker put up a fight and he chickened out
1a. DC is an easy target; Chicago (and other blue cities in blue states) are tougher ones. possibly trump forgot about that

2. they're running out of national guard troops and ice officers to deploy in "surge" numbers

Note this from @leahlitman.bsky.social: Lower courts are really doing good work, striking down illegal Trump acts on Harvard, tariffs, and Alien Enemies Act. But as today showed, SCOTUS can be expected to badly undermine them. Here she looks ahead to what's coming:

newrepublic.com/article/2001...

So my @allstateinsurance went up $30 a MONTH. Never had a house claim, nothing.

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

i never expected rubio to be good in this role, but i didn’t expect him to become a war criminal in the first year on the job

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES 🧵

DAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2025

MASSIE DISCHARGE PETITION

TODAY THESE COURAGEOUS WOMEN SPOKE
We are so proud but also so outraged that Trump once again calls it a "Democrat Hoax"

I am outraged that Speaker Johnson said how horrible it is but refuses to release all the files

In about 45 minutes I’m dropping my latest JHN article.

This isn’t the same tired chatter you’ve seen recycled everywhere else. This is a perspective on why Trump is fighting so hard to keep the Epstein files buried… and it’s one you’ve likely never seen before.

Stay tuned.

Trump confirms U.S. strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat President Trump says the U.S. military has struck a drug-laden vessel in the southern Caribbean after it left Venezuela. The strike comes a week after Washington deployed warships to the region.

If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.

You can still get tickets for the Meidas Canada Resistance Tour stop in North Rustico. Call 902-963-2533 to reserve, or grab them at the door!

It's gonna be a great Friday night - live music, 50/50 draw, and the bar will be open. Proceeds support Blooming House.

As with all things Rudy, as additional details start to come out they don’t exactly match up with his version of events. www.nhsp.dos.nh.gov/news-and-med...

Now that Rudy’s out of the hospital and everything, is it ok to start questioning his version about how that car crash went down? Anyone seen a statement from the young woman who was the other driver involved in the crash to get her side?

HOW would anyone know who was really killed in that boat?
No witnesses

Probably not a great month to go out fishing in the Gulf now. The US military might be your judge, jury and executioner.

I know, I can't even believe the shit that spews out of trumps mouth

Text at top: Governors Bob Ferguson, Gavin Newsom, and Tina Kotek launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC's credibility  Joint statement reading: “President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists — and his blatant politicization of the agency — is a direct assault on the health and safety of the American people. The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences. California, Oregon, and Washington will not allow the people of our states to be put at risk.”

Governor Newsom @governor.ca.gov, Governor Kotek, and I launched a new West Coast Health Alliance today to ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics.

The Trump Administration has undermined the independence of the CDC and dismantled its vaccine panel.

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 25-5303 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-01362-PLF Filed On: September 2, 2025 Federal Education Association, et al., Appellees V. Posal Trune in a side, coact a Appellants BEFORE: Henderson, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, which includes a request for an immediate administrative stay, it is ORDERED that the district court's August 14, 2025 order be administratively stayed pending further order of the court. The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion. See D.C. Circuit Handbook of Practice and Internal Procedures 33 (2025). It is FURTHER ORDERED, on the court's own motion, that appellees file a response to the emergency motion by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 5, 2025, and that appellants file any reply by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 9, 2025.

With an administrative stay order issued yesterday (in an appeal of an injunction against Trump's effort to bust federal education unions related to DOD), we might have gotten word that September's D.C. Circuit "special panel" — motions panel — is Henderson (GHWB), Pan (Biden), Garcia (Biden).

Florida children will no longer have to be vaccinated to attend school. Putin’s takedown of the United States is succeeding on a level even he never imagined happening in his lifetime.

Jeffrey Epstein accusers urge Trump to release all the case files and rule out a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon Six women, along with relatives of prominent Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, are speaking out as interest in the case returns to Capitol Hill.

“Jones alleges she met Epstein when she was 14 in the early 2000s and was paid to give him a massage, during which he fondled her after she undressed. ‘A lot of these powerful ppl think they’re in the clear, and they’re probably still doing it now,’ she said Tuesday.” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Rep. Stansbury:
“What we heard today is a cover-up. A cover-up potentially involving foreign countries and foreign actors. As you will find out in coming days and weeks, this goes all the way to the top. Because there’s happen to be a very powerful person who doesn’t want these stories out.”

Good on @margaretatwood.bsky.social for standing up to the Maga Albertans aka Danielle Smith.

It is our hope that today’s agreement will create new opportunities to move forward together in the spirit of respect and partnership.

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BREAKING: DC Circuit, 2-1, reinstates Biden appointee Rebecca Slaughter to FTC despite Trump attempt to fire her without cited cause. Majority: Millett (Obama), Pillard (Obama). Dissent: Rao (Trump) www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

Texas Senator Apologizes for Racist Comments Unearthed by Democracy Docket Read more here.

Texas state Sen. Charles Perry (R) apologized on the Senate floor Tuesday, after Democracy Docket reported last week on racist remarks he made about immigrants at a 2022 legislative hearing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Jeffrey Epstein had a system for manipulating people, which is just one more thing he and Trump had in common. Watch Jess Michaels share her story on the LP Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqeOt_rNFM

Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois.

I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights.

Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.

Here's the discharge petition to release the Epstein files in the House. Every member of Congress who refuses to sign is complicit in Donald Trump's cover-up.

The last CR (allowed to advance to a vote by several democratic senators including Chuck Schumer) defunded DC by $1.1B to include law enforcement. I'll be writing and calling and screaming that the next continuing resolution IS NOT PASSED without FUNDING DC (among other things.)

Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."