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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.

'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

Federal agencies blame Democrats for looming shutdown in apparent Hatch Act violation — Guardian US Housing and VA departments attack ‘radical left’ despite law limiting political activities of government employees

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I’m proud to say that UC Berkeley remains the #1 public university —and the place that shaped me as a teacher. On Oct 8, I’m returning for "The Last Class" film premiere and a conversation with @wkamaubell.bsky.social.

I hope you’ll join us. https://secure-tickets.berkeley.edu/29758/29759

Oregon sues to block Trump from deploying troops to Portland The suit filed by Oregon and the city of Portland alleges Trump's authorization to deploy troops is "patently unlawful."

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

Oregon’s Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Sunday that the state has filed a lawsuit to block President Trump from deploying the National Guard to Portland.

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I don’t distrust Pew’s research, but this is very disturbing.

NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting clash as federal funding declines NPR asked a federal judge to block CPB from awarding a $57.9 million grant to a new consortium of public media institutions to operate the satellite that connects the public radio system.

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Earlybirds Club: for ladies who want to get down and also get to bed on time NPR's Ayesha Rascoe heads to the club — the Earlybirds Club — and dances until the break of 8 p.m.

NPR's @ayesharascoe.bsky.social heads to the club — the Earlybirds Club — and dances until the break of 8 p.m.

An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur, Alarming Scientists

In case you don’t have enough to worry about . . .

The age of cowards • Kentucky Lantern We are living in the age of cowards; it started even before Donald Trump sealed his reelection. Where in the hell are our leaders?

Where are our leaders?

August 25, 2025 This morning, President Donald J.

More on the Trump regime’s antics and resistance from Chicago.

Governor JB Pritzker joined elected officials, business, faith, and education leaders, community advocates, and law enforcement leaders to condemn the Trump administration’s plan to deploy the National Guard or active duty military in Chicago despite objections from state and local leadership.

I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today.

Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American.

There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.

Businesses face 'chaos' as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution A lot of companies want the EPA in charge of setting national climate regulations because it helps shield them from lawsuits and creates a predictable environment in which to make investments.

A lot of companies want the EPA in charge of setting national climate regulations because it helps shield them from lawsuits and creates a predictable environment in which to make investments.

Opinion | Geometry Solves Gerrymandering

Here’s a fix for gerrymandering.

Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won? It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.

Worth the read.

“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the…

NEW: Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation.

But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action.

With @northdakotamonitor.com

New Data Center Proposals Would ‘Kill’ Michigan’s Strong New Climate Laws - Inside Climate News New Michigan data center plans are on the verge of triggering an “offramp” in the state’s nation-leading climate laws that would effectively halt the shift to renewables less than two years after the ...

New Michigan data center plans are on the verge of triggering an “offramp” in the state’s nation-leading climate laws that would effectively halt the shift to renewables less than two years after the plans were approved.

Will they ever pay a price? Maybe not--but there are hints of accountability in the air

"The legal consequences resulting from the commission of an internationally wrongful act may include... full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction," said ICJ President Yuji Iwasawa on behalf of the 15-judge panel.

Naturalized Citizens Are Scared To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts our status at risk?

This is powerful.

WEKU suffers major equipment failure, prompting temporary schedule changes A power surge damaged a key piece of equipment central to WEKU broadcast and programming

WEKU suffers major equipment failure, prompting temporary schedule changes | WEKU

Tennessee Rep. Justin
Jones ejected from Homeland Security
Secretary's event in
Nashville.

All the States Where DOJ is Demanding Voting Data Read more here.

NEW: Here are all the states that DOJ has contacted, and what we know about each demand. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ writes.

MAGA Influencers Don’t Understand What Journalism Is As the Jeffrey Epstein case shows, right-wing internet personalities prefer “just asking questions” to getting answers.

“If the Epstein scandal teaches us anything, it is that America needs a dedicated and decently funded group of people whose job is not just to ask questions, but to find answers. Let’s call them journalists.”

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

July 5, 2025 Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J.

Follow the money: “Scholars of authoritarianism are sounding the alarm over the new law. Timothy Snyder warned that the extensive concentration camps that Trump has called for and the new measure will fund will be tempting sites for slave labor.”