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Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

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No, he sure as hell hasn’t.

A 79-year-old Van Nuys car wash owner — who is a U.S. citizen — has filed a federal civil rights claim seeking $50 million after he says he was violently body slammed and pinned by federal agents during an ICE immigration raid at his business on September 9.

I think the secretary of war calling hundreds of generals back to pentagon for a meeting is a bigger story. @realtexaspaul.com gave a compelling argument why we should all pay attention and be ready to protest.

More of this.

Senior FBI Agents Allege White House-led Political Purge of Bureau in New Lawsuit Read more here.

A trio of former senior FBI agents argued in a new lawsuit Wednesday that they were illegally dismissed as part of a political purge of the bureau directed by the White House.
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Yes. Yes, they are.

Judge Kelly asks about assurance [from Guatemalan gov] that children won't be trafficked upon return. Do you have anything else you can share about what specifically that assurance was?

Welch says she doesn't have more information she can share.

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."

Great news.

The raid stalled a battery plant that would have employed Georgians in good-paying jobs. She screwed her own voters.

Most of the S Korean workers weren’t “taking jobs.” They were specialists brought in to get the plant operational. Their expertise was the bridge to thousands of American jobs.
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Opinion | Dr. Oz's new plan to root out Medicare 'waste' is actually a recipe for disaster A pilot program in six states will require prior approval for procedures under traditional Medicare plans.

Dr. Oz's new plan to root out so-called Medicare 'waste' is actually a recipe for disaster.

A pilot program in six states will require prior approval for procedures under traditional Medicare plans.

I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.

A sign at an electric vehicle charging station in the parking lot of the Edgewater Whole Foods that says “Defend The Homeland, Join ICE Today”

Trump has declared war on Chicago and now his secret police are running racist ads in Edgewater.

Let’s be clear: ICE isn’t welcome here. Trump isn’t welcome here. And they’re certainly not going to recruit their goons from here.

Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo wants to take on Politico Playbook from the left The publication is expanding its politics coverage to gear up for the midterm elections.

*NEWS*: Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez of Rolling Stone are joining Zeteo’s political team as new staff reporters, plus Peter Rothpletz will be helping me launch a progressive politics morning news letter. We’re also hiring a breaking news reporter.

Something folks are missing here: this raid wasn’t about “illegals taking American jobs.” It was about ICE storming the Hyundai–LG battery plant in Georgia, part of a $7.6B Metaplant project that isn’t even operational yet.
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Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."

Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."

I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Senate hopeful, claimed 3 homes as his primary residence Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, are longtime owners of a $1.5 million home in a Dallas suburb. In 2015, they snapped up a second house in Austin.

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FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California*

FOX: Your response?

MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this

Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"

🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections Learn more here.

🚨BREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted.

A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!

"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”