Ed Mullen

Thousands of people have gathered in downtown Denver for today’s No Kings protest against the Trump administration. Similar smaller protests are being held across Colorado. #copolitics

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

#NoKings, Madison WI

Attended this with veteran reporter Monroe Anderson who has reported on a lot of history, including the ‘68 uprisings. This is the largest protest he’d ever seen.

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

Protest is patriotic.

Opinion | The Shadow of Jim Crow Looms Over the Supreme Court

Citizens United. Janus. Dobbs.

These are Supreme Court decisions that shredded the rights of everyday Americans to do the bidding of the powerful few.

Now, we should all learn about Callais — a case that was just heard this week, where SCOTUS could essentially undo the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

A great day for democracy: make No Kings Day a national holiday.
#Nokings

Really want to hear from @govpritzker.illinois.gov and @ilattygeneral.bsky.social why ISP is doing this?

The Trump Administration has emboldened ICE to use violent, unconstitutional tactics as an attempt to increase control and spread fear.

Illinoisans will not be intimidated.
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After 6 1/2 Years, CPD Now in Compliance With 22% of Consent Decree: Monitors The jump of six percentage points in the level of full compliance with the consent decree reached between Jan. 1 and June 30 is the second largest increase in the six and a half years that the federal...

FULL STORY: The Chicago Police Department had fully complied with 22% of the court order that requires CPD to stop routinely violating Black & Latino residents’ constitutional rights by June, according to the monitoring team charged with keeping track of reform efforts. @wttw.bsky.social

@govpritzker.illinois.gov pls explain ISP’s conduct and presence? How is this promoting resistance to Trump?!?

Hanover Park cop latest arrested in suburban ICE ‘blitz’ The man hired as a suburban officer last January became the latest person caught up in the federal sweep for unauthorized residents.

Another bonkers story coming out of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicagoland: ICE took Hanover Park police Officer Radule Bojovic for allegedly overstaying a visa and being here illegally. The village says he had papers and status. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/h...

Look for the helpers: Here's how Chicagoans are supporting their neighbors amid ICE raids.

In collaboration w/ @citybureau.bsky.social: blockclubchi.co/3WcaPl8

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”

Meanwhile, the reality of #KavanaughStop

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

“If Trump truly wanted to do his job and help our city, he wouldn't send troops; he would send funds for affordable housing, mental health clinics & job opportunities for young people.”
The only war in Chicago is the one the president is waging against us
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All of this, in violation of the Constitution.

Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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who among us hasn't talked about loving Hitler or worked tirelessly on behalf of a person we called "America's Hitler" or talked about sending our political opponents to gas chambers or incited a wave of hatred of immigrants with vicious lies

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls for calling on them to redeem themselves. "I have not seen them cross the line yet" means the line doesn't fucking exist.

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals. Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
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An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

This is a good crowdsourcing project. Suggest you look through for names in your state, see who you can connect them to. For example, there’s this guy.

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

This article about a gleefully bigoted republican group chat is very damning but ummm. I am most fascinated by the pictures of these shit posters. Two of them don’t even seem to be white and all of them are. Well. Let me not go there. I’ll just say, there is some audacity here.

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.