Well done elder white women in Nebraska using their social status for good: βWe love the immigrantsβ www.klkntv.com/we-love-the-...#PissedOffGrandmas#NoICEDetentionCenters
The former head of Venezuela's national fencing team, in the US illegally and working as a fencing coach at UC-San Diego, was detained in violation of his due process rights, a judge ruled, ordering his immediate supervised release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#BREAKING Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss charges against Marimar Martinez, the woman shot by Border Patrol in Brighton Park, as well as her co-defendant Anthony Ruiz.
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
The Pentagon pulled 200 CA National Guard troops from Portland & 200 TX Guard troops from Chicago after federal court orders stopped them from carrying out any operations & CBP Dick Greg Bovino lit out of town headed for Charlotte not with a flashbang but a whimper. www.npr.org/2025/11/16/n...
Oh look, theyβre finally making it official what theyβve been doing with our data. Not that we didnβt already know that, and know that it was not only unethical, immoral, against our own historical policies, procedures, and ethics, but also illegal. But. Nice of yβall to finally say it out loud. π€¬π€¬π€¬
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now itβs official. www.wired.com/story/social...
In New York City, ICE abducted and vanished a teenager and a man from a parking lot in a strip mall. The teenager is prominently featured in the foreground, while a man in the background is being tackled off his bike.
(11/16/25)
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon Iβve given and itβs while Iβm being arrested. Itβs torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. Iβm ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
When I read stuff like this, Iβm trying to puzzle out what folks who are making these policy decisions understand the classroom to be. Like, fundamentally. What do they see the purpose of the classroom as?
Attacking a federal district judge as an βactivistβ for issuing a lawful ruling is an assault on judicial independence. A democracy cannot function when executive agencies denigrate judges for doing their jobs.
This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Vought illegally blocked $795 million in CFPB funding this year, while Trumpβs βOne Big Beautiful Billβ cut $772 million.
For every $1 CFPB spends, it returns nearly $2.80 to consumers. Thatβs over $4.3 Billion in financial relief denied to ripped-off Americans.
www.nteu335.org/2025/11/04/c...
NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.
Dems who votes yes:
π΅ Catherine Cortez Masto
π΅ Dick Durbin
π΅ John Fetterman
π΅ Maggie Hassan
π΅ Tim Kaine
π΅ Angus King
π΅ Jackie Rosen
π΅ Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
π΄ Rand Paul
"Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians: IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
"Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes." Border patrol agent who shot Chicago woman boasted about it in Signal text messages with colleagues, reports @reuters.com.
ICYMI: Senator Ron Wyden sounds the alarm on Republicans plan to sneak a nationwide abortion ban into their funding bill. This is why it is so important for women to remain in the fight for our lives!
β.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: βI fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.ββ
@reuters.com#Chicagowww.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
They have no plans to reopen the government because they plan on ruling by executive fiat and military control.
Emperor Palpatine has no further need for the Senate.
π BIG NEW investigation: Zombie debt collectors are taking advantage of Russ Vought's decimation of the CFPB and going after homeowners who are now alone fighting to fend off massive interest charges in hopes of saving their homes
π www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
Trump cannot receive gifts from foreign governments. All he can do is accept on behalf of the country.
Who am I kidding? He doesnβt care about the law....
It's a fundamental aspect of aristocracies. "Laws are for the peasantry. We're above all that."
The OLC memo is definitely nonsense, as @jahimes.bsky.social says. There is nothing the memo could say that would make these strikes anything other than murder.
Jim Himes: "If Lindsey Graham and other Republicans want to go the route of saying it's okay to kill people legally just so long as the American public supports it, the American public really needs to think that through...It's a very dangerous path for this country to go down."
Opposing gerrymandering doesnβt mean Democrats should surrender to the MAGA power grab in Texas.
California's Proposition 50 would cancel out the seats that Trump and Greg Abbott are trying to steal.
Vote YES by November 4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Hx...
In Abrego criminal case, govt will not object to defense subpoenaing former AUSA Ben Schrader, who apparently quit over the decision to indict Abrego, to testify at the vindictive prosecution hearing. Govt *is* fighting production of emails & memos about why Schrader declined to charge the case.