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NEWS: The U.S. State Department says it will give U.S. visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family who have fled Brazil after Bolsonaro's loss

WaPo reports this no-bill was the Cassidy Hutchinson case www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

LIVE: The U.S. v. California TRO hearing has begun before Judge Carter following last night's 9th Circuit order: www.lawdork.com/p/appeals-co... The hearing is available on Zoom. Go down to Carter here and click on the "Zoom Webinar Information" link: apps.cacd.uscourts.gov/Jps/

UPDATE: Trump’s DOJ is fighting to send armed agents back to the homes of naturalized citizens to ask about their voter eligibility. This comes after a lower court blocked the armed visits in 9 states.

NEWS A federal judge just agreed to FAST-TRACK her decision on whether to dismiss Trump DOJ’s lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s election if the GOP incumbent loses. She indicated that she will rule by Wednesday at 5 pm local time. Doc buff.ly/YeQtu5n

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

NEW: As expected, on a 2-1 vote, the Ninth Circuit dismisses DOJ's appeal in the US v. California case over DOJ's claims relating to "likely noncitizen" voting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Trump administration on Monday asked Washington state to set aside any ballots received from more than 400 people it suspects registered to vote without U.S. citizenship. https://to.pbs.org/4iHuGVh

The DOJ has a new criminal case against former FBI director James Comey, this time related to the transfer of national defense information in 2016 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨BREAKING: Democratic candidate Mary Peltola and her party asked a federal court in Alaska to throw out DOJ's unprecedented lawsuit that seeks to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if the Republican incumbent loses. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: The Trump DOJ just sent letters to local election officials across California — every county in the state — demanding they identify potential noncitizens on their voter rolls and set aside their ballots. Local officials would "risk significant federal scrutiny" if they failed to comply.

Trump DOJ unlawfully fired Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, judge rules www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

New filing: "Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War (Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Designation)" Doc #253: NOTICE OF APPEAL to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals filed by Paul S. Atkins, Scott Bessent, Frank J. Bisigano, Mary… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL72379655

Ninth Circuit just finished hearing oral argument in DOJ's case to sequester 20K mail-in ballots in California IMHO, most likely outcome: dismissal for lack of jurisdiction, with District Judge Carter hearing case Tuesday. Two of 3 on panel seemed skeptical of DOJ's case on merits too.

AOC Tidies Up In Case Federal Agents Stop By For Raid

That oughta do it

Peggy Flanagan: "In Minnesota, fraudsters are getting prosecuted and going to prison. In Donald Trump's Washington, they are getting pardoned. We are not the same."

This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Utah voters, a Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking to obtain the state's unredacted voter registration list. The ruling puts the department at 0-27 in its sweeping legal effort for access to states' voter data.

BREAKING: major development in our case on ICE at the polls The judge granted our request for expedited discovery & we’ll now seek answers about threats & their impact on voters DDF, NAACP, Mfenaccion, OCANational, NatUrbanLeague, MN8, SEIU, AFT, UFCW IUPAT & others! - TN

The Trump administration says tonight that it could begin construction of the triumphal arch on Nov. 5 — immediately after next month's vote.

NEW: California has now filed their motion to dismiss DOJ's "likely noncitizen" voting case altogether. Here's the legal brief: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is both a completely reasonable timeline for a judge who just got the case today — and lowkey hilarious. DOJ isn't even going to have something to appeal (and even that will be a stretch if it's just a TRO ruling) until less than a week before Election Day.

Whoops! The Kennedy Center's Trump-installed Board quietly revises a key justification for the two-year closure: that a report supposedly found phased renovations would cost $41M more. The Board admits it never read that before voting. buff.ly/a7LEkeV

BREAKING: Judge Carter sets the TRO hearing in U.S. v. California — DOJ's case over "likely noncitizens" allegedly being sent ballots — for 1 p.m. PT October 27. Will also include arguments on intervention, and Carter tells the proposed intervenors to be ready to argue the TRO question as well.

Cambridge Analytica!

If this is accurate, Elon lied about not having control over Starshield, and he lied about the administration making the decision. More importantly, why is a private citizen even *able* to make decisions that could hinder US military operations?

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network .. .. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Kinda seems like you’re not turning the Titanic around though…and it’s headed straight for a…

From Friday: Trump is trying to prevent discovery into the numbers of applicants for Mar-a-Lago membership between 2020 and 2026 and how much accepted new members paid during those times. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

NEW: After Los Angeles did not comply with a Trump administration demand to sort through a list of 20k voters it alleged were noncitizens, the DOJ sued. However, the demand may have put the city in an impossible situation: Some of those flagged are registered outside the county's jurisdiction.

June 7th:

Check out this video, "misiorowski don't take me out" share.google/5hgPdLvapgTI...

Please go there.

A judge has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit against New York City over its sanctuary policies, rejecting the federal govt's claim that the city's policies violated the Supremacy Clause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Turns out the answer is yes…

🚨BREAKING: The DOJ sued California for sending mail ballots to 20k people the Trump administration claims are likely noncitizens. The lawsuit comes after the DOJ threatened legal action if the state did not set aside cast ballots of those flagged until their citizenship status is confirmed.

Judge Rochon in SDNY today extended the pro-Tump DHS propaganda ad ban TRO through the midterms and set the PI hearing for the day after the midterms. She's also allowing limited discovery before then and asked for an explanation about ads that ran on 10/12. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UPDATE: The DOJ's letter included a USB drive containing the list of people it flagged, along with a handwritten password on what appears to be a...sticky note.

A teenager in Maryland has filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against CBS after the network’s evening news broadcast portrayed him as a suspect in the vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool earlier this year.https://thedesk.net/2026/10/teen-sues-cbs-news-reflecting-pool-vandalism/

BREAKING: In a loss for Kansas voters, the 10th Circuit allowed the state to enforce its anti-voting law that bans nonpartisan groups from mailing pre-filled mail ballot applications to registered voters. The ban will remain in effect for the midterms.

Six Democratic and six Republican senators wrote a letter calling on President Trump to withdraw from his recent deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin. n.pr/4yYzOKg

JUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...