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For several days I have been hearing rumors of an ICE detainee death that ICE was not reporting. I've just learned a local journalist has confirmed it and will publish soon. Now I read this and see there are actually TWO deaths ICE is not reporting. www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-detainee...

📍 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐀: ICE has detained Phillip James, a 39-year-old man with schizophrenia, since January despite records indicating he was born in Florida and held a U.S. passport for 15 years. ICE is seeking to deport him to Jamaica, according to an AP investigation. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

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...

Trump's DOE has slashed the Office for Civil Rights staff by more than half, and directed its enforcement entirely away from sexual assault investigations and toward anti-trans discrimination.

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.

Nothing and no one should stand between New Yorkers and their right to vote — least of all the government.
 Early voting is happening now through November 1. Election Day is November 3. See you at the polls!

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Students at Cornell put up these signs around campus. This is what I mean by society is who has to change the definition of justice.

Mamdani bought out three theaters to show the new documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem for free this weekend. You know what, I’m sick of yall and your fancy mayor. Sick.

this answer about what issues matter to him from a college student waiting in line at the Trump rally wasn't what the Fox correspondent expected to hear. She moved on with swiftness

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

Me: "Even if it was unpopular, are you saying the Democratic Party should not speak out against the president sending migrants who have committed no crimes to be tortured in a foreign gulag?" @mattyglesias.bsky.social: "Yeah." Me: "Just stay silent?" Yglesias: "...You gotta win first."

WATCH: Pablo Torre takes us back to Harvard, where Vivek Ramaswamy was raising his hand in the shape of a “V”—and performing as “Da Vek,” his libertarian rapper alter ego.

A scoop from me: CBS-owned local stations' election coverage will be sponsored by DraftKings, a deal that has stirred concern inside the company. www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

Dolly Parton's sister claims voting machines in Tennessee changed her vote to the Republican candidate.

Either the President was lying or Musk was lying, but the decision to slow down satellite speed and access has life or death consequences for Ukraine. This deserves a full investigation by the Senate. Elon Musk should be compelled to testify before Congress and under oath.

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

Hey @janeese4dc.bsky.social, we really need to get ICE out of Moultrie courthouse by January. Is DC a sanctuary city or not?

If ICE really did arrest over 100,000 people during the summer, the number of people being held in ICE camps has probably already passed the raw numbers of people held during Japanese American imprisonment. youtu.be/bny4YMWYJ6U

Holy shit, every paragraph of this story is more jaw-dropping than the last. What a fucking diseased country we live in.

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

Ossoff on Trump campaigning in Georgia: "I'd be delighted for the president to come every day between now and the election"

Troy Jackson to Susan Collins: "I don't have Donald Trump getting me out of investigations like you do"

Join us Thursday, October 22nd, at 6:30 pm PT, for a free Know Your Rights training covering your constitutional rights, steps to take during an ICE encounter, and trusted immigration resources to help protect your family. 📅: Thursday, October 22 🕙: 6:30 p.m. PT ➡️: tinyurl.com/dn83fzsx

MS NOW analyzed Trump Justice Department data and found Kash Patel is making false statements about FBI crime stats. The FBI under Patel has brought thousands fewer criminal cases than previous administrations. The findings rebut Patel's claims that he has led a crackdown on violent crime.

Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

With all due respect, this is precisely what is wrong with the federal courts today. They should not be doing "everything humanly possible to give the government the benefit of the doubt."

She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

8 time Texas HS football state champion coach knows what’s at stake this November.

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

The Yankees front office hired a manager with zero managing or coaching experience to manage this team eight years ago and we've watched this team pretty much play and lose the exact same way every season since then. Sloppy, no fundies, piss poor bullpen usage and pinch hitting. It's uncanny.

25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

Just really leaning into being on the wrong side of history. 🤦🏾‍♀️

In installment two of the Bari Weiss commissioned series to defend the Cornell 7 rapists, it's time to blame the victim, because, you know, she must have wanted what happened to her.

👀 Love to see this: "Corruption isn’t just an abstract political issue for Americans, it’s a pocketbook one. Huge majorities across party lines say corruption in government is raising their costs personally (81%), with nearly half feeling this way strongly (48%)." @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social

HEADS UP: These are your pro-crypto Democrats - keep this in mind when you hear them opining on policy issues related to finance (and stories of corruption). www.politico.com/live-updates...

🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Defense of a color-blind meritocracy": Chait is too dim or vain to admit that arguments for 'color-blind meritocracy' framed in opposition to negritude (e.g., "CRT" or "woke") rarely stop there, but the rest of us don't have to pretend.

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.