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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...

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

House Judiciary Democrats have uncovered reports alleging Trump was an "active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s."

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

MARITIME SECURITY: UKMTO-reported attacks on vessels in and around the Strait of Hormuz have reached a new high in October, with 27 incidents logged so far. Following a low of 5 in June, monthly reported incidents have steadily escalated over the last four months.

BRENNAN: The DOJ lawsuit demands the Alaska result not be certified if voters are confused. The confusion is defined as Sen. Sullivan not winning. BLANCHE: That's not what it says BRENNAN: I'm quoting from it. You are telling them not to certify it. What right does the federal govt have?

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

Obama: We've got a U.S. ambassador shaking down a donor to pay off her $100,000 credit card bills. A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon, so he paid one of Trump's personal lawyers $50 million. We have never seen a president excel in straight-up grifting like this.

Obama: "You got the defense sec who is like a laser focused on important matters like the jawline & testosterone level of our troops, and livestreaming executions because that's how he thinks you cultivate that manly warrior spirit. How much time do you think this man spends in front of the mirror?"

“The mayor called it “objectively a racist attack, probably Islamophobic”.

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

🟢 Friday’s decision will now bind future 9th Circuit panels if Trump tries to deploy the National Guard again in California.

"In June of last year, the Mexican government began to receive a steady stream of deported Cubans over 60, most of whom had been in the States for decades." From @dawnpaley.bsky.social www.theborderchronicle.com/banishing-th...

Cornyn on Starlink being throttled in Ukraine: "I don't believe that Elon Musk would do this without at least the acquiescence of the White House. I think it's frankly shameful. I think we should be supporting the victim, not the aggressor."

This is going to fall apart. They’re trying to intimidate voters. Trump’s DOJ is accusing states of registering thousands of noncitizens to vote. There’s just one problem. Their own evidence is blowing up in their faces.

Sen. Slotkin: “I'm not going to be intimidated out of standing up for the rule of law.” Caption: For nearly a year, Trump has targeted Senator Slotkin for one reason: she defended the Constitution & called out his corruption.

Two weeks out, Trump's FCC chair is warning TV stations that polls showing Trump & the GOP losing could count as "News Distortion" The First Amendment has no exception for polls the president doesn't like The poll that matters most is Nov 3, & Carr can't keep that one off the air -TN

A victory for ordinary people & a rebuke of the Trump admin & Elon Musk, the billionaire it put in charge OPM had no business giving DOGE data on tens of millions of people @democracydefendersfund.org, EFF & partners stand w/ AFGE & federal workers. Full statement 👇 -TN

Illinois has surpassed its original goal of eliminating $1 billion in medical debt by more than $400 million — all while spending less than $10 million in state dollars to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans.

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The Trump admin is moving forward on plans to impose financial penalties on Americans in default on their federal student loans and hire private debt collectors to go after them. The plans are unlikely to be announced until after the midterms.

A 1.3GW solar installation, the largest in the US (for now), is now fully online in...Indiana! believe it or not. solarbuildermag.com/news/mammoth...

BREAKING: President Trump has repeatedly claimed that Democrats are cheating by allowing noncitizens to vote. But the poster child of Monday’s voter fraud sweep — who the DOJ alleges was illegally registered to vote in L.A. — is a registered Republican lamaterial.com/p/voter-frau...

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

Russian military satellite Kosmos 2612 is now closely shadowing ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite supporting Ukraine, after maneuvering into nearly the same orbit. Such proximity could allow Russia to monitor or interfere with transmissions and potentially position itself for an anti-satellite operation

Inside an ICE facility, women talked about the men whose 911 calls landed them there — the boyfriends or husbands who had beat them, choked them, threatened deportation. “I had suffered from domestic violence,” one woman said. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

Mike Johnson complains about how quiet Congress has been for days. .... Margaret Brennan immediately reminds him that he sent lawmakers back to their districts.

The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.

This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

Trump doesn’t care about the general public. His only concern is walling off public lands into private enclaves and business opportunities for himself and wealthy cronies.

Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.

Vance: It's going to take more than 18 months to fix the economy.

In case facts still matter…

This afternoon's orbital data suggests - subject to confirmation - that Russia's Kosmos-2612 has carried out a rendezvous with the US ICEYE X36 radar sat, within a few km. To my knowledge this is the first LEO rendezvous of two active sats where the owner of one of the sats did not give approval.

And none of the four got their law degrees in China.😆

Judge Sarah Davenport in New Mexico wants answers after ICE deported a man to Honduras on Oct. 5 in violation of an injunction. Her issue: The last time ICE did this to her they vowed to implement safeguards. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CBS: Tariffs definitely don't work for Mary Buchzeiger. She owns an auto parts manufacturing company near Detroit and says tariffs forced her to scrap plans to add 350 more jobs. She remembers one day a tariff changed 3 times in 24 hours.

Trump order just issued from the White House: “I am hereby waiving the application of such sanctions, restrictions, and duties [on Russia] provided for in the Graham Act.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A 52% gain in price. In a year. 🇺🇸 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My family and I were worshipping at our Hindu temple in Aurora on Sunday when a white supremacist attempted a mass shooting targeting Indian Americans. I'm grateful to those who prevented a tragedy, but we must all come together to confront the hatred that put so many innocent lives at risk.

JUST IN: President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, has been busted at least twice in Southern California for driving while using her phone. Read Tomo Chien and @matt-hamilton87.bsky.social’s full story: buff.ly/W0pEHYF

“Washington is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East, adding roughly 10,000 sailors and Marines to the region by the end of November.” www.foxnews.com/live-news/us...

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...