VICTORY: Federal court dismisses class action lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, filed by the “Center for American Rights” www.thefire.org/news/victory...

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

New Yorkers didn't vote for Mamdani because they thought the vision of the City he elucidated and fought for during the campaign is something ineffable or doomed. They voted for him because he described a place they know and love and desperately don't want to abandon. hellgatenyc.com/zohran-mamda...

Pretty, pretty good

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

He has declared war on Trump and made people excited about being New Yorkers. I’m already proud to live here and my god, that was the best NYC pride, don’t fuck with us speech I’ve heard in my lifetime

NBC, The New York Times, and most importantly @hellgatenyc.com call the NYC mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani.

Historian David Wyman estimates that approximately 200,000 fewer Jews would have been murdered in the Holocaust if the US had not passed the Immigration Act of 1924. That is what JD Vance is out there defending right now.

I cannot

Agent Lairmore is done with his testimony. Prosecution asked further about the condiments and he said there was mustard on his uniform and an onion hanging on his radio antenna. Don’t think defense was going for a pun when she called him a “seasoned officer,” but you never know…

These people write the jokes about themselves so you don't have to.

they are breaking the law to deprive children of food while they build a ballroom so they can host even more lavish parties for themselves

The American government’s attacks on non-profits are “a bad idea”, writes John Palfrey in a guest essay. “Taken together, they constitute a fundamental attack on freedom of expression”

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

If anyone's curious I ran these through Google Translate, it's definitely missing some idioms but it gives you the basic gist:

BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews. In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.

I did a non-trivial amount of work on the use of facial recognition in Login.gov while in leadership at GSA, and at Treasury. The short version: it's racist. (And that was for 1-to-1 matching, which is much simpler than 1-to-many.) The error rate on this must be horrifying.

The most appalling, dystopian use of facial recognition technology we have long known to be biased against darker-skinned folks.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Yes. yes, yes. <<There has never been a universal Jewish position on Zionism. There isn’t one now. The sooner we stop pretending there is, the freer we will be to build Jewish futures rooted in conscience, solidarity, and democracy.>> www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/27/j...

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes. that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry. but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.

What a city.

Percentage Hispanic population Passaic County, NJ: 42.74% Kern County, CA: 54.9% Riverside County, CA: 49.72% Fresno County, CA: 53.61% Orange County, CA: 34.1% Los Angeles County, CA: 48% What happens when Kavanagh stops meet Roberts' disdain for the VRA

Mamdani: "While it would be easy for us to say that this is not who we are as a city, we know the truth. This is who we have allowed ourselves to become."

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

Only 24% approve, and less than half of Republicans, of demolition at White House

Research is clear: millionaire flight due to higher taxes is simply not a thing. Millionaires move *less* than the rest of us and often move from one higher-tax state to another (because of amenities!). prospect.org/2025/10/23/m...

Iowa federal court issues temporary restraining order against school district's efforts to fire high school teacher over social media comment about Charlie Kirk. If people complaining to the school were "disruption," it would effectuate a heckler's veto. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.

Armed, masked ICE agents raided NYC’s Chinatown, arresting several street vendors, some of whom have been operating there for 15 years. They brought an armored tank and tactical weapons into the streets. HandsOffNYC.com has been preparing for this though, and is holding a mass call 10/29 at 7pm.

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

Laughing and crying simultaneously.

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

Republican Leaders are simultaneously saying that the Jews funded No Kings rallies AND No Kings rallies were promoting antisemitic h/t @atrupar.com

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

The first look at the scale of Disney backlash after it suspended Kimmel. Wow>> “Antenna estimated a total of 3 million cancellations for Disney+ and 4.1 million for Hulu in September. Both of those figures far exceeded the trailing three-month averages for the services” www.wsj.com/business/med...

ICYMI: How recent FCC actions track the authoritarian playbook word for word: protectdemocracy.org/work/protect...

Authoritarianism doesn't happen in a vacuum. It requires enablers. When a leader posts fantasies of monarchical rule, and his entire party looks the other way, they become complicit. The issue isn't just Trump's posts; it's the institutional decay of a party that refuses to be a check on his power.

That's right

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC. Three Hundred Thousand.

NYC says #NoKings. Whose streets? Our streets.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

I cannot wait to see this whole, enormous, beloved community tomorrow.