1: shoots gun at Capitol on J6 2: slueths tell fbi his name 3: he kills a man, claims self defense 4: he tells police he was the j6 gunman 5: he’s finally arrested 6: trump pardons him for j6 7: he allegedly kidnaps and sexually assaults someone www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

BREAKING: In a 3-2 vote Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole board recommended clemency for Tremane Wood, a man sentenced to death for a killing his brother admitted to committing www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

How much of Zohran Mamdani's ambitious agenda can he get done if he's elected mayor on Tuesday? A lot – and here's what it might look like: www.huffpost.com/entry/zohran...

RFK Sr traveled the country as a senator to expose malnutrition, drum up support for food stamps. RFK Jr travels the country as HHS secretary, sees overweight children at airports, says food stamps "poisoning" today's children New story w/ Senate library material www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

A perfect story for our times. Nebraska is getting its own immigrant detention center like Florida's Alligator Alcatraz. But people are upset because the center is replacing a work camp that provides the local economy with cheap prison labor. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

This is an excellent lede for a civil complaint. A+ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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:

ICE boasted over the arrest of Sydney Reid, a DC woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent in an altercation with ICE officers near DC Jail. Today a jury found Reid NOT GUILTY on a misdemeanor -- after grand juries no-billed the case 3 TIMES. Folks, don't let ICE lecture you about rocket science.

Internal DHS memo shows Trump plans to keep paying ICE agents and Border Patrol officers throughout the shutdown, while other feds go without pay. Even the DHS administrative staff processing the paychecks won't get theirs, employee tells me. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The UAW has waded into the Maine Senate race with an endorsement for oyster farmer (and former Tune Inn bartender!) Graham Platner

The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow over whether or not to totally gut the Voting Rights Act. If it does so it would decimate political power for racial minorities, particularly Black people, and help Donald Trump lock in one-party rule www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments about Colorado's conversion therapy ban tomorrow. In Chiles v. Salazar, a Christian therapist - repped by the Alliance Defending Freedom - claims that CO's 2019 ban on conversion therapy infringes on her freedom of speech. www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

New banner greeting all visitors to the HHS website:

The Trump administration used a VA veterans’ newsletter to blame Democrats for the government shutdown. I don’t know how many people get this newsletter but it’s a massive audience, obviously. “Needless to say this really pissed me off,” a disabled vet who received it told me.

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown. "I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...

Another day, another Jeanine Pirro case going to shit. Prosecutors are seeking to drop felony charges they filed against two other D.C. residents accused of assaulting a federal agent. Cases went nowhere. Judges are clearly exasperated by this stuff: www.huffpost.com/entry/jeanin...

It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.

More regime consolidation of the media. Orbanism.

Another Jeanine Pirro felony case just crumbled. Prosecutors claimed DC resident Scott Pichon assaulted guardsmen by spitting at them, but moved to withdraw the charge “after reviewing the evidence.” Judge: “The way this is supposed to work is the U.S. Attorney’s Office does its due diligence.”

Los Angeles teachers are patrolling the streets, linking w immigration/ tenants’ advocates, and repurposing lockdown policies designed to protect students from active shooters or wildfires — all to protect them from ICE @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I report www.huffpost.com/entry/los-an...

America Is Now A 'Show Your Papers' State The obvious end point of the Supreme Court’s logic is something normally associated with fascist regimes. www.huffpost.com/entry/americ...

The DC folk hero who threw a sandwich at a CBP officer was arraigned in federal court today on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a federal agent. He pleaded not guilty. Jury selection slated to start Nov 3. Yes, it’s looking like this will actually go to trial. Incredible.

The greatest shadow docket headline you’ll ever see

SCOTUS just gave Trump the green light to fire the FTC’s lone Democraric commissioner, Rebecca Slaughter, while her case is pending. Slaughter was the only commissioner to vote against killing the FTC’s historic non-compete ban last week www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Shitty jobs report yet Labor Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer boasts that "all job growth this year has been in the private sector among native-born Americans." Really sums up so much of what the administration is doing.

This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

At least 13 people are charged with "assaulting" or "impeding" a federal agent in Trump's DC takeover. In several cases, what look like routine police scuffles have turned into federal cases carrying up to 8 yrs prison. The cases are "horseshit," an attorney said. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This morning a judge in D.C. Court unleashed a withering critique of Trump's DC police takeover, tossing a case built on "without a doubt the most illegal search" he'd ever seen. "Lawlessness cannot come from the government," the judge warned. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/judge-...

This story demonstrates how even a short convo with an AI chatbot can be dangerous for vulnerable people: “The best way to sustain usage over time...is to prey on our deepest desires to be seen, to be validated, to be affirmed." www.reuters.com/investigates...

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

Harrowing @mattshuham.bsky.social dispatch from immigration court, where he watched 20 arrests over five days. "This is fishing in a stocked pool," one federal agent said. www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...

We got hold of a memo revealing how many CBP and border patrol agents Trump has pulled from the ports and borders to do immigration raids with ICE. It's around 2,000. He's diverting manpower from the ports of entry -- that's where the fentanyl actually comes in. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I'm turning 37 this week, and to celebrate, I'm offering 37% off a year of Fingers to the first 37 people who upgrade. Or, to put it another way, in lieu of gifts, please buy subscription: www.fingers.email/upgrade?_bhl...

I was able to confirm that, yes, the Teamsters did hire Peter Cytanovic of Charlottesville "Unite the Right" fame, before firing him during his probationary period. I asked Cytanovic about it outside his home and he told me to "get the fuck out of here." www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-...

The Supreme Court doesn't care about the law or explaining itself anymore www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

The VA now says it plans to lose 30,000 employees by October, “through normal attrition, early retirements, deferred resignations and the federal hiring freeze.” Enough people out the door that the agency says it won’t pursue a mass reduction-in-force.

Hospitality workers' union UNITE HERE isn't happy the Senate's big beautiful bill caps the deduction for no-taxes-on-tips. The union has been a big backer of the idea though most progressive economists seem to think it's bad tax policy

UVA President Jim Ryan writes letter to students, staff and alums on his decision to step down under pressure from Trump’s DOJ: ‘I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my own job.’ Full letter:

Populism alert. Trump administration announces it will stop seeking liquidated damages on behalf of workers in cases of wage theft.

SCOTUS just upheld Skrmetti, the TN ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Justice Roberts delivered the opinion, saying that the law isn't subject to heightened scrutiny and can stay in place. Advocates fear this clears the way for future attacks on trans rights www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

The Senate's draft of the reconciliation bill is horrendous for federal workers. New hires would have to sacrifice 10% of their salary or else be classified as "at-will." A blatant scheme to undo job security and upend the civil service. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

LOL the Washington Post’s AI bot summarizing the comments under tonight’s weather forecast

The essence of Trumpism is the declaration of domestic war on his political opponents and disfavored racial, cultural and ethnic groups and the creation of a police state. The means is mass deportation. The end: the destruction of the liberal order. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Rally now outside the DOJ building in DC calling for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta, who was arrested in the Los Angeles ICE protests and is still detained

How do they come up with this stuff? In a new memo the White House says moving forward, federal job applicants will have to answer four “free-response essay questions,” one of which is: “How would you help advance the President’s executive orders and policy priorities?” chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...

under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

lol Trump’s Labor Department has rescinded guidance discouraging the inclusion of crypto in retirement plans. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer: ‘We’re rolling back this overreach and making it clear that investment decisions should be made by fiduciaries, not DC bureaucrats.’