An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.

Get out and vote! Every election, every time, no excuses.

If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029. The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race. Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Excellent clip on the history of hostile architecture in NYC-it’s current form seen in the leaning benches in subways &lack of any seating (except Amtrak Lounge) in Moynihan station impacting ppl who are unhoused, older, and/or disabled. Of course, Robert Moses & his legacy are responsible for this.

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

Raising toll prices during accident traffic is DIABOLICAL.

An AP analysis finds drops in the number of Black freshmen at many elite colleges in the two years since the Supreme Court’s decision ending affirmative action. apnews.com/article/affi...

This is the third death that I'm aware of this year where a person died trying to flee from ICE.

BREAKING: An appeals court just postponed President Trump's National Guard deployment to Portland, Oregon until Tuesday so the full court can vote on whether it will hear the case.

Death and grief are hard and they really f*cking suck. But the answer is not to turn everyone into AI bots so they can live forever. Learning to love, grieve, and let go is a natural part of the human experience and mastering it gives life meaning in a way that AI will never be able to replace.

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NEW: Letitia James asks the court to dismiss the indictment against her because Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed US attorney and has "no authority to litigate this case on behalf of the United States." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

& this administration expects anybody to take them seriously

NEW: U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis is allowing the deposition of Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino to expand to FIVE hours (she'd limited it to 2), and she wants to hear about use of force by CBP in Little Village on Wednesday and Thursday. Plus a reminder to "preserve all body-worn camera footage."

BREAKING: Over a sharp dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan & Jackson, the Supreme Court will not stop Alabama from killing Anthony Boyd tonight. Sotomayor tells the reader to count to four minutes on their phone. "Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating."

Yesterday on Canal St. in Chinatown. (Photo by the superb www.instagram.com/nigrotime?ig...)

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

Basically wasn't this his central critique of Biden? That is, "he's old, he's lost it, he's just doing what people around him tell him to do and can't explain why he's doing what he's doing..." plus auto-pen...

As long as you don’t use an auto pen, it’s okay to have no idea whom you’re pardoning.

I mean, that hasn’t stopped them elsewhere.

BREAKING: Per new reporting, ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting under Kristi Noem. One was discovered to have a history of robbery and battery related to domestic violence while already in training.

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Alabama is scheduled to kill Anthony Boyd by way of nitrogen suffocation today. Boyd has a longshot request for a stay of execution pending at the Supreme Court. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke... If the execution proceeds, it will be Alabama's 5th this year and the 40th in the U.S. in 2025.

Nazi, racist, sexist, AND homophobic? This man is bigot Yahtzee lmao And before yall call it a youthful indiscretion or whatever tf, mans was in his 30s 7 years ago.

That man is cutting peoples' food benefits, building a ballroom to solicit more bribes over dinner with the wealthy and daring the poor to eat the rich.

"Today I find that stuff abhorrent." Bro,this is only two years before the PANDEMIC. That is functionally TODAY.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

He lied. Just say he lied.

Dr. Ben Danielson stood up to racism at Seattle Children’s and won. Now he’s building real solutions through ASHAY, working to end youth incarceration and center health. Powerful work rooted in justice, dignity, and the brilliance of our youth.

Even if you are someone who believes that public safety threats should be deported, I think there is a very strong argument for some kind of statute of limitations for people ordered deported decades ago who have long since served their time and were living here with official forbearance.

From 1965 through 2017 when Obama made a deal with Cuba in his last days in office, Cubans on U.S. soil could not be deported to Cuba. There are senior citizens ordered deported in the 1970s who are still here decades after serving their time. Now Trump is dumping some of them in Mexico.

Buckhead HOA can’t keep neglecting historic Black cemetery, judge says www.ajc.com/news/2025/10...

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

The provision of law barring ICE from turning away members of Congress is part of the annual appropriations bill. With the FY25 bill now expired and the government shut down, ICE is now saying they are no longer obligated to allow members entry; and their congressional visit process isn’t funded.

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.

BREAKING: In a 26-20 vote, the North Carolina Senate passes a Trump-approved congressional gerrymander that aims to dismantle one of the state’s Black Democratic seats. The House redistricting committee is set to take up the measure this afternoon.

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

No one said that the lower court or any court would save us. But the law still matters. Having a record that shows this administration is not following the law, matters. Truth matters. Do with that what you will.

North Carolina Democrats can counter some of the damage of Republicans' looming post–Voting Rights Act redistricting by electing a progressive majority to their state Supreme Court. That starts with the reelection of Justice Earls next year.

Well, at least you know where they stand.

EMTALA requires universal care for “emergency medical conditions” regardless of a person’s insurance status. In the decades since its passage, some patients have died hours after failing to receive care they were legally entitled to. By @emcahan.bsky.social

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

TODAY: ⚖️ A North Carolina court will hear pro-voting groups’ challenge to a state law that makes same-day voter registration more difficult. ⚖️ An Arizona court will hear the RNC’s challenge to a state law that allows certain U.S. citizens living abroad to vote in state elections.

This attitude was passed down....

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...