In the Netherlands, the sneaky U.S. erasure on Dutch ground of historical panels on a Black American war hero has caused outrage. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... via @esglaude.bsky.social

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now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Fox goes with real-world math over WH gaslight.

A group of moms from the western suburbs were arrested Friday morning during a protest against the separation of families outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

The whole forum is good. Different takes, but there is a lot of agreement that Trump's movement without Trump is in for a lot of trouble: www.notus.org/perspectives...

ICE paid Palantir $51 million for software to help with criminal investigations and to track self-deportations and people who have overstayed their visas. https://www.notus.org/immigration/corecivic-geo-group-palantir-revenue-trump-deportations

Congress’ nonpartisan number cruncher says between $7 billion and $14 billion in economic activity could be permanently lost because of the shutdown. Depending on the Trump administration’s actions, it could be an even bigger hit.

The AP does exactly what professional journalists are supposed to do: identify and describe some of the 60 plus persons summarily executed by Trump and Hegseth. One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Roberts now going at the solicitor general like a cat with a wounded mouse. Keeps telling him that tariffs are taxes on the American people. "Who pays the tariffs??" Says Trump's argument would neutralize separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches. Incredible stuff.

UPDATE: Dems lead every city council race in Aurora, Colorado - and could flip a 7-3 GOP majority into a 6-4 Dem edge - including what would be a shocking upset of MAGA media star Danielle Jurinsky, whose claims of a "complete gang takeover" led Trump to call Aurora "conquered." #copolitics

Trump to Republican senators: "I thought we'd have a discussion after the press leaves about what last night represented and what we should do about it and also about the shutdown and how that relates to last night. If you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor, negative for Republicans."

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

A pro-ICE sheriff in a purple Philly suburban county got the boot as well. Feel like law enforcement races are the ones least likely to flip to Dems, but last night even those did. And a pro-ICE sheriff lost in a county that is 80% white. So this wasn’t just the cratering of Hispanic GOP support.

Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.

How it plays abroad:

Might actually go up 14 seats. Huge. People are pissed. projects.statenavigate.com/25-26/states...

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

just catching up on Bill Belichick’s disastrous year as UNC coach and discovering the exact mechanics of how he secured the job. www.theringer.com/2025/10/31/c...

Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance (VENA) initiative is a temporary state-run program created from scratch to provide food benefits to eligible recipients during the federal government shutdown. Here's how it will work: www.cvilletomorrow.org/virginia-lau...

A spokesman for the North Carolina Republican Party appeared to threaten @propublica.org — citing his “connections” to the Trump administration — over a story on a conservative state Supreme Court judge www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trial set for Dec 1 over NPR's allegations that CPB unlawfully yielded to White House pressure as new evidence comes to light. CPB contends it reversed course in 48 hours on a $36M contract with NPR on the merits. My story: www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...

USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP - NOTUS www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency to fund SNAP. Landry asked the state legislature to authorize $150 million of state money to subsidize food stamps for children, the elderly, and disabled people for the next month. The measure is expected to pass.

I’m here at Dirksen Federal Courthouse where U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is set to testify over allegations that he violated a federal judge’s TRO when he used tear gas on protestors in Little Village last week. Follow this thread for updates. @courthousenews.bsky.social

In blue states, they're kidnapping them off the streets and from their homes. In red states, they're doing sweeps through the jails and taking them. Same outcome. These people are literally being transferred to unknown places with no due process.

Took a lovely trip to Minneapolis this past spring, it was just a few days but in that time our host @itsthebrandi.bsky.social, who knows how to show people a good time, took us to approximately 17 ice cream shops Last week, somebody tried to firebomb one of them: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

I appeared on @CBSNews with @MajorCBS last week, to discuss that Rep-Elect Grijalva has still not be sworn in 30+ days after her election, and how well voting is going in states this year, including extensive early voting in VA, NJ, and CA. www.cbsnews.com/video/adelit...

Republicans are delivering GOP-friendly seats in redistricting battles spanning from North Carolina to Texas. Proposition 50 in California is Democrats’ first opportunity to gain up to five seats favoring their party. www.notus.org/california/d...

As most lawmakers stay home during the shutdown, Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., keeps reporting to his Capitol Hill office, urging Congress to return to work and end the standoff. n.pr/4oERhlF

Stakeholders in food assistance programs say they are still looking at a Nov. 1 cutoff for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits if the federal shutdown continues. The loss of federal funding leaves a $73 million void in Minnesota’s nutritional safety net.

As U.S. wheat farmers face painful losses in the global market due to President Trump's policies, one domestic flour mill on a reservation in Oregon is expanding its production twelvefold. n.pr/4oaI5Wk

Budapest this afternoon. This is an anti-Orbán protest.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor. And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay. Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S. buff.ly/12mGSs8

this is going to be a partisan take but i dont think the president should be allowed to give himself $230M in taxpayer money www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Last U.S. House vote: Sept. 19 Last U.S. House hearing on Capitol Hill: Sept. 18 Last U.S. House vote on a regular appropriations bill: Sept. 4

🔔 Follow us at @notusperspectives.bsky.social to read more www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this. That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Indiana University fires student media director after he refused to censor news stories from the Indiana Daily Student newspaper.

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

BREAKING: The Census Bureau’s website says applications are now open for temporary “2026 Census Test” jobs in six states as some of the national head count’s advocates warn about delays in preparing for next year’s major field test of the #2030Census