NEWS: Ranking Member Raskin is demanding that Ed Martin preserve and produce all Weaponization Working Group records after Judiciary Democrats received credible allegations he concealed and destroyed federal communications to hide politically-motivated investigations.

"We need fighters.. grit... energy" A former federal prosecutor who quit in protest at the beginning of Trump Administration is the newly-elected city attorney in Seattle.... and tells CBS News she's ready to push back

Love you @raskin.house.gov. But it’s not THAT big.

The UN Security Council is expected to vote at 5pm in New York today on a US-sponsored draft resolution that would authorise the creation of an international stabilisation force in the Gaza Strip.

As Oregon lawmakers stare down a deficit of at least $373 million over the next two years — and brace for the possibility of a bigger shortfall — they asked all state agencies to create lists of ways to cut 5% of their legislatively approved budgets. buff.ly/VageCKI

And another one: youtu.be/0OFEC08QRAg?...

Kavanaugh stop in Charlotte youtu.be/oJsWm5ZAEJE?...

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Protesters demonstrate outside new ICE detention building in Milwaukee. Via @isiahholmes.bsky.social.

This opinion demands to be read in full. Among the problems with the grand jury proceedings: * The key evidence presented to the grand jury came from a search that may have violated the Fourth Amendment. * Lindsey Halligan apparently misstated the law to the grand jury, twice.

"What did Trump think Epstein was 'stealing' these girls for? Epstein did not own a resort hotel. The answer is that he was recruiting them for his sex trafficking operation. The idea that Trump would have had any uncertainty on that point is absurd." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Reupping: I argued that Pam Bondi did two desperate things on Friday, first re-ratifying the Comey indictment, and second, agreeing to hunt Democrats on Epstein. Judge just ruled there were multiple kinds of misconduct in the indictment Bondi re-ratified. www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/16/m...

#stayloud #boycott #blackout #endICE Democracy needs the Constitution. Without it we don’t have democracy. It’s a simple formula. Our veterans fought for the ideals our Constitution is built on. It’s worth fighting for. It’s still necessary to keep fighting for our Constitutional rights. Every day!

"The fact that JD Vance has openly cited Curtis Yarvin as an inspiration and that Thiel is the person most responsible for creating Vance as a politician should be viewed as a national emergency." My comments to @thorbenson.bsky.social madness.ghost.io/we-need-to-t...

"One case involved the sole African American attorney working for the Mississippi State Senate, who was paid less than half of what her white colleagues made. As clear-cut a case of disparate racial treatment you could find. Trump appointees ordered us to drop it." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This short thread by @chanda.blacksky.app is very much worth a read, especially in light of learning once again that high-status political and academic men (eg Larry Summers) can be dangerous pigs and that it’s a constant professional BURDEN to women in the same field, especially women of color. ⬇️

True clown-show, five-year-old lashing out here.

sounds familiar www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Scene from the James Comey grand jury room.

NEW: OMG. Halligan shit the bed in her grand jury presentation in the Comey case. She violated the constitution 9 ways to Sunday. Adam Klasfeld and I will discuss LIVE on substack in about 25 minutes. Muellershewrote.com

Judge Fitzpatrick joins the growing number of jurists "calling into question the presumption of regularity" of Trump's DOJ. Read the explosive ruling in full here. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record. Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...

Did you say “peril”?? How many journalists will understand the significance of that? Summers is still teaching?

Jeffrey Epstein was running a child sex ring in Florida. Yet for some reason when Pam Bondi served as Florida's Attorney General from 2011 to 2019 she never charged him. She did prosecute others for being sexual predators but not Epstein. My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

Trump's campaign to kill an industry where America runs a massive trade surplus is succeeding

Yikes. I had missed this. What a brazen scheme to weaponize administrative burden against those who can least afford it. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy. Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:

The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her. This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.

Other incidents in this story: An ICE officer and a GEO Group guard pressuring Avelo crew to ignore FAA rules, which could have gotten everyone killed; migrants soiling themselves on planes that just sit there hours; guards pushing a hooded migrant to the ground. prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

And to be clear, the six reported injuries were nosebleeds, which is what happens when you have barotrauma. I’ve been asking since June, if a passenger is handcuffed and the handcuffs are attached to a chain around their waists, can they even reach up to grab their masks? Seems like no.

If passengers are not able to access emergency oxygen, then the plane is not airworthy.

This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating

2/ Here's a reminder of how dangerous Sinclair is to our democracy. This company should not be permitted to buy anymore local stations. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

What this WSJ article fails to mention is that Sinclair is a right wing propaganda machine just like Fox. It spews lies & conspiracy theories on all of its local tv stations. Scripps is a company that stresses fact based journalism. If Sinclair grabs those stations, all of that is lost.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Attorney Barbara Schwabauer explains her decision to leave the Justice Department's Office of Civil Rights rather than comply with a Trump administration order to subpoena the medical records of transgender teens

Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here's Trump adviser Kevin Hassett giving us the upbeat spin on businesses not hiring "the new kids out of college."

2. One of the biggest beneficiaries may be Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security advisor. Flynn sued the federal government in March 2023, seeking at least $50 million. His complaint was THROWN OUT OF COURT by a federal judge.

1. Trump is in the process of sending millions in taxpayer money directly to his political allies — and himself. The money purportedly is to settle legal claims. But these claims are extraordinarily weak and have little to no chance of success. In reality, it is a brazen theft.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

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"The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands & candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need."

If you thought sending horrific, racist texts was enough to get you shunned from political service, think again! trib.al/WBi8VDT

"I think understanding the origin story, and understanding what the intention was, of the creation of the United States as it morphed, and as it changed as it went along, helps us today understand not only where we are, but where we could be going," Ken Burns said. https://to.pbs.org/4p6Y47H

Crypto ATMs are almost perfectly designed to facilitate financial crime from the most vulnerable Americans. Be very suspicious of anyone who asks you to make a deposit into one; they are designed to make it impossible for you to get it back. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

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I wrote about the stomach clenching reality of work now -- where rolling layoffs are the norm and no one feels secure in their job. Happy Monday! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/r...

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