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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 🔗 www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

This is the redistricting guide I’ve been waiting for since ~June. The Downballot is indispensable open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...

NEW: DOJ's recusal effort in the Portland case worked. Now a Trump appointee will hear it. Tonight, at Law Dork:

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

GET VACCINATED!

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

I recall the Chief Justice saying there’s an “equal sovereignty” principle in the constitution (which he made up) that rejects categorically singling out states for differential treatment by the federal government.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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Judge Simon's right - he wasn't required to recuse, though he had the discretion to. The problem arises when principled judges recuse even if there's an appearance of bias but unprincipled judges like Alito and Thomas don't.

THE PURGE Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months. Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025. 🧵

A sixty-year-old couple in Mankato making $89,000 combined will pay an EXTRA $1500 every single month just to get health insurance if we don’t get a shutdown deal. That’s why we’re fighting so hard.

“These are scenes I was not expecting to see in the US. You have detentions in Germany, but …they’re certainly not carried out by people who are wearing masks. There’s no comparison to that in Germany” —German journalist reporting from outside an NYC immigration center www.cjr.org/getting-the-...

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime. With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone. www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...

Very nice scoop by @pabloreports.bsky.social—sure seems like Lutnick just lied about having a thousand "Trump Gold Card" signups out of the gate.

Robert Morris will serve just six months of his 10-year sentence.

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia says the Trump admin is in "blatant violation of the law" for "misuse of taxpayer dollars for political purposes" over partisan shutdown messages on agency websites.   Garcia wants the Office of the Special Counsel to investigate.

Today is Franni’s and my 50th wedding anniversary! We met in college 6 years earlier and decided to get married a week before the first SNL show because we finally both had jobs (Franni working for NBC News and me writing for SNL). (1/2)

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

These are all horrible, but this is just disgusting.

Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein, his former neighbor, the "greatest blackmailer ever."   Those comments are in direct contrast to the DOJ's findings this summer that there's 'no credible evidence' that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals.

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown @natashakorecki.bsky.social + @aterkel.bsky.social + Monica Alba + Matt Dixon: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress. Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Here are all the states Russ Vought announced just today he would be illegally stealing taxpayer dollars from. Have we ever had a President work so hard to hurt the people he represents? I'm not going to be intimidated by these crooks.

“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the funding was for projects in 16 states, all of which voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

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I'm amazed that so few people seem to INCLUDE THE SCOTUS when we watch the USA descend into Dictatorship and lawlessness. SCOTUS is directly responsible for the 'power' Trump abuses and not enough is made of this. @tribelaw.bsky.social

Gov is shutdown. Let’s see who picks it up this time 🤣

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment)" Doc #32: Declaration Download PDF | View Full Case #CL71481149

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment)" Doc #29: Declaration Download PDF | View Full Case #CL71481149

The folks at Homeland Security have cleared all the migrants out of Guantanamo Bay again, moving the most recent batch back to the U.S.A. The 8-month-old mission staffed by more than 600 troops, contractors and ICE agents has held fewer than 700 migrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

New minute entry in District of Columbia v. Trump (Deployment of National Guard in D.C.): MINUTE ORDER denying 59 Motion to Stay: The Court DENIES Defendants' 59 Motion for a Stay of Proceedings. As both Parties note in their filings, the… [full entry below 👇] View Full Case #CL71267525

Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S.

From Hopium: - New WaPo poll has Dems winning early arguments in the budget fight - Trump and Vought are giving the middle finger to Congress, not just the Dems - Dems simply must fight their rising authoritarianism more forcefully This, more 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/wapo-poll-...

Vought and Trump want to pull funding from 16 states that make up more than 40% of GDP and that are much less likely to draw down federal resources. www.pbump.net/o/sorry-abou...

I never thought I’d say this, but I agree with MTG 100%. And for the record, I’m not paid for any of my opinions. Never have been, never will be.

Imagine paying rent, buying groceries, and then get a bill with your insurance tripling. This could hit your inbox—and your future. HOW IT STARTED: $307 HOW IT’S GOING: $964

🦋 WaPo poll: Public opinion today is comparable to several past government shutdowns when Republicans have shouldered the bulk of the blame ... including twice during Trump’s first presidential term. 🦋

They’re bullying Minnesotans because I had the AUDACITY to ask to negotiate a deal to help my constituents afford to live in a broken health care system.

The American people can't stand to see their insurance premiums doubled. They can't stand to watch 15 million of their neighbors lose health care. And they can't stand any more hospital closures. That's why Democrats are fighting to reverse Republicans' health care cuts.

Today, I'm signing legislation to safeguard our elections and the voice of every voter. It's now illegal to use contests or payments to get people to register to vote. And in the 2026 election, voters have the chance to repeal our state's ban on the public financing of elections.

Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal. I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t. Watch all the way through.

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. @politico.com had a big piece about it.