Holy crap. MAGA diehard Danielle Jurinsky lost her city council seat in Aurora, Colorado. She more than anyone is responsible for ginning up the false claim that Tren de Aragua had "taken over" the city. She also repeatedly tried to dissolve the city's groundbreaking public defender office.

They have no f-ing idea how big and how complex Nigeria is. No f-ing idea what they’d be getting into.

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.* Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

Hahahaha

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

I am confident that virtually everyone in this administration is within three hops of a member of a terrorist organization, probably several times over.

In the new episode of Collateral Damage, we look at the death of Trevon Cole, an unarmed man shot by Las Vegas police during a 2010 pot raid. Cole's pregnant fiancee witnessed his death. We got a nice surprise when the daughter she was carrying, now 14, unexpectedly joined us during an interview.

In the new episode of Collateral Damage, we look at the death of Trevon Cole, an unarmed man shot by Las Vegas police during a 2010 pot raid. Cole's pregnant fiancee witnessed his death. We got a nice surprise when the daughter she was carrying, now 14, unexpectedly joined us during an interview.

This would be the correct ruling, of course. But the irony would be that in ruling against Trump, the court may end up sparing him and Republicans from public backlash against one of his least popular power grabs.

Bucks County’s ICE-Loving, MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran Got What He Deserved: A Pink Slip From Voters | Sheriff-elect Danny Ceisler, a 33-year-old Democrat from Bristol Borough, was in many ways the crest of the Blue Wave that washed away local GOP office holders, writes Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social.

When Kim Foxx won her second term in Chicago amidst a flurry of opposition, not a single national paper ran a story on it, at all. Had she lost, there’d have been coverage for sure. But the press seems incapable in general of reporting on crim legal reform wins that make reform seem established.

Congratulations to the @macarthurjustice.bsky.social and ACLU of Illinois team on this important win!!!!

The Bezos bump

“The only other top [Philadelphia] prosecutor who served more than two terms was Lynne Abraham, the tough-on-crime Democrat who was in the 1990s dubbed “the deadliest DA” because she so frequently sought the death penalty. “Krasner could not be more different.” www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Hope that comes to pass, Al. And if it does, have Johnny open a few cans of fuckin’ peaches.

Relieved that voters resoundingly rejected this fascist bullshit. Angry that we still have at least another year of it, probably another three, and that we're by no means in the clear. Livid that it all could have been avoided if we had simply not reelected the asshole who tried a coup.

you gave me a really funny idea

RESULT: Soren Stevenson is elected to the Minneapolis City Council in the Eighth Ward. Stevenson lost an eye during a 2020 BLM protest after he was shot by police with a foam projectile.

Adios radleybalko.substack.com/p/virginias-...

In Chicago, DHS refused to pause the raids and arrests so kids could go trick-or-treating without the risk of getting tear-gassed or subjected to violence. Meanwhile, DHS agents in Los Angeles celebrated the holiday by conducting raids while wearing horror movie masks. Sadism as public policy.

📍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒: Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel, a 52-year-old man deported by ICE in a vegetative state following months in U.S. custody, died on October 26 after returning to Costa Rica. His family accuses the agency of negligence and inhumane treatment. #AbuseofPowerWatch

JUST IN: Feds explain how CBP vehicle involved in collision that led to woman being shot & criminally charged was moved from Chicago to Maine and then partially repaired while it was evidence in a criminal case. Doc www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

13 years wasted studying at the mayo clinic, no the other one.

Next step is to yell “Stop resisting!” as the footage rolls. www.rawstory.com/ice-26742634...

Never pursued my dream of becoming the world’s first forensic sandwich analyst. Really regretting it today.

Of course, this is precisely why we expect law enforcement to wear badges and uniforms and show identification. Anyone could have foreseen (and many of us did) that this would be a serious side-effect of ICE's insistence on behaving like unaccountable thugs.

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.

"The more rainbows I can paint, the better."

Yawning at the limited government folks warning that a democratic socialist mayor of New York is an existential threat, but who remain guardedly optimistic about an authoritarian president.

It's a real head scratcher www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fox...

"He can assault you — that is discipline when you’re a juvenile,” Phoenix PD officer Blake Willer told a 16 y/o boy about his father. “Your dad should beat you. Other than sending you to the hospital, your dad should beat you.”

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

I've been following the aftermath of a car crash where a federal agent was captured on video placing a Black man in a chokehold. We obtained the 911 call made by a US Border Patrol agent who was on the scene through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request thetriibe.com/2025/11/list...

The thing that so deeply offends me about this is that the people arguing for such a loophole don’t even believe it exists. They don’t think the loophole reading is the best, most plausible reading of the text. It just flatters those seeking power, and those excusing them.

Trump's immigration policies are creating cultures of fear in schools, where kids should be able to think, learn, and grow in peace. This is not an accident, but part of the White House's overall strategy of spreading uncertainty and chaos. share.inquirer.com/DE5UVX

The killings will continue, no matter what the law or the constitution says.

The institutional problem of (mostly) sorting accurate from false news is, weirdly, one that liberal democracies had essentially solved and then I guess just decided we didn’t like the solution anymore.

You gotta be kidding me

Interesting times

A Tennessee appeals court had upheld a shaken baby conviction, despite pleas to overturn by the DA’s office and a recantation by the medical examiner who testified for the prosecution. apple.news/ATQRcd8WjTlW...

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Data from ICE shows that none of its agents have ever been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s more than two-decade history.

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?

“You don’t know the way out.” They’ve won in court, but ICE is still detaining and trying to deport them.

"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." --Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

GOP-led states are blocking college students from registering to vote with campus addresses. In the context of broader attacks on vote-by-mail and early voting, these efforts will systematically disenfranchise young people across the US. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...