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Very proud of the work my colleagues are doing at the Sun-Times. Read this heartbreaking piece by Mary Norkol and Anthony Vasquez. The only change I would have made is to the headline, which I would have made: 'Daddy isn't coming.' chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Three masked agents questioned an Illinois Department of Transportation employee about his immigration status — and if he had traveled to New York and was “aware” of the mayor-elect in New York City, the governor’s office said.

@reuters.com exclusive: Bill Pulte, the Trump housing official who has been leveling fraud accusations against the president's perceived enemies, enlisted a former registered sex offender as a consultant: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages. Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

I asked the Department of Homeland Security for comment on Judge Ellis saying Gregory Bovino lied under oath. Their second response was to diss her(?) as an “Obama crony,” praise me for riveting journalism, and finally defend Bovino

Really interesting piece, with lots of data, and reasons for both hope and dismay. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Rewatching Pink Floyd's The Wall and I completely forgot Bob Hoskins plays Pink's manager in this.

The Florida Supreme Court suspended the law license of Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman for two years in part over his handling of a sexual harassment lawsuit he filed in Washington, D.C. more than a decade ago @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4oVr3v8

US Supreme Court allows Trump's passport policy targeting transgender people Decision prevents applicants for passports from designating sex reflecting their gender identities, while litigation continues. Court's three liberal justices dissent. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months. The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open. 🎁 Gift link:

Ken Griffin talks NYC politics - after failing in a $50M bid to elect a GOP governor in Illinois and moving his family and business to Florida in 2022 www.wbez.org/politics/202...

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

NEW: Trump now says he will not pay food stamps in November, even though his admin told a court yesterday it would make partial payments. The benefits are once again in jeopardy, as officials are back at court, seeking to force the release of full aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

How often American adults were able to correctly identify the sitting president during major political events. www.pbump.net/o/someone-fi...

The judge did not mince words: “Defendants have blatantly violated their statutory authority, violated the APA, and transgressed well-settled constitutional limitations on federal funding conditions. The Constitution demands the Court set aside this lawless behavior.”

On Election Day, the president announces that he will defy a court order so as to deprive millions of Americans of food.

MAGA's most important think tank has been roiled by the Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes interview, and the situation is only getting worse. My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/groyper-wa...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

The U.S. Federal Housing Finance Authority has become a key part of Trump's campaign of retribution, making public criminal referrals against several of his foes. The Trump administration just fired the FHFA's acting inspector general, sources told @reuters.com. www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...

US travel group warns Congress of Thanksgiving chaos amid government shutdown reut.rs/4hMIHPE

NEW >> Laura Loomer, the far-right activist has been credentialed to cover the Pentagon after signing its new press policy. She has repeatedly criticized defense officials while boasting of her close ties to Trump. with @drewharwell.com for @washingtonpost.com

Comparing the relation between the presidential election results in 2020 and 2024 with the post-election commentary is a fascinating exercise. 2020 Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3% Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8% 2024 Trump 77,302,580 49.8% Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

jesus christ

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

SCOOP from me and @mikescarcella.bsky.social: The state of Alaska has terminated a contract with a national plaintiffs law firm it hired 8 years ago to pursue a lawsuit over opioid painkillers, claiming it violated confidentiality and conflict-of-interest provisions. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

JUST IN: Bayer's Monsanto must pay $185 million after Washington court reinstates chemical contamination verdict reut.rs/47D3Tmr

Here’s what he told the Senate, about the teen’s murder, during his confirmation hearing as ambassador to Japan, when he called it a “grave tragedy.” “That tragedy sits with me, as it has, every day and every week for the last seven years.” (2/2)

Rahm Emanuel talks about the police murder of Laquan McDonald today very differently than he did in 2021: “Emanuel has said that he needed to let the official process play out. ‘If the mayor weighs in, you’re basically compromising those investigations,’” he tells @theatlantic.com (1/2)

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

“The one suffering? Our kid.” www.wired.com/story/federa...

“It just felt like, wow, we really are just abused people.” A must read from my imitable @wired.com politics teammates @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social on what furloughed federal workers have been going through 30 days into the shutdown www.wired.com/story/federa...

So this story is super duper interesting for a whole ton of reasons, but one big one is its a very rare glimpse into the private valuation of high-end exploits held by major defense contractors bsky.app/profile/lega...

Several attorneys for the protesters denied the accusations on Wednesday. More from me and @reneehickman.bsky.social: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

NEW from me for @legal.reuters.com: U.S. law firm Gibson Dunn has teamed up with the ADL to launch a coordinated effort to provide free legal services to victims of antisemitism. The two groups said the initiative includes 39,000 lawyers across 35 U.S. states. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

This case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge April Perry, the same judge who blocked President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

Federal prosecutors have indicted six people, including Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, in connection with anti-ICE protests at the Broadview facility in September. Story TK

This is a story that got missed, about how the White House is using the shutdown as an excuse to eliminate accountability. It has shut down Inspectors General websites, meaning that lots of reports about failures have disappeared from govt websites. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

NEW: Shutdown pain intensifies this week as the funding lapse hits a full month • SNAP benefits dry up for ~40 million 11/1 • ACA sticker shock hits as open enrollment begins • Air traffic controllers, TSA agents & more miss a full paycheck • Troop pay in flux www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Outbreak (1995, dir. Wolfgang Petersen)

Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say www.reuters.com/world/americ...

FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who has led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago, must obtain and wear a body-worn camera and report every weekday at 6 p.m. in person to the federal judge who has tried to rein in federal agents’ use of force. @wttw.bsky.social

What are we even doing here? The Judiciary Committee "received filled-out questionnaires for three new judicial nominees in what has become the latest instance of the White House sending along names of would-be judges to lawmakers before [Trump] has announced or formally nominated them."