Religious leaders condemned the violence in Gaza and Ukraine, while underlining the need for dialogue and mutual respect at a religious congress in Astana.

For the last several days, federal immigration agents have regularly used pepper balls and other chemicals as well as rubber bullets against protesters at ICE’s Broadview facility. Yet, the protests continue. trib.al/hXjc8QY

"What if, with a repressive dictator, everybody knows that everybody knows the regime is corrupt, the possibility of organized resistance arises. As the pluralistic ignorance unravels, the protest can snowball and take in a growing number of defectors who had been falsifying their loyalty.”

What Fuels Revolution, Social Embarrassment and Public Acclaim? It’s Common Knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

I slam the NYT when it normalizes Trump and reaches for neutral language to characterize his batshit craziness. But here they got it right.

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

ICYMI: Utahns will have fair districts when they go to the polls next year, and could have an additional seat in Congress after the state’s highest court struck down Utah’s gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

🚨 BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS allows Trump to dismiss the last Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, signaling a potential overturn of a 90-year-old ruling protecting independent agencies from executive control.

NEW: In a win for voters, the 9th Circuit continues to block two Arizona voter suppression laws requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote and allowing election officials to cancel voter registrations if they suspected someone of being a noncitizen. From: @jimsaksa.com

Missourians fighting the gerrymandered congressional map passed by state lawmakers are laying the groundwork for a ballot referendum that could give voters the power to block the map from going into effect. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“Regardless of our political affiliation, or whether we engage in politics or not, we all love our country,” the letter says. “We also share the belief that our voices should never be silenced by those in power — because if it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us” https://to.pbs.org/4gBGlT3

Judge Says Work on Wind Farm Off Rhode Island Can Proceed, for Now www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

Networks—especially ABC, Disney, Hulu, and CBS—need to hear this: you’re standing on the wrong side of history, bending the knee to authoritarianism before the fight even begins, even though the law’s on your side. You’re losing viewers. We’re not going to stand w/you when you’re not standing w/us!

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Damn right — lock him up!!

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Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

Howard Stern says he feels for Disney, but he’s canceling Disney+. “I’m trying to say with my pocketbook that I do not support what they’re doing with Jimmy.” x.com/sternshow/st...

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John Oliver nailed it again on last night's episode. Give it a watch. Have some laughs, and some wtaf's to start your morning. While we await to see what Bob and the felon are going to blame autism on. #SheShed youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...

Yes he’s a dictator. No he doesn’t have to remove elections to prove that. He just hasn’t done it yet.

This move by the Trump administration is an overtly discriminatory civil rights violation. Trans people have the same legal rights as other Americans — end of story. There are lots of good reasons to keep certain people from owning guns. Being trans isn't one of them. https://cnn.it/4niJnxG

NEWS ROUNDUP: Last week, the Trump administration escalated its use of Charlie Kirk’s murder to target progressive politics, while the DOJ stepped up its efforts against voting rights by suing Democratic states. Catch up on all the key updates below👇 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

📽️Marc Elias is back with another explainer video, and this time, he’s diving into how Trump is wielding power to crush dissent and why he hates free speech. Watch below to find out how we can build an opposition movement to stop him👇 youtu.be/4kKtGgh3l5I

It will now be known as the Department of Indoctrination.