He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.

The federal government is putting its full weight behind purging Black people from public life and the press and opposition party is silent as it does so.

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

It's on them now, all the way.

1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")

"A.I. Data Center Bubble"

Underrated: “Big companies and investors have a limited amount of capital to spend each year, and they’re putting the majority of it toward building data centers. That means less investment is flowing to other sectors like manufacturing, which lost 3,000 jobs last month.”

We need this to penetrate public consciousness. Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.

"biological pronouns" Quick, I have to take this adjective to the hospital. Hopefully they can do an emergency noun transplant and save it.

There is no war on cars; there is a war on people, and cars are winning.

I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”? This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people

THEY FUCKING KNEW AND DID NOT CARE!!! absolutely evil

Facebook knows that it is committing fraud and does not care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Mike Johnson lies shamelessly: "Core inflation is nearing its lowest level in four years." (Inflation actually ticked up in September.)

also lol a quick google of the National Black Empowerment Action Fund, which paid for the ad, reveals that -its 2 senior advisors are AIPAC alums, one of whom led the org's Black outreach for a decade -it spent $$ to tank Rep Jamaal Bowman's reelection campaign -one of its lobbyists is a Trump alum

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

By this point in 2021, with similar turnout, the county had counted about 200,000 ballots in the Seattle mayor's race—around 25,000 more than they have so far this year.

Comparing year to year, we're effectively a day behind. That doesn't change the numbers, but it does mean we're just working with less information.

‼️ Seattle’s race for mayor is going to be *very* close ‼️ Bruce Harrell has a 5.7-point advantage. But with roughly 100,000 votes left to count, the numbers are shifting toward progressive challenger Katie Wilson. She took 51.6% of the votes tallied today. The trendlines:

🚨 In the latest tally, Katie Wilson has gained vote share in the Seattle mayoral race. Today's batch broke 51.63% for Wilson and 48.11% for Bruce Harrell. Harrell still leads with 52.64% of the vote while Wilson still trails with 46.93% of the vote.

Brother Warnock lays it plain.

“Exploding with mustard and onions!”

I wonder what's causing all the horrific industrial accidents. Anyway, here's a picture from 2016 of Trump complaining about regulations before cutting as many as possible

I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*. on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

yes this is what I'm doing instead of writing exams

Trump is fighting as hard as he can to starve kids for negotiating leverage.

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

My ballot was counted this year, but in a previous election is was rejected and I had to fix it — just took a couple of minutes. Make sure yours was counted Seattle! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

My favorite part of this post is remembering Kenneth Wilson.

If Republicans can already give Trump tax breaks and judges, and he says he doesn’t “need anything more from Congress,” why is he suddenly so obsessed with ending the filibuster? Because he wants something he’s calling “voter reform.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

And this is what they call “the ole Chappaquiddick Farewell” in the Kennedy family, dude couldn’t help it, it’s in his blood.

Marriage

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Harrell:

Guaranteed summer jobs for high schoolers is a GREAT city policy. Win-win-win. City wins: Clean up the parks, lifeguards, swim lessons. Kids win: Learn job skills, stay out of trouble. Families win: Sign up enough as day camp counselors and you can offer universal summer care for K-8, too!

Ellis is done. The preliminary injunction has been entered. Ellis grants plaintiff's request to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which means it applies to more than just the named plaintiffs and includes all nonviolent protestors as well as those engaged in news gathering & religious practice

Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy. "Liberty once lost is lost forever."

The Trump administration treated anti-ICE protestors worse because of the content of their speech, in violation of the First Amendment, Ellis says. In fact, the president and Secretary Noem have said exactly that, Ellis says.

No evidence that a man thrown to the ground in Evanston on Oct. 31 by agents who had his head "bashed into the ground" and was punched at least twice in the head "grabbed the genitals" of a federal agent, Ellis says. "Nor would such force have been appropriate even had that been true," Ellis says

Ellis on what happened on Oct. 14 on the East Side: "Agents pushed, shoved, tackled protesters, pointed guns at them, threw tear gas and deployed smoke canisters. Everyone that agents detained were released by the FBI, and none of them are currently charged with assault."

Ellis is now moves to Oct . 24 in Lakeview: No evidence that anyone tried to deflate the tires of a vehicle carrying federal agents. Video captured by body-worn cameras recorded one agent mocking the crowd as tear gas was deployed, saying twice, “have fun!” and laughing as they fled, Ellis says

Ellis: Federal agents described a number of protestors as "professional agitators" based on their use of whistles, in part. "Describing neighborhood moms and rapid response groups as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are and how incredible their statements are."

Protestors threw water bottles at federal agents in Brighton Park on Oct. 4., Ellis says. But that did not warrant the "indiscriminate" decision to fire tear gas and pepper balls at them, Ellis says.

Ellis says she finds the testimony of youth organizer Leslie Cortez, who told the court an immigration agent pointed a firearm at her head on Oct. 1 when she began recording them as they detained day laborers in a Home Depot parking lot on Cicero Avenue, credible.

Agents said "hit them" before deploying tear gas, Ellis says, and then they lied about it under oath. This calls into question their account of everything happening in the Chicago area.