Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C. www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-san...

Question for politics nerds: Has any socialist ever won so many votes in a single U.S. election?

MAMDANI WINS www.huffpost.com/entry/zohran...

SCOOP: YouTube deleted accounts of 3 major Palestinian human rights organizations— Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — as a part of the Trump admin's campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes. ✍🏽w/ Nikita Mazurov theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

How much of Zohran Mamdani's ambitious agenda can he get done if he's elected mayor on Tuesday? A lot – and here's what it might look like: www.huffpost.com/entry/zohran...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84.

Yes, this is real:

> In the final days ahead of Tremane’s scheduled execution... additional details have emerged exposing how Oklahoma’s prosecutors and judges have coordinated in ways that have undermined Tremane’s final chances at a meaningful review of his case. www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

How much of Zohran Mamdani's ambitious agenda can he get done if he's elected mayor on Tuesday? A lot – and here's what it might look like: www.huffpost.com/entry/zohran...

Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis. Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.

RFK Sr traveled the country as a senator to expose malnutrition, drum up support for food stamps. RFK Jr travels the country as HHS secretary, sees overweight children at airports, says food stamps "poisoning" today's children New story w/ Senate library material www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

Trey Sherman, who worked on the now-canceled CBS Evening News Plus, also posted this TikTok clip explaining that every producer of color on the show was laid off -- and every white producer was relocated to another role in the company. www.tiktok.com/@treymous/vi...

Trump's latest milestone: Forcing more than 211,000 people out of their federal jobs since January. A near-decimation of the federal workforce in nine months. “He is, in essence, taking our government to bankruptcy.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

>> “...they’re focusing on fearmongering on trans students when the economy is absolutely top of mind for voters in this state,” Jatia Wrighten, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies voter turnout and local elections, told HuffPost. www.huffpost.com/entry/virgin...

> "a September contingency plan, since deleted from the USDA’s website...said Congress intended 'that SNAP’s operations should continue' and that contingency funds 'are also available to fund participant benefits in the event that a lapse occurs [mid-fiscal year]'" www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

> “The [Connecticut Airport Authority] understands Avelo’s financial distress and the impacts of public backlash related to its other business decisions..." (Avelo works with ICE to move shackled immigration detainees around the country) More on "ICE Air": www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

Incredible image:

Whether it's ICE or the FBI, whether you're a citizen or not: You always have the right to remain silent, demand an attorney, demand a warrant signed by a judge, ask if you're free to leave, and refuse to sign anything.

New York AG Tish James has urged members of the public who have witnessed and documented ICE activity to share their videos and photos with her office through an online portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

> If you can do 15 push-ups, 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes, you're more athletic than over a third of new ICE recruits at the agency's training academy in Georgia. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Just say "basket of deplorables"

College journalists! The @sun-sentinel.com is looking for paid (!) summer interns for next year! We have internships in news, entertainment and sports reporting, multimedia/interactives or data reporting, and photo/video! www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/14/s...

If you're one of the thousands of federal employees who Russ Vought/the Trump admin just RIF'd, I'm very interested in hearing from you about the work you've been doing and what services will now be hurt/gutted with you gone. Anonymity granted. [email protected] / Signal: jbendery.41 🙏

This is a very useful exploration of the legal authorities at play around the country:

A must-read, from HuffPosters Sebastian Murdock & @taiylersimone.bsky.social: > “There was nothing else I could do. I couldn’t refuse.” > “It’s like brainwashing.” > “I had to describe my own rape, and then they made me read it to my parents over the phone.” www.huffpost.com/entry/troubl...

The U.S. armed, funded, and defended Israel as it killed tens (perhaps hundreds) of thousands of civilians. So The New York Times is asking: Where is Donald Trump’s Nobel prize?? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Re: the recent military jamboree: In his 2024 book The War on Warriors, Pete Hegseth fantasized about treating Americans like overseas combatants. “Marxists hate the Constitution […] DEI and CRT are enemies of our Constitution – domestic enemies.” www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

Alligator Alcatraz has created a blueprint for obfuscation, misdirection and rights violations. The Trump administration wants to more than double the number of people in immigration detention. Here’s what that looks like:

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

>>Hernandez’s attorneys... say his arrest was made without a warrant, based on no information beyond Hernandez’s race and his invocation of his constitutional right to silence... Late Tuesday morning... the federal government had decided to move to dismiss the removal proceedings against him

"If they deport me, I’ll leave with my head held high, because I’m convinced it will be for carrying out my journalistic work and not for committing crimes.” www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/22/i...

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A new report from MSNBC details Homan's alleged scheme to accept $50,000 from FBI agents posing as business executives.

The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations

>Giant stakeholders in the Kimmel affair chose to bend... Disney’s ESPN is poised to acquire the NFL Network...the deal will require the approval of the DOJ...Nexstar is looking to buy a rival, Tegna, for more than $6 billion in a deal that would require FCC approval www.huffpost.com/entry/amid-s...

Fear is the mind killer www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-...

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

Put @jimmykimmel.com back on the air, wackaflockas. Y'all are a disgrace to every single freedom fry you ate in 2003.

It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.

“…The two sources familiar with the internal deliberations say that multiple ABC execs knew Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line. But it didn’t matter. The government was angry, and wanted another liberal scalp.”

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

“ABC and Disney’s silencing of Kimmel — over a highly innocuous comment — is just the latest sign of how terrified major corporations and media companies have grown of the second Trump administration…

There is no domestic terror statute with which to designate antifa a terror group. Want to know abt antifa? Preorder my book here www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

“ABC pulled comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air Wednesday after the Trump administration threatened to take action against the network if it did not.”

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

“.. There has to be a line between crime and war,” said John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The Israeli military has killed *hundreds* of journalists in just two years –– including as part of a pattern of targeted killings. I wrote about several examples here: gatheringstring.substack.com/p/israel-is-...