EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

New Jersey wants to make data centers pay for overloading the power grid. And they’re right to. Back in January, we reported Biden pushed a massive AI expansion right after his own Energy Dept warned data centers could spike electric bills by 70%. 👉 www.levernews.com/biden-boosts... #AI #BigTech

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

Also, fuck Google: "Google paid for an Oregon city’s lawsuit against a local newspaper that was seeking water consumption figures for a data centre. The suit was eventually dropped, and the figures revealed the Google data centre accounted for a quarter of the city’s water use in 2021."

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The rule of law, both domestic and international, is not negotiable or optional. Acting like civil/human rights, due process, and the rule of law are not optional is what differentiates us from the GOP, ideally. Otherwise we're the same just choosing different favored groups.

Hi Melissa I'm not demanding ideological purity, I'm a trans man demanding that my civil rights not be sacrificed. I am demanding that I be allowed to live with dignity and with access to medical care that I depend on to survive. No one's civil rights are negotiable. Due process is not negotiable.

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 20, 2025 ~ All life. "In some parts of the world, daytime temperature and humidity are now approaching levels at which it will be dangerous for people to be outside because they will not be able to cool down by sweating. www.express.co.uk/news/science...

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 57 killed (12 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 158 injured arriving at hospitals. This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 68,216 and 170,361 injuries (likely 3-5x higher)

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

So here's one idea. Maybe don't fire artillery shells over a civilian interstate, even if the vice president thinks it'd be a cool way to own the libs.

One factual point I tried to hammer home in this discussion—including in response to questions from people supportive of the strikes: These strikes in the Caribbean are not about stopping fentanyl from reaching the U.S. Fentanyl is almost certainly not aboard the vessels the U.S. is bombing.

Get this out there.

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

Every single member of team TACO treats the US treasury as a personal piggy bank. Extracting as much for themselves as possible.

Saw two No Kings protestors in their 90s today plus this centenarian!

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

JUST 18 DAYS: It's the big Election Day; contests for governor, supreme court justice, lawmakers, mayors, school boards, ballot measures all around the country. Do you know what you should be paying attention to? My guide walks you through a selection of 180+ key races, and why they matter, icymi:

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

vance to his kids: “it is okay to tell your friends you love hitler as long as you don’t get caught”

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed. Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

Today! Thursday If you live in: Platteville area Black River Falls area Stevens Point area Come to a Congressional town hall to learn why 15 million people will lose their healthcare & ALL of us will pay more, due to @derrickvanorden’s support of the Big, Ugly Law. Join us!

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM

Great piece here (and why AI regulation is one of my top three priorities). No surprise that Newsom caved to money, it’s why he should never be president.

I suspect there is more of this behind the scenes, which is why the admin is using the CIA

This sounds familiar.

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life. If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution. Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

Joe Gebbia is the billionaire co-founder of AirBnB, a close friend of Elon Musk, and worked to gut the federal government with DOGE. And he just gave the single largest donation to Cuomo’s super PAC since the primary.

🚨BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY RULES that the State's Election Procedures Manual is not subject to the state’s Administrative Procedure Act rulemaking requirements. A BIG victory for our clients and the voters of Arizona and another defeat for the GOP.

⚡️NEW | From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's Operations @jsweetli.bsky.social uncovered info on individuals, donor networks, and businesses facilitating the funding of the pro-Israel org linked to U.S. deportation and repression efforts.

As it stands this second, Democrats would maybe *gain* seats in the redistricting wars. But state capitals aren't where this will ultimately be decided; it's the Supreme Court, which yesterday showed an eagerness to allow House districts to be rigged to dilute the power of Black voters. From me:

Remember just a few years ago when the entire press corps ridiculed Bernie Sanders for politely suggesting that billionaires have influence over the media properties they own? And remember how none of them ever apologized or admitted he was absolutely right? Good times.

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

The racist-ass Supreme Court says race can't be a factor for college admissions or redistricting but racial profiling is perfectly fine for ICE to bash brown and Black skulls. F this corrupt institution. Expand the Court.

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. static1.squarespace.com/static/68bf2...

NEW in Bolts: No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

A lot of dangling and jiggling and swaying going on there, Kevin. Quivering mounds of flesh, glistening in the noonday sun for all to see. What’s a missile strike on a fishing boat compared to that?

Here's one of the posts that State listed as foreigners whose visa they stripped. Ask yourself, how they found this? Unlike the others, it doesn't mention Kirk, nor anything in English. It likely came from this Facebook post. www.facebook.com/philippbreit...

Anyway, here's @thenation.com profile of Graham Planter. And yes, it is true to point out that I was politically incorrect to say that the sitting governor is *primary-ing* him. But, in a more true way, fucking bite me, y'all know what I meant. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing. Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

FFS, #BrokenPost, wake up and smell the fascism. US values? Retribution. Corruption. Non-judicial murder. Those are US values under Trump. Trump’s pardon request for Netanyahu marks shift from promoting U.S. values abroad www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

RESULTS: voters in Oklahoma City have passed all 11 ballot measures that make up this package—unlocking $2.7 billion across hundreds of projects. All measures up by gigantic margins.

The DSCC is raising money in conjunction with Mills. Who cares if they don't "officially endorse"?

I’m pretty sure they don’t even let you *run* for Congress as a Republican unless you’ve got at least one (1) restraining order from a former girlfriend half your age.

“Trump is trying to destroy the rule of law, trying to destroy our democracy, trying to stop you from being able to speak freely. But he can’t win if we mobilize.” Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social wants you to join your local peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings