American Oversight uncovered the revelation that DHS stopped preserving texts in April amid heightened scrutiny over inhumane immigration enforcement. They are seeking court relief to ensure the records are preserved or recovered. @weareoversight.bsky.social americanoversight.org/american-ove...

If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. mappingdeportations.com

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir. A cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps ICE with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

I’m excited to launch my new series on Russia and the far-right. I’ve worked on this for so long, and over the coming months will share my research and documented info in one place so everyone can see how Russia has weaponized the far-right to subvert democracy in the U.S. and across Europe.

It appears that Donald Trump’s angry social media posts have once again landed him in hot water in the courts: The judge said the president and his allies had openly admitted they were withholding funding for SNAP benefits for “political reasons.” trib.al/MCRjhI1

Afternoon! I've been reporting a lot these past few weeks on the Trump admin's assault on Chicago rolling from the streets into the courts. I love this work, but being freelance atm, I'm relying on community for support. If you like my reporting, I'd appreciate any tips you'd care to send my way:

Friends, “Furious Minds” is out! @lkatfield.bsky.social wrote an important book - one that truly is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the rightwing intellectual scene, the defining ideas on today’s extremist Right, and the ideological traditions they draw on. Please read:

1/3 “After a state prosecution is removed to federal court, who prosecutes the case? Ordinarily, prosecutions in federal court may be carried out only by the Department of Justice. But these removal cases are the exception. The law is clear: The state prosecutor…

At this point, it’s clear that the third American republic, which began in 1965 following the Voting Rights Act, is over. The question is what we replace it with. I’m not a doomer here, but if we bend the arc of history towards justice it’s gonna take a lot of work 5/x

If we make it through this, we need to teach kids the stuff like the Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Movement were fundamentally pro-democracy movements and they were fight against authoritarian governments. 4/x

When January 6th happened, it was crystal clear that MAGA had rejected democracy. It was a full masks off authoritarian move. Yet, we collectively chose to whitewash it 1/x

This is a giant yet poorly understood part of the current MAGA infighting. A (very large) faction of the pro-Israel, allegedly pro-Jewish evangelicals believe that the Jews must return to Israel to bring about Jesus' return. (And it doesn't end well for Jews.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From the General Assembly of the World Evangelical Alliance, the Rev. Jack Sara pondered what he called a generational and geographical shift. religionnews.com/2025/11/04/g...

🚨 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:

A fantastic piece of data journalism. #JournalismMatters💪 "How Elon Musk is Boosting the British Right. For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does." news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The U.S. federal judge is requiring officials at the de facto ICE detention center to provide detainees with a clean bedding mat, hygienic supplies, three meals with water per day, and access to lawyers and a phone, among other requirements. trib.al/qdTsaoY

Testimony from the agent who shot a woman multiple times in an immigration enforcement action revealed how he touted his marksmanship in leaving seven wounds despite firing five bullets. He later texted fellow agents, ‘Put that in your book boys.’ trib.al/97UP2pu

A lot going on here, but TIL that Heritage (laughably) has an antisemitism task force? wapo.st/4hGx6Bm

There are so many lessons we can learn from activists & leaders across the world who have faced religious nationalists & authoritarians. @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social and Susan Hayward analyze what happened in Brazil and how we might learn from their ouster of Bolsonaro redcircle.com/shows/b92b74...

Here is the full TRO, issued just as the hearing began today: cst.brightspotcdn.com/4f/4a/384ff4...

NEW: Judge Gettleman just ordered ICE to improve "serious conditions" inside its Broadview facility in Chicago. Yesterday, people testified in court that they were crammed into overcrowded and filthy cells for days, with little access to lawyers, and pressured into deportation.

Here's what that looked like. Tactical excellence.

1/3 "Trump fully understands how his Christian nationalist base uses spiritual warfare to paint a picture of an America under siege by anti-Christian, anti-American, satanic forces that only an anointed strongman leader can vanquish."

NEW: We reviewed federal prosecutions, local arrests, internal protest summaries by the Portland Police Bureau and more than 700 video clips posted to social media before Trump said he wanted to send the National Guard to the city. Here’s what we found.

Great assessment from the folks at @ymriofficial.bsky.social on the Gen Z vote last night. youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/young-men-...

MESA and the AAUP have released a critical report exposing the weaponization of civil rights law to suppress campus speech concerning Palestine. Read full report here: mesana.org/advocacy/tas...

Does someone have a list of all the people who promised to leave NYC so we can put them on free buses to Florida?

The fact that Democrats won both elections yesterday for the Georgia Public Service Commission is remarkable enough (no Democrat had won a non-federal statewide race in GA since 2006). But both won by a margin of 63% to 37%. In Georgia. results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

A ProPublica review found a wide gap between the reality on the ground in Portland and the characterizations by the president and the Department of Homeland Security, which said ICE facilities like Portland’s were under “coordinated assault by violent groups.”

Important NEW story: What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard, by @robwdavis.bsky.social and @stevesuo.bsky.social

“Many of them, [the manager] said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents. ‘Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,’ he said. ‘I could bring it to them & get them released. But I don’t know where they are.’” 2/

Word of the day!

The JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence gathered experts from medicine, policy, engineering, and community groups to develop a plan for reducing firearm harms by 2040. Learn more in this Special Communication: ja.ma/43hclqa

OPINION: It is clear that Pope Leo and Francis believe that “our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members.”

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

Dear Lord. Armed ICE agents STOLE A BABY. Both the baby and the dad were US Citizens. www.latimes.com/0000019a-51e...

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

The throughline of Mamdani’s campaign was a willingness to meet people where they were, in physical and ideological ways.

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

🫧 "Michael Burry, the investor who famously predicted the subprime-mortgage bubble bursting two decades ago, is betting that two stocks (Palantir and Nvidia) at the heart of the artificial-intelligence trade are set for a fall." www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

When police returned Reggie Williams’ wallet, an officer told him: Don’t do anything bad and keep your ID on you. To Williams, the warning echoed a slavery-era requirement that free African Americans carry documents to prove they weren’t enslaved. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com

Chris DeMuth - the former president of the American Enterprise Institute & Conference Chairman Emeritus of the National Conservatism (NatCon) conference—has resigned from the Heritage Foundation. Ouch. 11/4/25 1/ www.nationalreview.com/corner/chris...

speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections

The Christian Reformed college in Palos Heights, Illinois, which opened in 1956, is closing at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year. thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/11/04/t...

We discuss early American poetry’s place as the 18th-century equivalent of pop music and political tweeting, the influence of evangelical Christianity on Wheatley’s poetry, and the tension between slavery and the American Revolution in colonial Boston. thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/11/04/e...

Study: Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children and young people in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study using linked electronic health records. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"Children who catch COVID-19 are at risk of contracting dangerous heart inflammation, but don't face the same danger from getting vaccinated against the virus, a new, large-scale study has found." www.9news.com.au/health/covid...