NEW: Last night, a federal judge issued a permanent block on the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon. This is a win for the rule of law. No troops on our streets – anywhere.

Judge will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against protesters A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday issued an extensive injunction restricting federal agents’ use of force, saying Thursday that a top Border Patrol official leading an immigration crackdown repeatedly lied

It was just announced that Mackenzie Scott, novelist and philanthropist, just donated $38m to Spelman College. www.highereddive.com/news/mackenz...

Incredible

Next week's cover of The New Yorker.

👀 WOW — “Speaker Johnson is stalling Grijalva until Van Epps gets there to cancel out her vote?” TN-7 nominee @aftynbehn.bsky.social tells us Johnson plans for Van Epps to help him cover up the Epstein files. (His weak answer to NC5 is another clue🕵️ )

Literally all we do #philsky #academicsky #edusky and really is often the most useful to clear through perceived oppositions

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

BREAKING: The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to enforce its discriminatory passport policy while our lawsuit makes its way through the courts. This decision undermines the freedom of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people to have our IDs reflect who we are.

Just so we’re clear, Trump doesn’t want to do this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

#Voters #MadeTheirPoint Love this cartoon 🌊🌊💙

I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now. 100% serious here.

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Enraged mother speaks out after her kids' daycare teacher is KIDNAPPED by ICE. "Imagine taking your child to a daycare where they are now at risk of their teachers leaving them in the class because they have been detained!" #AbolishICE

When your boy is sick and just needs cuddles from mama 🥹 #dogsky 🐺

open.substack.com/pub/psychope... Yesterday the people sent the MAGA regime a clear message: No fascism in America. Do your jobs and fund the Social Safety Net and the ACA. But, in spite of having their clocks thoroughly cleaned, they still won't do the right thing Time for a General Strike

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

#feminism #Blacksky #theresistance 💪🏽 #philsky #academicsky #edusky

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

#dogsofbluesky #dogsky 🐶 Happy Election Day 🗳️

"Repeated and systematic lethal attacks by the United States military on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific raise grave concerns about the commission of potential international crimes, UN experts warned today."

The #white #male #fragility is getting absurd

Got to leave my #environmental #ethics #students with a fun end of class cliffhanger... Ok, we'll pick up next class with "matrix chickens" 🤓 You read that right 😅 #philsky #academicsky #edusky

Know your rights when voting today.

please support these folks now and hopefully when they end up in better circumstances

Apparently the jurors can’t stop laughing in the sandwich throwing case in court today.

NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range." POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @deadder.bsky.social )

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

My bedtime reading the past few days. And it’s perfect for it! Close down the day with something bucket-filling instead of existential dread!

"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal food benefits won’t be distributed...In a Truth Social post, Trump said Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government...and not before!”" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This is an excellent idea!!!

This is deeply sad, journalistically. Teen Vogue has done much brave political coverage in an age when few outlets are willing.

“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST

Helpful chart from @browneyedsusan.bsky.social

O'DONNELL: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far? TRUMP: No. I think they haven't gone far enough.