Bessent: The $2,000 divided could come in in lots of forms. It could be just the tax decreases Translation: You’re never getting those $2,000 checks.

ICE sprays large canister of pepper spray directly into family car—hitting 1 year old baby. "They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said man who took video. "ICE agents drove by and sprayed pepper spray directly inside—where their baby and 16 year old sister sat." Cicero, Illinois

@chrismurphyct.bsky.socialUnder no circumstances should Senate Dems vote to reopen the government tonight You are less than a week removed from the strongest Democratic election result this century Caving for the promise of a future vote on healthcare would reveal the weakness of Senate leadership

If you do not already have a membership to Costco, I recommend a membership to Costco. (or Sam's Club or BJ's if that is a better alternative)

Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents. trib.al/ADixIUH

“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

New in PN: @donmoyn.bsky.social on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" “The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”

ICE is completely out of control

TAPPER: Do you have any numerical idea of how many Americans will not be able to be with their families for Thanksgiving because of this? DUFFY: I think the number is going to be substantial

Sean Duffy: "We have a number of people who want to get home for the holidays, they want to see their family. Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane."

Also if you're like, what what the heck is going on? I got you. I helped put together this timeline of the two dozen stories I've done about the work Trump has done to block funding to SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...

NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

Kindly read this thread to learn something more about the roles that Black soldiers served in WWII, and something more about the people running our country at the moment.

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

Gerrymandering Virginia will be “one of the 1st orders of business” for the legislature in January, the state’s senate majority leader tells @boltsmag.org. That was only made possible by Tuesday’s results. This + other democracy-related election effects explained here: boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

Sad to see a mighty cultural institution reduced to this: “Audiences are staying away. Internal sales figures obtained by The New York Times showed ticket sales down by about 50 percent from same period last year…..Dozens of employees, many with decades of experience, have been fired or quit.”

Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl". The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News. paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

CONFIRMED: FedEx follows UPS in grounding MD-11 fleet after Boeing safety recommendation. Western Global expected to follow. Boeing statement expected shortly. (Via ⁦‪@theaircurrent‬⁩.com)

The guy who booked this location is now the general counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Trump: "The reason I don't want to talk about affordability is because everybody knows it's far less expensive under Trump than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden and the prices are way down."

If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

@gettheflick.bsky.social @chasingray.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social @askores.bsky.social Not having ATC backgrounds, what they don't realize is that by not pre-planning a significant slowdown in advance & ensuring enough flights are cancelled... 1/

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I supported getting rid of pennies but doing it without a plan or working with Congress on the day after was just perfectly Trumpian

United just published a list of every single flight cancelled through the weekend due to the ongoing government shutdown www.united.com/en/us/fly/co...

So Dems won all the Strong Dem (39), Leans Dem (9) and Competitive (10) VA House of Delegates seats; also 6 of the 14 seats that Lean Republican. Amazing. bluevirginia.us/2025/11/poli... h/t @vpapupdates

Looks like American air travel is already fucked and getting more so, in the wake of Duffy’s 10% reduction announcement. Hold onto your butts. nasstatus.faa.gov

Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."

"Also a backlash to @GlennYoungkin craven decision to cheerlead as Virginians lost their jobs by the thousands. I’ve never seen anything like it, and it will define his term as Governor." - Rep. @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social (D-VA11) bluevirginia.us/2025/11/thur... h/t @samshirazi.bsky.social

The grandma of the 1 yo USC baby who was taken by armed ICE agents after they detained her USC dad still has no idea what happened to her granddaughter while she was in their care. See what our director of communications had to say: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The East Wing demolition and bribe-funded ballroom construction provide a lesson everyone should’ve learned a while ago: adjudicating the merits of lies is a waste of time. Just call bullshit. “Don’t need permission, it’s only demolition”? BS. Illegal, corrupt and symbolic destruction. Always was.

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Documents submitted by the U.S. government to a D.C. federal court show the IRS violated taxpayer privacy laws by sharing individuals' addresses with ICE despite its requests lacking required information, several groups say. www.law360.com/artic...

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

Conflict is expanding between Trump’s immigration policies and the Catholic faith, Elizabeth Bruenig writes. “The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.”

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

This thread, following Judge Ellis' ruling line-by-line, lays bare the notion that ICE has any need for its thuggery and intentional infliction of harm on protestors. It's worth your time to follow along.

Federal agents can only use force when it is "objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person." There must be two separate warnings given before force is used, Ellis rules.

Ellis says the First Amendment right to speech and assembly are the "most perishable."

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."

Bovino did not warn protestors in Little Village before he deployed tear gas, Ellis says. Ellis: "That happened after I entered the TRO."