Also, it sounds like people have figured out which hotel the ICE agents are staying at and are giving them a lovely overnight musical performance with drums and vuvuzelas and so on. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Rough day on the farm beat. @reuters.com @financialtimes.com

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.

Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."

Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱

Trump and his allies are trying to twist our fight for equality into fear and division. But really, it’s about one thing: giving every American the opportunity to be treated with decency and respect. Nothing sinister. Nothing scary. Just American.

Trump is mad one person stepped out of line on Fox and told the truth.

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

"This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

these clowns are REALLY going to say that Texas’s map - which targeted majority minority districts - was NOT discrimination on the basis of race. But they’ll say Louisiana’s map - drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act and give Black voters representation- DID discriminate on the basis of race

It is simply impossible to believe on this record that this would have been the lineup (or a stay issued at all) if the district court had found a racial gerrymander in a large blue state.

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

This is the story tonight. Every Dem who was in that room should be telling us what they saw.

Himes: "The end result was two individuals without any weaponry, without any tools of any kind, clinging to a wrecked boat ... the decision was taken to kill them and that is in fact what happened. And that was pretty hard to watch."

If you told me this was a “Confederate” Court by a 6-3 majority—equally *contemptuous* of American law, in favor of any jurisprudence that lets insurrectionists get everything they want, no matter how illegal—I would say that that is perfectly consistent with facts on the ground.

Kagan: "Today's order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right."

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms. The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent. I'll post the ruling shortly.

just an utter joke of a court.

WALZ: “.. Donald Trump’s calling our Somali neighbors ‘garbage’ and calling the state of Minnesota a ‘hellhole’. I’m assuming it’s unprecedented for a United States President. .. We’ve got little children going to school today, their president called them ‘garbage’.”

TORRE: “What’s it like to watch CBS right now?” CHUNG: “We don’t.” @pablo.show $PSKY

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The WSJ confirms that in the leadup to Pete Hegseth's serial war crimes in the Caribbean, he made clear to commanders that our military code *was not to be followed*—no questions were to be asked of any orders. It led to the resignation of the top commander in the Caribbean.

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

That Girl Guiding statement is a heartbreaking attack on little girls. Tonight isn’t about the Law - we’ll come back to that - it’s about reaching out to your local Guides, people who volunteer, people who run things locally… …and help them fight it: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Team Psaki delivered us somewhat of a Psaki💣 (IYKYK) on Hegseth @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social Oh how I miss her WH Press Briefing Psaki💣’s - especially the ones on Peter Doocy

After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to @kutnews.bsky.social and The Texas Newsroom. All but about 200 pages are blacked out.

Knock, Knock. Who's there? Our government is disappearing people! Our government is disappearing people, who? Our government is effin disappearing people! Wake TF up to tyranny & #ICELawlessness & SPEAK TF UP! YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE COULD BE NEXT! FFS, Our government is disappearing people!

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

BREAKING: Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been released from a U.S. federal prison, Bureau of Prisons tells AP.

President Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. "Meanwhile, fishermen on boats in the Caribbean who we have never been tried or charged with anything are shot and killed from the air."

New in PN: This is what a white supremacist administration looks like "The Republican Party of today, embodied as it is in Donald Trump and the administration he leads, is no longer so worried about being called racist, because it has unashamedly taken white supremacy as its cause."

We need more people taking a stand and fewer cowards. Republican, Democrat, Independent.

Indiana GOP Sen. Bohacek on Trump's use of r-word: "When it seems quite clear we're isolating a population by use of a slur, at some point you have to speak out... it's a word used to denigrate the intellectually disabled community... you can't validate slurs like that... it's a matter of character"

This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.

The Leavitt Effect www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."

🔥 AL GORE: “We already have way too many subservient cowards in Congress, the last thing we need is to send another one (Van Epps 🤖) — you can make tomorrow the turning point for our country by getting out and voting for Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social .” #TN7 Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”

Hegseth announced his new rules restricting reporters’ access to the Pentagon two weeks after the double strike.

Two months ago I wrote about why my law firm is litigating 63 voting and election cases. Today it is 65 cases covering more than half the country. Eleven of them involve redistricting. Where are the big law firms? Why isn't legacy media covering this? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

TN CD-7 “While Matt Van Epps says there is ‘no policy’ of Donald Trump’s that he disagrees with, even if it means skyrocketing costs for Tennessee families, Aftyn Behn is laser-focused on lowering grocery, housing, and health care costs.” #USDemocracy #MomSky #FeedKidsFixRoadsFundHospitals

This school board enacted book bans, classroom curriculum censorship, and library restrictions despite none of those being necessary with new Ohio "Parental Rights" legislation. Students are automatically opted-OUT of material. So we know which parents have rights here: the bigoted ones.