Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

"Monitor" my ass. If I were Gavin's team I'd fully request UN election monitors to counterbalance the federal election intimidators

SCOOP!

Post reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham obtained documents showing that average Obamacare premiums are set to spike 30 percent.

This escalates the stakes of the government shutdown fight over soaring insurance costs wapo.st/477rixd

“Being forced to create the information technology that would systematically erase all EEOC references to transgender, non-binary, or other LGBTQ+ people, given that I am a queer transgender man, was personally devastating…”

Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Exactly what all DC Dems should be doing

Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care.

Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.

Venezuela? Colombia? Ecuador? Are we invading the entire continent now? Good Grief.

Pivot to the Caribbean continues apace

U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY ORDERS DEPLOYMENT OF GERALD FORD CARRIER STRIKE GROUP TO SOUTHERN COMMAND AREA, PENTAGON SAYS

MAGA

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Excited for the holiday White House decor, when Melania Trump tosses a strand of Christmas lights on the rubble of the East Wing then goes back to New York City!

You want to go there...

Or anyone who has been the victim of racist symbolism. We HAVE to learn images of hate as small children for safety.

Because being shielded from the signs that harm and traumatize others is a form of white privilege.

And if you don't want yours called out, check it first!

These are not my peers

A group of organized people could select 2 of these corporations and launch a BDS inspired campaign against them. Lift them up as examples and use this as a way to make the broader case to the public about Oligarchic rule...

She "suggested"
Ugh

Feds want to block Todd Blanche's testimony under precedent shielding top officials absent "extraordinary" circumstances.

Here's how Abrego's defense responds to that one.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Background www.allrisenews.com/p/blanche-ab...

Oh my God

"Boyd asks for the barest form of mercy: to die by firing
squad, which would kill him in seconds, rather than by a
torturous suffocation lasting up to four minutes. The Constitution would grant him that grace. My colleagues do not."

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Trump's sadism continues: He's now threatening to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia. From his lawyer:

"Unless Liberia guarantees that it will not redeport Mr. Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, then sending him to Liberia is no less unlawful than sending him directly to El Salvador a second time."

We're in a situation where the administration is very clearly putting extreme pressure on big tech to do its bidding/surveil for them. Citing random laws and dubious legal authority in this case. In case of ICE watching apps clearly a lot of pressure was applied

The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law

www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

Fund Me Fridays is back!

In honor of Link, who remains unjustly banned, I will be reposting mutual aid links under this thread.

Drop your links and let’s meet some needs!

The biggest news story of the week: North Carolina enacted a new congressional gerrymander that could buy the GOP one more seat in Congress, but at the cost of the state’s Black voters.

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