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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 3h

It’s been three weeks since Adelita Grijalva won her election, but Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in — all because she would be the final signature needed on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

He’s denying AZ-07 a voice in Congress. Swear her in now.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

Also, can we please get some interviews with the farmers asking why they voted the way they did when the previous president gave them subsidies and lucrative government contracts? And would they vote the same today?

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 2h

REALITY CHECK … WE SEE WITH OUR VERY OWN EYES WHAT’S HAPPENING‼️

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

Damn, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Republicans are trying to kill a program their own voters depend on. 77% of ACA marketplace enrollees live in Trump states. This shutdown is a healthcare hit job on their own base.
#TrumpShutdownBadForUS

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Random Bott 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇬🇪 🇷🇴 @randombott.bsky.social · 4h

Trump warns Hamas 'we will have no choice but to go in and kill them' if bloodshed persists in Gaza

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Trump warns Hamas 'we will have no choice but to go in and kill them' if bloodshed persists in Gaza

President Donald Trump is warning Hamas “we will have no choice but to go in and kill them” if internal bloodshed persists in Gaza.

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Random Bott 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇬🇪 🇷🇴 @randombott.bsky.social · 5h

I hope he was not injured at all in that fall.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

ICE arrested a cop--a white guy, even--for deportation in Chicago.

Probably offended he's not wearing a mask.

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ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

In the same event:

* Kash Patel claims the Justice Department is no longer weaponized

* Donald Trump calls Jack Smith a 'deranged criminal' and says he hopes Andrew Weissmann gets looked into

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h

A Florida judge has temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for Trump's future presidential library.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

Here's an interview with the clarinetist who was arrested.

Her bandmembers were mostly wearing banana suits.

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Band’s clarinet player speaks out after her federal arrest

YouTube video by The Oregonian

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Random Bott 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇬🇪 🇷🇴 @randombott.bsky.social · 5h

Who is this “we” he refers to?

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

The "ceasefire" does not seem to be going great

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

Thus far, a broad mobilization in Chicago, from @govpritzker.illinois.gov to neighbors taking video, has succeeded in disproving Stephen Miller's fever dreams.

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How City of Chicago Beat Back Stephen Miller's Shoddy Propaganda ... So Far - emptywheel

How the efforts of everyday Chicagoans managed to defeat Stephen Miller's propaganda ... so far.

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Random Bott 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇬🇪 🇷🇴 @randombott.bsky.social · 6h

This is a major win

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

CHICAGO (AP) — Judge says she will require immigration agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after turbulent protests.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

CHICAGO (AP) — Judge says she will require immigration agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after turbulent protests.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

This entire article is, unsurprisingly, kicked off by Brett Kavanaugh and includes this: "A spokesperson for Kavanaugh did not return an emailed request for comment."

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Here's how ProPublica categorizes the 170 US citizens ICE has kidnapped. 50 Kavanaugh stops and 120 cases where ICE claimed they were assaulted, usually (IMO) after assaulting the person in question.

Remember that 2 of the electeds--Ras Baraka and Brad Lander--were arrested DURING their election.

We reviewed more than 170 cases overall, which we sorted into two categories.

The first is Americans who were held because agents questioned their citizenship. We found more than 50 such cases. The second category is Americans arrested by immigration agents after being accused of assaulting or impeding officers at protests or during immigration arrests of others. In that category, we tallied about 130 Americans, including more than a dozen elected officials. In many of these cases, the government never charged these individuals or the cases were dismissed.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Also note: This analysis doesn't include most of Portland and Chicago.

That's important bc there are EASILY 10 suspect cases between the two. The September 27 Chicago ones started getting dismissed after October 5.

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We did all this by sifting through both English- and Spanish-language social media, lawsuits, court records and local media reports. We compiled cases from the beginning of the current Trump administration through Oct. 5. Our accounting of arrests in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago is particularly limited, since the events there are still unfolding.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

I actually think there'll be an interesting selective prosecution case.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is going to indict another of his critics.

But not for lying us into Iraq (which the papers in question might better demonstrate).

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