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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

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ItsFlanoy @itsflanoy.bsky.social · 3h

Hemlo. McQueen werr juss sittink hear on sofa, waitink for sum thots to mebbe pass bye. He were wunderink - Haff you seen enny? He werr goink to try to catsh wun or two.

grey and white tabby XXL or maybe even 3XL kitten, loafed on a white leather sofa with his white front paws dangling over the front cushion, with a searching look on his face and without a thought in his head

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h

Seeing the destruction of the White House makes me emotional because Trump is so visibly flaunting the absence of constraints to his abuse of authority.

He’s tearing down parts of the People’s House to construct a massive fascist temple where people will come to pay tribute to him.

It’s grotesque.

Color photo of the East Wing of the White House in ruins behind a construction site barrier. Two American flags are visible waving in the wind.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

The provision of law barring ICE from turning away members of Congress is part of the annual appropriations bill. With the FY25 bill now expired and the government shut down, ICE is now saying they are no longer obligated to allow members entry; and their congressional visit process isn’t funded.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

In Congressional Dem lawsuit against ICE for prohibiting their oversight entry, ICE provides a filing abt what is funding detention operations during shutdown. But it doesn't specify what is going where in how much.

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

8. Additionally, certain ICE operations during the lapse in annual appropriations are being unfed by appropritions made through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) ... Appropriations made through the OBBB are a distinct source of funding with defined amounts for specific purposes and are not used to fund all of ICE's operations throughout the lapse in appropriations.

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GONZO the Ghoastly 👻 @gonzo.bsky.social · 4h

This 'ScooberDoom" doznot impress me

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 7h

Really appreciate you sharing this bit as the journalist who spent hours researching and analyzing the info it would be great if you could link back to the original work:

popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4h

Trump is head of the DOJ and demanding we pay him $230 million because, though guilty, he forced DOJ to drop the case, and now he is AGAIN a pathetic, whiney VICTIM. L

Every Republican needs to speak up or be asked about this by media. The grifter is grifting.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

ICE has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office.

You read that right — SEVEN HUNDRED PERCENT.

Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 4h

Again, Prof. Gershman is doing his best to fight the “ethical challenges” framing here, but what’s wrong here is not that the President and his friends are facing some sort of “ethical challenge”. What’s wrong is that they are trying to steal two hundred and thirty million dollars in broad daylight.

Lawyers said the nature of the claims posed undeniable ethics challenges.
"What a travesty," said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. "The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don't need a law professor to explain it"

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Woodstock Farm Sanctuary @woodstocksanctuary.bsky.social · 5h

Does a smile from rescued senior pig Simba make the whole day better? You decide.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 4h

When "The situation has no parallel in American history" is a wild understatement. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 4h

The Defense Department banned nearly 600 books from schools on military bases — but in a win for free speech, a federal judge just ordered those books back to the shelves.

Federal judge orders Pentagon to restore LGBTQ+ books, gender & diversity lessons in military schools

Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DoDEA Director Beth Schiavino-Narvaez to comply immediately.

www.advocate.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

As most are aware by now, ICE is slamming the north side today. They've been seen in Andersonville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Edgewater + Evanston. Several people abducted, agents still active.

Shared with permission—rapid response whistle team at Bryn Mawr & Broadway this morning.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 7h

I just went to the House floor to demand that Speaker Johnson swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the GOP gaveled out without even recognizing us.

We’re not going anywhere. I’m here with Leader Jeffries and Adelita Grijalva. Speaker Johnson must swear her in.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 10h

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 6h

That’s called burying the lead

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5h

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

West Ridge this morning, 11:37am—

Neighbors witnessed Border Patrol agents arresting a man who's been building a new staircase on their building.

"Wait, this is private property," the woman recording says.

"No, it's not," the agent replies, covering his face with his jacket.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 8h

Point five is really important. The protests provoked errors from the administration (shit force one) that may haunt them for years. That’s what happens when you stop being reactive.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 8h

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.

During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

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burnzz @13urnzz.bsky.social · 14h

#RockinTuesday
Red Canyon #Utah, August 2025
#Photography

Bushes and trees foreground, Red sandstone cliffs featured under a blue sky

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glen E. friedman @glenefriedman.bsky.social · 11h

MY EXHIBITION IS ON DISPLAY NOW at The Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa. OK

The enduring photographic legacy of the passionate, iconoclastic individuals I respected and have created with, since 1976 - communities of resistance and integrity these originators helped build are here to stay. THE PHOTOS!

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 8h

Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.

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