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Martha Smith
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She/her. Knitter, mom to one human, gramma to two cats. Lifelong Democratic worker bee, looking for a bit of a rest … but now doesn’t seem like the time. #Minterland 📍Corvallis, OR
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A bit irreverent, I know, but my attitude hasn’t changed.
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Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency.

An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)
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I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
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Intolerable. Americans are being treated like citizens of a conquered territory
A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.
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And one more thing: The Washpost editorial fails to mention that Amazon is a ballroom donor.

Guess who founded Amazon? Guess who owns the Washpost?
Here’s a free link to a house editorial that illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page.

It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.

wapo.st/3J2IdIh
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
wapo.st
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I would lean into this argument so hard if I were advising federal delegation Dems. First, that’s exactly what it looks like. Second, if you were trying to blow up the country would you be acting differently than the Trump admin right now? And third, this obviously gets to them. But what do I know.
That’s beautiful, Shannon. Peaceful, calming, bring your blood pressure down beautiful 💜
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As Oregon questions the truthfulness of the Trump administration’s representations in court, the 9th Circuit is deciding if it should reconsider a panel’s decision to permit the Trump administration to deploy the National Guard in Oregon while litigation is ongoing. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Latest From The Ninth Circuit
Last night, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated, at least for now, Federal District Judge Karin Immergut’s first temporary restraining order, which prohibited the Trump administration from d...
open.substack.com
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"What I need you to understand is that nobody is letting them go quietly. The Feds' every movement is announced by a chorus of whistles, by a parade of cars honking in their wake, neighbors rushing outside to yell to film to witness these kidnappings that are unfolding in front of us."
ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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jesus christ man, we can’t ever get used to this and normalize it.
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
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I saw his smirk as he threw the first canister. He doesn’t care. Throw his thug ass in jail, judge.
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“Stop, you’re hurting him.” Can I talk to him? Can I talk to him please before he leaves? Let me — that’s my dad."
As Carlos is placed in the vehicle and they get ready to leave, both boys cry out, “Pa, te amo. (Pa, I love you)."

This is grotesque.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/f...
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
www.chicagotribune.com
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A Republican Congress is functionally the same as no Congress.
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I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled
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I can’t get over a media that spent years dwelling on gaffes telling us which Presidential crimes aren’t a big deal
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Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public
Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.
www.kuow.org
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it's important to remember the people doing this aren't "just following orders," they signed up to do this, they're excited to do it, it's what they want to be doing, and each one of them is personally culpable for the entirety of ICE's conduct
In video provided exclusively to MSNBC's The Weekend: Primetime, immigration agents are seen attempting to pull a man out a window of a Chicago home. Agents also jumped a fence into the locked backyard and manhandled people doing work. Hear from the homeowner tonight on The Weekend: Primetime.
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Bailing out Argentina. 
Trade wars against our allies.
Private jets for Kristi Noem.
Bulldozing the White House for his fancy ballroom.

President Trump is focused on ANYTHING but reopening the government and preventing premiums from imploding.
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Trump’s America: Thousands of furloughed federal workers in Hyattsville, Maryland waiting in line for food.
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My little Chicagoan heart is swelling with pride at the barefoot guy in Blackhawks pajama pants who clearly just ran directly out of his house to call ICE agents Nazis to their faces and scare them back into their cars
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The incident is marks the third straight day that federal agents have deployed tear gas against Chicagoans and the seventh time in 22 days.
Video from a photographer for the @chicagotribune.com:
Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
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I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.