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Lilly J. Goren
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Political Scientist. Pop Culture Enthusiast. Cook. Knitter. Always solving mysteries in small British villages.
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Mike Johnson spent a month and a half protecting a pedophile www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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jamellebouie.net
new video up at my youtube page on the history of the filibuster and why it’s Bad. watch/share/subscribe/etc!
youtu.be/a30e7lw6KL4
What's the deal with the filibuster?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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kibblesmith.com
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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blockclubchi.bsky.social
Federal agents deployed tear gas against neighbors in Little Village and pepper sprayed a family driving in Cicero Saturday following the latest clash between immigration agents and protesters. blockclubchi.co/49KnNyq
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The latest update on conditions inside Broadview's ICE facility, where a magistrate judge is planning a visit this week.

The Trump administration says it's "compliant" with an order to provide phone services so detainees may communicate with counsel.

Plaintiffs "continue to have concerns."
JOINT WRITTEN STATUS REPORT The parties, by their undersigned attorneys, hereby submit the following joint status report pursuant to the court’s November 7, 2025, order (Dkt. 57) to apprise the court on the government’s compliance with the attorney-client communications provision of the court’s temporary restraining order (Dkt. 49). Defendants’ Position: Para. 10 of the TRO requires defendants to “provide telephone services for each Detainee to communicate with the Detainee’s counsel in private and without cost.” Defendants are compliant with this provision. Detainees have access to a government phone and private area to call their attorneys free of charge upon request. The government has set up a new phone number (708-316-4200) and email address (BSSA.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov) that attorneys may use to initiate contact with their clients. The new Broadview phone number is not fully operational yet, so the government will be using the phone number to the guard shack call (708-316-4192) in the meantime. This number is for attorneys only. Attorneys may also send email requests to email Chicago.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov and CHI-ERO-Detained@ice.dhs.gov until the new Broadview email address is fully operational. The email addresses will kick back an auto reply to include the phone number that attorneys may use to coordinate calls to their clients. The phone number will also be distributed to the Chicago AILA Chapter. The telephone calls are not being monitored or recorded In terms of nighttime lighting, the facility has implemented a 11 p.m.-11:15 p.m. to 5 a.m.- 5:15 a.m. “lights out” period where the lighting will be dimmed (absent any exigent circumstances such as during detainee transfers for safety reasons). Defense counsel asked that plaintiffs’ counsel test the phone number and emails on November 8-9, 2025, and report back in an attempt to trouble shoot before today’s noon deadline. Counsel for the defendants was not made aware of any of the issues reported below until five minutes before the filing deadline. The defense will look into plaintiffs’ complaints. Plaintiffs’ Position: Plaintiffs cannot verify whether Defendants are compliant with the provisions of the TRO concerning attorney-client communications. Plaintiffs continue to have concerns that attorneys are not able to arrange calls to their clients in a timely fashion. The new phone number that the government has set up (708-316-4200) still does not work. As described during the last court hearing, the phone line cuts off after an attorney navigates through the automated menu. On Saturday, November 8, 2025, around 2:45 p.m., Defendants’ counsel provided Plaintiffs’ counsel with the phone number to the Broadview guard shack, as mentioned above (708-316-4192). Plaintiffs are in touch with an attorney, Shelby Vcelka (who testified at the TRO hearing) who called the guard shack number on Sunday afternoon before 3:30pm in an effort to set up a call with her client. She was transferred to a supervisor who told her that someone would call her back within 48 hours. As of 8:30 am today (Monday), she had not heard back. Plaintiffs submit that a 48-hour response time is far too long, particularly given the substantial rights at stake while people are detained and processed at Broadview and the fact that people may be transferred elsewhere sooner than 48 hours. The new email address (BSSA.Outreach@ice.gov) generates an auto-reply, but it lists the ICE Chicago Field office number (872-351-3990). That number disconnects after an attorney navigates through the automated menu. The auto-reply does not contain the guard shack phone number. The Chicago.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov and CHI-ERO-Detained@ice.dhs.gov email addresses do not generate auto-replies. We have received one report from an attorney who appears to have emailed both the BSSA.Outreach@ice.gov mailbox and Chicago.Outreach@ice.gov mailboxes and subsequently received a phone call from a Broadview official in response. That attorney was able to have a phone call with her client. It is not clear to Plaintiffs which email inbox precipitated the response. Nor is it clear to Plaintiffs how frequently either of these mailboxes are monitored or whether attorneys consistently receive a prompt response and client call. Plaintiffs have no information about whether detainees are being provided with the means to make free, unmonitored, and private phone calls to attorneys, or where that is being facilitated within the Broadview facility. With respect to nighttime lighting, Plaintiffs have no information at this time about whether or how Defendants are implementing the new “lights out” period they describe to the Court. Plaintiffs have received no further information about whether detainees are now being provided with a bedding mat or bedding, and have also received no further information about food service at the facility.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 14
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
If anything this understates it, because the Trump administration is now telling states to claw back benefits already provided, which is administratively a nightmare and also illegal. 🧵
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d
This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
tonyromm.bsky.social tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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atrupar.com
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Oh, I’d argue against that.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d
Johnson: When we go into the midterms, we’re very bullish on the outcome. We have an extraordinary record to run on. The first nine months of this Congress and this administration, arguably the most productive of all time.
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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unraveledpress.com
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Youngkin wins by two points? That’s a model to follow

Spanberger and Sherrill win by more than a dozen each? Boooooring
convolutedname.bsky.social Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 7d
GM, Nate Cohn at his best sports pundit last night, already making up reasons why this one doesn't count
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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andrewjweinstein.com
Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of
'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.
Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement
A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasn’t a “war zone”— until immigration agents swept through.
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 7d
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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libankerdc.bsky.social
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
libankerdc.bsky.social Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 7d
Humanities where the cool jobs at
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*

Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.

If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
I wrote yesterday abt how Judge Cameron McGowan Currie had to ask twice to get EDVA to turn over the transcripts from Lindsey Halligan's big grand jury debut.

One thing I realized is EDVA MUST have given Currie the full transcripts from the Tish James' GJ.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/04/c...
On October 28, 2025, the undersigned entered an order directing the Government to submit, for in camera review, “all documents relating to the indictment signer’s participation in the grand jury proceedings, along with complete grand jury transcripts.” ECF No. 95. On Friday, October 31, 2025, the court received a package containing, inter alia, a “Transcript of Grand Jury proceedings on September 25, 2025.” This court has reviewed the transcript and finds it fails to include remarks made by the indictment signer both before and after the testimony of the sole witness, which remarks were referenced by the indictment signer during the witness’s testimony. In addition, the package contains no records or transcripts regarding the presentation of the three-count indictment referenced in the Transcript of the Return of Grand Jury Indictment Proceedings before the Magistrate Judge. See ECF No. 10.
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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colindickey.com
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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joriegraham.bsky.social
Dem women governors in NJ, NY, VA, MA. 🔥🔥
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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esqueer.net
57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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geoffgarin.bsky.social
How many Democrats feel tonight:
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM