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This is what they voted for. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is what they voted for. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
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Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...
www.propublica.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
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This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.
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"Current and former national security officials…describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the US apart from the world’s most repressive regimes." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Current and former national security officials…describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the US apart from the world’s most repressive regimes." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Rep. Adam Smith to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "All they’ve said is, these people are part of a drug-running gang and we killed them ... I’ve never been in a situation like this where there has been less information provided to Congress on the details."
Full episode: newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Full episode: newrepublic.com/article/2019...
October 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Rep. Adam Smith to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "All they’ve said is, these people are part of a drug-running gang and we killed them ... I’ve never been in a situation like this where there has been less information provided to Congress on the details."
Full episode: newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Full episode: newrepublic.com/article/2019...
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement.
Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.
Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.
October 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement.
Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.
Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.
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Americans blame Republicans and Trump for the shutdown because this is their shutdown. They own all of the government. This is on them.
October 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Americans blame Republicans and Trump for the shutdown because this is their shutdown. They own all of the government. This is on them.
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Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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In Trump’s America, billionaire and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is a kind of shadow president. Meanwhile, the Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.
Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America
The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.
wrd.cm
October 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In Trump’s America, billionaire and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is a kind of shadow president. Meanwhile, the Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.
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BREAKING: A video from Chicago shows a masked ICE agent slamming a truck driver to the ground during a stop on 47th Street, right outside Elizabeth Beauty Salon.
October 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
BREAKING: A video from Chicago shows a masked ICE agent slamming a truck driver to the ground during a stop on 47th Street, right outside Elizabeth Beauty Salon.
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Where are the people who were so outraged that Biden asked google to pull misinfo at Covid, now that Trump has made Apple pull the ice tracker app
October 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Where are the people who were so outraged that Biden asked google to pull misinfo at Covid, now that Trump has made Apple pull the ice tracker app
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Trump needs to spend less time talking to billionaire donors and more time with THE PEOPLE.
He'd hear them saying they just can't take any more. That what he's doing is fundamentally unpopular.
I'm fighting to stop the harm and actually deliver for our country.
He'd hear them saying they just can't take any more. That what he's doing is fundamentally unpopular.
I'm fighting to stop the harm and actually deliver for our country.
October 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Trump needs to spend less time talking to billionaire donors and more time with THE PEOPLE.
He'd hear them saying they just can't take any more. That what he's doing is fundamentally unpopular.
I'm fighting to stop the harm and actually deliver for our country.
He'd hear them saying they just can't take any more. That what he's doing is fundamentally unpopular.
I'm fighting to stop the harm and actually deliver for our country.
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At a time when federal agents are sowing chaos in Chicago, the Trump administration is holding bipartisan funding hostage.
It’s attempting to score political points but is instead hurting our economy and the hardworking people who rely on public transit to get to work or school.
It’s attempting to score political points but is instead hurting our economy and the hardworking people who rely on public transit to get to work or school.
CTA Red Line Extension funding frozen as Trump administration withholds $2.1 billion from Chicago
Two major Chicago transit projects are in jeopardy after the White House froze $2.1 billion in federal funding over an investigation into racial preferences in contracting.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
At a time when federal agents are sowing chaos in Chicago, the Trump administration is holding bipartisan funding hostage.
It’s attempting to score political points but is instead hurting our economy and the hardworking people who rely on public transit to get to work or school.
It’s attempting to score political points but is instead hurting our economy and the hardworking people who rely on public transit to get to work or school.
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Similar messages went up on other government sites, all in violation of the law. If you think this makes you look less culpable, Donald, you’re sorely mistaken.
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Similar messages went up on other government sites, all in violation of the law. If you think this makes you look less culpable, Donald, you’re sorely mistaken.
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Fox News's Chad Pergram: “How can you say that they take no pleasure in this and then in the next minute say, ‘Oh, they're just having fun trolling people?’”
October 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fox News's Chad Pergram: “How can you say that they take no pleasure in this and then in the next minute say, ‘Oh, they're just having fun trolling people?’”
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Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need.
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need.
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Their Jethro mind tricks ain’t working.
Oop. Turns out that voters blame the GOP more for the shutdown by an average of 12 pts.
October 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Their Jethro mind tricks ain’t working.
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Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration.
@politico.com had a big piece about it.
@politico.com had a big piece about it.
President Trump says he is meeting today with Russ Vought, OMB director and "of PROJECT 2025 Fame," to discuss cuts to "Democrat Agencies."
October 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration.
@politico.com had a big piece about it.
@politico.com had a big piece about it.
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Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.
October 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The people will boot you from your office, Mike “Moses” Johnson. May your party wander in a political desert long after.
October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The people will boot you from your office, Mike “Moses” Johnson. May your party wander in a political desert long after.
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In a new interview, Howard Lutnick reveals the reason why Trump, Bondi and Mike Johnson have been working so hard to cover up the Epstein files, which we pretty much already knew but now it’s coming from someone who was friends with Epstein. nypost.com/2025/10/01/u...
October 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
In a new interview, Howard Lutnick reveals the reason why Trump, Bondi and Mike Johnson have been working so hard to cover up the Epstein files, which we pretty much already knew but now it’s coming from someone who was friends with Epstein. nypost.com/2025/10/01/u...
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