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jackjenkins.me
Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d
NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: The Census Bureau’s website says applications are now open for temporary “2026 Census Test” jobs in six states as some of the national head count’s advocates warn about delays in preparing for next year’s major field test of the #2030Census
A major census test begins recruiting workers as some warn about delays
The Census Bureau is looking for temporary workers to carry out next year's major field test of the 2030 census in six states, as the national head count's advocates raise concerns about preparations.
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themainemonitor.org
The Maine Monitor @themainemonitor.org · 3d
To break a longstanding trend in Maine’s media industry, The Monitor is partnering with NOTUS to support a correspondent based in Washington, D.C., who will report on Maine’s #congressional delegation and how their decisions are impacting the #Maine.
Maine Monitor, NOTUS partner to cover Maine congressional delegation
To break a trend in Maine’s media industry, The Maine Monitor is partnering with NOTUS to support a correspondent based in Washington, D.C.
themainemonitor.org
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 3d
We’re partnering with 7 more local outlets around the country — adding Maine, Vermont, Utah, Ohio, Wisconsin, PA + Mississippi to the original six.

Truly the best part about working at NOTUS!! Bringing DC news to the people who are actually shaped by it.
NOTUS to partner with a growing list of local news outlets to close the gap between voters and elected officials - Allbritton Journalism Institute
NOTUS announced today that it is expanding the Washington Bureau Initiative, a program where political reporting from its Washington newsroom is co-published with local outlets across the country to e...
aji.org
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: #SCOTUS denies review of Ghislaine Maxwell's convictions for sex trafficking involving Jeffrey Epstein. No dissent or explanation.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 7d
Check out the new @boltsmag.org cheat sheet to the 2025 US general elections: There's a lot happening, including—among many things:
—Big mayoral races in NYC, Seattle, Minneapolis
—Transport funding in Charlotte
—Housing funding in Knoxville
—Infrastructure packages in Denver, OK City, Columbus
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts
Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else... Read M...
boltsmag.org
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:
Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the Department's operational status. Thank you. Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 8d
Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats
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Reposted by Steven S. Smith, Jonathan M. Gilligan, David R. Miller , and 1 more

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Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 8d
It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 8d
🚨 Hearing that RIF notices have gone out at the patent office. If you work in the federal government and you get a RIF notice along with your furlough, please let me know! I will keep you anonymous.

You can reach me on Signal at annakramer.54
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 8d
National Parks are staying open during the shutdown — a controversial and risky choice.

Last Trump term, keeping the parks open during the shutdown ended in vandalization, Joshua Trees being cut down, and overflowing toilets.
Trump Is Redirecting Funds to Keep National Parks Open. Last Time This Raised Legal Concerns.
During Trump’s first term, Congress’ watchdog said the administration violated the law in redirecting funds to keep the parks open.
www.notus.org
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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, Joe R. Feagin , and 10 more

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 9d
Quote of the day.
“This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”

Donald Trump to the assembled top brass.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10d
RFK Jr. just hired Mark Blaxill, one of the original anti-vaxxers, to work for the CDC. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...
Mark Blaxill helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him at CDC.
Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.
www.msnbc.com
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thecity.nyc
THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 10d
Most business leaders have moved on, believing that Mamdani will win and that it is time to create relationships with him.
The Business Freakout Over Mamdani Peters Out, Mostly
A few diehards are still trying to stop the democratic socialist, but with polls showing him likely to prevail, most business leaders are getting ready for a new regime and even offering praise.
www.thecity.nyc
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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 11d
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
chicago.suntimes.com
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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 11d
Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.
The following statement can be attributed to Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills: “The Village of Broadview Police Department has launched a criminal investigation into an allegedly unprovoked attack on a CBS Chicago TV news reporter’s vehicle on Sunday by a chemical munition fired from the direction of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility. The victim declined medical attention. The Broadview Police Department expects the full cooperation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security into our criminal investigation.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12d
NEW: Days before a decades-long contract between CPB and NPR is due to expire (and would normally be renewed), CPB announced Friday that it is giving nearly $60 million over five years to a newly formed coalition entity. cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards Grant to Public Media Infrastructure for Public Radio Interconnection
New, independent nonprofit entity will sustain public radio distribution through 2030
cpb.org
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14d
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 14d
*ANOTHER* FEC commissioner is leaving the agency.

That leaves 2 of 6 commissioner slots filled — 2 short of a quorum that allows the federal campaign finance regulator to function. (The two remaining are Dems.)

New, from @taylorgiorno.bsky.social & me in @notus.com www.notus.org/campaigns/fe...
Federal Election Commission Loses Another Commissioner
Republican Trey Trainor confirmed he’s resigning, leaving the nation’s hobbled campaign finance enforcement agency even further from a quorum.
www.notus.org
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 14d
NEW: Jeremy Carl, a top Trump nominee, deleted 1000s of social media posts, many w/inflammatory commentary — including incendiary posts about race, claiming “peaceful coexistence” w/Democrats is impossible - even a call for a political opponent to face the death penalty.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...
KFile: Trump nominee for key State Department position attempted to erase years of inflammatory social media posts | CNN Politics
Jeremy Carl, a top Trump State Department nominee, deleted thousands of social media posts, many demonstrating a history of inflammatory commentary— including incendiary posts about race, claims that ...
www.cnn.com
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 14d
We’ve been stymied for months trying to trace what’s happening to taxpayer dollars.

No matter how hard we tried, we kept hitting dead ends.

I’m not alone. Even members of Congress are in the dark. Even the nerdiest budget wonks.

So we wrote about why.
Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable
The Trump administration’s aggressive approach to overhauling the executive branch has obscured how federal dollars are actually being spent — even for the members of Congress.
www.notus.org
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15d
In the Bush years is was embeds in Iraq. Now it's embeds on ICE raids. @exposedbycmd.bsky.social reports on the latest trend of DHS dribbling out access for friendly journalists and stonewalling everyone else.
prospect.org/justice/2025...
Led by Fox, Journalists Embed With DHS Amid Media Crackdown
Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of their claims about deportation efforts.
prospect.org
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 15d
This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
www.nytimes.com
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 15d
Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.
After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump's team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter
President Donald Trump used an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter at the United Nations to paint the global body as dysfunctional.
apnews.com
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democracynow.org
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16d
Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.
www.democracynow.org
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atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d
Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
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npr.org
NPR @npr.org · 17d
After months of aid cuts, the State Department has released a 35-page document detailing how it plans to roll out global health assistance. Here's what it says — and what the reaction is.
What's in -- and what's missing -- in the new U.S. strategy for global health
After months of aid cuts, the State Department has released a 35-page document detailing how it plans to roll out global health assistance. Here's what it says — and what the reaction is.
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