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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.

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CONCLUSION
For the above reasons, this Court concludes that Plaintiffs have demonstrated that
Defendants violated 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and the Tenth Amendment and satisfy the requirements
for a permanent injunction. Therefore, this Court PERMANENTLY ENJOINS Defendants24
Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Department of Defense, Kristi Noem, and the U.S. Department of
24 As this Court may lack jurisdiction to enjoin President Trump in the performance of his
official duties, see Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 802–03 (1992) (plurality opinion);
Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 475, 501 (1866), this injunction applies only against the
other Defendants.
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Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying
members of the National Guard in Oregon:
1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and
deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051;

Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying
members of the National Guard in Oregon:
1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and
deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051;
2. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 5, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and
deploying the Texas National Guard, to the extent that it deploys members of the Texas
National Guard in Oregon, Ex. 6;
3. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 16, 2025 Memorandum to the extent that it
authorizes the deployment of federalized members of the California and Texas National
Guards to Oregon, Ex. 2; and
4. any memoranda deploying members of any other State’s National Guard to
Oregon based on the same predicate conditions that were relied upon to authorize the
above orders.
This Court retains jurisdiction pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, to enforce
the terms of this permanent injunction against any party.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump-Appointed Judge Rules His Portland Military Takeover Was Unconstitutional

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2h

#BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS for an immediate “administrative” stay of a Rhode Island district judge’s order that is otherwise requiring it to resume the distribution of SNAP benefits from other funding sources no later than the end of today.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h

Tuesday’s historic wins weren’t guaranteed. While business leaders, universities, and politicians from both parties were caving to Trump, We The People never stopped organizing.

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 3h

Never forget that the Trump regime waged a desperate legal battle with the goal of starving Americans.

NYT headline: Court Denies President’s Bid to Halt Food Stamp Funding

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1h

While this proposal offers huge compromises to Republicans, it shows that Democrats are serious about ending the Trump Shutdown with a deal that addresses the needs of working families. 🧵

Senate Republicans reject Democrat deal to reopen government

The U.S. government shutdown has dragged on for 38 days because of a dispute over whether ACA tax credits should be included in a stop-gap funding bill.

www.cnbc.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1h

Judge Immergut rules against the administration in the Portland Nat’l Guard case, granting a permanent injunction even after giving Trump’s decision “great deference.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

@kristencrowell.bsky.social
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 11h

I love the Grassroots Connector because it covers - with a practitioner's lens - the real work that is happening behind the election night headlines.

Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...

How Virginia Won Big — A Story of the Grassroots

It’s Time We Take Credit

grassrootsconnector.substack.com

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11h

Lame duck Trump in the No Kings era.🇺🇸

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13h

Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated

Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 10h

What is Kavanaugh talking about? Genuinely, what "cost" has Sam Alito incurred for his values or opinions or whatever? People who already didn't like him before now like him even less? These people are such babies, man. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

When the questions turned to the criticisms and even death threats the justices themselves have faced, Kavanaugh said he tries to follow the examples of role models like the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who showed “what it meant to withstand withering criticism, what it meant to be fearless.”

Justice Samuel Alito, who was in the audience, has likewise displayed courage “and the willingness to stand up for principle even when it comes at a cost, a big cost,” Kavanaugh said.

More: Justice Alito still doesn't like court's gay marriage decision but said it's precedent
“If you don’t want to get criticized,” Kavanaugh said of being a Supreme Court justice, “this is not a good gig.”

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9h

Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11h

Exhibit #2625 on Dems winning the politics of the shutdown fight. Check out this polling from @groundwork.bsky.social:

Polling showing Dem position on health care subsidies is favored by Dems and Independents by large margins.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h

Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath

Nassau County Executive results: Nazi pig Bruce Blakeman defeats Democrat Seth Koslow 54/46

Nassau County District Attorney: ICE bootlicker Anne Donnelly beats Democrat Nicole Aloise 55/45

Nassau County Comptroller: GOP creature Elaine Phillips beats Democrat Wayne Wink Jr 55/45

Hempstead Town Executive: John Ferretti beats ex-troop ex-cop Democratic nominee Joe Scianablo 53/47

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 7h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5h

Dr Amy Acton not only very much should but very much could beat Vivek Ramaswamy in the race for the office of governor of Ohio. Please consider supporting her if you can with a monthly donation.
actonforgovernor.com

Dr. Amy Acton for Governor

Join our campaign to bring power back to the people of Ohio.

actonforgovernor.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5h

This is not the country we should be.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 23h

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 5h

Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling?
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.

What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:

Why America’s Government Shutdowns Exist and How to End Them

One Legal Memo Created The Shutdown Era. Another Can End It.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

We need this to penetrate public consciousness.

Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...

OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect

For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

electrek.co

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

all those analysis of the huge changes Ds had to make to win back working class voters, Hispanics, etc. was DEAD WRONG. they did not make wholesale changes and yet they won huge. Context, candidates, and intensity. That's it. throw away the pundit playbooks.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 22h

Think of the quote in the photo below as you listen to this young man.

"More unnerving was the disappearance of a number of quite harmless people who had in one way or another been part of daily life. One did not know whether they were dead, incarcerated, or had gone abroad. They were just missing."
Raimund Pretzel (aka Sebastian Haffner), 1938
German author writing from exile in Britain

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

“More people could have died in the past week in El Fasher, and this is without hyperbole, than died in the past two years in Gaza,” says Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director at Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, who joins Mehdi remotely.”

zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Two experts on Sudan explain how the killing in El Fasher is worse than anyone knows.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 3d

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

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