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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 4h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 6h

Here’s video of the incident

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 4h

Pressing the advantage to regain lost territory elsewhere would be nice

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 4h

Picking to fight your battles on the most friendly terrain for your side is good strategy

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5h

“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”

Daily Beast: lol Republicans’ polls suck

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University of Florida Election Lab @ufelectionlab.bsky.social · 5h

With thanks to support from @davesredist.bsky.social we've made the VEST Florida 2022 and 2024 precinct shapefiles available to the public election.lab.ufl.edu/data-archive...

» Florida UF Election Lab

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 5h

Crummy time to be traveling by air. My condolences to those stuck at airports www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/u...

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 8h

Trump: we don’t need to pay furloughed federal workers

Federal workers: we don’t have to work for no pay

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

“.. flights are being delayed this evening at Nashville International Airport due to “staffing,” with average arrival delays of 126 minutes as of 5:30 p.m.”

@politico.com #shutdown
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 8h

BREAKING: The GOP operative who drew Texas’ gerrymandered map testified that, at a White House meeting, he saw a draft of a letter written by DOJ officials urging the state to redistrict.

RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander, Sparks Debate

Read more here.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 8h

A reminder that if your daughter has three dolls ICE is coming to detain one of them so she will have no more than two

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

“.. The strong growth usually seen due to shipments of holiday merchandise, “we are not seeing that,” said Dale Rogers ..

@cnbc.com #FreightRecession
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/s...

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 8h

Folks...you elected Republicans to break government and they broke it

Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 8h

It’s day seven of the government shutdown. For an entire week now, Republicans have refused to reach a bipartisan agreement to fund our government and protect health care for American citizens. They’re failing their own constituents.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 10h

Differential privacy. Look it up online for more depth. Basically adding noise to the data to protect individuals’ responses to the census.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes that data is censored for at-risk people like judges, law enforcement, and victims of domestic abuse. Depends on the state

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 10h

Getting him to scale back the added noise was a victory, of sorts

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

I convinced the Census Bureau not to apply the privacy formal to the state level counts for apportionment because I convinced them that would be a constitutional violation. So no states were inappropriately awarded congressional districts because of the privacy formula

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

I served on the National Academy of Sciences advisory committee to the Census Bureau on the privacy formula and the biggest concern was it resulted in undercounting communities of color — and it was the Biden administration that implemented it for the 2021 data release

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 12h

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

Put the Democratic candidate on the blockchain

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

I’m sorry. Only the Trump administration is allowed to dox judges and Democrats

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 11h

Trump’s Treasury secretary announced he would not penalize entities who fail to report beneficial owners of shell corporations, allowing oligarchs to continue to hide about a trillion dollars in uncollected taxes each year. Robert Kuttner reports:
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How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy

The Treasury secretary has gutted the most important anti-corruption reform legislation in a generation—the 2020 Corporate Transparency Act.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 13h

This makes me a little hopeful (and I do mean a little, like, not much) that what DHS is doing with voter files isn't the same quality of DOGE's claims of 150 year-old people receiving social security

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 13h

I asked Commission Palmer if DHS and ICE had reached out to the EAC to assist with the analysis of voter files they've been collecting. He said they had not, but it was his understanding that they had reached out to the National Association of Secretaries of State for assistance

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 13h

EAC Commissioner Donald Palmer (a Republican) gave an informative presentation to my election law class today. I and my students really appreciated it!

Now for a little news...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sure this will stem the tide of air traffic controllers calling in sick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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