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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you, Oreo cookies.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

Donald Trump: “We’re going after the worst of the worst.”

ICE arrests two men at a Chicago area bakery. Workers, not criminals. And this is why they need the National Guard?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h

Man…man.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef

Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

www.texastribune.org

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Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social · 20h

Former OMB associate director on personnel here: This is blatantly false and inexplicably undermines Congress's authority. Congress made extremely clear in 2019 that furloughed feds are to be paid, full stop, period. There is no question, except why the Speaker would make such a statement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

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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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 15h

Trump to exercise monarchic whim and illegally re-direct appropriations is how the headline should read.

Just again, spending and appropriations is a core power of Congress, not subject to the Executive's whims.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · Apr 4

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.

Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

prisonjournalismproject.org

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

Very good point. MAGA propaganda would have a better chance of succeeding without the efforts of on the ground journos on this:

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h

If you think today's news media picture is grim, take stock of how Chicago's local journalists are getting at the truth despite Homeland Security's campaign of lies and intimidation.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump regime’s desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, but its capacity is very much not.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 1d

Attn. civil servants — For a curated list of resources for current and former feds to help navigate attacks on the federal workforce by visit our resources page below: https://protectdemocracy.org/work/resources-for-civil-servants/

Resources for civil servants

If you are still employed as a federal civil servant, there are some initial steps you can take to make things slightly simpler if you are separated from employment.

protectdemocracy.org

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 2d

“Goering shouted, ‘This [the Reichstag fire] is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very night be strung up.’”

- Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

Even before the military really gets there, the trump administration has been treating it like a military occupation. Look at what the federal assets already there look like and how they operate

It’s warfare on an enemy population, where speech is insurgency

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

This hearing in Abrego Garcia’s civil case was supposed to deal with discovery issues, but it seems to have evolved into a discussion on the merits of whether Abrego should be released from immigration custody. Worth following along (via my Lawfare colleague @rparloff.bsky.social) ⬇️ 🧵

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 1d

(That explanation is approximate.)
The discovery requests, which I thought would be the main focus of the hearing, appear to have fallen by the wayside today. I think that's because Abrego's removal to Uganda (now defunct) or to Eswatini appears to be inchoate if not hypothetical or chimerical

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

This is the issue. Weiss was one of the "journalists" bestowed with the Twitter Files, which revealed some troubling jawboning, but wildly overstated its case. She's now the beneficiary of an unprecedented, openly censorious government project to purge and remake a media institution.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

As you see the Ellisons’ use the husk of Paramount/CBS to hand out fiefdoms to conservatives, remember: This summer Paramount bribed Trump $16m at the cost of 60 Minutes’ integrity. FCC approval of the Ellisons’ takeover bid followed within a few days. Brendan Carr made this statement at the time.

Brendan Carr, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission:
President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape. And the way he's doing that is,
when he ran for election, he ran directly at these legacy broadcast media outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS.
For years, government officials just allowed those entities with execs sitting in Hollywood in New York to dictate the political narrative. And he has fundamentally changed the game. And you see that really having consequences that are just rushing all through media.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

No remote access in this afternoon's hearing in Illinois v Trump—Chicago-based legal journalists, we are counting on you

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d

While we were sleeping:

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from deploying any federalized National Guard—Texas, California, the state’s own—in Oregon.

That’s big news. Even bigger: She’s decided to hold a trial on the merits. That is: She’s putting people under oath.

Screenshot of court order, which reads in part:

“A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion land a trial on the meries
under Rule 65(al(2) is set for October 29, 2025l before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.”

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 2d

“The Bulwark is a written, video, and audio product. And as we grow, we are looking for people who can excel across all those mediums,” CEO Sarah Longwell said in a statement. “Catherine is not just one of those people — she’s one of the best of those people.”

Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah. @crampell.bsky.social

Former Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark | Semafor www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark

Catherine Rampell will write a weekly economics and policy-focused newsletter for the anti-Trump media brand.

www.semafor.com

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 2d

Blow by blow of tonight’s emergency hearing re Trump’s ordering of federalized national guard to Oregon. Great work as always by @annabower.bsky.social and @lawfaremedia.org .

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, here we go.

The case is called and Judge Immergut explains the background. She says there were technical difficulties, which caused the delay.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

Proposed reply:

Dear Secretary McMahon,

Our offer is this: Nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which we would appreciate if you’d put up personally.

Sincerely,

Universities

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 4d

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits

A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 2d

The founders loved kings!

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 2d

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

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