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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Trump was asked by 60 Minutes about immigration agents using aggresive"H tactics like busting people's windows.

"Have those tactics gone too far?"

"No", Trump said, "I think they haven't gone far enough."

This is what that looks like in the real world.

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Good bit of analysis here.

'Putting lay-offs down to AI sounds better than saying “we need to keep margins high so we’re sacking some low performers” and politically safer than saying “unpredictable Trump tariff policy means we are hiring less young people.”'

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

This guy, Johnson, is so fucking repressed... I wouldn't trust him alone with a child, much less leading a national political Party.
#NakedBikeRide #PortlandICEProtest

At least, yes.
That the Pentagon even tried to clamp down of the press, is deeply disturbing though, and shows how far the Trump rot has spread.

that they left em masse, at least, seems like a good sign

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

so can someone explain how it’s good when AI takes our jobs but bad when the immigrants do?

Oooh it’s the harvest moon!

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Neil Young tonight

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Pritzker: Noem should "no longer be able to step foot" in Illinois without accountability as she visits Broadview ICE facility Gov. Pritzker said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem "should no longer be able to step foot" in Illinois without accountability "for the Trump Administration's gross misconduct" the same day she visited the B...

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Gov JB Pritzker said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem "should no longer be able to step foot" in Illinois without accountability "for the trump Administration's gross misconduct" as she visited the Broadview ICE facility Friday…

This is a White Nationalist in action.
#KristiNoem #Noem #BadBunny #ICE #SuperBowl

*Goes to Google*
Does Trump have dementia?
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Does Trump have dementia? <ENTER>
#Trump #Dementia #Google #GoogleAI

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

This may be as close as we’ll ever get to an official confirmation

People who don’t think this is fascism “yet” aren’t seeing members of their own ethnic group get brutalized and kidnapped by masked men with guns.

Some of us already live in the future. Spoiler alert: It’s fascism.

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and the House. This government shutdown is failed Republican leadership on full display.

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

As US govt shutdown looms, workers across many agencies received identical emails blaming Democrats.

The message mandated by White House OMB had "one clear stipulation: Absolutely no modifications to the language."

Great scoop from @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Guardians 9, Rangers 8: With Detroit losing nearly an hour earlier the Guardians had already clinched the AL Central. But winning this game like they did – with a four-run tenth inning rally capped off by a walkoff three-run homer from Brayan Rocchio – bolstered a theory of mine: that the Guardians are possessed of more Devil Magic that any team since the La Russa-era Cardinals. They had a massive comeback here. They clinched their playoff spot on Saturday night on a walkoff hit-by-pitch. They beat Detroit with 57 dinks-and-doinks last week, with the rally being kicked off by their own dude getting hit in the damn face with a hundred mile-per-hour heater. And, of course, they came back and won the AL Central from 15.5 games down despite ending the season with a negative run differential. There is nothing natural about any of this. And they don't friggin' care, man. That's the most unsettling part. The Cleveland Guardians can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. I don't actually think that means they're World Series favorites or anything, but it does mean that we toy with them at our peril. If they eventually get knocked out of the playoffs it's probably because they just get beat, but it's also possible it will be because they accidentally ran their car over the entire opposing team and were deemed to have forfeited. And now they get the Tigers again after playing them six times in the last two weeks, winning five of those contests in no small part because Detroit seemed utterly spooked and intimidated. It's almost cruel.

Draft of the recap for the Guardians game in tomorrow's newsletter.

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Final pitch of the MLB regular season is a walk-off home run for Brayan Rocchio and the Guardians

Largest deficits overcome to win division (1969-on) or league (1900-‘68):

2025 Guardians: 15.5 GB
1914 Braves: 15.0
1978 Yankees: 14.0
2012 A’s: 13.0
1995 Mariners: 13.0
1951 Giants: 13.0

h/t @EliasSports