I assume the same people who gave a big thumbs up to confirming Pam Bondi.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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Trump DOJ Admits to Losing 3.2 Million Epstein Docs?!?

Read the filing for yourself:

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

What Can We Learn From Austria's Response to a Single School Shooting? Lawmakers passed swift, sweeping gun reform after the mass shooting at a school in Graz. Here's how they did it.

One day after the mass killing at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australian leaders agreed to strengthen the country’s gun laws.

Austria had a similarly swift response after a school shooting in June.

What forces enable these countries to act where the U.S. will not?

Readers asked us questions about immigration enforcement on Reddit — Here are some of our answers

Last week, the Sun-Times and the r/chicago subreddit came together to hold an AMA, or Ask Me Anything, on federal immigration enforcement in Chicago and the suburbs. Here are some of our answers.

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these…

Our investigation showed that levels of benzene, a cancer-causing gas, were 37x higher than what the facility reported in the past.

The Trump admin has halted efforts to monitor for benzene near large industrial plants like this one, leaving communities in the dark about the air they breathe. (2/2)

Trump administration threatens to yank food stamps funding from KY, other Democratic-led states • Kentucky Lantern USDA will block nutrition assistance funding for states led by Democrats that have not provided fraud data, says Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.

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Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear says government should be "fighting hunger, not causing it."
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Scammers are posing as immigration attorneys or government officials and demanding large upfront payments and in some cases, it’s hard to tell whether they’re scammers or untrained ICE personnel. Once they get the money, they disappear, leaving families without real help and with even fewer options.

Abortion banned again in North Dakota after court reverses a judge's earlier decision Abortion is again illegal in North Dakota after the state's Supreme Court on Friday couldn't muster the required majority to uphold a judge's ruling that struck down the state's ban last year.

Abortion is again illegal in North Dakota after the state’s Supreme Court on Friday couldn’t muster the required majority to uphold a judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s ban last year. https://to.pbs.org/3LRSwjk

Big Tech is trying to sneak language into a giant bill to ban states from enacting AI safety laws. Workers should have protections from AI-related risks in their states.

The labor movement is urging Congress to oppose this provision in the National Defense Authorization Act.

Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly shared state voter-registration data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite earlier assurances to state election officials that the information would only be used for routine voter-list maintenance. Beginning in May 2025, DOJ

This is a freaking travesty.

NEW: Trump is pissed that he can't pardon state crimes, and promises "harsh measures" if she's not released from prison. She was sentences to 9 years for stealing voter info for Trump.

Hundreds of National Guard troops deployed to Portland and Chicago being sent home Hundreds of National Guard troops deployed to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, are being sent home, and those who will remain will not be on the streets.

Hundreds of National Guard troops deployed to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, are being sent home, and those who will remain will continue to stay off the streets amid court battles over their domestic mission by the Trump administration, a defense official said Monday. https://to.pbs.org/4oRSzdE

🧊✈️ BACK TO THE WAR ZONE ⛓️😲

⚠️ The U.S. government is removing 80 or so Ukrainian refugees back to their war-ravaged country tonight.

We should be sending weapons instead 🇺🇦

Epstein files and affordability concerns threaten Trump's veneer of political invulnerability President Donald Trump's political dominance is showing cracks as he faces challenges on affordability and the Jeffrey Epstein case.

President Trump’s veneer of political invulnerability has begun to crack as he struggles to find his footing on Americans’ concerns about affordability and fails to extinguish a push by renegade Republicans to release more files from the Jeffrey Epstein case. https://to.pbs.org/4pAmcQH

And Dots. you need dots too

Wilson Defeats Harrell » The Urbanist # Katie Wilson will be Seattle's next year. The progressive challenger expanded her lead over Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell to nearly 2,000 votes in Wednesday's count, and The Urbanist and other local o...

Katie Wilson will be Seattle's next year. The progressive challenger expanded her lead over Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell to nearly 2,000 votes in Wednesday's count.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/12/w...

Therapist: So what brings you in today?

Me: I’ve never truly gotten over the loss of Alan Rickman, Carrie Fisher, David Bowie, Steve Irwin, and George Michael.

Therapist: Oh dear. Let me put on the kettle.

Probably don't put "Cybertruck chief" on your resume, tho

They Gave a Predator a Puppy This is not justice. It’s a lullaby for the monster and a muzzle for the broken.

They gave a predator a puppy.
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How to turn fallen leaves into valuable leaf mold for your garden this fall The annual carpet of dead leaves can be an important component in gardens. They can serve as root-protecting and insect-sheltering winter mulch or add to a robust compost mix.

The carpet of dead foliage is often viewed as a nuisance, but it can be an important component in the garden. https://to.pbs.org/47Segmm

Now reverse Roe

An order from Justice Jackson ordering briefs on the latest developments in the SNAP case.

An early Monday morning order from Justice Jackson in the SNAP case—ordering DOJ to file any further briefs responding to last night's First Circuit ruling by 4:00 this afternoon, and allowing the plaintiffs to respond by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow.

For how we got here: www.stevevladeck.com/p/191-taking...

I want to see this!