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2 hours ago

Attorney Infamous For Texting 'I HATE BLACK PEOPLE' Lands At Stephen Miller-Linked Law Shop, Because Of Course She Did - Above the Law

Clanton is, on paper, exactly the kind of young lawyer who is supposed to represent the best of the profession. She landed a series of extraordinarily prestigious clerkships: first with Judge Corey Maze of the Northern District of Alabama, then with Eleventh Circuit Judge William Pryor, and ultimately with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. That's a golden ticket path most law students would kill for.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 hour ago

What the Democrats Can Learn from MAGA

Republicans built durable local political infrastructure and long-term organizing that sustains movements, while Democrats favor short-term mobilization and are hindered by ideological purity debates.
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fromFast Company
41 minutes ago

Big Tech CEOs' tortured statements on ICE in Minnesota show an industry captured by Trump

In January, ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, and most major tech CEOs remained publicly silent while AI leaders spoke out.
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fromLos Angeles Times
54 minutes ago

Corruption case against L.A. Councilmember Curren Price can move to trial, judge rules

Curren Price faces trial on charges of conflict-of-interest voting, embezzlement, and perjury tied to actions that allegedly benefited his wife and her consulting firm.
fromAxios
3 hours ago

Threats against members of Congress skyrocketed in 2025

That incident, in which the 55-year-old assailant was arrested and later charged with third degree assault, illustrates the day-to-day threat environment member of Congress face. Omar wasn't even the only one attacked in the past week: Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) got punched in the face at the Sundance Film Festival just days earlier. By the numbers: The Capitol Police opened 14,938 cases into "concerning statements, behaviors, and communications" directed at congressional offices and family members in 2025, the department said in a press release.
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#immigration-enforcement
fromSFGATE
1 hour ago
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'Batman' blasts Bay Area city council over ICE's involvement in Super Bowl

fromSFGATE
1 hour ago
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'Batman' blasts Bay Area city council over ICE's involvement in Super Bowl

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fromAdvocate.com
1 hour ago

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The Trump administration alleges San Jose State University violated federal law by allowing a transgender woman to play on the women's volleyball team.
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fromSan Jose Inside
1 hour ago

Mayor Matt Mahan Confirms He is 'Heavily Weighing" Governor Run

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is weighing a late bid for California governor, potentially disrupting a crowded Democratic primary field.
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fromAxios
1 hour ago

Scoop: House Democrats told by leadership not to go to Minnesota

House Democrats were urged to stay in their districts to avoid burdening Minneapolis resources and to support Minnesota colleagues' local Days of Action.
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fromThe Mercury News
13 minutes ago

Another Bay Area county creates 'ICE-free zones' after Minneapolis killings

Alameda County adopted ordinances creating ICE-free zones banning federal immigration enforcement in county buildings and establishing a Bay Area regional response plan.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
54 minutes ago

DHS confirms Super Bowl security role amid fears of ICE enforcement but details remain unclear

The lack of specificity has led to questions locally about whether immigration enforcement could be part of the federal role, despite the department's long-standing involvement in large-scale event security. In a statement, Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary at DHS, said the department is committed to working with our local and federal partners to ensure the Super Bowl is safe for everyone involved, as we do with every major sporting event,
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fromFuturism
1 day ago
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Google Staffers Terrified of ICE After Attempt to Force Entry Into Company Building

fromFuturism
1 day ago
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Google Staffers Terrified of ICE After Attempt to Force Entry Into Company Building

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fromFortune
1 hour ago

JPMorgan, BofA will match the $1,000 'Trump Accounts' for employees' children. Here's how to open an account | Fortune

JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America will match the government's $1,000 seed contributions to eligible U.S. employees' children's Trump Accounts.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

Melania Trump Tells Fox News Her Husband Is a Unifier'

President Donald Trump is portrayed as a unifier who stopped many wars, and critics should align with his agenda to make America safer and better.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 hour ago

I remember thinking that I was too young to have a stroke but I was wrong'

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
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fromAxios
5 hours ago

Body cameras, warrants top list of Democrats' ICE demands

Senate Democrats will withhold support for the DHS funding bill unless it includes ICE reforms, a mask ban for agents, and body cameras.
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fromEngadget
4 days ago

US Congress members call for 'thorough review' of EA's $55 billion sale

Lawmakers urge the FTC to scrutinize EA's $55 billion acquisition over labor-market impacts, potential layoffs, wage-setting power, and increased market dominance.
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fromBrooklyn Eagle
3 hours ago

Republicans appeal decision that threw out NYC's only GOP-controlled House district

Republicans appealed a judge's order to redraw Nicole Malliotakis' Staten Island-Brooklyn district after a finding it diluted Black and Hispanic voters' power.
fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago

Letters: One-time wealth tax won't provide a long-term fix

The proposed Billionaire Tax Act, imposing a one-time 5% tax on the total wealth of Californians whose net worth is $1 billion or more, needs reconsideration. Certainly, anyone with $1 billion (or more) has more than enough to live very comfortably, but there is an approach that would be less onerous to the billionaires and more helpful to the state. A one-time 5% tax would bring in a windfall for the state - once.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 hours ago

Five Lessons from MAGA

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program ( DARE) and Mothers Against Drunk Driving ( MADD) both got their starts in the nineteen-eighties. MADD emerged as one of the greatest examples of grassroots political activism in modern America, but DARE has been judged mostly a failure. Why did one flourish while the other proved to be merely a passing fad? Duhigg argues that the answer is in the difference between "mobilizing" and "organizing."
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fromEmptywheel
1 hour ago

Links, August 25, 2011

Contracting to Afghan contractors is being tightened, with U.S. footprint reduction threatened; Japan reintroduced radioactivity lessons; concerns about low wages and debt-ceiling misunderstandings.
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fromLos Angeles Times
1 day ago

Charter Reform Commission, L.A. City Council look to impose transparency rules

Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance requiring Charter Reform Commission members to disclose private communications with elected officials and staff to boost transparency.
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fromwww.amny.com
2 hours ago

ICE-linked Palantir investment becomes flashpoint in rarely-contested New York state comptroller's race amNewYork

New York's $290 billion pension fund holds hundreds of millions in Palantir stock; challengers urge divestment over Palantir's role in federal immigration enforcement.
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fromAxios
15 hours ago

Minneapolis killings cut short America's post-election apathy

American public opinion shifts like a thermostat, swinging from support for aggressive immigration enforcement to condemnation when actions become visible and indiscriminate.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Bay Area attorney enters race to replace Swalwell with $1 million war chest

Rakhi Israni, a Fremont lawyer with $1 million raised, is running for the East Bay congressional seat to address housing costs and health care.
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fromwww.housingwire.com
3 hours ago

Indiana bill targets housing affordability with state zoning changes

Indiana lawmakers propose shifting major housing approval authority from cities to the Statehouse, significantly limiting local control over zoning and development decisions.
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fromLos Angeles Times
1 day ago

After Minneapolis shootings, California moves forward bill allowing lawsuits against federal agents

California enacted a law enabling residents to sue federal agents for constitutional violations, prompted by outrage over deadly immigration enforcement encounters.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

She Should Be Out of a Job': GOP Senator Calls for Amateurish' Kristi Noem's Ouster

Sen. Thom Tillis demanded Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's removal, calling her handling of the Alex Pretti shooting and related statements incompetent and politically damaging.
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fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
12 hours ago

Administration Officials Search for Buses to Throw One Another Under, Trump Insults Ilhan Omar After Man Attacks Her, and Jack Evans Is Back - Washingtonian

Dangerously cold weather will continue, causing school closures and transit adjustments, while administration officials publicly clashed over a fatal Minneapolis shooting.
fromwww.mediaite.com
7 hours ago

Zero!' 2028 Dem Hopeful Savages Biden for Failing to Make Americans' Lives Better

I think what folks don't want is rhetoric. They want specifics. And we're proud of the fact we've got the only growing economy in the northeastern part of the United States. I've cut taxes seven times. The indicators in our schools are going up along with our investment. I made a pledge to hire 2,000 more cops and invest in local violence prevention, and violent crime is down 12% across our commonwealth, fatal gun violence down 43%. Those are concrete deliverables,
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fromThe Atlantic
3 hours ago

Donald Trump, Demolition Man

The demolition was hardly the most egregious action that Trump has taken as president, but it captured popular and media attention because it was such a clear metaphor: Trump had secretively demolished part of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, treating it as his own. That metaphor may become more potent yet. Recent events suggest that the gaping hole where the East Wing once was may lie there exposed, undeveloped, and contested for quite some time.
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fromAxios
8 hours ago

More Epstein files coming soon, DOJ says, a month past deadline

DOJ deployed hundreds to review millions of files, including audio and video, to limit victim-identifying information and will update its Epstein Library.
fromwww.housingwire.com
2 hours ago

Louisville, Ky., joins municipalities piloting AI to fast-track permits

Earlier this month, the City of Louisville, Ky., announced a partnership with Govstream.ai, a technology company that utilizes AI to speed up the permitting process, reflecting a broader national push to utilize AI to accelerate permitting and approvals. Municipalities are increasingly under pressure from their constituents and the federal government to streamline residential development amid a national housing affordability crisis.
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