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South Burlington residents formed a human tunnel to rescue a three-year-old from an ICE raid without a warrant.

Michigan attack investigated as "targeted act" against Jewish community Police have promised additional security for Jewish facilities in the region.

The attack on a synagogue in Detroit's suburbs today is being investigated "as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community," an FBI official said.

White House mulls defunding civil rights election observer program that aims to protect minority voting rights, sources say The federal observer program sends neutral observers to monitor election sites to ensure voters don't experience discrimination at the polls.

The White House is reportedly considering defunding the federal election observer program that monitors polling sites for discrimination and intimidation. Created under the Voting Rights Act, the program sends neutral observers to protect minority voters at the ballot box.

Sen. John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act as Trump weighs endorsement Cornyn, who spent years defending the filibuster, is locked in a competitive GOP runoff in Texas against Ken Paxton, who has aligned with Trump on the issue.

After Cornyn and Paxton were forced into a runoff, I said we should watch just how far Senator Cornyn is willing to put his head up trump's ass for his endorsement. Now he's flipping on the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act and disenfranchise millions of voters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social (or whoever's writing headlines for their op-eds), something to meditate upon...

oint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development January 07, 2026 Question: Do you agree with the Chair's recommendation to give the bill a favorable report? Favorable: 10 Bruce J. AyersHannah BowenRob ConsalvoDennis C. GallagherRyan M. HamiltonPaul McMurtryAdrianne Pusateri RamosKenneth P. SweezeyMark D. SylviaTommy Vitolo Adverse: 0 Reserve Right: 0 No Action: 1 Donald H. Wong

Why are Massachusetts Democrats advancing a right-wing bill filed by Republicans to create a subminimum wage for teenagers?

#mapoli

malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2...

(between images of a map showing the nearly 3,000 No Kings Day events planned for March 28) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.

We’re rapidly approaching 3,000 No Kings Day events, which means March 28 is going to be the biggest protest in US history. Let’s make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

When I was growing up, antisemitism was primarily in history books and black & white film reels. Today it was in real color right up the road at Temple Israel.

This is a fire that will take all of us to snuff out. We must stand up to the unacceptable rise in antisemitism.

You'll Never Guess Who's Winning the War With Iran YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff

There are few people in the world who have derived more benefit from our war with Iran than the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin.

We explain why:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usv0...

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GOVERNMENT’S MOTION TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT AS TO CATHERINE SHARP AND JOSELYN WALSH As the United States Attorney’s Office does in every case, the government has continued to evaluate new facts, evidence, and information to ensure that the interests of justice are served. Accordingly, the United States hereby moves to dismiss with prejudice the indictment against Catherine Sharp and Joselyn Walsh, in the interests of justice. Respectfully submitted, ANDREW S. BOUTROS United States Attorney

#BREAKING Federal prosecutors in Chicago drop charges against Catherine Sharp and Joselyn Walsh, two of the so-called "Broadview Six" ICE protesters who were indicted for conspiracy.

Gupta: Why is Dr. Casey Means not right for the role of Surgeon General?

First, she’s somebody who wraps herself in a white coat — she did a lot of that during her confirmation hearing — but she doesn’t actually practice medicine. In some ways it’s just false valor.

Meidas Health Urgent Warning About Trump's Surgeon General Pick Future Surgeon General? Dr. Vin Gupta Responds to the Casey Means Debate

Full video and more from MeidasTouch here:

www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-hea...

Those of us older than 40 remember the days when, if you left your house, you would probably come back smelling like an ashtray.

Those days are over!

Scientists studied nationally representative data and estimated less than 10% of U.S. adults smoked in 2024—the first time ever in single digits.

The Non-Profit Security Grant Program (NSGP) for 2025 has been released, including the FY 2025 Dept of Homeland Security Standard Terms and Conditions. No, our congregation will not comply with the administration's requirement to neglect DEI and to cooperate with ICE. We will not apply for funding that is supposed to protect us if it means sacrificing democratic principles. Such an agreement would not make Jews or anyone else safer. As Jewish Council for Public Affairs Director Amy Spitalnick teaches us: Jewish safety requires inclusive democracy and inclusive democracy requires Jewish safety.

Also, this administration has made synagogues less safe by adding requirements to federal security grants which many synagogues, including my own, will not compromise their values to make.

We will continue to love the stranger and extend kindness, for we were once strangers in the land of Egypt.

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

"... taken as a whole they show at least these members of DOGE are essentially unapologetic for what they did."

You know, shame gets a bad rap. I think we need to bring back shame. These guys need to live the rest of their lives, at absolute minimum, trying to hide or paper over what they did.

Far fewer Ohio women could vote if top election officer gets way | Opinion The chief reason Ohio's secretary of state supports the SAVE Act doesn't hold water.

Opinion
Far fewer Ohio women could vote if top election officer gets way
The SAVE acronym should stand for Suppress American Votes Everywhere.
by Richard Topper
www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Absolutely, yes and affirmative!!

It’s also in WaPo. The current head of SSA is claiming it’s not true but the exact words spoken to the whistleblower by the DOGE dude are quoted, including how ‘he’ll be pardoned by Trump’.

DOGE staffer had ‘God-level’ Social Security access, whistleblower says Members of Congress demand investigations after complaint alleges unprecedented breach of Americans’ data

USAID public servants lost our careers, pensions, and healthcare. Some lost their homes. Some lost their children’s tuition. Some colleagues died by suicide. Now we learn our Social Security numbers were stolen and exposed too.

Good one!

@martini24.bsky.social @michellespenc.bsky.social @murphyjencubs.bsky.social

BREAKING: A beer was thrown at President Trump during his press conference in Washington.
Trump was unharmed. Since the beer was a draft,... he was able to dodge it.

Defense Bar Leaders Decry Collapse of DOJ’s White Collar Focus A trio of veteran prosecutors-turned-Big Law partners blasted the state of the Justice Department’s independence and expertise at an opening panel of the American Bar Association’s annual white collar...

Major tone shift at ABA white collar conference boycotted by Trump DOJ: Big Law leaders took turns teeing off on diminished state of corporate enforcement & politicized prosecutions, as judges start trusting defense counsel more than gov't. My dispatch: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

This is terrible and unsurprising, but I'm sincerely confused about the framing that the Trump White House would in any way see any of it as a problem or a reason to regret an endorsement.

Ohio Dems put GOP elections chief on notice for handing voter data to Trump DOJ This isn’t the first time LaRose has danced to DOJ’s tune.

Ohio Democrats blasted the state’s top election official for handing the DOJ the private data of nearly 8 million Ohioans and warned they would fight back against his compliance.

The clash reflects a larger national battle over the department’s push to obtain states’ unredacted voter information.

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50
U.S.C. §§ 1541-1548) does not expire; it is federal black letter law.

Congress, figure out how to enforce this law.

Impeach, indict and remove this regime along, with all officials who have ceded their powers.
@schumer.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social