Jasmine Crockett on Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Democratic Party

Jasmine Crockett on Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Democratic Party

  Politico: For liberals who lament the Democratic Party’s ongoing struggle to break through with their messaging, the emergence of Rep. Jasmine Crockett represents a rare jolt of good news. Here, finally, is a Democrat who’s eager to tangle with Republicans on Capitol Hill and gets plenty of media attention for doing it. Someone who gets invited onto Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show to talk about President Donald Trump and his cognitive tests. And Crockett is game. Now, not every member…

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Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes

Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes

Will Sommer writes: Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes on Monday, sitting politely as Fuentes criticized the power of “organized Jewry in America.” The right-wing internet has been in turmoil ever since. Suddenly, nothing—including the racism, Holocaust denialism, and antisemitism Fuentes has championed—seems to be too hot for MAGA media to embrace. That amounts to a catastrophe for more traditional conservative media figures. Breitbart’s Joel Pollak declared that the claims Fuentes made that Carlson left unchallenged amounted to…

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Why immigrants are more creative than people who never live abroad

Why immigrants are more creative than people who never live abroad

Keith Sawyer writes: Why do so many great ideas seem to come from people far from home? I’ve long been fascinated by how creativity crosses borders. Immigrants, research shows, are statistically more likely to generate exceptionally creative works. Indeed, there’s a long list of immigrant geniuses: W. H. Auden, Vladimir Nabokov, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein. The list could go on and on. Of course, anecdotes only take us so far. What does the data say? In…

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Political prosecution of Kat Abughazaleh: ‘Today it’s Kat. Tomorrow it could be any one of us’

Political prosecution of Kat Abughazaleh: ‘Today it’s Kat. Tomorrow it could be any one of us’

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win. pic.twitter.com/szOSZa1h3z — Kat Abughazaleh (@KatAbughazaleh) October 29, 2025 Evanston Now reports: The indictment charges all six individuals, including an Oak Park trustee, a Democratic committeeperson from Chicago and a Cook County Board candidate, with impeding a federal officer stemming from the Sept. 26 incident….

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Bunkered: Stephen Miller and other top Trump officials move onto military bases and hide from the public

Bunkered: Stephen Miller and other top Trump officials move onto military bases and hide from the public

The Atlantic reports: The former White House adviser Katie Miller—mother of three young children, and wife of the presidential right-hand man Stephen—walked out of her front door one Thursday morning last month and was confronted by a woman she did not know. When she told this story on Fox News, she described the encounter as a protest that crossed a line. The stranger had told Miller: “I’m watching you,” she said. This was the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It…

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Wajahat Ali talks to Mike Madrid: Trump voters are turning and the MAGA collapse has begun

Wajahat Ali talks to Mike Madrid: Trump voters are turning and the MAGA collapse has begun

  Something is shifting inside the MAGA movement, and it’s not good news for Donald Trump. New polls reveal a growing number of Trump voters are losing faith, raising questions about whether his once-iron grip on the Republican base is starting to break. In this video, Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid and I do a deep dive into the latest data and voter sentiment to uncover what’s really happening inside the MAGA world — and what it could mean for…

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ICE wants Texas to become the backbone of a private industrialized deportation machine

ICE wants Texas to become the backbone of a private industrialized deportation machine

Wired reports: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is exploring plans to launch a privately-run, statewide transportation system in Texas. The agency envisions a nonstop operation, funneling immigrants detained in 254 counties into ICE facilities and staging locations across the state. Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants…

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Paul Newby has turned North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of far-reaching political power

Paul Newby has turned North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of far-reaching political power

By Doug Bock Clark This story was originally published by ProPublica In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office.  The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the swing state. Over Newby’s vehement dissent, it had ordered independent outsiders to redraw electoral maps that the GOP-controlled legislature had crafted to…

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Retired law enforcement officer jailed five weeks for reposting a Facebook meme is freed in Tennessee

Retired law enforcement officer jailed five weeks for reposting a Facebook meme is freed in Tennessee

The Intercept reports: More than a month after he was arrested for sharing a meme on Facebook, 61-year-old Larry Bushart Jr. walked out of the Perry County jail in Linden, Tennessee, on Wednesday, where his wife was waiting to take him home. He wore a weary smile and the same white T-shirt he had on the night he was jailed. A reporter from a local news station, which had previously splashed his mugshot on its website, approached for an interview….

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Chimpanzees can revise their beliefs in the light of new evidence, study finds

Chimpanzees can revise their beliefs in the light of new evidence, study finds

Science Alert reports: Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking that was once considered uniquely human. In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these fascinating apes, psychologist Hanna Schleihauf of Utrecht University and her colleagues observed, for the first time, how chimpanzees can weigh different kinds of evidence – and change their beliefs in response to a stronger argument. “This is really the…

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‘Militarized police force’: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

‘Militarized police force’: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

The Guardian reports: A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian. The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the Pentagon’s national guard bureau, sets thresholds for the size…

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ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, say lawmakers

ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, say lawmakers

Ars Technica reports: Social media videos have confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers patrolling US streets are actively using facial recognition technology to verify citizenship, 404 Media reported. In one video posted on a Chicago-based Instagram account, a self-described teenager and US citizen tells officers that he has no government ID. After he offers to show his student ID instead, the officer turns to another and asks, “can you do facial?” As…

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ICE agent assaults woman who asked if he’s a good Christian

ICE agent assaults woman who asked if he’s a good Christian

  HuffPost reports: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers forcibly detained a father and his two children in southwest Colorado on Monday while they were on their way to middle school, sparking a mass protest outside the agency’s Durango field office in an effort to get the kids released back to their mom. Video from the protest outside the facility shows masked and unidentified federal officers tear-gassing protesters on Tuesday afternoon as they stood in the street and attempted to…

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FBI says Gabbard counterintelligence push would cause ‘long-lasting damage to the U.S. national security’

FBI says Gabbard counterintelligence push would cause ‘long-lasting damage to the U.S. national security’

The New York Times reports: The F.B.I. informed Congress last week that it “strongly” opposed a proposal to make the Office of the Director of National Intelligence the lead counterintelligence agency for the federal government, bringing into public view a rift among top national security officials. The disclosure, made in a pointed and unusual letter obtained by The New York Times, underscored the broader concern at other agencies, including the F.B.I., over a House bill that would empower Tulsi Gabbard,…

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