Feds Tell Faith Leaders ‘No More Prayer’ Outside Broadview Facility  —  BROADVIEW - Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.

Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave?  —  Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, in exchange for vague assurances of a vote …

Why the Most Vulnerable Senate Democrat Hasn't Flipped in the Shutdown Standoff  —  Georgia's Jon Ossoff is holding firm on fixing expiring healthcare subsidies as he rebuffs Republican demands  —  Senate Republicans need a handful of Democrats to vote with them to reopen the government.

Sources: Trump wants Commanders' new D.C. stadium named for him  —  President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN.  —  A senior White House source said there have been …

A closer look at Trump's apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office  —  A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that the president spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at a recent event.  —  Just now

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy  —  The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich.  —  With little public scrutiny …

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison  —  They said they were shackled, beaten, shot with rubber bullets and tear gassed until they passed out.  —  They said they were punished in a dark room called the island, where they were trampled, kicked and forced to kneel for hours.

Don Moynihan on “Purge, Merge, and Surge”  —  “Instead of surging in Iraq, it's happening here in American cities.”  —  ∙ Paid … Old friend of the newsletter Don Moynihan recently wrote a piece that develops a helpful framework for understanding the Trump administration's plan to subjugate American cities.

Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do  —  I have great news for President Trump!  —  He has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there, and the Pentagon has obligingly prepared plans for attack.

Portland Deployment of National Guard Wasn't Justified, Judge Rules  —  A district court judge blocked the Trump administration from sending in troops, finding the order overstepped the president's authority  —  A district court judge has blocked the Trump administration's effort …

Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback  —  After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, conspiracy theories abounded  —  The morning after Zohran Mamdani won New York's mayoral election, someone spraypainted swastikas on a Syrian Jewish yeshiva's windows and walls.

Rebels Post Videos of Mass Killings in Darfur as the World Watches  —  After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.  —  On October 27th, a video went out over social media that showed at least nine men sitting slumped in a row beside a dirt track …

Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was ‘aware’ of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani  —  Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking out about the incident, which happened Friday morning, calling it another example of President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem …

Venezuelans begin fleeing U.S. as protections end and threat of war looms  —  TPS expired for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans on Friday.  Many are shuttering business, selling homes and boarding planes, or scrambling to find a way to stay.  —  Carlos Rodríguez had finally begun to feel at home in the United States.

Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts on Instagram  —  James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.

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