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Opinion by Elie Mystal

In a little-covered speech, the Supreme Court justice explained how he thinks the court should reverse rulings conservatives don’t like.

In an interview at Catholic University last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said what he’s clearly been thinking for the past 30 years: Supreme Court precedents don’t matter, and he’s making things up as he goes along to fulfill his own political agenda.

He didn’t say it in that way, of course. People would have noticed that. Instead, he couched his self-serving philosophy in legal jargon that will fly under the radar of most people, including journalists. Here’s what he said: “At some point we need to think about what we’re doing with stare decisis.… [I]t’s not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say ‘stare decisis’ and not think, turn off the brain, right?”

To translate: “Stare decisis” is a foundational legal principle in this country and all countries that follow a “common law” system. What it means, in simple terms, is that prior judicial rulings govern future judicial rulings. If a court rules, for instance, that “gay people have the same basic rights as everyone else in this country, including the right to marry other people,” then that ruling is supposed to govern all future cases concerning the rights of gay people.
Story by Jacqueline Sweet and Marisa Kabas

This article is a joint production of Slate and the Handbasket.

Jack Posobiec is very concerned about voter fraud. An influential MAGA voice and prominent conspiracy theorist, he’s perhaps best known for amplifying the 2016 “Pizzagate” conspiracy, which culminated in a man firing a gun in a D.C. pizza restaurant. In the years since, Posobiec has loudly espoused a range of debunked conspiracy theories. That includes the GOP theory—once semi-fringe and now thoroughly MAGA mainstreamed—that Democrats have won elections via millions of fraudulent votes. The Republican National Committee last fall enlisted him to speak to poll watchers about election security. Posobiec is particularly focused on Pennsylvania, repeatedly accusing the state’s Democratic officials of fraud, even spreading conspiracy theories that were followed by an RNC lawsuit.

The focus on voter fraud in Pennsylvania is particularly ironic because it sure looks like, and a trail of documentation suggests, that Posobiec is living in Maryland but voting in Pennsylvania. If so, that would be a violation of voting laws, experts say.

The 40-year-old Posobiec has voted in Pennsylvania elections from 2004 to 2024, both in person and by mail, according to a copy of his voting record viewed by Slate and the Handbasket. Until 2016, Posobiec used military and civilian overseas ballots. After resigning from his job as a Navy Reserve intelligence officer in 2017, he remained in Maryland while becoming a full-time influencer and political activist with groups such as Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. He continued voting in Pennsylvania via absentee ballots and, later, in-person on-demand mail voting, using his parents’ home address in 2018, 2022, and 2024, according to an official copy of his voter information file from Montgomery County obtained through a right-to-know request.

There’s nothing untoward about any of that, provided Posobiec actually lives in Pennsylvania. But the evidence is extremely strong that he doesn’t. Instead, it suggests that, despite growing up in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Posobiec has lived in Maryland for almost a decade.

In a 2017 divorce complaint from his first wife, Posobiec listed a Maryland apartment as his address. Both he and his current wife, Tanya, have posted on their personal social media accounts photos of the suburban Maryland home they appear to have resided in since 2018. Tanya often calls the house “home”—at least five times, according to our review—and shows many milestones of family life there. She also lists her location as the District of Columbia on Facebook and enrolls in family crafts and lessons in the area, according to her social media posts. She registered to vote at their Maryland address on Election Day 2020. (Posobiec voted that year in person in Pennsylvania.)
By  STAN CHOE

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is hanging near its records on Monday, as technology stocks keep rising.

The S&P 500 rose 0.3%, coming off its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 17 points, or less than 0.1%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% higher.

Advanced Micro Devices soared 32.6% to help lead the market after announcing a deal where OpenAI will use its chips to power artificial-intelligence infrastructure. As part of the deal, OpenAI could own up to 160 million shares of AMD if it hits certain milestones.

A frenzy around AI has been one of the main reasons Wall Street has been hitting record after record, though that’s also raising worries that prices have potentially shot too high. Much of the furor around AI in the last couple weeks has come from OpenAI, which has quickly become a $500 billion company, announcing deals with businesses around the world to develop more AI infrastructure.

Another chip company, Nvidia, announced a deal last month where it would invest $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a partnership, creating criticism that the AI investment pipeline was beginning to appear like a circle. Nvidia fell 1.5% following the AMD announcement.
The Supreme Court did not explain its decision.
By Devin Dwyer

The Supreme Court has declined to take up the appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was contesting her prosecution and conviction on grounds that the government had violated a non-prosecution agreement made with Jeffrey Epstein before his death.

The Supreme Court did not explain its decision.
Heard on Morning Edition
Nina Totenberg

The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term Monday, which promises to be hugely consequential and focused in large part on how much power the Constitution gives to the president.

Among the issues already on the court's docket: a case that could end what's left of the landmark Voting Rights Act; a case that could do away with one of the few remaining laws that limits campaign fundraising; a challenge to the Trump tariffs; a challenge to his firing of independent  agency commissioners before their fixed terms are completed; and much much more.

Indeed, coming soon is likely to be the unanswered question from last term: Did President Trump exceed his authority when he issued an executive order barring a constitutional provision that guarantees automatic citizenship for every child born in the United States.

Record-breaking eight months
Since Trump took office for a second term, the conservative court's 6-to-3 majority has been rocking the boat big time.  In just eight months, it has broken all records for granting a president's wishes on the "emergency docket."

By the end of last week, the court had granted 20 of Trump's requests  to block lower court orders opposed by the administration. In contrast, the court ruled against  the administration in these emergency cases just three times.
Historically, government shutdowns have led to furloughs, not mass layoffs—until the Trump administration introduced a different approach.

By Andrea Shalal and Leah Douglas

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The Trump administration will start mass layoffs of federal workers if President Donald Trump decides negotiations with congressional Democrats to end a partial government shutdown are "absolutely going nowhere," a senior White House official said on Sunday.
As the shutdown entered its fifth day, White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNN's "State of the Union" program he still saw a chance that Democrats would back down, averting a costly shutdown and federal employee layoffs that have been threatened by White House budget director Russell Vought.

"President Trump and Russ Vought are lining things up and getting ready to act if they have to, but hoping that they don't," Hassett said.
Later on Sunday, Trump was asked by reporters when the administration would begin laying off federal workers. Trump responded, without elaborating: "It's taking place right now."
The White House's Office of Management and Budget, which has played a key role in Trump's campaign to sharply scale back the size of the federal government, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NO SIGN OF TALKS
No tangible signs of negotiations have emerged between congressional leaders since Trump met with them last week. The shutdown began on October 1, the start of federal fiscal 2026, after Senate Democrats rejected a short-term funding measure that would keep federal agencies open through November 21.
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"They've refused to talk with us," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer told CBS' "Face the Nation" program, saying the impasse could be solved only by further talks between Trump and the four congressional leaders.

Democrats are demanding a permanent extension of enhanced premium tax credits to help Americans purchase private health insurance through the Affordable Care Act and assurances that the White House will not try to unilaterally cancel spending agreed to in any deal.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said he is willing to address Democrats' concerns but that they must first agree to reopen the federal government.
Trump also expressed an interest in the healthcare question while emphasizing Republican interests in reforming the ACA, also known as Obamacare.
"We want to fix it so it works. Obamacare has been a disaster for the people, so we want to have it fixed so it works," the president said.
By Melody Gutierrez and Daniel Miller

Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to seek a court order to stop President Trump from deploying 300 of the state’s National Guard troops in Oregon, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on Sunday night.

Officials from California and Oregon sought the restraining order after the president sent California Guard troops to Oregon earlier on Sunday.

“The rule of law has prevailed — and California’s National Guard will be heading home,” Newsom said in a statement. “This ruling is more than a legal victory, it’s a victory for American democracy itself. Donald Trump tried to turn our soldiers into instruments of his political will, and while our fight continues, tonight the rule of law said, ‘Hell no.’”
Opinion by D. Earl Stephens

We are just a few days removed from the most toxic, anti-American speech ever given by a sitting President of the United States, and I am not letting it go.

And neither should you.

While addressing a gathering of military leadership from across the globe at Marine Corp Base Quantico in Northern Virginia Tuesday, the vile, America-attacking Donald Trump called on our generals and admirals to “… use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” so that he can attack us again.

There’s no sense being cute about it, or trying to sanitize it. The President of the United States is intent on using our military against us. And because I am one of the few in media — or the Democratic or Republican Party for that matter — who refuse to just merrily skip to the next Trump-made catastrophe, I want to repeat this again, until everybody hears it and understands it:

NOTHING Trump does with our military will be to protect the citizens of the United States of America. EVERYTHING Trump does with our military will be to protect himself from the citizens of the United States of America.

By words and by deed it is clear as day that Trump has absolutely no respect for the country he violently assaulted, nor our men and women who wear the uniform, because like any authoritarian leader he sees them as servants to him, and not our country.

And just so there was no misunderstanding about his objectives, Trump went on to say that the people who protest against him in America and disagree with his policies are, “The enemy within.”

Can you please read that again?
Story by Will Neal

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has eviscerated Donald Trump over his push to deploy military forces into Democratic-run cities across the country.

“This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States,” he wrote on X Monday. “America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.”

Newsom was replying to another post from his Democratic gubernatorial colleague in Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, sounding the alarm after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized the deployment of 400 Texas National Guard troops to locations in Illinois, Oregon, and other Blue states where protests are being staged against the MAGA administration’s immigration crackdown.

A judge ruled twice over the weekend against the MAGA administration’s efforts to send troops into Portland to “protect” immigration detention facilities from “domestic terrorists,” a threat Trump’s critics have described as “pure fiction.” The president has appealed that decision.
Story by Janna Brancolini

A judge appointed by President Donald Trump blocked his latest blue-city takeover for the second time in as many days after a contentious emergency hearing.

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut said during an at-times contentious Sunday night telephone hearing that the administration appeared to have deliberately violated her ruling temporarily halting the deployment of Oregon National Guard troops to Portland.

After the first ruling, Trump pivoted and ordered hundreds of members of the Texas and California National Guard to deploy to Oregon, forcing Immergut to issue a second injunction blocking deployment of any “federalized members of the National Guard” to the state.

The judge, who was appointed by Trump in 2019, seemed incredulous that the government would send troops from other states just hours after her ruling, considering the constitutional principles are the same regardless of which state they come from, the Associated Press reported.

“How could bringing in federalized National Guard from California not be in direct contravention to the temporary restraining order I issued yesterday?” she questioned the federal government’s attorney, cutting him off.
What happened to free speech?

Story by Ted Johnson

Donald Trump once again called for an FCC investigation of a television network over their news coverage, this time over MSNBC’s continued employment of Al Sharpton.

On Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I knew Al Sharpton for many years, not that it matters, but he was a major ‘TRUMP’ fan. He'd ask me to go to his fake Rallies all the time, because I brought BIG Crowds, and he couldn't get anybody to come without me. Then he did the Tawana Brawley Hoax, one of the worst Low Level Scams in History, and that set him back, BIG TIME! Then he got to know Brian Roberts, Chairman of Fake News NBC, who gave him what would become one of the Lowest Rated Shows in Television History. Roberts is afraid to take him off because it wouldn't be ‘Politically Correct.’ This is just one of the many reasons that the Federal Communications Commission should look into the license of NBC, which shows almost exclusively positive Democrat content. Likewise, ABC Fake News - About the same thing, 97% negative to Republicans!”
Story by Mary Spiller

Actor Tyrese Gibson is facing legal trouble after authorities issued an arrest warrant on Sept. 22, following reports that his dogs were involved in a deadly attack in his Atlanta neighborhood.

According to Fulton County officials, Gibson's four Cane Corsos were allegedly roaming freely through the upscale Tuxedo Court area in Buckhead on Sept 18 when they fatally mauled a neighbor's 5-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel.

The spaniel's owner, Harrison Parker, described the heartbreaking scene to Good Morning America.

"The pack of those four dogs were there minutes before I found Henry’s body," Parker said. "And there was absolutely no cars, no humans, just the dogs. And he was dead. And the fact he died like that alone in the darkness at night and I wasn’t there… it’s just horrible."

Parker added that he hopes "justice is fully served" following the Gibson incident.
Daniel Gala

Across the five companies he runs and even in his brief foray into government with the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk has a well-earned reputation for being a demanding boss. While this trait has helped him build a business empire that spans multiple industries and amass vast personal wealth, it seems that many of those working for him have had enough.

In a detailed report based on conversations with more than a dozen current and former Musk employees, the Financial Times highlighted the massive turnover that has been taking place among the top ranks across all of Musk's companies.

What's happening?
According to the Forbes Billionaires List, Musk is the wealthiest human on Earth, with a personal fortune of nearly $500 billion. However, the same drive and intense focus that led him to that level of financial success can also make him very challenging to work for.

Add in Musk's increasingly controversial political stances, and many employees, both relatively new hires and long-term workers, have decided to take their talents elsewhere.
By Alayna Treene, Bryan Mena

Washington — American farmers are having a tough year, in no small part because of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Now, the White House is gearing up to extend them a multi-billion-dollar bailout, sources tell CNN.

Surging costs and foreign retaliation from tariffs have hurt the US agriculture industry — as have immigration-related labor shortages and plummeting commodity prices. Farm production expenses are estimated to reach $467.4 billion in 2025, according to the Agriculture Department, up $12 billion from last year.

Farm bankruptcies rose in the first half of the year to the highest level since 2021, according to US courts data.

Trump’s policies have exacerbated those woes, from the deportation of the industry’s key migrant workforce to renewed trade tensions between the United States and China. And for traditional American crops, such as soybeans, the situation has grown particularly precarious.

“There’s no doubt that the farm economy is in a significant challenge right now, especially our row croppers,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters Tuesday. “So not just soybeans, although I think they’re probably the top of the list, but corn, wheat, sorghum, cotton, et cetera.”

Indeed, the US soybean industry has become the poster child of the farm economy’s plight in the first year of Trump’s second term. The president recognizes these problems, White House officials tells CNN, and has increased pressure on his administration to address them urgently.
Story by Cameron Adams

President Donald Trump spent his Sunday night bombarding his Truth Social followers with random conspiracy theory videos.

In a flurry of 12 reposts in under 15 minutes, the president promoted several divisive topics, including migration, the racially driven “great replacement theory,” and Islam.

Trump, 79, also shared a video that called for the imprisonment of Democrat Adam Schiff.

The president’s rapid posting spree began with the federal takeover of Chicago.

“Border Patrol will take no nonsense!” Trump wrote, as he began to share a series of videos of troops in downtown Chicago.

But things quickly took a sudden turn. As part of his Truth Social binge, Trump also shared a video posted by a MAGA supporter surrounding the great replacement theory.

The theory, which has been debunked, dates back to the late 19th century and argues that some Western elites are conspiring to replace white Americans with Asians and Africans in particular.

In the video shared by Trump, captioned, “The Great Replacement is no longer conspiracy theory!” the president highlighted a Newsmax segment from April tapping into the MAGA narrative that Democrats allowed migrants to enter the U.S. to vote in the 2024 election. The video claimed that over two million non-citizens were given Social Security numbers.
Story by Sarah K. Burris

Two immigrants were sitting in Rogers Park, Chicago, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived and demanded their papers. What unfolded was detailed by the Chicago Tribune: Rueben Antonio Cruz, a 60-year-old legal U.S. resident, was ordered to stand up, shoved into an ICE vehicle, and interrogated as agents drove around the neighborhood.

Federal law requires legal residents and green card holders to carry their documentation at all times. While some states have "show me your papers" laws that allow local police to demand proof of residency, Illinois does not.

Cruz explained that his papers were at home. ICE agents pressed him for more information, asking about his parents and birthplace. Cruz responded that his parents had died.

Ultimately, agents verified his legal status in their database but still issued him a $130 fine for not having his documentation at the time.
Brad Reed, Common Dreams

Just hours after President Donald Trump said U.S. soldiers should use America's cities as “training grounds,” federal law enforcement officials on Tuesday night descended upon an apartment complex in Chicago where witnesses say they broke down residents’ doors, smashed furniture and belongings, and dragged dozens of them — including children — into U-Haul vans.

Local resident Rodrick Johnson, who lives in the building raided by Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) agents, told the Chicago Sun-Times that federal officials broke down his door, put him in zip ties, and kept him detained outside the building for three hours before letting him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” he told the paper. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

Pertissue Fisher, who also lives in the building, backed up Johnson’s account and said that agents forcibly removed all residents from their homes regardless of their legal status.

“They just treated us like we were nothing,” she told local news station ABC 7 Chicago. “They, like, piling us all up in the back on the other side, and it wasn’t no room to move nowhere.”

Ebony Sweets Watson, who lives across the street from the raided building, told the Chicago Sun-Times that she saw children, some of whom weren’t even wearing clothes, dragged out of the building by ICE agents and then placed into U-Haul vans.
Story by Lesley Abravanel

In an exclusive story, Politico got access to thousands of private messages revealing young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers and slavery, among other "insensitive and inexcusable" topics.

The chats took place on theTelegram app, Politico reports. In them, they "referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers."

Kansas Young Republicans vice chair William Hendrix, former vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans Bobby Walker and Chairman of the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs Peter Giunta were among the Republican leaders named in the report.

“Can we fix the showers?” Joe Maligno, who previously identified himself as the general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans, replied.

“I’m ready to watch people burn now,” Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committeewoman, said.
Story by Andrew Feinberg

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he’d have no problem with erecting a massive statue honoring Robert E. Lee, the Civil War general who led the South in rebellion against the United States to try and preserve the enslavement of Black people — within sight of the Lincoln Memorial.

Trump made the remarks to a group of wealthy executives and donors who are contributing to the planned White House ballroom at a fundraising dinner in the State Dining Room as he also touted his plans for a grand Arc de Triomphe-style monument.

He also suggested that the ballroom fund contributors would largely agree with him about the statue to honor the icon of the Confederacy.

The president’s comments came during a long, meandering speech to the dinner attendees at a point when he was discussing his idea to erect a triumphal arch on a traffic circle in Virginia at the southern end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.

As he pointed to the bridge and the traffic circle, he noted it has a number of columns on it and suggested that a space left between the columns was left empty due to the Civil War — which had ended a full half-century before the bridge opened. He also said there’d been a plan for a statue of Lee on the circle as early as 1902.
Story by Connor Greene

For months, the White House and federal agencies have drawn outrage from critics for social media posts promoting President Trump’s immigration agenda. Some of the posts deploy jokes or memes. Others use language or images seen as racist dog whistles. This week, the Department of Homeland Security drew pushback for a post that was just one word: remigrate.

The term, which has been embraced among Trump’s MAGA base, has a fraught history in Europe, where it has ties to white nationalism and has been seen as a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.

The short post on X was followed by a link to a government site promoting self-deportation.

Where “remigration” came from
The term “remigration” has traditionally been used in Europe to refer to the mass deportation of non-white immigrants. It has been used by right-winged politicians such as Austria’s Herbert Kickl and Germany’s Alice Weidel of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The term has also been popularized by the Austrian, millennial far-right influencer Martin Sellner.

“In Europe, it's an established part of the linguistic toolbox of white supremacy,” Nicholas J. Cull, a professor of communication at the University of Southern California, tells TIME.

The use of the term in Germany and Austria has been a trademark of recent anti-immigration campaigns. Protests across Germany were sparked last year after it was alleged that AfD party members and far-right Austrians were plotting to deport thousands of migrants, causing mass pro-democracy demonstrations.
The former New York congressman had been sentenced to seven years in prison. In a social media post, Trump said his commutation would release Santos from prison "immediately." George Conway, president of Society for the Rule of Law, and Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible, join The Weeknight to respond.
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton surrendered to authorities after being indicted on 18 counts of mishandling classified information. He denies all the charges. The case marks a major escalation in his years-long feud with President Trump and is the latest in a series of federal indictments involving prominent Trump critics. MSNBC Justice and Intelligence Correspondent Ken Dilanian and MSNBC Legal Correspondent Lisa Rubin report the legal charges. MSNBC Legal Analyst Charles Coleman and former FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Feinberg join Erielle Reshef to weigh in.
The wider U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean Sea comes as strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels continue. CBS News' Eleanor Watson has more.
Story by Leigh Kimmins

Donald Trump has refiled his $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times after a federal judge shredded his original filing for being too long, too repetitive, and too self-congratulatory. President Trump submitted a new 40-page amended complaint in Florida federal court, following U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday’s Sept. 19 order to slash the original 85-page claim.

The revised complaint drops one reporter, Michael S. Schmidt, but keeps three others, The New York Times, and Penguin Random House in the frame for the $15 billion. Merryday gave the president 28 days to try again—and made clear what he thought of the first attempt.

“Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes 85 pages,” the judge wrote in last month’s ruling. “Count one appears on page 80, and count two appears on page 83 … Even under the most generous and lenient application of rule 8, the complaint is decidedly improper and impermissible.”
By Stefan Becket, Caitlin Yilek, Melissa Quinn

What to know on Day 17 of the government shutdown:
The government shutdown is on Day 17 with no end in sight, after senators failed for the 10th time to resolve the impasse in votes on Thursday.
The shutdown is now the third-longest funding lapse in modern history, eclipsed only by the shutdowns of 1995 and 2018-19. Shutdowns are a relatively recent phenomenon, having only begun in their current form in 1980.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune sent the upper chamber home for the weekend after Thursday's votes, meaning the funding lapse will continue until at least Monday. The House has been out of session since Sept. 19 with no plans to return until the shutdown is over.
Story by David McAfee

A Los Angeles "No Kings" protester told MSNBC on Saturday that she and her parents were discriminated against by Donald Trump's family when they tried to rent property in New York years ago.

Trump was accused of bias in renting to Black people in connection with the rentals from his father, Fred Trump, in the 1960s, according to the New York Times. That old story got new life over the weekend, when a MSNBC reporter attended a "No Kings" protest in L.A.

The subject was only identified as Jamie from Rancho Cucamonga, and, when asked why she was there, she said, "Because my daughter's future depends on me coming out here like my mother walked for Martin Luther King. She marched, she walked. And I'm here in honor of her. And in honor of my daughter."

When asked about potential parallels to the past, Jamie said, "My parents and I came out of Jim Crow."

"While I was at the end of it, we were the result of what happened in Jim Crow, because my parents, who came up from the south, they went into New York and we were discriminated against [by] Trump," she said. "He would not allow us as being Black people to live in his properties."
Story by Conrad Hoyt

A man is accused of shooting his mother after a late night argument in which she said he was "acting crazy," New Mexico authorities say.

Kevin Marin, 20, has been charged with aggravated battery against a family member and attempting to commit a felony of second-degree murder, Doña Ana County court records show.

The shooting occurred during the early hours on Monday morning.

The suspect and his mother are said to have been at their home near Santa Teresa Elementary in Santa Teresa — which borders Texas and is located just northwest of El Paso and the U.S.-Mexico border.
Story by Alex Galbraith

Bill Maher discussed the ongoing fallout around leaked Young Republican group chats on Friday, wondering whether or not the staffers caught praising Adolf Hitler represented the wider party.

During the “Overtime” segment of his HBO series “Real Time,” Maher threw the question to guests Mark Cuban and Andrew Ross Sorkin after getting in a crack at the parameters of the Republican youth movement.

“Young Republicans, they’re up to 40,” Maher said. “Obviously, we condemn [what they said]… how representative is it of Republicans as a whole?”

“You can’t just dismiss the fact that it happens a lot,” Cuban said. “It doesn’t take everybody to be racist for an organization to be racist.”

While Maher balked at painting the entire Republican Party with the same brush, he did admit that only one party seems to be welcoming of racist viewpoints.

“To be a Republican, we certainly shouldn’t say they are all racist,” he said. “But if you’re racist, you probably are a Republican.”
Story by Owen Scott

A vehicle from Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade was one of several hit by shrapnel during a military parade in California on Saturday.

The detonation took place above Interstate 5 in San Diego County, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom warning the Trump administration about the dangers of using live munitions during the Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary celebration.

Although no one was injured, the blast caused shrapnel to rain down, damaging several vehicles including the motorcycle belonging to Vance’s protection detail. According to a report by The New York Times, officers heard a sound similar to pebbles hitting the vehicles before noticing pieces of shrapnel as big as two inches long on the ground and a dent on their car.

After the explosion, Newsom tore into the government on social media in a post which included a photograph of the heavy artillery used in the military show.

“The shrapnel that hit CHP (California Highway Patrol) vehicles over the weekend from Trump and Vance’s military live-munitions demonstration came from this ordnance. It’s no small thing,” Newsom’s press office wrote on social media after the explosion. “This is what the White House thought was fine to fly over civilians on a major freeway.”
Posted byBy Yasmeen F.

ICE agents carrying out a federal immigration operation in Chicago ended up detaining a Black teenager for hours after the operation spilled into a Walgreens store where the teen was shopping with his family.

According to WLS, the operation began when federal agents began pursuing a car reportedly carrying two undocumented immigrants.

Surveillance footage shows a white truck chasing a red SUV around a residential neighborhood on the southeast side of the city. The pursuit reportedly lasted 30 minutes before the truck conducted a PIT maneuver on the SUV and collided with the vehicle.

During the demonstration, federal agents began searching for someone and took their search to a nearby Walgreens, where 19-year-old Warren King was shopping.

Yarelly Jimenez said she went into the store with her partner and her sister’s boyfriend, King, to record what was happening, according to PEOPLE. Masked agents can be seen searching the aisles as Jimenez shouted, “Get the f— out of here!”

Moments later, as she exited Walgreens, she captured King on the ground as a masked agent straddled him.

Cellphone video shows an agent sitting on top of King as Jimenez screams, “He’s a citizen! He’s a citizen!”

“You don’t know what’s going on, so get the f*** back!” the agent is heard shouting back.

King recalled the moments federal agents swarmed the store before directing their attention to him.
Story by Atlanta Black Star News

A California police officer accused of sending racist, homophobic texts that came to light in 2015 and embroiled his department in scandal will no longer be able to serve as a cop in the Golden State.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the California Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) permanently revoked the peace officer certification of former San Francisco police officer Michael Celis.

Celis was one of several of his police officers from the San Francisco Police Department who exchanged numerous messages containing racist sentiments and slurs aimed at Black, Hispanic, and gay people.

A federal fraud and conspiracy investigation into former police sergeant Ian Furminger yielded the discovery of thousands of texts that Furminger traded with other cops.

The group chat included multiple officers and civilians who belittled minority groups.

Several participants repeatedly used the phrase, “White power.”

One text read, “All n—s must (expletive) hang.”

Another message read, “Do you celebrate [Kwanzaa] at your school?” to which someone replied, “Yeah, we burn the cross on the field. Then we celebrate Whitemas.”
Posted By Jill Jordan Sieder

Two Alexandria, Louisiana, police officers deemed “bad apples” by the police chief were arrested by state police for malfeasance in office after allegedly using excessive force and violating other constitutional rights of citizens in three separate incidents in July caught on police bodycam vidqeo.

The former officers, Austin Butler, 38, and Dylan Tritle, 32, were put on administrative leave by Alexandria Police Chief Chad Gremillion immediately after the department’s internal reporting system flagged the incidents for review on July 29.

At a press briefing on Aug. 20, Gremillion and Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy expressed their disgust as they showed the police video and further described what happened in each violent encounter between the two cops and three people they physically abused in a 24-hour period beginning on July 27.

In the first incident captured on video, the officers arrived at a local extended-stay motel after responding to a disturbance call about a “resident” playing music too loudly. They knock on a door, and a Black man emerges, and after expressing some frustration, he complies with their request to gather his belongings and leave the motel.

As the man, with an armful of his stuff, carefully exits through the front door he lightly brushes against the officer who is standing in the doorway. A moment later that officer turns and roughly grabs the man in the hallway, causing him to drop all of his property. As he further assaults and cuffs the startled man, the officer accuses him of “battery.”
Story by Scarlett O'Toole

CNN descended into chaos as the hosts clashed when debating about whether Donald Trump is racist after the president shared a controversial AI video about Hakeem Jeffries.

Political commentator Keith Boykin appeared on CNN alongside journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon as they spoke about the president. "Donald Trump has a history of racism himself," Keith fumed, prompting Batya to shoot back, "No, that's not true."

Keith's eyes widened as he asked, "Are you kidding me?" Batya shook her head and Keith continued, "Donald Trump started his career with racism. In the 1970s, he was sued for housing discrimination. In 1989, he led a lynch mob against the Central Park Five. In the 1990s, he was sued by casino workers for racial discrimination."

In 1973, a federal lawsuit was brought against Trump and his company for alleged racial discrimination at Trump housing developments in New York. The case was settled two years later.

In regards to the Central Park Five, Trump famously took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times calling for the death penalty to be brought back. The ad didn't mention the Central Park Five, but it ran while intense debates were taking place about the incident.

In the 1990s, Trump's casinos faced numerous lawsuits, including one for unpaid debts. In 1990, a business analyst who made negative comments about the Trump Taj Mahal before it opened sued the now-president for defamation. Trump settled out of court.
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