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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Morgul Blade:
🎵 Neither Cross Nor Crown
#MorgulBlade
https://morgulblade.bandcamp.com/track/neither-cross-nor-crown
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uLseM0d8nhNTu8ESCHFsC

Among those who joined Jeff Merkly
on the Senate floor was
Cory Booker, who said:
“We are seeing a time now that if we do not ring the alarm bells,
more and more Americans will be hurt by a president
who is acting more like an authoritarian leader than a democratically elected executive.”
Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal likened Trump’s partial demolition of the White House East Wing
to layoffs and funding cuts he has ordered across the government.

Jeff Merkley wraps up marathon speech warning of 'authoritarian' rule (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/22/congress/jeff-merkley-marathon-speech-00619115
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p175#a251022p175

Sen. Jeff Merkley warns 'tyranny has arrived' in marathon floor speech protesting Trump (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jeff-merkley-marathon-floor-speech-protest-senate-trump-rcna239096
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p75#a251022p75

A meditation on miracles and near-death experiences
In Yale Divinity School’s latest “Quadcast,” religious historian Carlos Eire — author of the recent “They Flew: A History of the Impossible” — discusses evolving Protestant and Catholic views on miracles and other social phenomena.

Shooting by ICE officer in Los Angeles wounds a U.S. marshal
and a motorist
Both of the injured people were taken to a hospital, authorities said.
The marshal sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was in stable condition. Authorities did not disclose the condition of the motorist.
https://www.

Shooting by ICE officer in Los Angeles wounds motorist, U.S. marshal
Federal authorities said the driver had threatened officers with a vehicle while trying to flee an arrest.

Senator Merkley Rings 'the Alarm Bells' on Authoritarianism in Nearly 23-Hour Speech (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/senator-merkley-speech-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p4#a251023p4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Mark Lux:
🎵 on point
#MarkLux
https://open.spotify.com/track/59kHIvX9m7qOCFxB83gFyc

Democratic senator protests Trump's 'grave threats' in marathon overnight floor speech (Rashard Rose/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/jeff-merkley-senate-floor-speech
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p34#a251022p34

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say (Dorothy Sedovic/KKTV-TV)
https://www.kktv.com/2025/10/21/us-marshal-shot-during-immigration-enforcement-operation-la-reports-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p114#a251021p114