JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

Thank you @wyden.senate.gov for not mincing words

We cannot wait for the markets or the midterms.

Sinclair folds. Nexstar still holding out. If you’re in a Nexstar (ABC) market, watch their local news broadcast, take note of the advertisers and call them!

this most "this could have been an email" thing i've ever heard

Appalling, appalling video. I genuinely think the NYPD should investigate for assault. There was no call at all for level of violence. She perhaps brushed him with her hands but she was not posing a threat at all.

“You don’t call GOFOs leading their people and the global force into an auditorium outside D.C. and not tell them why/what the topic or agenda is,” this person added, using an abbreviation for general officer or flag officer. 🤔

Nominee for Asst Sec of State for International Organizations…

My review of Peter Sparding’s excellent recent book is up at Australian Outlook: www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

Bloch your calendars

Hours after we sent a letter signed by over 450 artists and 40K others defending free speech, ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel will return to air. Other companies should heed this warning: We the people are watching.

Friends in the Bay Area, I'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us, at my alma mater UC Berkeley this week. Join us at 3:30pm this Wednesday, 9/24, details below. Sincere gratitude to the Department of Geography for hosting! events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/3...

Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson. If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ shut down an FBI probe after agents caught Border Czar Tom Homan on tape taking $50,000 in cash from undercover operatives posing as contractors in exchange for promised gov’t contracts. MSNBC’s Carol Leonnig & Ken Dilanian with a massive scoop. Link in reply.

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

🚨New Pod!!🚨Sam Moyn and I kick off a new season of Digging a Hole by talking with the great Bob Bauer about the law and politics of executive power podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

New flavor just dropped: “Gleichgestaltet” www.kqed.org/arts/1398143...

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

This is a very important point. We need principles, we need proportionality, we need Disney to set an example here and maybe start the tide turning in another direction.

Just takes 30 seconds! If you want a cut-and-paste message: “I have cancelled my Hulu and Disney+ subscriptions because of your unprecedented attack on free speech, and am urging my friends and family to do the same.” Link: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

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An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

“Kirk spent much of his adult life defending and articulating a worldview aligned with Trump and the Maga movement. Accountable to no one but his audience, he did not shy away in his rhetoric from bigotry, intolerance, exclusion and stereotyping.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chilling.

Superb, highly recommend.

A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is a really smart piece which draws some strong inferences about the deteriorating condition of the federal Union. As a historian of the Articles of Confederation (my first book), I have wondered if its model of governance might be a better option for us now. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Together, Texans built one of the finest systems of higher education in the world. Ideologues and opportunists are tearing it down. It is a despicable act of generational vandalism that will hurt all Texans, their children, their grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren.

Heighten the contradictions, please!

Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing rebuke Monday in response to the Supreme Court's ruling permitting immigration stops in Los Angeles: https://bit.ly/4n27HUU

Good thread @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social —will follow for more

RFK, Jr. is a disgrace to the Oxford Cloth Button Down.

Rancid, racist and, un-American drivel.

The WSJ says the Trump crypto scam is now worth more than the family’s real estate portfolio.

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Fox News won't ask this, of course, but the next question for anyone else should be, "Ok, then I assume you support government-funded mental health programs with easy access for Americans all across the country to end this scourge of violence?"

NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.

Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.

Gaza City has ~1.2 million residents. That's almost the same population as Dallas. Please stop and consider what it would take to evacuate THE ENTIRE CITY OF DALLAS, TEXAS—then imagine doing it after two years of war, while people are starving.

This wasn’t overperformance in a sleepy special election of little significance. It breaks a Repub supermajority, which means R Gov Reynolds can no longer appoint judges & other positions w only R support. Both parties took the race seriously & the Dem overperformed Harris by 22 points. 22 points!

Fear

The coalition of UC unions condemns Trump’s attacks on the University of California. Read more: ucaft.org/news/the-coa... @calnurses.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @aaup.org @uaw4811.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social

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