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Marco Rubio is the acting Archivist of the United States, as it happens

CDT’s Greg Nojeim in @404media.co: “The claim that these extreme initiatives [govt access to surveillance technology from private companies] were somehow authorized by voters are demonstrably false.”

China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Oh wow, if it’s been driving you a little mad in iOS 26 Safari that viewing all tabs requires 2 taps, you can switch to a less compact version with the button right there. Go to Preferences > Safari > Tabs

BIG: US law enforcement claims certain *emojis* could signal Tren de Aragua gang membership, leading to deportations, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained & shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @maanvisingh.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

On second thought, the complexity of questions around the wives of Henry VIII is making me really stressed out!multiple movie biopics have not prepped me for this.

So I am prepping for the Life in UK test and it seems like the historic significance of women in UK history is mostly being covered as the “wives of Henry VIII” or the birthdays of Elizabeth II.

If you want to solve a problem you have to define it, and to do that you need information, which is something congressional Democrats can do. New information also brings attention to things. Some members and their staffs are doing this; some are on tv a lot saying nothing.

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW (GIFT LINK) Colombian President Gustavo Petro tells The Post’s @schmidtsam.bsky.social that the Trump administration’s lethal boat strikes won't stop narcotrafficking, are “only for television” and amount to “murder” wapo.st/3IE4ATV

REQUEST: If anyone has the memo in question, pushing such prosecutions, apparently sent from a lawyer in Blanche's office to "U.S. attorney’s offices in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit and Maryland, among others," please send it my way. Signal: crg.32

Yes this really happened

Of all the weird fanfic-sounding rumors about elaborately impractical tacticool ICE and CBP and Guard operations over the last few weeks, the one about Border Patrol shipping boats here to parade up and down the Chicago River was among the last that I would have guessed to turn out real

Trump literally called for the termination of the Constitution in 2022 and said last week that speech criticizing him is illegal, but please tell us more about how "elite law professors" are the real threat to our constitutional rights www.foxnews.com/opinion/jona...

RTÉ News: 51 vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) that departed Barcelona 31 Aug., aiming to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, were attacked by drones last night. @sarahmaintains.bsky.social was on the Spectre which she was piloting as 4 projectiles fired from 3 drones hit it. @news.rte.ie

RTÉ News: 51 vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) that departed Barcelona 31 Aug., aiming to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, were attacked by drones last night. @sarahmaintains.bsky.social was on the Spectre which she was piloting as 4 projectiles fired from 3 drones hit it. @news.rte.ie

Sarah Clancy, Gaza Aid Flotilla: Last night, they came a concerted drone attack by 15–20 drones attacking over 3 hours targeting multiple boats including sails. Flash bangs and chemicals were dropped. There were no injuries. "We want to continue unencumbered. We want govts to act to protect us."

Sarah Clancy, Gaza Aid Flotilla: Last night, they came a concerted drone attack by 15–20 drones attacking over 3 hours targeting multiple boats including sails. Flash bangs and chemicals were dropped. There were no injuries. "We want to continue unencumbered. We want govts to act to protect us."

Our friend, poet and activist Sarah Clancy, is on the Spectre, one of the boats on the Flotilla which was attacked last night. Contact the Taoiseach and Tánaiste to demand protection, there must be safe passage for all trying to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza. #LiftTheSiege

I have never in fact called for the United States to "scrap our constitutional system," but I do know someone who has... weird how he didn't make it on to this list. www.foxnews.com/opinion/jona...

Here's what Trump said. It's vile. www.youtube.com/live/TClRH0G...

Unleashing the brownshirts. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

NEW: Edinburgh has become the first city in Scotland to boycott Israel

I'm more concerned with the fact that they're using the gallery to spread an unhinged conspiracy theory that's setting the stage for lawlessness. They want a pretext to disregard laws signed by Biden, so they claim they're invalid because autopen.

There's a reason they seem to be mostly targeting women to beat up, and we all know what it is.

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I talked to Osama bin Laden’s ghost and he said it’s actually a great idea to announce when all American military leaders will be in one place

A DOD employee tells me they've been talking with colleagues, and the most common word they're using describe all of this is "bizarre." They're also noting the security risks associated with a decision to tell the world about a large gathering of the most senior U.S. military leaders.

One DOD employee tells me nobody has said a word about this at work. They asked an aide to a high-ranking military leader about it: "First he'd heard of it."

So uh, per WaPo, Pete Hegseth has ordered all top U.S. military leaders worldwide -- some 800 U.S. military generals and admirals -- to report to a base in Virginia next week for a mystery meeting. Short notice. Nobody knows why. 😳 www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

I'm very proud to share a new, first-of-its-kind analysis and data tool from my team at @educationwork.newamerica.org. Redrawing the Lines is a first-ever look at how, if states draw school district borders with equity as the goal, they can HUGELY reduce funding inequality and segregation. #edusky

Michelle Wu’s opponent out-raised her, but she beat him by nearly 50 percentage points. Now Wu is on track to return for another 4 years in Boston’s City Hall to tackle soaring rents and repeated threats from Washington. From Naomi Bethune: trib.al/pjawVoN

So if the administration really thinks this is their reichstag fire moment, I think you can expect them to make their biggest moves right now. And then hegseth calls in the generals — sincerely, paranoid… I hope?

This ICE agent is unmasked and KNEW he was being filmed by everyone in that hallway as he assaulted this woman. He apparently didn't fear any disciplinary action from his chain of command at ICE. Which tells you everything you need to know about Kristi Noem and Tom Homan.

The circumstances of Mr. Escobar's arrest are even worse than the brief summary above. He repeatedly tried to tell the immigration officials that he had papers while they were arresting him. In response, a federal agent said "No you don't. You are illegal," and "Shut up, bitch! You're illegal."

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

A group of top former economic policymakers warned the Supreme Court on Thursday not to allow President Trump to immediately remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board, saying such a move would threaten the central bank’s independence and erode public confidence in the economy.

I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I've received 7 invitations to review papers in the last 48 hours. Real journals, not MDPI/Frontiers type outlets. I don't know if this flood is due to random luck, the lousy job market, or AI, but whatever the reason it's not sustainable.

"what if we didn't suck" politics "i believe that we will win" politics "things don't have to be this way" politics

Union Station! How I missed you. It’s been a couple of weeks. Let’s see how many National Guard and random federal agencies we can find strolling around? (pics were taken around 11am) First up, US Border Patrol. Second, Amtrak Police. Third, National Guard. Fourth, more National Guard.

(1/2) On Wednesday, the biweekly ICE deportation flight to Venezuela diverted while en route from El Paso, TX to Aruba and returned to the U.S., landing near the Everglades detention center.

this is outrageous, further politicization of military in attempt to smear a distinguished vet by a POTUS and NJ candidate who never served. SHAME ON THEM www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

Finally had a chance to watch this, and it’s very much worth your time if you haven’t - late night tv as a site of popular constitutionalism