WTF. Police state-ization of the United States continues.

👏👏 For those who may have missed this clip. This is today's protest in Portland, Oregon. And yes...there were flowers. bsky.app/profile/vict...

Funny because it’s sad, sad because it’s funny

Yes, arresting a journalist for doing their job is a big flashing red light. But I don't want people to forget the whole reason everyone is out there. This is what I saw inside: Four holding rooms. Two smaller rooms were being used for holding protesters. Two larger rooms held ICE/CBP captives.

Their rooms were maybe 30x30. Each room was marked with a sign reading "Capacity: 83" (I think, it was low 80s). There were roughly 40 men in one room, with an open bathroom area to the side. It was harder to get a look at the women's holding room, but looked like 10-12 women.

Reportedly some ICE detainees are held for days, even up to a week. Our room stank of sweat & pepper ball powder after just a few hours. Their room appeared dirty, filled with men dressed for labor, trying to get comfortable to sleep in chairs or on the cold floor in the cinder block room.

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Our latest Dear Civil Servant column breaks down how the Supreme Court has used its “shadow docket” to usurp power from lower courts and limit their ability to perform the role that our system of government has demanded of them. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-pyrrhic-probationary-victory

This is a declaration of war against United States citizens

Don’t call yourself a Christian if you’re okay with this. You aren’t. You’re a horrible excuse for a human being.

The lawsuit accused Amazon of deceiving users into signing up for its Prime service and making it difficult to cancel it.

In his latest classic authoritarian playbook move, Donald Trump just indicted James Comey despite absolutely no evidence of crimes or wrongdoing. Once again, this is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. James Comey, whatever you think of him, is the victim of a politically weaponized DOJ.

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

“It's Never Just About Gender”: Gender and Authoritarianism: PRA Analyzes Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days, Part 2 @praeyesright.bsky.social @maryrreynolds.bsky.social @ch4ncie44.bsky.social @justisaurus.bsky.social politicalresearch.org/2025/09/25/i...

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)

Some media outlets reported that Trump was joking when he made this comment. About that: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/hes-just-j...

Harvard secures a win in the fight with Trump over federal research funding. A federal judge said the Trump admin "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Needs investigation

17-year-old Miller, speaking about the United States’ invasion of Iraq, proclaimed, "I only hope that ... people who will be leading this country will appreciate the value and respect that torture shows towards other cultures." https://trib.al/ZDk7uIA

EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’

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Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide

@reshmasaujani.com of Moms First is exposing the lie that caregiving is a private burden—and rallying moms, dads and policymakers to treat it like the economic engine it is.

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

This student has greater moral clarity than all the rich consultants telling Dems to sacrifice trans people for electoral gains.

The gays and theys need to get our digital security together in this day and age so here’s version 2 of Pink Pony Club but it’s about why you should switch all your group chats to end to end encrypted Signal with disappearing messages turned on ;)

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

The alternative? We let disordered discourse continue its takeover of institutions, eroding democracy from within. If truth is no longer relevant to power, then power will belong to those who control the most compelling narrative - whether it’s real or not.

This is how the cycle continues. A generation raised to see through falsehoods but unable to challenge power will still lose trust in democracy. And when people lose trust, they don’t just stop believing lies-they stop believing anything. That vacuum is where disordered discourse thrives.

Teaching young people to think critically and uncover truth is essential. But if we stop there, if we teach them to find truth but give them no way to act on it, we set them up for frustration. When knowledge leads to no impact, cynicism takes its place & institutions feel just as distant as before.

A key driver of disordered discourse isn’t just misinformation - it’s a lack of trust in democratic institutions. When people feel powerless, when they believe institutions don’t serve them, don’t listen to them, and don’t respond to truth, they disengage. That detachment fuels disordered discourse.

The OECD released a report last year, Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity, detailing some of the education responses to this issue, which helps give us some guidance on a way forward www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

We can’t fact-check our way out of this crisis. Disordered discourse isn’t just about false claims - it reshapes power, identity, and how people engage with reality itself. There’s no single fix, but one crucial pillar of the response is education.

We need to consider what this means for our democracies at the most fundamental level. If governance is shaped by engagement-driven narratives over reality, how do institutions survive? If truth is irrelevant to power, what stops disordered discourse from capturing the state everywhere?

If you think this can’t happen outside the U.S., consider that we’re all subject to the same forces - social media-driven discourse, collapsing institutional trust, and the rise of narratives untethered from reality. It’s a systemic vulnerability in every democracy.

The end result is what we’re seeing in the U.S. - a democracy struggling to function because its institutions are trapped in disordered discourse. Governance isn’t about solving problems; it’s about demonstrating loyalty to manufactured narratives.

Democracies weren’t built around this. They depend on a shared reality, however contested, to function. When governance becomes a battle between competing fictions rather than policy and truth, institutions designed for debate and compromise become tools for enforcing narratives.

The result? A fragmented public consciousness where competing realities coexist, each self-reinforcing and resistant to correction. When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative - no matter how detached from reality it is.

We’re living through a fundamental shift in how discourse is created. Institutions once shaped a shared reality through discourse - imperfectly, but with structure. Now, that reality has splintered. In its place, engagement-driven ecosystems amplify whatever resonates, truth optional.