Judge Illston’s temporary restraining order against the shutdown layoffs is scathing. “It is also far from normal for an administration to fire line-level civilian employees during a government shutdown as a way to punish the opposing political party …” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Swamp, drained.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

Judge William Young: “The case squarely presents the issue whether noncitizens … have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The court answers this question unequivocally, ‘Yes, they do.’“ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A threatening letter from Rep. Sarah Vance demanded "immediate corrective action" after a group of Alaska papers described Charlie Kirk as "a far-right political activist and Christian-Nationalist icon." The newspapers caved. www.juneauindependent.com/post/editor-...

Footage like this every day. This is lawlessness. And what a horror for so many families, kids, to live through this.

Former FBI Deputy Director McCabe says he hasn't been contacted "at all" by the FBI about Comey and adds, "if my interactions with Comey was gonna be the basis of this entire prosecution, it's unbelievable that prosecutors wouldn't at least want to sit down and hear what I have to say about it."

Stephen Miller tweeted that calling ICE authoritarian "incites violence and terrorism." This wasn't just the usual fascist bluster. It was a signal. I asked Bannon if Miller will seek to prosecute groups that use this language about ICE Read our exchange below. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2009...

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The Pentagon to impose new restrictions on reporters covering the DOD, requiring them to pledge not to use any information that had not been formally authorized for release or risk losing credentials to cover the military. That’s barring newsgathering itself. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

I want Kimmel back on the air and my friends to stay employed but this is a fucking shakedown

Anna Gomez, hero. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers. The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.

Jeff Hiller!!!

Surprise! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The US President’s attempt to seize control of our statutorily independent central bank—beyond being illegal—turns out to have been based on a fabrication.

25 journalists just killed in Israeli airstrikes in Yemen, on top of 197 journalists dead from Israeli strikes in Gaza. "Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that CPJ has ever documented." cpj.org/full-coverag...

“Lawyers believe the government is deliberately moving their clients to jurisdictions where immigration judges are less likely to grant asylum, or where legal injunctions blocking Trump immigration policies do not apply.”

This is truly chilling

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists, or get in touch via email [email protected].

This is a real post from the President of the United States

Really striking how views of Israel’s war on Gaza that are considered controversial in the US are widely shared in Europe (survey obtained by dropsitenews.com). Genocide, check. War crimes, check. ia601004.us.archive.org/7/items/key-...

The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural process of breaking apart, and eventually melting.

And so we arrive at a President Duterte.

I am feeling for Florida parents today. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever documented." cpj.org/full-coverag...

Fascinating to see mayors watch and learn from the experience in LA and DC.

Recent unosatyr.bsky.social satellite imagery shows almost every school building in #Gaza - including UNRWA’s – have been damaged in the war. Schools must be protected at all times. Read the @globaledcluster.bsky.social report: www.unrwa.org/resources/re... #CeasefireNow

UCLA’s Jewish community unites against Trump’s $1-billion demand, calling the ostensible effort to combat anti-Semitism “misguided and punitive” www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is such a devastating read. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.

Just more and more American jobs, everywhere you look oaklandside.org/2025/08/15/s...

There’s a data point deep in this excellent story: 400,000 factory jobs are currently unfilled. How can those manufacturing positions get filled -- let alone expanded -- if the administration continues to gut a critical skills pipeline: community colleges? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...

How do we still call this “law” enforcement?

A fascinating dive into reality TV gone wrong by my old colleagues at @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/the-profit-m...

Oof.

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...

A year ago, reporter Ashley McBride was the only journalist in the room at an Oakland school board meeting when angry parents and teachers exposed what would prove to be a districtwide crisis of lead-contaminated water in school faucets and drinking fountains. oaklandside.org/2025/07/28/o...

Eight. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/n...

Thank you to these medical workers.

Donated.

Donated.

Former US special forces officer Anthony Aguilar deployed to Gaza as a contractor to support aid distribution by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. He tells the BBC he resigned after witnessing IDF forces *and US contractors* committing what he described as “war crimes.”

“I used to chase the truth. Now I chase calories.” www.cjr.org/news/journal...

109 NGOs: “Doctors report record rates of acute malnutrition, especially among children and older people,” they said in a statement. “Illnesses like acute watery diarrhoea are spreading, markets are empty, waste is piling up, and adults are collapsing on the streets from hunger and dehydration.”

Today the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issued this urgent call: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW." Aid is simply not being allowed in. 1/