Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

Major peer-reviewed research advance — out of a public university.

Fascism begets antifascism.

Many on the left have called for a general strike. Is the Trump Administration is starting to set one in motion?

There's little so pure as taxing the rich to feed kids lunch.

"I experience a lot of grief. Grieving not knowing my own family. I think a lot about how different our relationships would be if they had the ability to travel and I had the ability to go to Gaza." oaklandside.org/2025/11/03/g...

Oof.

... it's been close to or more than 62 days since Trump deployed forces to the Caribbean to engage in such strikes--which means that in addition to violating the Constitution, the assassination ban, two criminal murder statutes, and international law, [2] ... www.justsecurity.org/120296/many-...

BREAKING: Both Satmar factions decide not to endorse a candidate for mayor and decry the vicious campaign against Mamdani that paints him as hostile to Jews. In letters to their community members, the Satmar leadership calls the attacks against Mamdani false and dangerous.

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.

There are people, many people, thousands of people, whose job it is to get up every morning and do this to families, to listen to the cries and screams, to go home for dinner, and wake up the next morning and do it again.

I'm helming as Oaklandside is posting live today from Coast Guard Island, where Customs and Border Protection is arriving for operations in the Bay Area: oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/l...

My mom was a planner in the National Park Service. The *years* that would go into review and incorporating community input for things like what interpretive signage should say.

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

This is a seismic shift.

Things can be restored.

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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...