So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Charlie Kirk dehumanized trans people as “a throbbing middle finger to God.” That cruelty was infuriating. But Sarah McBride was right to condemn his assassination — political violence will not liberate trans people, it hurts us most. aridrennen.substack.com/p/when-viole...

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

“if you so much as touch one of our federal officers you will go to prison” not really borne out by the DC or LA prosecution records there, slugger

Donald Trump is using federal agents to stoke fear and violate constitutional rights — all with the aims of expanding his control and sending military troops to our cities. It’s unlawful and un-American. We must all stand up and speak out against fanning the flames of violence.

Gotta include the Maron reply

Multiple organizers I trust who have been a regular presence at Broadview are advising folks not to protest there tonight. For a number of reasons, they are worried that fatal force could be used against protesters tonight. They are calling for folks to regroup and return Friday morning.

Our cities aren’t war ravaged. They’re ICE ravaged.

Posted a link to this drop on the other website and I’m pleased to report that the dumbest right wing guys are already throwing a fit about this episode lol

That agent's callous commentary isn't even the worst thing that happened that day. One man was detained despite having a WORK PERMIT and being here LEGALLY. His lawyer says he had a pending appeal — and yet despite that, he was deported just days later and never able to call his lawyer! 2/3

WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals." 1/3

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

With Pete Davidson getting a big check to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the Saudis are finally paying reparations for 9/11. And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “It’s hard to be startled by Elon Musk because he does startling things all the time,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “But I’ll admit that I was startled when I gave his Grok A.I. ‘companions’ a whirl.”

28 September 1931 | Norwegian Jewish girl, Manja Malke Bodd, was born in Trondheim. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. - Children at Auschwitz Read: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/ Listen: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

Trump’s case against Comey is sloppy, vague, and could fall apart with just one word.

Lol.

This sucks so much but also Tilly Norwood is the perfect name for a Chipmunk Detective lured out of retirement for one last case deadline.com/2025/09/tale...

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Morelle: Here’s the problem whenever the president speaks—and I hate to make light of this because he’s the president—but it’s almost always just fantasy. This week he’s suddenly a scientist, telling us what we should do for a fever if you’re a pregnant woman. It’s an endless series of baloney.

To understand “why Portland,” and how we got here, I hope you’ll read my 2023 story. Free with this gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... (4/4)

Most Portlanders are just trying to live their lives and stayed away from all of this. But extremists there got locked in an escalatory cycle that Trump saw as a political opportunity. (3/4)

Years before that, Trump supporters had identified Portland as an ideal place to provoke the left. As I’ve written before, right-wing extremists knew that Portland’s reaction to a trolling campaign would be swift, and would guarantee the celebrity that comes with virality. (2/4)

There’s a reason I focused on Portland when I reported a big story on political violence two years ago. (1/4)

The National Weather Service is struggling with staffing shortages due to Trump administration cuts. But as the Atlantic hurricane season peaks and wildfires ramp up in the West, hundreds of positions remain vacant, staff said.

"U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala expressed confusion and surprise at some points during the seven-minute court session when a federal grand jury impaneled in Alexandria, Virginia, returned the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey Thursday night."

We didn’t have enough medics to keep today resourced (though we ended up staying an extra hour!) so many of us have dispersed. We’ll be back next Friday. Same time.

No protester has taken any violent action and yet ICE has deployed at least a dozen canisters of tear gas, detonated a flash bang in a man’s face, and now a sniper is shooting us with pepper balls.

The worst jerks you knew in high school joined ICE.

New: "Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Seal—Here’s Why That Could Violate Federal Law" 🏌️🚔 me, for @forbes.com 1/

/4 The Trump Administration position is that violence is by definition good and righteous and justified and unquestionable when used by and for the State, and bad and harmful and wrong if used by anyone else.

/3 The message is that violence is righteous and justified when we — people like us — use it, and unacceptable when anyone else uses it. Violence is always a privilege of the state, but this is enshrining it to a particularly authoritarian degree.

/2 Contrary to what you think that message isn’t inconsistent with the administration’s contrived concern about violence and how rhetoric might drive it. It’s perfectly consistent. The message isn’t at all that violence is bad.

The administration celebrating Wounded Knee is congruent with the administration asking for dismissals or one-day sentences for cops convicted of civil rights violations. It’s part of a coordinated message. /1 apnews.com/article/woun...

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Rest in power, Assata Shakur. "A wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down. I believe in living I believe in birth I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port."

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE: They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet. DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

When Trump said he would cut drug prices by 1000%, he actually meant he would hike prices by 100%. When you see that prescriptions cost more, along with nearly everything you purchase, remember it's because of Trump's tariffs—and the Republicans in Congress who refuse to act.

I was in the middle of interviewing #ActuallyAutistic moms about Trump's claims about Tylenol and autism and then I saw @rosebroderick.bsky.social's piece. It's so damn good I can't even be mad. I am so glad someone interviewed autistic moms about this. www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/a...

Donald Trump’s attack on free speech is a tendency “inevitable in autocracies,” a Russian journalist said. “Russia needed 25 years for this culture to embed itself. In the U.S., it feels like it’s becoming the norm in a matter of weeks.”

Maryland elected officials have yet to comment on Wednesday’s dangerous and violent attack.

“He [the ICE officer] was trying to guide traffic with his gun in his hand as the skirmish was going on. Life was going on as usual, and at the same time, this horrifying scene was playing out.”

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric. This is going to get ugly. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2009...

why is she being described as colin firth’s ex-wife? it’s her mbe.

Here’s the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on what happened today and what we need to do now…. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...