I, personally, do not like that John Roberts treats precedent as meaningless when it comes to whether you have five votes on the shadow docket.

Abolishing ICE is just minimal human decency.

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

BREAKING: SCOTUS will hear a case over whether it should overrule Humphrey's Executor — in a shadow docket order that also allows Trump's firing of Rebecca Slaughter as an FTC commissioner to take effect while the appeal is considered, which should not be allowed under Humphrey's Executor.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Mario Guevara has been detained for 100 days, after being arrested while filming a protest in ATL while in the US legally. Dozens of human rights, press freedom, free speech groups are calling for his immediate release. Join us in the fight for his freedom: #FreeMario www.freedomformario.com

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Mark your calendars: Republicans in Missouri have placed a referendum on the 2026 ballot that democracy advocates say would kill the state’s ballot initiative process.

fwiw Rebecca Slaughter, an FTC Commissioner that the Trump administration is determined to illegally fire, just spent the one week she was back at work between court orders trying to re-issue the “Click to Cancel“ rule, which would make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up

The US has embarked on a new program of state-sponsored terror. It's different from the War on Terror (which was horrific) in that there's no precipitating event like 9/11. Instead, it's a very public, very illegal murder of civilians, done entirely in the open as a PR program for the new regime.

Elites would rather burn their countries to the ground than allow the masses to make one of their own face consequences for anything. Universally true

this is exaaaaactly the Disney boycott angle i’ve been waiting for reporting on 🤝🏼

Here’s a bonus episode of Better Offline. I talked to software engineer Colt Voege about how AI isn’t 10xing the productivity of software engineering, the truth about LLM coding, and what we can actually expect AI to do for software. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Please read about the terrible impact(s) of tear gas which is a weapon of WAR: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

this exists it is called thinking

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

“Deportation without due process—that would be the new normal set by Mario Guevara’s removal from the US,” Benavidez explained. cpj.org/2025/09/jour...

This has been baffling to watch as a reporter outside the WH. Standing up for your counterparts from other orgs is just something to do as a good person and also important to stand up for our profession generally. We’ve learned that being a quisling will not save you or your org!

When you see stories about how the northern border is to be militarized like the southern border, see it for what it really is: mass surveillance for millions who live nearby, attempts to geographical curb civil rights, and BILLIONS of dollars in contracts for right-wing surveillance tech CEOs.

URGENT ⚡️ Mario Guevara, the only journalist behind bars in the United States, faces imminent deportation following charges related to his live streaming of law enforcement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: Immigration court orders Mario Guevara can be deported immediately. This is a gross miscarriage of justice. If Mario is deported, that sets dangerous precedent -- targeting reporters for their coverage & free speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

95 House Democrats just voted in favor of a GOP resolution titled, "Honoring the life and legacy of Charles 'Charlie' James Kirk." www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...

seems normal

AAA, an industry trade group with close FBI ties, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups. “The database also included ‘suspicious individuals’ at animal rights protests, and those who have tried to film or report on conditions at farms.”

"i wasn't feeling impacted or at risk, personally, so i dismissed critics' accurate warnings about where this would lead" is honestly a very good summation of how establishment media has failed us all

btwn the state sponsored censorship hypocrisy and stuff like this it really feels like a theme of being alive right now is power feeling like it doesn’t even have to try - just treating everyone with obvious contempt

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Headlines matter. Framing matters. AP: it’s about democracy NYT: it’s about a political fight

My dad was at DC Jail for almost a year, then sent to southern VA, and then transferred to Seagoville, just outside of Dallas. Removing people away from where their families can visit and they can remain somewhat connected to where they live in no way prepares people to be healthy when they get out.

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

these anecdotes do a good job of showing how pervasive & insidious AI has become. i’m lucky to be in the right stage of my career, & right front-facing niches of the industry, to be insulated from AI distruption so far, but i couldn’t have gotten to this point if AI existed when i was starting out.

an agent on the roof of the broadview ice facility is filming the crowd of protesters below with a dslr. a protester joking asked, “does it shoot 4k?” and the agent nodded his head yes.

no new ideas. just more surveillance.

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

More than a dozen elected officials were arrested in or around 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions.

Big Oil has no problem funding people who say the Civil Rights Act was "huge mistake” or that Ketanji Brown Jackson was "a diversity hire" or that trans people are responsible for inflation. As long as “climate change is fake” is part of it, they don’t care about the rest.

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

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I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...

DC police and U.S. Marshals violently attempted to execute a warrant near a playground filled with preschoolers, terrifying the children with a totally gratuitous show of force. Oh, and they didn’t get the suspect. www.popville.com/2025/09/erod...

Liberals now feeling what it has been like to support Palestine in the US. Every word twisted. Loss of job for a simple opinion. Taken off air for a monologue. Lists to target you. Employers harassed. It feels endless, coming from all directions. It only gets worse from here

"There is freedom of speech but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech" said by Idi Amin, former Ugandan dictator.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".