Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Americans are so hot for shrimp that Red Lobster lost $11 million after offering a $20 endless buffet. Much of it came from India, until Trump's 50% tariffs punched the industry down and left women searching for work to pay rent. With Almaas Masood www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n...

Arizona votes to send its first Latina to Congress 19thnews.org/2025/09/adel... via @19thnews.org

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.

The Twisted Teens LP is the best new thing I've heard in a while. Is it garage? Country? IDK! But it rocks and I'm pumped for a new one.

NEW: Bullets Found After the Charlie Kirk Shooting Carried Messages. Here’s What They Mean w/ @megannicolett.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charli...

⚠️ NYT reports that the WSJ claims about the “ideology” on the bullets “might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted.” Gift link for ongoing updates: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies.

David Ellison’s pick for CBS News ombudsman isn’t a journalist. He’s a Trump-supporting conservative donor and advocate who tried to scrub his digital past. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-o...

The hotel and airline bankrolled challenge to the Olympic wage *did not qualify* for the ballot according to the LA County Registrar. This means the city’s Olympic wage ordinance , $25/hour beginning this year and $30/hour by 2028, goes into effect for tourism workers immediately

For the last several months, I've been digging through endless scientific literature on what happens when pregnant mothers are exposed to plastic chemicals in their food, water, and everyday household products. The result is this story. I hope you'll take the time to read. wapo.st/4g3ZoFc

North America for the groundwater extractive win!

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

“The claim that trans people are disproportionately responsible for mass violence in America comes up every few months. It has never been true.” USA Today fact check from their extremism beat reporter www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

As famine plagues Gaza, NPR exclusive reporting looks at the U.S.'s role in the humanitarian crisis. Many former officials NPR interviewed share a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this? n.pr/3VnVTQm

Health centers in Speaker Johnson's Louisiana district risk closure www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

US health agency chief refuses to step down after dismissal - accuses vaccine skeptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of "weaponizing public health" u.afp.com/SAma

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

6 months ago, in the shadow of the night, Israeli soldiers took 16-year-old American Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim from his family. He’s been imprisoned ever since. He’s suffered from scabies & lost 25 pounds. Remember Sayfollah Musallet, the young American killed by settlers last month? They’re cousins.

U.S. farmers are feeling the impact of Trump's immigration crackdown. In some communities, immigration raids have slowed farm operations. NPR reports from Central Florida's strawberry region.

The DHS spox told us "This administration is unapologetically proud of American history and American heritage. Get used to it." So, what exactly do they mean by American history and heritage? We took a dive into the admin's social media accounts to see. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting. lataco.com/agents-shoot... By @afroxander.bsky.social Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social

California approves an unprecedented plan to protect Joshua trees from climate change threats

NEW: A federal judge on Friday blocked the FTC’s investigation of Media Matters, writing “it should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.” @kateconger.com reports:

Democratic voters increasingly don't like their elected officials because they see the leaders as weenies. This is a good explainer of how Democratic leaders act this way. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Seems like a pretty easy layup; despite how much you hear about how trans rights poll bad, nondiscrimination measures for trans people are still popular, and 56% still think trans people should be able to serve in the military news.gallup.com/poll/656534/...

The Chelmsford, Mass., court has hemorrhaged judges, a consequence of the Trump administration's seemingly contradictory efforts to downsize the federal government and increase immigration arrests.

Conservationists don't expect additional funds to help desert tortoise recovery efforts. Instead, nonprofits and other local groups will have to "hold the line for a few years" to help protect the iconic reptile and the desert ecosystem.

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

DAILY MEMO: Masked Agents Draw Guns On Student In front of Highschool, Leave Live Ammunition in The Street, Setting Their Sights on Schools, and More. @eltragon.bsky.social

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a video that featured Doug Wilson, a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church promotes male-led households and does not believe women should be allowed to vote.

Israel has killed 240+ journalists. People who'd cover a strike that killed their kids and go on to cover the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different. How many more murders will it take for the mainstream media's cowardly fever to break?

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

The Israeli military just killed him. (Look at the photo caption)

As the youth say: "What the helly?" "What the Heliantte?" "What the helly on?"

🚨SCOOP: A "select" number of FEMA probationary employees have been involuntarily reassigned to ICE, effective immediately, to "assist with hiring and vetting." If the employees don't report to ICE within seven days, they are threatened with termination. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

And so it begins... Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]

The world’s fourth-largest economy, California, is generating power using 40% less natural gas than it did two years ago “If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”