New from The Seattle Times and KUOW: Antonio Mays Jr. was capturing on video, speaking about police reform to a crowd of protesters, just three days before he was shot and killed at CHOP in 2020. This is a new data point in the 5-year-old question of who Mays was and what he was doing at CHOP.

'The skeleton key here is Nuzzi’s generic invocation of “access to the powerful”—the dynamic that governs what gets written about the most influential figures in our civic life, and how it continues to defile any intelligible notion of the public interest.'

One recently released document showed federal officers apparently shot pepper balls at a Portland Police Bureau sergeant during a protest on Oct. 20. Several officers then exited the ICE facility and confronted the sergeant in-person outside, reportedly telling him “help or get out of our way.”

Everyone reading that new Lizza post like Herzog listening to the bear attack recording

In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away,” they could never speak of them again.

'Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects.'

The ACLU and the EFF are suing San Jose over its Flock cameras. There are nearly 500 cameras in the city. It is essentially impossible to drive anywhere in the city without being tracked. Cameras outside of immigration law firms, abortion clinics, places of worship www.404media.co/aclu-and-eff...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Here's who's in the Pentagon's new "press corps," covering world's most powerful military: Out: New York Times, Washington Post. In: Tim Pool's Timcast, Gateway Pundit, the MyPillow guy's LindellTV. wapo.st/49iiXbn @scottnover.bsky.social

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

‘Current and former national security officials … describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.‘

Good morning! Our database is now LIVE. Please flag us any social media posts, news reports, or official reports of crowd counts. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News. For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"

Big No Kings turnout in tiny & conservative Ship Bottom NJ

These are examples of how ICE is operating in Oregon.

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

Notes on a Nor'easter, Saturday's No Kings rallies, and my upcoming open mic reading in Somers Point NJ. olympiajoe.substack.com/p/flood-it-a...

Rupert Murdoch is awful, but he was an actual newspaper person who understood that alienating your core audience is not good business. For Bezos, the Post was a vanity project, and is now a loss leader to protect his other interests.

Lately, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has been siding with Democrats to call for extensions to health care subsidies and supporting an effort both Speaker Johnson and President Trump oppose to force a vote on releasing Epstein files.

'They posited that the recent influx of German and Irish immigrants was responsible for a decline in U.S. moral standards and were part of a Catholic conspiracy to seize power.' Lots of my own people forget our ancestors were targets of nativists- wapo.st/3W7AfjQ

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

A professor who drew the ire of some South Dakota politicians for a 700-word social media post on conservative activist Charlie Kirk says calls to punish educators for their private views will take the U.S. down a "dangerous path." Read more: buff.ly/YdvjkaZ

“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”

And absolutely nothing comes close to replacing it…

“All of Washington is short on the dogged reporting needed to maintain a healthy society." My elegy for Crosscut/Cascade PBS inside our obit roundup: www.cascadepbs.org/inside-casca...

Authorities have arrested a Florida man for intentionally starting the fire that burned Los Angeles's Pacific Palisades. So why does it feel like the fire was started by a cat-eating immigrant from war-ravaged Portland, Oregon?

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Spoke to a landscaper yesterday in ruby-red Ocean County NJ. He knows I live on the west coast; he supports the military going into PDX. He went on to reminisce about the 1970 hard hat riots where construction workers beat the shit out of war protesters in NYC. He wouldn't mind if it happened again

This guy snuck past security to get to the press offices a few years ago, where he delivered donuts to myself & Austin Jenkins of public radio. One of those conversations where the first couple minutes seemed normal enough. And got weirder as it went. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Wrote about competing visions of what makes America America through the lens of “One Battle After Another”.

'U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut said the government appeared to be directly defying her previous temporary restraining order from a day earlier blocking the administration from sending Oregon’s National Guard to the city by instead deploying members of California’s Guard.' wapo.st/46JxGJu

“These leaked messages make it blatantly clear that the decision to send troops to Portland is based on political optics, not safety,” said U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore.

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from deploying troops in Portland, OR - 'She said the relatively small protests the city has seen did not justify the use of federalized forces and allowing the deployment could harm Oregon’s state sovereignty.' www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

What does the death of PBS mean for journalism & democracy? Wrote a piece on the demise of my newsroom, Cascade PBS Newsroom, and what comes next. My substack will always be free - sign up and read away. open.substack.com/pub/olympiaj...

Our PBS newsroom in Washington got shuttered by presidential decree. My colleagues & friends getting laid off. Here's their layoff fund -- please donate if you have the means to help! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...

A dark day for Northwest journalism: @cascadepbs.bsky.social is axing the @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social, laying off 17 people, per internal memo obtained by @kuow.org. Cascade PBS got ~10% of its budget from Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Unclear why its whole newsroom had to be axed.

Crosscut/cascade pbs is an essential part of the PNW's journalism ecosystem, and writers their have for years, consistently asked WA leaders hard questions. Truly unbelievable.

That this is happening at a Seattle-based PBS station does not bode well for rural stations. What a huge loss for the Northwest.

Devastating news for local journalism.

The loss of Cascade PBS -- my former newsroom -- will deprive Washingtonians of accountability journalism that kept an eye on government and corporate power. For shame.

This administration is asking journalists to regurgitate not report.

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

ESSAY: The House on Pacific Avenue The Black neighborhood in Barnegat, NJ, dates at least to the late 1800s. Was it part of the underground railroad too? When locals think of Barnegat & race, the memories more often go to the KKK. Substack's free, always: open.substack.com/pub/olympiaj...

Former KKK grand wizard David Duke came to Barnegat, N.J. to declare his bid for the presidency. That same town was rumored to have a stop on the underground railroad. Notebook dump on my essay, The House on Pacific Avenue, out now in Beach Badge #7. olympiajoe.substack.com/p/the-day-da...

Penned the text for a photo essay on Ocean County's Bridge to Nowhere. Out now in Beach Badge, the Jersey's Shore's lit zine. Hard copies of issue #7 out later this month. eightstonepress.com/beach-badge-...

Congratulations to the @coloradosun.com on seven years! And thank you for the honor of speaking to your Rise & Shine workshop for future journalists. coloradosun.com/2025/06/19/t...

The naked cyclists at the Fremont Solstice Parade began as a few nude riders crashing the parade in the early 1990s. Since then, it’s grown into one of Seattle’s signature summer traditions. About 1,000 riders are expected to lead off the parade this Saturday. www.axios.com/local/seattl...