"Immediately upon returning to office, in January, the president signed an executive order to reinterpret the Fourteenth Amendment to ban birthright citizenship, the legality of which is still being debated in the courts. Heritage Americans seems engineered to move the goalposts even further."

Gift article:"Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

Gift article: "The furor grew after Fox News reported on the petition. Dr. Bray’s home address was revealed on social media. He received several death threats, including one vowing to kill him in front of his students."

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"There is a certain kind of Army officer who, after the excitement of company command, finds his career stalled, and who perhaps leaves the service as a major in the National Guard filled with bitterness and resentment."

"[...] they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Gift article: “Christians must learn to hate again,” a Texas pastor posted on X, citing a Psalm that reads, “Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?”

Gift article: "In a matter of months, the Justice Department’s independence has been obliterated as it has launched numerous investigations aimed at Trump’s perceived enemies as part of his promised retribution campaign."

“The President has sent agents here to create chaos and riots in Portland, to induce a reaction, to induce protests, to induce conflicts. His goal is to make Portland look like what he’s been describing it as,” Oregon’s junior senator, Jeff Merkley said

"The acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento has said she was fired after telling the Border Patrol chief in charge of immigration raids in California that his agents were not allowed to arrest people without probable cause in the Central Valley."

"Experts say Heritage's push not only distorts the data but also diverts attention from the extremist movements actually driving violence: nihilistic violent extremist networks, accelerationist neo-fascist movements, and lone actors motivated by any number of far-right culture war grievances."

Gift article: “Is this a call for violence?” the third paragraph says. “Yes. Explicitly it is.” “I want blood in the streets,” he added in the column, which ran with the headline “Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!”

Gift article: "The timing of the event has been of particular concern: The speech is set for Sept. 30, the last day of the fiscal year. If there is a government shutdown, it could leave key staff stranded in Virginia [...]"

"In the absence of any conceivable military justification for these acts, it is difficult to view them as anything but premeditated murder, pure and simple."

Gift article: "Here’s what I now realize: One day in the not-so-distant future, many will look back at us and wonder how we managed to get through such troubling times. America is not OK."

"For transgender people, Kirk’s killing has unleashed a new wave of anti-trans hate so intense that some are now making plans to leave the country altogether."

Gift article: "Immigration attorneys with clients inside said detainees’ recent sit-ins and hunger strikes have resulted in officers entering cells in riot gear and putting at least four inmates in solitary confinement."

“I kept comparing it to a natural disaster,” one worker at the [CDC] told WIRED. “But it wasn’t natural. Just a stampede of wide-eyed, confused government employees moving files around and looking over their shoulders because they think maybe Elon was creeping behind them with a chain saw.”

Gift article: "... some humanitarian programs in malaria, AIDS and food assistance from American farmers are likely to find their footing — yet aid will still be only a shadow of what it once was, and many hundreds of thousands of children are forecast to die as a result."

Gift article:"Trump last week forced out the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik S. Siebert, after he declined to prosecute Comey [...] Trump then installed a White House aide with no prosecutorial experience, Lindsey Halligan, as the interim U.S. attorney in the Virginia office"

“The country overall, I think, is closer to accepting our position than they were 10 years ago,” Fuentes said in a recent livestream. “I think we're kind of still waiting for that inflection point, and once that happens, I think it happens all very quickly.”

"It would be ideal if Klein felt the burning commitment to justice that Russell felt, so much so that he similarly would not see the point in pretending to be “on the same side of a larger project” as the likes of Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro."

Gift article: “Every study that I’ve seen found that crosswalk art improves public safety,” Jewett said. “This move to eliminate all crosswalk art really seems to be about primarily cracking down on any artwork that might be pro-LGBTQ.”

"Shortly afterwards, a reporter informed me I appeared to be the first attorney targeted in a larger scheme in which federal agencies were instructed to formally accuse attorneys of unethical conduct to try to disable them and dissuade further litigation."

Gift article: "Something is dying: the sense that we know our country."

“People tell me, ‘You didn’t use-ta soapbox like this’,” he says on our video call, gathering steam. “Well, we didn’t use-ta be in the midst of an authoritarian takeover!”

Gift article: "If Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Miller and Loomer have their way, America will take another step toward becoming a McCarthyite state with the ever-present danger that your colleagues and friends will report your offhand quick-reaction social media posts to government authorities."

Gift article: "Will this new GOP McCarthyism emerging from the tragedy of Kirk’s murder force Americans to “watch what they say, watch what they do”? It clearly already is."

Gift article: "The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back."

Gift: "President Trump and his top advisers threatened on Monday to unleash the power of the federal government to punish what they alleged was a left-wing network that funds & incites violence, seizing on Charlie Kirk’s killing to make broad & unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents"

"If you want to know what a technological republic might look like, forget Alexander Karp’s insipid book; consider what is being constructed around you, and how little it resembles any kind of republic at all. Consider the bad times, and who they are good for."

Gift article: "Today, across Totonacapan, oil has become synonymous with ecological destruction, cartel violence and political disenfranchisement."

Gift article: "During their flight, four of the five plaintiffs were “placed in straitjackets and remained in the straitjackets for approximately 16 hours,” the complaint said. They were provided only bread and water, and had to remain shackled while using the bathroom, according to the complaint."

"The same values that make us horrified at his violent death are the ones that should embolden our commitment to defeating the politics he worked for in life."

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Gift article: "On the left, abortion came to mean freedom and guns murder; on the right, guns came to mean freedom and abortion murder. That none of these equivalencies can withstand scrutiny has not seemed to matter."

Gift article: "Russian drones have crossed into Poland before [...] But the apparent scale of the incursion and the joint NATO response in the early hours of Wednesday was a startling reminder of the risk that the war in Ukraine could escalate into direct confrontation between Russia and NATO."

Gift article: 'Friday’s assessment highlights “Mentions of Fatigue, confusion, and demoralization — ‘just gardening,’ unclear mission, wedge between citizens and the military.”'

“It’s difficult to imagine how any lawyers inside the Pentagon could have arrived at a conclusion that this was legal rather than the very definition of murder under international law rules that the Defense Department has long accepted,” said Ryan Goodman, a New York University law professor [...]."

'It’s the pressure that “you’re not being patriotic if you don’t blow by the law and violate it and just bend the knee and exhibit complete fealty and loyalty to Trump,” California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Tuesday.'

“The system before was always [tracking] for passport fraud, visa fraud, or internal investigation for malfeasance, misfeasance, or for human trafficking,” they say. “But this Title 8, it is veering off from our authority, from our training.”

Gift article: "For sure, there’s an unshakable cult of Trump supporters, but one of the many underreported stories of 2025 is the lingering faith in democratic ideals, fairness, equity, and diversity that still holds with the majority of the American people — despite everything that’s happened."

Gift article: "In the former official’s opinion, it was more likely that the vessel was carrying migrants on a human smuggling run. It would be impossible to know for sure, however, given that any evidence of drug smuggling was destroyed in the attack."

Gift article: "One weekday rush hour spent at stations where troops have been seen shows the array of interactions occurring in Washington as the president’s crackdown stretched through its third week — and as he says he’s considering sending troops to other Democratic-dominated cities."

Gift article: "The country learned hard lessons from the Nazi Holocaust about the catastrophic consequences of conspiratorial prejudice. Today, a growing constituency on the right wants the nation to unlearn them."

Gift article: "You heard it right: The government you knew for Weather Data and Medical Research is going all in on Despot Whims. This costs money, so bedrock features such as Separation of Powers, No Troop Quartering, and Due Process are being phased out, even for premium subscribers."

Gift article: "On this Labor Day, workers should know Trump does not have their back."

Gift article: “The theme for this really is workers over billionaires. And so we are directly calling out the billionaires and their corporations that are driving the Trump agenda,” Saqib Bhatti, executive director of the Action Center on Race and the Economy [...]

Gift article: "We, the people, have always been the real check, the most important balance, with the power, through our votes, to reject and depose any would-be king with an unstirred conscience and a dormant soul. But we must recognize what’s happening [...] and rouse ourselves to push back."