NEW: Des Moines schools superintendent Ian Roberts was told by his immigration attorney in March that his immigration case had "reached a successful resolution" and been closed. On Friday he was arrested by ICE.

Amber Bracken's lawyer says she pushed a finger into the sheriff's chest. The sheriff told RCMP she “struck him in the left shoulder with an aggressive punching/pushing motion." He said that evening that his shoulder hurt but he declined medical attention. Crown never approved a charge. #cdnpoli

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Doctors Without Borders has suspended operations in Gaza City because of the danger to its staff caused by the Israeli military’s ground offensive. The announcement came on the same day that the UN said four hospitals had been rendered unusable in the north of the territory over the past month.

🧵 My story, "What's Wrong With Rehab?" won Gold for Long-Form at Alberta Magazine Awards last night! Thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social & all who shared expertise: Brandon Shaw, Esther Tailfeathers, @ehyshka.bsky.social, David Hodgins & recovery workers. 1/ albertaviews.ca/whats-wrong-...

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

In 2015, reporter @saulelbein.bsky.social joined a crew of Peruvian river guides on a trip down the treacherous Marañón. What happened there has taken many years for him to tell — and it's one of the most beautiful and moving stories he's ever written. It's Heat Death. Don't miss this one.

Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall...

White House photo op for the president's granddaughter's new $130 sweatshirt line

"A shortage of maternity care doctors in B.C. saw Danielle Goward shuffled through four hospitals in 12 days – in Williams Lake, Kelowna, Prince George and Kamloops." by @andreawoo.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

The Mounties say they are not wearing masks and other protective gear because "the information we have from CFIA is that the virus here is not airborne... As long as we’re not in the pen, rolling around in the fecal matter, the officers holding the outer perimeter aren’t required to wear any PPE.”

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

In light of Canada's recognition, The Canadian Press has revised its guidance on the use of "Palestine":

Here are the commitments TikTok made to improve their practices. Check out the report for more information: www.oipc.bc.ca/reports/inve...

For the lunch crowd

Isaac please don't put in the newspaper that I loved Henry Kissinger

One of the judges, Gordon Hatch, is facing a complaint for briefly jailing a 36-week pregnant woman who showed up a few minutes late for court

"A witness, one of more than two dozen people in the lobby of the rec centre at the time, said they saw the accused get into an altercation with what appeared to be a teen boy." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #BCpoli

Someone should ask Trump whether he agrees with an advisor using this language and displaying this disrespect towards a member of Congress. www.blackenterprise.com/jasmine-croc...

"And so when we’re thinking about how important these resources are for improving child outcomes, we need to remember that if we don’t have equal inputs, we cannot expect equal outcomes." A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.

Now talking: antisemitic White Nationalist Jack Posobiec (who gave a Hitler salute at CPAC) who compares Kirk to Moses and talks about the survival of „Western civilisation“, claims Kirk‘s sacrifice will be the „turning point“- „are you ready to put on the full armour of god“ in „spiritual warfare“

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

“A witness, one of more than two dozen people in the lobby of the rec centre at the time, said they saw the accused get into an altercation with what appeared to be a teen boy.”

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

The Federal Trade Commission is suing Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, accusing them of working with ticket scalpers to resell illegally obtained tickets at marked-up prices in a secondary market.

What I can tell you is that the Eric Woodward Foundation has never been registered as a charity and none of the properties were transferred to it. He says donations to charity have been made through his for-profit corp, but would not elaborate: “I mean, I could, but why would I?”

I've spent a year trying to get some concrete answers about Township of Langley Mayor Eric Woodward's promise to transfer his real estate holdings to a charity devoted to local causes. The B.C. registrar ordered him to share financial statements with me. He did not: theijf.org/eric-woodwar...

KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.

Canada also has police brutality, anti-Black racism and transphobia, says one expert. But it differs from the U.S. in two ways: laws against hate speech and fewer guns. #uspoli #canpoli

Some police forces in Canada have started investigating violence against homeless people as a new class of #hatecrime: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

“There a lot of COVID around now, and there’s going to be more when it gets colder, so people should get their shots,” Dr. Rasmussen. She says the evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are worthwhile is incontrovertible. “They keep people from going to the morgue, or being hospitalized,” she said.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

The Ford government opened an Ontario protected area to development ... again

He wouldn't just say that to sell glasses right

The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Trump says he’s brought a $15 billion defamation and libel suit against the New York Times. He says the suit is being filed in Florida and calls the Times “one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country.”

“The Beauty of The Boom Years” - fascinating read on why many Chinese now look back nostalgically at the 2000s and early 2010s (the period when I happened to live in Beijing) in an implicit criticism of the present

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Anyone know why the massive flag in Vanier Park was at half mast over the weekend in #Vancouver?