In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Cycling in the buff is a Portland specialty, and one organization has announced a naked ride ‘in response to the militarization of our city,’” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. “Such is the war zone here.”

Breaking News: The FDA approved a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, expanding the supply at a time when the Trump administration is under pressure from abortion opponents to sharply restrict access to the pills.

NEW: Long Covid risk for children doubles after a second infection, study finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth issued a series of new directives that will make it harder for women to serve in combat and easier for personnel to engage in hazing and bullying without repercussions. Hegseth wants a gang of thugs, not a modern army. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

So there. Also, South Park.

Neat.

LinkedIn AI is upping its game…

i'm not big into conspiracy theories and claiming false flag and all that, but come on. it's pretty unanimously 'fuck ICE'. that's the phrase. y'all screwed this one up bad

This makes me happy, from Robin Wall Kimmerer plantbabyplant.com

Dafuq?

Wait. So climate change is a thing?

Hegseth orders the end of DACOWITS--said its agenda is "divisive." "Major themes ... have been prevention of sexual assault and harassment, gender equality and integration, career progression & women’s health and wellbeing." By @hopeseck.bsky.social www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/pentago...

This Rapture could’ve been an email

New: Nexstar and Sinclair are boycotting Jimmy Kimmel's return to late night tonight www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

Police officers zip-tied the hands of about a dozen anti-Trump protesters ahead of the president’s speech at the UN General Assembly in Manhattan on Tuesday. The protesters held signs that read, “Trump is the emergency.” One handmade sign said, in capital letters, “Dear world, we’re sorry.”

A tiny reason for hope: In the face of all the horrors, nearly 1,000 people signed up to run for office with @runforsomething.net just in the last week. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...

The Trump administration is limiting enforcement of fair housing laws, dismissing them as ideologically driven and DEI in disguise, according to interviews and internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Democrats now have a huge opening to go on the offensive. Between the RFK vaccine disaster, the Homan bribe, Trump's nakedly corrupt DM to Bondi, and Brendan Carr breaking the law, they should turn on the firehose. As should the press. Doomers will be blocked. TY for your attention to this matter.

I went to Twitter just to check that this creepy Brendan Carr tweet is real, and of course it is. Like in Russia, far-right trolls have taken over

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

Just FYI, @runforsomething.net is building the largest candidate pipeline in politics with nearly 250k people on our list considering a run for office - & our PAC is supporting nearly 300 state & local candidates in 2025 elections. Our budget this year is about $7.5 million.

Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide against Palestinians, a UN commission investigating the war in Gaza said on Tuesday. In earlier reports, the commission found that Israel had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, but stopped short of declaring it genocide. nyti.ms/484tpD5

The Trump administration ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back, one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era. nyti.ms/4nyyyaQ

Oh man. Definitely fell in love with him watching "Out of Africa" as a kid. Pretty much stayed there.

BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to unseat the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook days ahead of a vote on interest rates.

Guild statement about Karen Attiah:

An animal shelter in Montana had to evacuate more than 70 cats and dogs and 14 workers were treated for smoke inhalation after the FBI was using an incinerator to destroy methamphetamine in the same building.

Oof.

The cancer is deep when quoting Kirk is deemed offensive. The Post firing Attiah is an attempt to turn us all into liars.

JD Vance is right that its not a "both sides" problem--it is far and away a right wing problem and a MAGA problem specifically

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

Yeah. That stuck out to me, too. Neither are warriors, so it’ll likely be a long wait.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

You're going to see a lot of "he's a violent antifascist leftist" and "he's a groyper" but the core of Tyler Robinson's motivation is almost certainly that he's an online-poisoned idiot gamer.

Oh right. #Epstein

Also, it’s guano.

Right. Let the martyrdom begin: he was a good, kind, Christian man who sought only to make the world better by putting women and minorities back where they were about 175 years ago. Medal. Bravado and bravery are not the same.

Holy crap. Christine Brown is at No. 1 and I’m her ghost. Boo. Holy crap.

F’in hell. Evergreen.

Wait. So now the shooter is not in custody?

NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Neat. We really need to take this back, y’all.