President Donald Trump has dispatched federal agents to Portland, local elected officials said in a hastily scheduled press conference on Friday night

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Love how these brain rotted pundits have turned freedom of speech onto duty to listen.

So Mackenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, donated $70 million to HBCUs. It’s her biggest single donation yet

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...

Well worth a read for the thorough articulation of all the harm that has been done to the NIH.

Ask the 'privacy-is-dead' bros (you know, the ones who are all "everything we do is tracked, anyway") for a single thing in 20 years they've done to stop growing surveillance? The 'there's no point' dudes never lifted a finger for ANYONE. So no, my dude, I don't listen to you. I do the work.

Welp my debunking false narratives Margaret Sanger piece is gonna get a big bump because of this. rewirenewsgroup.com/2015/08/20/f...

Bets on whether collections have/are about to hit maxint?

Apparently a certain someone asked his foreign made bathroom mirror a question this morning about who was the most tremendous leader of them all and got the wrong answer.

Costco near me started carrying Schwartz Brothers Garlic and Herb bagel chips. They are addictive. I'm going through my third container this month.

Here is the formal letter the NIH sent today to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk. “These projects are fully reinstated, and the letter dated July 31, 2025 is rescinded without conditions. Funds will be made available immediately and are no longer suspended, terminated, or restricted.”

SO glad to see this! (alt text: a screenshot of the letter)

A little gruesome to watch in a nature red in tooth and claw way: sperm whale eating giant squid.

Real life monster battle. Wow.

The channel, named Woman Shot A.I, started on June 20, 2025. It posted 27 videos, had over 1,000 subscribers, and had more than 175,000 views, according to the channel’s publicly available data. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

BREAKING: Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won the special election in Arizona’s 7th congressional district. This means there are enough members now (218) to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files.

The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War. "Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.

Excellent.

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Excellent thread on why Trump’s fascism is different from the rabid bigotry we have previously seen in the US, and why our strategies to combat it need to be different.

If you make the effort to fact-check these pretexts and prove them wrong, fascists will wait until you are almost there, then move on to the next pretext. Your arguments are irrelevant to them. Outmaneuvering you, keeping you going in circles, is the "win" they are looking for. 5/

The sky offered up trans colors tonight. I’m taking it as a sign of support from the universe.

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

If someone asked me to give them only one chart that explained the background conditions that facilitated Trumpism, this is the one I'd pick.

This is a really well written profile of an actor I haven’t really considered seriously. I’m definitely going to see The Smashing Machine. Enjoy the gift read, it’s open to all.

Wayne Connell, Chief HR officer for @washingtonpost.com, voluntarily put his name on a letter informing a Black woman that men who believe she is genetically inferior are a protected class and that she engaged in misconduct by criticizing men who have historically advocated for lynching Black people

Karen Attiah made critical comments about *men who are white supremacists* and @washingtonpost.com said that they are a protected class Be clear about what they were saying That white supremacists are a protected class

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

Me: So this dough faced white guy said “you should want the FBI to come to your house.” Her: no the fuck you shouldn’t.

Gonna be another long ass four years of people try to make conservatives feel shame and embarrassment about their naked hypocrisy. Conservatives do not give a fuck about being hypocrites. They do not have any shame. Their supporters do not give a single fuck.

bruh John Yoo drafted the memos to give the Bush administration legal cover for torturing people John Yoo said the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to "terrorists" and even he is like 'yikes Trump is crossing a line'

The EFF also has a guide: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

The ACLU has written a guide to basic protest OPSEC that addresses the very basic risk factors -- it's nowhere near fully comprehensive, but it's the absolute table stakes for responsible protest: aclu-wa.org/story/Protes...

The first people the police and the regime target at a protest will ALWAYS be the marginalized people around you: the Black people, the people they baselessly racially profile as likely to be undocumented, the queer and gender non-conforming, and other enemies of the regime.

Lol. If you look up "it's okay when the President does it" in the dictionary, they have a picture of John Yoo. So for him to say this is quite something. This is the guy who wrote the legal memo justifying torture. And now he's all "hey, there's a line!"

Nowhere did I say don't go to a protest. I just said don't sign up for one. And white men have lost their fucking minds in my mentions.

This has not been a fantastic year for my garden. The PNW has been drier than usual, we are going into the fall with a 6” deficit in water. I didn’t water my garden enough in the early weeks, so everything was just scrawny. But it’s ending better than it started. 🌱

Excellent plain language breakdown of Trump's 2nd term agenda. From a Korean editorial from The Hankyoreh "MAGA represents a reactionary movement by white evangelical forces seeking to revert America to a time before the civil rights movement in the 1960s." via metafilter

Really fascinating take on the Kirk murder and digital media from one of my absolute faves, Dr. Amber Alton: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6osjHCd/

There are those in this country who call it "free speech" when people say hateful and wrong things about minorities. They don't want to allow any of that same "free speech" from people who are standing against that.

Karen was the last full-time Black opinion writer at the Washington Post. She was also one of the last courageous voices on an opinion page that has now been gutted of them. Supposed defenders of free speech are actively silencing anyone who disagrees with them.

The Washington Post is busy cutting off its nose to spite its face. The firing of journalists and columnists who are refusing to whitewash Kirk’s own statements and actions is meant to be an intimidation of anyone who will not toe the line. Free speech for me, but not for thee.

Friday night/Saturday morning I found an itchy area that I at first thought was a mosquito bit. But then more bumpy, itchy areas on my abdomen and arms. I went to t care and stumped the doctor. Not hives, not bug bites, but he said pretty much def an allergic reaction. Now on prednisone for the itch

I love this as a concept. Not sure how well it would fly at our Garmer’s Market

Get your Tdap booster about every 4-5 years for the fullest protection. The pertussis vaccine protection wanes by more than half after 5 years. They will give you the shot earlier for the tetanus component, just ask that it include pertussis also.

From the outside, the watershed moment appears to be the Republican response. Not the actual murder.