CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

Paris Fashion Week introduced clothes that hid, confined, muzzled or even erased the women beneath. Some off-putting, sometimes cruel designs left our fashion critic wondering: What is the purpose of women’s fashion? nyti.ms/3W2ZfJ0

This is like disbanding your military during World War Two. The Trump regime is firing many of the 2,540 employee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the ongoing government shutdown. Why? CISA dismissed Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

ICE targeting priests now too substack.com/@thedangerou...

As the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, some Norwegians worried how President Trump would react to the decision and if there would be any potential repercussions to the country.

"Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago" Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers, reports @swin24.bsky.social. READ: zeteo.com/p/inside-tru...

“At this moment, when citizens in many of the world’s most successful liberal democracies are giving up, Venezuelans fight violence with nonviolence and oppose corruption through bravery.” Congratulations to Maria Machado on her Nobel Peace Prize. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

He's a mathematician! "The Portland Chicken—Jack Dickinson, 26, of Portland—started out protesting at the Tesla dealership, also on South Macadam Avenue, in February but has switched to the ICE building."

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole." religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Democracy leader wins Nobel Prize for bringing her people together after an authoritarian regime. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com

Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Shoutout to my comrades in “war-ravaged” Portland

This strikes me as pretty bad

How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

A message if humour & hope from the late Jane Goodall - substack.com/@poemz/note/...

Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Use Emergency Powers to Bypass Courts and Deploy Troops www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files. My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA. I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Trump seems to think that the National Guard is some pawn he can play whenever he wants to feel powerful. But let's be clear about what he's doing: he is using the US military against its own people. This is authoritarianism.

fascism /făsh′ĭz″əm/ • A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism

Bizarre Trump ramble to military seen as 'truly significant turning point' in presidency www.rawstory.com/trump-speech...

If we want to be the party of the people, we need to be out there WITH the people. Full stop.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Sen. Chris Murphy sends funds to anti-Trump organizing groups, the latest in a million-dollar effort. Good to see at least one politician waking up to the moment and funding @indivisible.org. What’s needed is mass mobilisation & boycotts, not Democrats asking for $$$. @democraticpartyhq.bsky.social

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Someday, they will pay the price, “I was following orders” wont save them

We are no longer at a “tipping point” or “an inflection point.” We are no longer “sliding” toward autocracy. Donald Trump no longer “aspires” to be an autocrat. Last week, Trump went full-bore authoritarian. The United States currently is not a functional democracy. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Harvard educated lawyer & the exhausting prejudice of America’s judicial system - bsky.app/profile/sylv...

Denmark may invoke NATO's Article 4 due to repeated unidentified drone incursions into its airspace, Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulson says. That would be the third time in a month article 4 - calling for discussions among members - has been invoked.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Twenty ways to resist an authoritarian regime. From 2017 by @timothysnyder share.google/hKMNy0hf3WZI...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

Sign of the times: A Columbia grad student handcuffed on the street by people claiming to be federal agents, later released, and it's still unclear whether they were feds or not Official university statement: president.columbia.edu/news/reminde...

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