A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility. This is beyond cruel. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

I'd add just one wrinkle to what C.E. has said here--and that has to do with the place of Portland in the imaginations of the more reactionary Oregon libertarians who live outside of Portland (or Eugene). Nothing says "Oregon libertarian" like wanting to impose authoritarian control over Portland.

I'm so old, I remember them going with "Obama bin Laden is funding the anti-WTO protests" back in 2000.

so, this weekend the great Dr. Demento did his final show. I could write a lot about the importance of his show to me & my friends when we were 12 and 13. there's more to it than "he played funny stuff" and "his show is where @alyankovic.bsky.social got his start." 1/3

The tenets of American Evangelicals are closer to those of Anton LaVey than Jesus. Discuss.

How is RFK Jr going to answer questions put to him about his boss having access to, and obtaining a COVID vaccination when he's ready to chuck the vaccines? For me, not for thee. 🦋 bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Dude is admitting the layoffs have political motives.

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration. MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

don't know why the Dems seem to think they can just wait this one out we've been waiting since he came down that golden escalator

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

A study of nearly 300,000 people published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found “that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Well this is some good news for once

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

The bit about the ICE guys laughing is very on-point. The job attracts a particular personality type.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

👀 Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Republicans on Obamacare funding, saying she’s not a fan of the law but demands action to prevent a premium hike. “I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.” She says GOP leaders don’t have a plan.

I was curious if The Post's shift to accommodating the right was yielding any distinct benefit to the paper. To this point, it hasn't — and it's hard to see why it would. More data (including on CBS) here: www.pbump.net/o/you-cant-g...

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

Oregon Republicans know they can't use an image of the actual (small, tame) protest in Portland to illustrate Trump's fever dream and their fake intel, so they had to make one from stock photos of South American "Policia" leaning on riot shields + what looks like Brazilian football fans with flares

If you were young in the '90s and lived in Portland, this song may make you happy. Look for "Portland How I Miss You." The whole album is available on Spotify. Added to your playlist. It'll help us out with the algorithm and I promise you you'll like it. 😁

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

we will see what happens, but i do not suspect a judge (any judge that hears this) is going to look favorably upon what is very obviously an attempt to circumvent another judge’s ruling

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

Influencers Are Being Paid $7K Per Post to Boost Pro-Israel Social Media Content

Closing rural hospitals to open urban concentration camps

Major victory in Kansas for transgender people. The Kansas Supreme Court declined to block a lower court ruling on gender markers on drivers license. ACLU Kansas says trans people can get their licenses updated starting Tuesday. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Damn he's good

Nearly 100 submissions from reproductive rights advocates around the world paint a clear picture of censorship in action: abortion content is being removed, restricted, and silenced by platforms at an alarming rate. www.eff.org/pages/stopc...

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

But don't you dare *ever* call them a cult.

At least tomorrow is probably gonna be even stupider.

Good to see this topic catch attention. I will have more to say (and reveal) on the subject soon!

What happened in Chicago isn't getting nearly enough attention.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

That's the most tense ninth inning I've seen in a while. And with that, Cubs win the Wild Card series! #ChicagoCubs

Does anyone think Trump will accept those key revisions? I don't.