It’s never too late to start masking again.

It can be daunting to mask back up when no one else is bothering, but your health is worth it.

Every Covid infection is a dice roll with disability, and a good respirator like an N95 stops chains of transmission.

You’ll also get less colds & flus!

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

In ruling that the government cannot deploy the National Guard in Portland

A federal judge finds that president Trump lied

“this Court concludes that the President did not have a ‘colorable basis’ to..federalize the National Guard..The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts”

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Oakland dioramas! Even a side show

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

They’re! Still! Using! Signal! (And! Badly!)

Slow Horses season 5 has it all: masculinity crisis, PTSD

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Isaac Chotiner interviews the Bluesky Moderation team.

🎧 On this week’s show: @jamellebouie.net on how fear of Trump is holding us back, and Corey Robin on eerie parallels between now and McCarthysim. lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

What should I watch tonight?

Contenders:

Good Night, and Good Luck
The Zone of Interest
An American Bombing: The Road to April 19

go to a thrift store! you can find stuff used easy peasy

"This case is meant to chill all of us."

Atlanta-based journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation to El Salvador despite having work authorization in the U.S., where he has lived for decades. He was detained while covering a "No Kings" protest and has spent over 100 days behind bars.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown @19thnews.org
"This is what she lives with every day now: “The fear of leaving your family and letting them know, ‘If I don’t return, it’s not because I am abandoning you.’”
19thnews.org/2025/09/chil...

NEW from my colleagues @emilychang.bsky.social and Ed Ludlow: Rivian plans to incorporate a manual door release that is more clearly visible and located near the electrically powered interior handles in the rear doors of its next-generation SUV

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

🎵sung to Born to Run🎵

In the day we sweat it out on Wall Street’s run,
Lookin’ for the numbers that never come.
Out on the wires the markets scream,
But the jobs report’s just a broken dream.

🧵

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.

We should all be outraged.

freedom.press/issues/mario...

Here is a GIFT LINK to our investigation on Tesla's Dangerous Doors, which published last month: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...