🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

“.. Dartmouth’s president said, in part, ‘.. we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.’”

@wcax.com
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CRUSHING UPDATE YESTERDAY : Journalist Mario Guevara deported. Mario will continue to pursue immigration appeals from El Salvador, hoping to return to the US and his family, both of which he dearly loves. Our hearts are w/ Mario, his family & the legal team that has worked around the clock.

“Our sacrifice as federal employees is a sacrifice for America” - Ashaki Robinson, president AFGE Local 476 speaking on MSNBC.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said."

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"Trump's 'compact with universities is just extortion... the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it."

Very good from UC Berkley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Higher ed leaders should all do so, and donors, unions, anyone with influence should pressure them to.

History has many painful lessons.

I mean come the hell on…

The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”

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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Julia and Jane is a conversation worth listening to.

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“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall

#RIPJaneGoodall

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The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

The modern day Fagins - and Fagin was fiction.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

2025 Press Freedom Rank
1 Norway
2 Estonia
3 Netherlands
4 Sweden
5 Finland
11 Germany
16 NZ
20 UK
21 Canada
25 France
27 S Africa
29 Australia
31 Poland
49 Italy
52 Ghana
57 US 🇺🇸
58 Gambia
61 S Korea
63 Brazil
66 Japan
89 Greece
112 Israel
124 Mexico
151 India
171 Russia
178 China
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“.. levels not seen since 1992.”

@bloomberg.com
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“As the government seems more and more willing to reject and ignore the rule of law, we are seeing that some of the most frontline individuals affected are reporters, and particularly immigrant reporters.” — @attorneynora.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social

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“There’s a reason the First Amendment is the ‘first’ amendment” - Hillary Clinton on Morning Joe.

Leonard Cohen on his tricycle with his sister
Westmount, Canada
ca. late 1930s