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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 10h

On Sept. 27, President Trump described Portland, Ore., as a “War ravaged” city.

But here is how federal officers described the scene outside the ICE building in southwest Portland on Sept. 25: “low energy.”

The next day the same: “low energy.”

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Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

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John Haltiwanger @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social · 1d

From @samfellman.bsky.social: An online army is waging a culture war against US troops www.businessinsider.com/inside-anti-...

Inside the anti-'woke' revolt that has American troops in its crosshairs

Trump vowed to banish 'woke.' Now, the culture wars are infiltrating the military and spreading paranoia among American troops

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Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social · 1d

This op-ed by Thomas Edsall referenced my reporting on the anti-woke activists targeting military officers: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · 14h

I spoke with The Daily about the judiciary's response to Trump's attempt to deploy the National Guard into US cities, and the question of whether simply declaring a "rebellion" makes it so, for legal purposes: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/p...

Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 1d

Quite the anecdote. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · 3d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 3d

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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 4d

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · 4d

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Samuel Rubenfeld (he/him) @srubenfeld.bsky.social · 11d

Two teens at the community garden tried on suit jackets from the adjoining free store.

Faking like they had a microphone, one said to the other: “I’d like to talk to you about tax evasion.”

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 19d

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

Shannon Bond @shannonbond.bsky.social · 20d

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.

www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 20d

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.

This is *not* normal.

I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 20d

Judge Timothy Kelly blocks the Trump administration from carrying out any removals of Guatemalan children, writing pretty sternly that all of its claims about reunifying them with their families at their parents’ request turned out to be false, and cover for a rushed “midnight operation.”

Judge Blocks Administration From Immediately Removing Guatemalan Children

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · 20d

The First Amendment is a radical libertarian grant. Something of an anomaly globally. It’s a challenging thing to maintain. Has always been and will always be subject to intense dispute and reinterpretation, especially at the margin

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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 25d

The Utah shooter joked on Discord with his friends that his doppelganger killed Charlie Kirk when they asked him about it

From Nick Bogel-Burroughs, and contribution from me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · 25d

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The Trolls Among Us (Published 2008)

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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 26d

NEW: Sec. Marco Rubio casts himself as a top general in Trump's new war in Latin America. He has steered the administration toward military strikes on drug traffickers, without due process. One killed 11 people. And he pushes mass deportations. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

Rubio Leads Charge in Trump’s New War in Latin America

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · Sep 6

The DEA (under the Obama administration at that time) stuck to their story for years, repeatedly giving Congress information that turned out to be false. Finally, in 2017, I got video of what happened through a FOIA lawsuit www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/w...

D.E.A. Says Hondurans Opened Fire During a Drug Raid. A Video Suggests Otherwise. (Published 2017)

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · Sep 6

In 2012, US-assisted Honduran forces shot and killed four supposedly armed drug traffickers who were actually unarmed civilians… www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

A Mission Gone Wrong

Why are we still fighting the drug war?

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · Sep 3

SCOOP: A few years ago, Merrick Garland invited a group of judges to DOJ where they got a warning: Sealed court filings were vulnerable to hackers.

But the courts were slow to harden their systems. Then, this summer, they were hacked again.

Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW: Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking.

After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC.

@kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...