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NEW: In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, plaintiffs who live in housing across the street from Portland's ICE facility today filed a preliminary injunction motion to bar the feds from shooting tear gas, etc., when not necessary, because it keeps entering their homes.
December 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEW: In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, plaintiffs who live in housing across the street from Portland's ICE facility today filed a preliminary injunction motion to bar the feds from shooting tear gas, etc., when not necessary, because it keeps entering their homes.
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Why do these people think the US is the only country that uses wide?
If only this was a known thing and the agencies worked together.
Oh, wait, they have since 2011.
www.energy.gov/eere/wind/mi...
If only this was a known thing and the agencies worked together.
Oh, wait, they have since 2011.
www.energy.gov/eere/wind/mi...
Mitigating Wind Turbine Radar Interference
The Wind Energy Technologies Office supports interagency efforts to identify and deploy technology and process improvements to mitigate impacts of wind farms on radars.
www.energy.gov
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Why do these people think the US is the only country that uses wide?
If only this was a known thing and the agencies worked together.
Oh, wait, they have since 2011.
www.energy.gov/eere/wind/mi...
If only this was a known thing and the agencies worked together.
Oh, wait, they have since 2011.
www.energy.gov/eere/wind/mi...
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Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
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Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?
Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?
But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.
Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?
But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.
Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?
Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?
But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.
Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?
But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.
Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
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Secretary of DEFENSE. Get it right.
December 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Secretary of DEFENSE. Get it right.
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Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.”
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
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Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
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Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.
What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.
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Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.
September 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.
In the Portland bunker. Supplies running low. Send DoorDash.
September 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In the Portland bunker. Supplies running low. Send DoorDash.
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They all look so joyous, as if they know this is the group they’ll be spending eternity in hell with.
September 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
They all look so joyous, as if they know this is the group they’ll be spending eternity in hell with.
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Trump's massive raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia is huge news all around the world. But in the US it's barely even reported, much less discussed and explained. Something fundamentally wrong with US media.
September 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Trump's massive raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia is huge news all around the world. But in the US it's barely even reported, much less discussed and explained. Something fundamentally wrong with US media.
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There are two competing narratives on this: science changed, or Republicans changed. You can figure out for yourself which one is more likely.
In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
September 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
There are two competing narratives on this: science changed, or Republicans changed. You can figure out for yourself which one is more likely.
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now I’m no economist but
I think before I instituted a massive tax hike ostensibly in order to increase tax revenue, I would ponder whether the newly-taxable activity would continue to occur at all after my proposed change in policy
I think before I instituted a massive tax hike ostensibly in order to increase tax revenue, I would ponder whether the newly-taxable activity would continue to occur at all after my proposed change in policy
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
n.pr
September 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
now I’m no economist but
I think before I instituted a massive tax hike ostensibly in order to increase tax revenue, I would ponder whether the newly-taxable activity would continue to occur at all after my proposed change in policy
I think before I instituted a massive tax hike ostensibly in order to increase tax revenue, I would ponder whether the newly-taxable activity would continue to occur at all after my proposed change in policy
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Most excellent thread on making ICE melt.
Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Most excellent thread on making ICE melt.
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Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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George Orwell, 1984: Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
June 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
George Orwell, 1984: Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
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What better way to observe the end of slavery than a rich old white man yelling to work harder.
June 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What better way to observe the end of slavery than a rich old white man yelling to work harder.
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"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...
"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't - emptywheel
Because Pete Hegseth cannot admit who he is -- and more importantly, that he is not superior or even competent -- he is demanding that the men and women who serve under him be something they are not.
www.emptywheel.net
June 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...
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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
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Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out.
www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
June 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out.
www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
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