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As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
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Ian Roberts, who grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 800 meters for Guyana, has been arrested by ICE.
Roberts is the *Des Moines (Ia.) Public Schools Superintendent.*
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
Roberts is the *Des Moines (Ia.) Public Schools Superintendent.*
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
September 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Ian Roberts, who grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 800 meters for Guyana, has been arrested by ICE.
Roberts is the *Des Moines (Ia.) Public Schools Superintendent.*
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
Roberts is the *Des Moines (Ia.) Public Schools Superintendent.*
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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I wrote about the Kimmel situation
The Age of Corporate Capitulation Won’t Work
Donald Trump came for Jimmy Kimmel. Disney folded immediately. It’s not just bad morals. It’s bad business.
www.theringer.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I wrote about the Kimmel situation
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February 1962.
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
February 1962.
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It’s a critical moment to step up and fight back against government overreach in media. If you’re a publisher who needs legal support, please let me know if I can help connect to resources to stand up to viewpoint-based government bullying
September 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
It’s a critical moment to step up and fight back against government overreach in media. If you’re a publisher who needs legal support, please let me know if I can help connect to resources to stand up to viewpoint-based government bullying
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They are literally canceling culture
September 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
They are literally canceling culture
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms.
this is not hyperbole. it's right here.
this is not hyperbole. it's right here.
Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."
September 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms.
this is not hyperbole. it's right here.
this is not hyperbole. it's right here.
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As expected, they’re using Charlie Kirk’s murder to justify attacking their political opponents.
Side note: The VP of the United States has just said he has no interest in unity. Wild times
Side note: The VP of the United States has just said he has no interest in unity. Wild times
Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."
September 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As expected, they’re using Charlie Kirk’s murder to justify attacking their political opponents.
Side note: The VP of the United States has just said he has no interest in unity. Wild times
Side note: The VP of the United States has just said he has no interest in unity. Wild times
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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From the Editorial Board:
We’re not here to stand up and defend all or even most of what Charlie Kirk said. But we’ll stand here and defend his right to have said it, and if it turns out that he was killed for speaking his mind, that’s something all Americans should decry.
We’re not here to stand up and defend all or even most of what Charlie Kirk said. But we’ll stand here and defend his right to have said it, and if it turns out that he was killed for speaking his mind, that’s something all Americans should decry.
Editorial: Charlie Kirk’s legacy should be a new American commitment to free speech and debate
We are not soldiers in a holy war. We are fellow Americans.
trib.al
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
From the Editorial Board:
We’re not here to stand up and defend all or even most of what Charlie Kirk said. But we’ll stand here and defend his right to have said it, and if it turns out that he was killed for speaking his mind, that’s something all Americans should decry.
We’re not here to stand up and defend all or even most of what Charlie Kirk said. But we’ll stand here and defend his right to have said it, and if it turns out that he was killed for speaking his mind, that’s something all Americans should decry.
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Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
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the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
September 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
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The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
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This war is not just on a major American city. This war is on Black leadership - and by extension, on Black Americans writ large. DC, Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans: what do they have in common? Black mayors.
Deny it all you'd like.
Deny it all you'd like.
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
September 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This war is not just on a major American city. This war is on Black leadership - and by extension, on Black Americans writ large. DC, Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans: what do they have in common? Black mayors.
Deny it all you'd like.
Deny it all you'd like.
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Powerful graphic: Chicago just saw its smallest summer murder total since 1965.
The city is on track to see one of its lowest murder totals in decades, a trend in play all year that continued through the city's most violent season. Murders are way, way down after a spike. Look:
The city is on track to see one of its lowest murder totals in decades, a trend in play all year that continued through the city's most violent season. Murders are way, way down after a spike. Look:
September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Powerful graphic: Chicago just saw its smallest summer murder total since 1965.
The city is on track to see one of its lowest murder totals in decades, a trend in play all year that continued through the city's most violent season. Murders are way, way down after a spike. Look:
The city is on track to see one of its lowest murder totals in decades, a trend in play all year that continued through the city's most violent season. Murders are way, way down after a spike. Look:
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“So in Chicago, we know all too well the outcomes of militarization of our communities, including the historically enhanced policing tactics by CPD and predominantly Black and brown communities on the South and West sides.”
thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...
thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...
'Workers Over Billionaires' marchers send a message to Trump: 'No troops in Chicago' • The TRiiBE
LIVE: Chicago hits the streets today for anti-Trump protests ahead of feds deployment.
thetriibe.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
“So in Chicago, we know all too well the outcomes of militarization of our communities, including the historically enhanced policing tactics by CPD and predominantly Black and brown communities on the South and West sides.”
thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...
thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...
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Sorry if this offends, but uh, I would very much prefer it out of state national guardsmen did NOT come to my city. I don’t want Chicago to be used as a political prop for the dumbest people who deeply, deeply, do not give a shit about any of us.
September 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Sorry if this offends, but uh, I would very much prefer it out of state national guardsmen did NOT come to my city. I don’t want Chicago to be used as a political prop for the dumbest people who deeply, deeply, do not give a shit about any of us.
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Breaking News: As planes with children sat on a tarmac, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of Guatemalan minors and demanded assurances that they would remain in shelters until a more permanent ruling.
Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac
The temporary block ended another last-minute flurry of legal action over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
nyti.ms
August 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Breaking News: As planes with children sat on a tarmac, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of Guatemalan minors and demanded assurances that they would remain in shelters until a more permanent ruling.
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There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
August 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.