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sarah jeong
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features editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.com. Portland, OR
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on the other site, a magnificent post of extraordinary proportions
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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GQ: Congratulations on your big follow by Elon Musk, Caity. Were you aware of Elon Musk before he followed you? Caity: I was aware of him in the sense that I am generally aware of all God's creatures, though whether I can identify their specific jobs is another story. Is he dating Miranda Kerr? I think that's the Snapchat guy... [10 minutes pass.] Is that the end of the interview? So Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, found himself in the crosshairs of Twitter today for not following any women. A few minutes after the news broke, he followed you. How does it feel to be the only woman he follows? I've always considered myself one of the top women in the world,
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I think this take on the sandwich guy trial is correct. our system is built assuming that prosecutors will show appropriate restraint. the sandwich guy case went on for way too long and that in and if itself should be raising alarm bells www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...
But just how low is the bar for assault if you're protesting against the Trump administration, not protesting in support of Trump's claim that his election was stolen? It is easy to anticipate how the triumphant calls of "so there" from this administration might extend beyond mere hoagie-hurling to other ways of running afoul of law enforcement. Hoagie-Or Hero? The jury takes upwards of seven hours to find Sandwich Guy not guilty. The length of time in deliberations, along with the multi-day trial, proves the judge's claim wrong. The case isn't simple. Or Sandwich Guy could be all of these things. His escapades are a form of protest simultaneously righteous and ridiculous-their ridiculousness rendering them, in the face of overzealous prosecution, even more righteous, like the inflatable dinosaurs boldly marching before militarized law enforcement brigades at anti-ICE demonstrations nationwide. Of course, his antics are also illegal, which is why they had to go to the jury at all. The defense's Rule 29 motion for dismissal as a matter of a law failed. You actually aren't allowed to throw a sandwich at a cop. And it is the prerogative of the U.S. attorney's office to determine that this is a crime which society simply cannot tolerate and for which a person will therefore have to answer to a sometimes-giggling jury. But no matter how you see Sandwich Guy, the government's message in forcing 12 citizens of Washington, D.C., to decide his case even after a grand jury had rejected felony charges is clear: Mess with this government, and it will mess with you.
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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when a writer files a draft you were simply not prepared for www.theverge.com/report/81448...
congrats you made me cry about baseball the fuck is wrong with you
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
But the police very soon had much bigger fish to fry, as out-of-state influencers swooped in to get in on the content-rich environs of the Portland ICE facility. On October 2nd, local police arrested Nick Sortor of Washington, DC, on suspicion of disorderly conduct. After Sortor was released the following morning, he told his 1.2 million followers on X that he had spoken to Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Bondi later opened an investigation into the Portland police.) Sortor, who was also invited to Trump’s roundtable on “antifa,” went on to publicly attack the Portland Police Bureau for being “Antifa-infiltrated,” an allegation that the Trump administration appears to be taking seriously — the word of an influencer being, apparently, much weightier than the thin blue line.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I think it is very clear that the Trump regime sees the right-wing influencers on the ground in Portland as an informal arm of their government www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
If this is all a bad-faith hunt for pretext, that’s alarming enough — but if the Trump judges are truly taking clashes between protesters and counter-protesters seriously, and using them to justify the deployment, the situation is arguably even worse. The National Guard are putatively being deployed to protect federal employees; the obvious conclusion here is that the counter-protesters and right-wing influencers now comprise a paramilitary arm of the federal government that the Trump regime believes is also entitled to protection by the National Guard. That they might possibly be cranks with fewer than 2,000 followers on TikTok is of no consequence — they now have a direct line to the Justice Department, to guns, and to boots on the ground.
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Judge Immergut's PI against the Portland National Guard deployment. Long-time readers will be able to spot the part where I screamed and died inside
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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the ketchup banchan is fucking destroying me
October 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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shoutout to my boy at haeinsa temple who told me to stick my arm through the grate if I wanted the best picture of the tripitaka koreana
October 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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*derogatory drilling noise*
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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so much about this case is judges in extreme distress
"I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur. Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer."
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Sua sponte call for en banc less than two hours after the 9th Cir decision to let loose the National Guard into Portland
October 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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@reckless.bsky.social party speakers at portland ice protest
October 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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App Store not beating the chickenshit allegations
The most significant battles that the Trump regime has won have been against corporations, institutions, billionaires, and elites — the “chickenshit,” in journalist Adam Serwer’s words, worse than mere cowards. “Acts of cowardice can be provoked by genuine danger — think of a deserting soldier fleeing the peril of the battlefield,” he writes. “When you’re chickenshit, you capitulate to avoid the mere possibility of discomfort, let alone something resembling real risk.”
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Just to be clear, we wrote that paragraph long before the App Store removed ICEBlock. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
So antifa could be a kid in a black mask tossing a brick at a CCTV camera at an ICE facility. Antifa could be the grandma on the sidewalk holding a sign reading “DONALD TRUMP IS A FASCIST.” Antifa is ACAB. Antifa is Fuck ICE. Antifa is No Kings. Antifa might be a reading group, a teach-in, an Instagram solicitation for mutual aid. Antifa could be the ICEBlock app, and the App Store could be providing material support for terrorism.
October 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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In the Trump regime, every accusation is a confession. The terrorism is coming from inside the White House. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
Indeed, the memo’s description of the environment that leads to terroristic violence applies cleanly to the entire right-wing ecosystem. But perhaps the most striking accusation-as-confession is this paragraph from the national security presidential memorandum: "This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society." What is this but an elegant encapsulation of the past 10 years? It describes everything from the removal of Jimmy Kimmel from the air to the Libs of TikTok pattern of incitement to Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist to Fox News’ defamation of Dominion Voting Systems and its employees to the celebrity worship of people like Kyle Rittenhouse.
October 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"One old man, aged 64 or 65, said he had no appetite, and finished five bowls.”

it me
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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this is hell

www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...
Hit pause on the clip and something strange happens: a prompt reading “Find Similar” pops up. When a viewer clicks the prompt, TikTok automatically pulls videos that look visually close to the footage of the woman — and more disturbingly, it suggests products on TikTok Shop that look like what she is wearing in the video. Among the products suggested are a “Dubai Middle East Turkish Elegant Lace-Up Dress” and “Women’s Solid Color Knot Front Long Sleeve Dress.” The scanning feature also identified the head covering the woman is wearing and the beige handbag she carries as she shouts out for her family — and suggested similar-looking products on the TikTok shopping platform. Screenshots that show the interface described.
September 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism. The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt. The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Department of Homeland Security boasted of "the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement." Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced. Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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this is insane lol. we're out here punishing human rights organizations for respecting international law www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
In a subsequent statement, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the rights groups were targeted for having “directly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent”.
September 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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finally, if you ever see these stickers on the front of a restaurant (especially with the current year listed) it's gonna be fucking dope as all hell and you should definitely eat it.
September 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM