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Commentary: The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn't UC join their lawsuit? The UC faculty went to court to fight Trump's funding cutoffs and won. Why has the university system tried to negotiate instead?

Admin at UC have claimed various reasons why they aren’t fighting in court, but they simply are afraid to take on the Feds, believing antagonism will somehow make a terrible situation worse. Thing is, it can’t be much worse, and you can’t placate a bully.

“One deputy, Sgt. Ibarra, reportedly taunted the women that the videos would be posted online, but they’d have to blur their genitalia,” Chan wrote in the public defender’s complaint.”

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

Iran's dual reality: As veil restrictions ease, political crackdown deepens On Tehran's bustling streets, signs of change are unmistakable. Women walk unveiled in jeans and sneakers, men and women linger together in cafés where Western music hums softly, and couples stroll hand-in-hand — subtle acts that chip away at the rigid social codes that have long defined the Islamic Republic.

Iran's dual reality: As veil restrictions ease, political crackdown deepens reut.rs/49OaSLN

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

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it is so crazy making to be in a room full of people coughing and you’re the only one masking, not even the people coughing, and it’s treated as completely normal again to just blatantly get each other sick all the time without a care in the world

rich for someone who spent their journalism career, in which they did no real reporting, complaining about journalism practices

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In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots I don’t want to be assaulted by a driver, nor surveilled by cat-killing robot cars. Is this really the best we can do?

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My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

It’s ok to be inspired—even, or especially, when shit’s this crazy out there. Let me be clear: I’m not obsessed with optimism, nor do I think it always works out.

But we should be wary of those who tell us to rid ourselves of hope.

The opposite of hope for the enslaved is enslavement, after all.

the PBS livestream is showing zohran supporters singing unwritten while they wait for him to talk, amazing

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

all I hear is joyful screaming so yes im in LA and I can say without fact checking the dodgers won

thank you!

thank you!!

SFUSD’s New Boss Got a 6-Month ‘Honeymoon.’ Now Deep Budget Cuts Are Coming Superintendent Maria Su has avoided teacher layoffs, slashed central office staff, and promised to ‘make magic happen.’ The real test starts this fall.

the third in the package was a feature on the new superintendent, who came in crisis well regarded from City Hall but without the education credentials and whose first directive is to make tons of unpopular cuts thefrisc.com/sfusds-new-b...

Millions of Extra Dollars for SFUSD Are Frozen, Even as Budget Cuts Loom The state’s fiscal grip on SF public schools stalls hiring, but the district won’t cop to it. ‘Where’s the communication?’

the other was also regarding funding, this time the problem being SFUSD having voter-approved money but not spending it due to state oversight, while having to make budget cuts under state oversight thefrisc.com/millions-of-...

SFUSD’s $30M Special Education Error Adds More Stress for Families, Teachers Officials replaced the missing funds, but the gaffe stymied hiring for positions that were already hard to fill. And the dollars still don’t add up.

one of the stories in the package was going deep on special education funding, due to a ~$30 million~ budget removal that has yet to be fully explained. the results were devastating for SPEd families and educators thefrisc.com/sfusd-30-mil...

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Trump says federal agents 'will not surge San Francisco' In a Truth Social post, the president said calls with San Francisco’s mayor and some tech titans convinced him to wait, for now.

Trump says "surge" operation of federal agents in San Francisco is paused following phone call with SF Mayor Lurie and some tech titans.

Unclear what this means for Oakland and other Bay Area communities. Little is known about the DHS operation Trump ordered.

oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/t...

My @sfchronicle.com are already at Coast Guard Island, where feds are already clashing with protesters, per @sarahravani.bsky.social, and where law enforcement already shot off flashbangs at protesters blocking the roads to the island

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If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

US news outlets say they will not agree to Pentagon reporting restrictions Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.

kinda shocked at the unity from news organizations here. newsmax and the washington times are also not signing off on the new, brazenly illegal rules placed on reporters by the Pentagon www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Speculating on Republican motivations, Dougherty said at his Chestnut Hill event that he expects the court to continue playing a major role in election law: “The theory is that we have to deal with a congressional election in 2026, and there’s preparation regarding gerrymandering for the next presidential election—should there be one.”

in which a sitting justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to imply he’s worried about whether there’ll be a presidential race in 2028 boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

noooo

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

Incredible. Exonerated after 43 years of being falsely imprisoned, rather than releasing him to his awaiting family, the police released him to ICE, beginning deportation proceedings.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Stephen Miller Follow @StephenM Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself. › Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance • 3h 1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. IMMERGUT, District Judge. This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.