Laurie Sefton

Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says The U.S. military exercise that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel onto a California Highway Patrol detail that was accompanying Vice President JD Van...

Oops…
www.latimes.com/california/s...

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

PPS Students Are Flocking to Their School Libraries This fall, phones went out of sight at Portland Public Schools buildings. And then something unexpected happened.

Without access to their phones, students went to the school library: www.wweek.com/news/schools...

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A screenshot of an X.com post by @Acyn , Acyn, posted 3 hours ago, stating, "Question: Why did you refuse the National Guard on January 6th? Pelosi: Turns Around Shut up. I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it! Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you are a serious journalist?" The post includes a video still from Lindell TV showing a confrontation: a woman in a green jacket (Pelosi) speaking into a microphone held by a man in a blue suit, with another man in a suit and a background of parked cars and a government building.

Nancy Pelosi is sick of their bullshit.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request The group ICE Sighting-Chicagoland has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds ram SUV after pursuit into residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

Feds ram SUV after pursuit into residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

This bunch is the future of the Republican Party? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis prospect.org/politics/tru...

SFPD seized guns, meth, stolen Porsche at home next to high school “They completely lied,” John Richard Choy says about the allegations lobbed by the San Francisco police.

‘I’m not a criminal’: Man busted with stolen Porsche, guns, pound of meth claims innocence: sfstandard.com/2025/10/03/s...

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

It’s so good that they are so bad at OpSec: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Welp. 😬🇺🇸

CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism) on Threads THIS IS EPIC. 🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Stephen Colbert just invited the editor of "The New Yorker" to unveil the next cover of the magazine—which depicts Trump’s tiny hand over the mute button on a remote co...

www.threads.com/@calltoactiv...

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.

Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣

This is a must-watch. 🔥

What's on the menu and who's on the guest list at state banquet? Chicken and a special cocktail are being served, while Rupert Murdoch and Tim Cook are among the guests.

Only three courses, although that’s a King Charles thing. Tim Cook was much closer to the royals than the other tech leaders, which I found interesting. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

In case you’re wondering: www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Strong east winds loft 1980s volcanic ash from Mount St. Helens, no eruption occurring "Mt. Saint Helens is NOT erupting," the National Weather Service in Portland posted on X Tuesday morning.

No eruption, just windy: katu.com/news/local/s...

Nepal's parliament set on fire after PM resigns over anti-corruption protests A social media ban that aimed to stifle an anti-corruption movement sparked unrest leaving at least 22 dead since Monday.

For some reason, it’s not getting a lot of attention in the US press: www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Wow… www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Opinion: History calls on Susan Collins to rebuild the traditional Republican Party "She may not turn the party around, but in the current crisis, she can play a strong, visible and independent role in preserving and promoting the traditional GOP."

Say <incredibly foul and disgusting word here>-ing what!?! www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/27/o...

Two babies in hospital, pets dying, and the Indiana government telling residents there’s nothing wrong: cbs4indy.com/business/pre...

ICE aims to spend millions on decked-out vehicles for D.C. operation Documents show the agency is seeking to purchase two dozen SUVs, along with gold-detailed custom wraps.

Yes, gold wrapped ICE vehicles: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

YouTube video by ITV News JD Vance's UK vacation is causing chaos in the Cotswolds | ITV News

JD Vance, makin’ friends… youtu.be/I0xbKu83MAc?...

Library of Congress Website Deleted Part of the Constitution That Trump Doesn't Like. Now They're Calling It a 'Coding Error' The Library of Congress removed two and a half sections of the Constitution from its website sometime after President Donald Trump ousted the library's longtime leader in May. The omitted portions of ...

We all know this isn’t a coding error: We all know this isn’t a coding error: people.com/library-of-c...

Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin Too big to come from a dying star and too small to inhabit the center of a galaxy, these black holes are a puzzle that scientists are using LIGO to investigate.

Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin
theconversation.com/meet-lite-in...

NHL mascot Buoy chased by bear in Alaska The Seattle Kraken mascot, who was filming a promotional video with team forward John Hayden, safely escaped the encounter.

Getting chased by an Alaska Brown Bear was not in the job description : www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

These public radio stations have built online audiences that’ll help them survive federal cuts They may have been born on the airwaves, but these public media stations compete on the web as well. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 local public media websites in the United States.

“According to station estimates, those federal dollars made up 3% of the annual budget at Boston’s WBUR, 5% at Seattle’s KUOW, 6% at Chicago’s WBEZ, and 8% at San Francisco’s KQED.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/thes...