What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...

Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.”

By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

are renewables better for the environment than fossil fuels? yes. is it cheaper? also yes. is it less dangerous to extract? yes, significantly.

but you've gotta understand if we switched, the people who are currently wealthy would not be as wealthy

30 years too late if you ask me. How many lives would have been saved if this war criminal never made it to the top?

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article) Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

Gift link.

This is the kind of thing that should be shared with people who don't spend all day online like we do. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

7 baserunners thrown out, none via double play.

during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now

Ready for it to be over.

I’ve been obsessed with The Living End since they briefly landed on US rock stations in 2001. Love the albums Roll On and Modern Artillery.

The next administration--which, God willing, will be sane--should try Trump for murder. The insane, politicized, wholly-made-up Supreme Court immunity decision should be overridden--Congress should legislate sensible immunity rules, and strip courts' jurisdiction to review.

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.

Block on sight.

Protect your digital space.

Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.

The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

‘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.

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

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@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Liam threw me this hat from the Red Sox float at June’s Boston Pride parade. So yes, I can independently confirm.

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

Whooo boy. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

Hey MLB: Stand up to the Orange cancer in the White House. You won’t.

I should have known that American concentration camps were going to come with merch.

I was promised we’d be protected by ‘good guys with guns’ five years ago. Guess they stopped to grab coffee first.

Gestapo.

Where’s Celebrity Deathmatch when you need it?

Dust off your Jude stars, my fellow chosen people. The Gestapo are on the way!

The Rick Kenmore fit tonight looked sharp. Which fictional bowler will he dress as for Game 4?