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Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

As everyone else has noted, the ice stuff is just going to get worse and the dem plan of ignoring it isn't going to get better

A military-style operation is taking place outside the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois, featuring snipers stationed on rooftops and armored vehicles on the streets. Protesters are reportedly being abducted and vanished, signaling authoritarian repression in this Chicago suburb.

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The infrastructure for our current political renegotiation of course predates Obama. It also redacted Regan. But that it took so long to reach its apotheosis suggests that a very special catalyst was needed.

I believe there’s a strong case that Obama was that catalyst.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Wild scene: Suspected plainclothes agent filming a DC citizen, demanding to know where they live.

Agent accuses citizen of not being from DC because they have a "different accent."

(Witness told me agent had Ohio plates & was possibly carrying a gun or radio beneath his shirt).

An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.

Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Underrated reason why Israel is currently at -70% approval with Democrats in the US and basically every left of center group in the Western Hemisphere today is this is the average Israel supporter's rhetoric

Absolutely heinous.

That headline does not require the word “independence.”

Dear Dartmouth community. As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." SHARE THIS f x» I am deeply committed to Dartmouth's academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence. You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

Unless I’m misreading, this short statement actually seems equivocal or at best a placeholder. It does not say they are refusing, and to the contrary seems to hold the door open.

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”

The U.S. is probably going to lose our elimination status for measles in 2026.

Anyone tired of so much “winning”?

MAHA is a toxic infection of the brain that spreads via social media and results in the rejection of scientific fact, followed by disease and death.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

Purdue University student newspaper parts ways with F-1 visa students The Exponent and the university came to similar conclusions after Purdue distanced itself from the publication this summer.

“We are not hiring international students in the interest of their safety and to avoid jeopardizing their legal status in the United States – not because we don’t want them,” said Editor in Chief Olivia Mapes in an editorial Thursday.
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Google’s Quiet Censorship of Gaza’s Satellite Imagery Google have begun showing users older images of Gaza, hiding the devestation of Israel's campaign of Genocide began.

How do you hide a Genocide that's visible from sattelites?
You do what Israel did, pay Google to change what maps are used by default.

A video has emerged of an Israeli drone dropping an incendiary bomb onto displaced tents yesterday in Gaza City.

🚨🚨red alert, UC colleagues🚨🚨

President Milliken is telegraphing the university’s surrender to the administration’s demands. “Ensuring that UC remains” is administrativeese for “we are giving them all they want”

For a long time before one of my ten million moves destroyed it my most prized possession was a (quickly emptied) bottle of vodka embossed ON THE INSIDE with the visage of the Turkmenbashi. It would float through the glass like some holographic beacon of authoritarian branding. Just saying.

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square • The TRiiBE A roundup of ICE activity in the Chicagoland area on Oct. 3.

What a hed. Chicago today:

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

New study finds that overly agreeable & validating AI chatbots make people more extreme in their beliefs. They essentially function as your own personalized echo chamber.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

JFC the Israeli minister of diasporic affairs use an anti-semitic attack as occasion to express solidarity with…the UK’s most famous racist, who is also a convicted stalker and fraudster. Even by the usual unhinged standards of hasbara what is this meant to accomplish?!

In this episode, Harsh Mander speaks to historians Mridula Mukherjee and Vinay Lal about the origins of the RSS, the ideas of its founders, the role it played (and did not play) in India’s freedom… Mridula Mukherjee, Vinay Lal & Harsh Mander on the RSS ideologues

🎙️“The affinity [between political #Zionism and political #Hindutva] has to do with the state of Israel as a fundamentally Jewish state and the Hindutva view that #India is a fundamentally Hindu rashtra or country,” says Vinay Lal to Harsh Mander #RSS
#karwanemohabbat
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