Sandhya Dirks

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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Forgive me for being furious whenever my white colleagues seem to be able to commit all manner of journalistic wrongs and be rewarded with multiple income streams while I am left to wonder how the hell I'm going to pay my already exorbitant ACA premiums as I float my living expenses from my 401K

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

The brilliant @sulliview.bsky.social on the horrible appointment of Bari Weiss as Chief Editor of CBS News.

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Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World" "Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

Over 45 days, then-21 year old Alaqad moved from one temporary shelter to another, unable to process the horrors she documented on her phone.

“Every time I read [my diaries], I just feel disbelief, like, is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

It has also become normalized for journalism outlets to say they are advocates for "free markets" and "personal freedom" without pausing to recognize that that is in itself a kind of bias.

But it's a bias that the billionaire class likes.

This is so dark

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Justin J. Pearson of the 'Tennessee Three' Has Had It With 'Mediocrity' -- So He's Running for Congress

Justin J. Pearson — the 30-year-old Memphis representative and member of the “Tennessee Three” who protested gun violence — has announced a bid to primary 76-year-old Democrat Steve Cohen for a seat in the U.S. House.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

so not all opinions, just regime ones.

Exactly. I know personally how people with "normal qualifications" can slowly shape and chip away at what kind of stories can be covered, what kind of questions can be asked, what kind of reporting is rewarded. This can significantly impact the way the news reflects and alters reality.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

"cleansing" alongside lying about whose doing the "violence" generally leads to good things.

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

‘None of this is being done in secret – the judgments are public – but the changes have barely registered. Judges, whether serving or retired, tend not to speak out. Barristers know on which side their bread is buttered.’

Conor Gearty on the Human Rights Act: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ep. 1 Dirty Business: The Atlanta Narcotics Unit’s Deadly Raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston. Podcast Episode · Collateral Damage from The Intercept · 10/08/2025 · 55m

The first episode of Collateral Damage, my reported podcast with The Intercept, went up today.

Hope you’ll check it out and, if you enjoy it, give it a favorable rating or review.

Eternal thanks to my producers @lauraflynn.bsky.social and Andrew Stelzer for making it happen.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030.

OMG

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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The TESCREAL Bundle The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

as I tried to explain to corey robin, the Nazis were incompetent boobs.

not that that's much comfort to all the people they murdered.

It is unconscionable what innocent Palestinian people have been made to suffer in retaliation for the vicious attack of 10/7. They didn’t have anything to do with it. Many of the dead hadn’t even been born yet, or were old people sipping tea at home.

Where the Law is Silent: Plenary Power & the “National Security” Constitution - Harvard Political Review The unspoken truth is that the Constitution can be ignored in the name of “protecting” it, and thus the nation, from minorities.

Plenary power: a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.

Get used to seeing this term in the media for a while, after Stephen Miller accidentally used it in public with reference to the military.

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The only thing you really need to remember about Chiles v. Salazar is that ADF couldn't find any children harmed by not being able to find counselors who will practice conversion therapy—

so they rely on anonymous complaints on Reddit.

It's a fucking joke.