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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

🔥 Climate change and wildfire disasters

A global study (1980–2023) found that deadly and costly wildfires have surged since 2015, driven by extreme climate conditions near populated areas.

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#SciComm #Climate #Wildfires 🧪

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America...

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America...

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Texas, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University

We are watching and waiting for you to say no.

It does not take an advisory committee to study the issue. Any University admin that takes their responsibility seriously knows you don’t surrender academic freedom. Anyone whoever encountered a playground bully knows how this goes.

I gave this advice to my son today. Until the “nine” reject this extortion in no uncertain terms we need to ask why Trump considers them easy targets.

Governor Newsom: No state funding for sell-out universities | Governor of California

My advice to students considering a school that caves to Trump’s extortion - what Gov Newsom rightly calls a “RADICAL AGREEMENT” is don’t apply. Not a safe place to practice scholarship whether your politics are right or left. This includes UT where I got my PhD. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/02/g...

one of the more useful things psychoanalysis teaches is that desire to make a thing as you fantasize about it can produce actions that make it like that thing. So Chicago, Portland...lovely, vibrant, amazing places. But you can turn them into the hellholes you imagine with soldiers, helicopters...

Edward and Alphonse Elric burned down their house I recall.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Newsom threatens state funding for California universities that agree to Trump demands Newsom said California universities that sign what he called the “RADICAL AGREEMENT” will lose state funds, including those for scholarships.

Sorry to see schools placed in this situation but very glad Newsom is doing this. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Anyone seen the text of the letter sent to 9 universities on “the compact”?

Open Letter to Anti-Trans Science Journalists To my science journalist colleagues at the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and elsewhere: I write this open letter on the day the New York Times begins a podcast series…

I wrote this open letter to my fellow science journalists, but it could very easily be adapted to address @jay.bsky.team and the rest of the bsky team galileospendulum.org/2025/06/05/o...

85 yo Reagan-appointee Judge Young was on fire and wrote with power and beauty, his decision is defense of our principles, the law, and a call to action

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

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My sister - trapped in Portland - reports that all is quiet on the front but that my nephews team lost a tough soccer match.

This summer I visited Portland in the run up to the war and attended a parade featuring a bagpiper on a unicycle. Clearly preparations were afoot for the war.

I visited this summer during peacetime. Attended a tank free parade with a bagpiper on a unicycle. Bagpipes are a bit martial. I checked with my sister to confirm the report of the Guardian’s brave war correspondent; she confirms all quiet on the front but my nephews team lost their soccer match

Excerpt from Guardian article: “A visit by the Guardian to downtown Portland on Saturday morning confirmed that the city is placid, the farmers’ market was packed and the protest against immigration enforcement in an outlying residential neighborhood remained small. There were just four protesters on the sidewalk near the Ice field office Trump claimed was “under siege”. One, wearing a chicken costume and draped in an American flag, held up a sign that read: “Portland Will Outlive Him.” Passing motorists honked in appreciation.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Guardian shows how to do reporting in 2025.

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

I am losing my mind www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

He needs to prosecuted for assault

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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This is what I’m talking about! Fight together!

Email from Erika Kirk asking for money: “I want to thank you for loving my husband. For standing with us in the worst days of our lives. For praying. For mourning. For remembering. But now, I need you to listen closely... Because the evildoers who took Charlie’s life? They have NO idea what they have done. They didn’t just try to silence a man... They tried to silence his message — a message of patriotism, of faith, and of God’s merciful love. Instead, they ignited something even greater. If they thought my husband’s mission was powerful before... They have NO idea what they have just UNLEASHED. Not just across this country... But in me. They have no idea the fire they’ve lit inside this wife. And to those listening across America… Let me be clear: The movement my husband built will not die. I refuse to let that happen. And I know all of us will refuse to let that happen, too. Charlie’s mission will grow: Stronger. Bolder. Louder. Greater than ever. I shared these words publicly, from my heart — just two days after I lost the love of my life. I want you to watch. I want you to hear what Charlie meant to me. And I want you to hear what comes next: Watch my Remarks Charlie gave everything for this country. And I will never stop speaking his name. We will not let the light he lit go out. Not now. Not ever. For Charlie, “

“2nd part of TPUSA email: I want to thank you for loving my husband. For standing with us in the worst days of our lives. For praying. For mourning. For remembering. But now, I need you to listen closely... Because the evildoers who took Charlie’s life? They have NO idea what they have done. They didn’t just try to silence a man... They tried to silence his message — a message of patriotism, of faith, and of God’s merciful love. Instead, they ignited something even greater. If they thought my husband’s mission was powerful before... They have NO idea what they have just UNLEASHED. Not just across this country... But in me. They have no idea the fire they’ve lit inside this wife. And to those listening across America… Let me be clear: The movement my husband built will not die. I refuse to let that happen. And I know all of us will refuse to let that happen, too. Charlie’s mission will grow: Stronger. Bolder. Louder. Greater than ever. I shared these words publicly, from my heart — just two days after I lost the love of my life. I want you to watch. I want you to hear what Charlie meant to me. And I want you to hear what comes next: Watch my Remarks Charlie gave everything for this country. And I will never stop speaking his name. We will not let the light he lit go out. Not now. Not ever. For Charlie, “

In the inbox of my official univ email

Journalists should be interviewing people who understand the intersection of internet culture, extremism, Utah culture and Mormonism rn. Even just on background! But are they? So far the reporting makes me think…they are not.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

WSJ has now appended this lengthy editor's note to its original report. It notably contains zero contrition for the initial decision to spread such incendiary misinformation. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

@wsj.com pushed out the claim that the Kirk shooters bullets were engraved with ‘trans ideology’ and much of the internet is and will continue to blame trans people, turns out the engravings are video game memes and basically internet shitposts, @wsj.com
owes an apology