In Bay Area, Felony Charges Against Student Protesters Prompt Free Speech Concerns Local prosecutors are seeking felony-level charges against pro-Palestine demonstrators. Even if they don’t stick, critics say the response is harsh and could chill protests.

The Santa Clara County DA has pursued felony charges for several pro-Palestine student protesters from Stanford University and is seeking $329,000 in restitution. “It would ruin my family financially for the rest of our lives,” says one defendant.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir: Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Read Emma Madden’s review of the album.

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While the Compact article throws a lot of stats at you, it does so from specific institutions without defined selection criteria, raising the risk of selection effects. This study of national data is a salutary corrective.

my most middle agèd crank opinion is that the NYT crossword has gotten too easy and not enough people are talking about it

I know the reasons why two-factor authentication is important, but I really wish they didn't need to be on PACER!

i really truly wish any of the epstein furore was caused by a genuine concern for cruelty for teenage girls, for exploited kids. it would be a different country if it was, of course, but the discourse is sometimes jarring

The new Rosalía album is astonishing. Run to your nearest source of music

Does anyone remember what edits I said I would make to this manuscript

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

The resistance reaches into Trump country As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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What if this tale of graduate-specific woe is off-beam, based on a misguided analysis of the data? What if the accompanying narratives that seek to explain why the most educated are faring especially badly are focused on a mirage? on.ft.com/47igZ9B

political violence is quite bad

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

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Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show: • Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. 2 cases saw injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. • Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. Key takeaway box below reads: “Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.” Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.

Apologies, the previous chart was incorrect. I missed that SCOTUS granted emergency relief in Murthy v. Missouri after the appellate court's stay. I also missed FDA v. Alliance.

The updated rate of lifted injunctions for the Biden admin is 10% (2 of 21), not 0%.

here are the results:

since january 1, 2021, rufo has appeared in the WSJ 32 times.

in the same period, he appeared in NYT 167 times.

great reminder for everyone to watch the goat some like it hot

we should strive to be worthy of that faith

Opinion | What I Heard on a Suicide Hotline for Trans Kids

"What I Heard On A Suicide Hotline For Trans Kids"

"My callers wished their parents weren’t in denial and didn’t echo right-wing talking points. They wished they didn’t feel so alone late at night. They called from Utah and Arizona and Iowa...'Somebody has to give me a reason to live.'"

According to the forecasting models, the current steep funding cuts— coupled with the potential dissolution of the agency—could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, averaging more than 2·4 million deaths per year. These deaths include 4·5 million among children younger than 5 years, or more than 700 000 deaths annually.

There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.

I know it sounds trite, but I remember every one of them. The 10-year-old who wanted to be a supermodel, an astronaut, and president when she grew up. The high school junior already taking college classes in robotics at his local community college. The 14-year-old cheerleader who only looked up from her jewel-cased smartphone to make clear how mortified and bored she was by her mother’s pride in her. The rugged son of a tattooed single mom, Stetson high on his head and eager to show off his first car (a used pickup truck older than he was). The tween at their first pride parade, cheering on shelter dogs in rainbow tutus from the local ASPCA while their grandmother just looked on, confused but trying. The whimsigothic teenager in flowing skirts and hand-drawn Sharpie tattoos, dreaming of fleeing her small town for an art school on the East Coast. The 15-year-old polymath who wanted nothing more than to lead the brass section of her school’s band, who responded to my question about what instrument she played with a proud smile and the word “yes.”

I wrote about something six justices of the Supreme Court never did—the real lives of actual trans kids and what we all owe them now autonomy.substack.com/p/we-name-ou...

this is about This Week but also contains some of the most precise writing on the broader beauty of transition that i have ever encountered

Oh, hey, an indictment that quotes Bluesky posts. Definitely not relevant to any discourse on here lately. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Many years later, as he faced the editorial board, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was to remember that distant afternoon when his father told him to abolish ICE

Hey Chuck, this decision rips health care away from Americans