Joseph O'Sullivan

Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout A new crop of conservative media and influencers signed an agreement with the Pentagon, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse.

Here's who's in the Pentagon's new "press corps," covering world's most powerful military:

Out: New York Times, Washington Post.
In: Tim Pool's Timcast, Gateway Pundit, the MyPillow guy's LindellTV.

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Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

‘Current and former national security officials … describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.‘

Thank you- it was nice to hear from someone local. Have you ever heard of Beach Badge? It’s a lit zine and we tell stories about the Jersey shore.

At the senior citizen’s center on ambler road. In fact i better get ready

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I have to imagine this is the biggest demonstration ever for LBI…

Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News.

For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"

Big No Kings turnout in tiny & conservative Ship Bottom NJ

ICE in Oregon: Pointing rifles at family, stopping teens at gunpoint, pinning man during arrest These are examples of how ICE is operating in Oregon.

These are examples of how ICE is operating in Oregon.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

Flood it again I love a good Nor'easter. Plus, a note on the No Kings demonstrations Oct. 18, and my upcoming reading in Somers Point, NJ.

Notes on a Nor'easter, Saturday's No Kings rallies, and my upcoming open mic reading in Somers Point NJ.

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Rupert Murdoch is awful, but he was an actual newspaper person who understood that alienating your core audience is not good business. For Bezos, the Post was a vanity project, and is now a loss leader to protect his other interests.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’ “There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene said.

Lately, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has been siding with Democrats to call for extensions to health care subsidies and supporting an effort both Speaker Johnson and President Trump oppose to force a vote on releasing Epstein files.

Anti-immigrant riots shook American cities. In D.C., Marines were sent into the streets. This was 1857, and violence had been fanned by the American Party, which posited that the influx of German and Irish immigrants was responsible for declining moral standards.

'They posited that the recent influx of German and Irish immigrants was responsible for a decline in U.S. moral standards and were part of a Catholic conspiracy to seize power.'

Lots of my own people forget our ancestors were targets of nativists-
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WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

A professor who drew the ire of some South Dakota politicians for a 700-word social media post on conservative activist Charlie Kirk says calls to punish educators for their private views will take the U.S. down a "dangerous path."
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Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”

And absolutely nothing comes close to replacing it…

Remembering Crosscut: 18 years of independent journalism in WA As Cascade PBS sunsets its digital newsroom, formerly Crosscut, current and former staff members reflect on some of the outlet’s impactful reporting.

“All of Washington is short on the dogged reporting needed to maintain a healthy society."

My elegy for Crosscut/Cascade PBS inside our obit roundup:

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Authorities have arrested a Florida man for intentionally starting the fire that burned Los Angeles's Pacific Palisades. So why does it feel like the fire was started by a cat-eating immigrant from war-ravaged Portland, Oregon?

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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Completely anecdotal, but you hear that kind of stuff from the left, too. There's a goodly chunk of people out there who wouldn't mind seeing bad things happen to the people they don't like. But they have no interest in doing it themselves.

Spoke to a landscaper yesterday in ruby-red Ocean County NJ. He knows I live on the west coast; he supports the military going into PDX.

He went on to reminisce about the 1970 hard hat riots where construction workers beat the shit out of war protesters in NYC. He wouldn't mind if it happened again

Intruder damages ‘facilities and historical artifacts’ in WA Capitol, governor says The break-in damaged "priceless" artifacts in the State Reception Room. A judge declined to set bail for the suspect but ordered a mental health evaluation.

This guy snuck past security to get to the press offices a few years ago, where he delivered donuts to myself & Austin Jenkins of public radio.

One of those conversations where the first couple minutes seemed normal enough. And got weirder as it went.

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The corrosive rigidity of fascism Is America something fixed or something fluid? Is it a country founded on a perfect set of ideas or a country that has struggled to become perfect? Is it a system that works or one that sputters, one ...

Wrote about competing visions of what makes America America through the lens of “One Battle After Another”.

Judge deals Trump new setback in plans to deploy troops to Portland U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut temporarily blocked the administration from sending any state’s National Guard troops under federal control to Portland.

'U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut said the government appeared to be directly defying her previous temporary restraining order from a day earlier blocking the administration from sending Oregon’s National Guard to the city by instead deploying members of California’s Guard.'

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‘Dangerous and un-American’: Politicians deride Trump administration over leaked messages on deploying Army to Portland Several Democrats in Minnesota and Oregon criticized the administration this weekend, responding to an exclusive report by the Minnesota Star Tribune.

“These leaked messages make it blatantly clear that the decision to send troops to Portland is based on political optics, not safety,” said U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore.

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.