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Portland Police are recognized nationally and internationally as leaders in public order management

Portland Police are recognized nationally and internationally as leaders in public order management

Portland Police Chief Bob Day writes: Five years ago, some city and state leadership left the police bureau isolated. Today, that has changed. The bureau is part of a united statewide effort, backed by strong leadership from the mayor, city council, city administrator, governor, our congressional delegation and fellow Portlanders. Yet there is no ignoring that we are facing an extraordinary time in our city’s history, with the deployment of both federal law enforcement and the Oregon National Guard. One…

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Rejecting injustice: The jury’s role in a politicized justice system

Rejecting injustice: The jury’s role in a politicized justice system

In “Operation Midway Blitz” — an operation that was clearly scripted as a piece of political propaganda (including an action-movie soundtrack) rather than an exercise in law enforcement — Bovino cast himself in the starring role: DHS law enforcement has made OVER 900 ARRESTS during Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois. To every criminal illegal alien: Darkness is no longer your ally. We will find you. pic.twitter.com/m9PxbuK5Ua — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 2, 2025 Coverage of ICE/FBI raids in Chicago detaining…

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Stephen Miller accused of ‘incitement to violence against judges’

Stephen Miller accused of ‘incitement to violence against judges’

Raw Story reports: U.S. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller Saturday was accused of “incitement to violence against judges.” Miller, who has been accused of making his subordinates cry at work, took to social media over the weekend to make several proclamations related to “leftist” judges. “The Democrat Party has filled our legal and judicial system with radicals who protect leftwing terrorists,” Miller wrote Saturday. “This is a very real and dire crisis for our Republican form of…

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Trump officials discussed sending Army’s 82nd Airborne division to Portland, text messages show

Trump officials discussed sending Army’s 82nd Airborne division to Portland, text messages show

Minnesota Star Tribune reports: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth considered sending an elite U.S. Army strike force to Portland, Ore., to quell protests that President Donald Trump has characterized as “lawless mayhem,” according to images of messages provided to the Minnesota Star Tribune. The messages, casually exchanged last weekend in a crowded, public space, show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne, an infantry division that has been deployed to combat zones in both…

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Trump’s so-called ‘compact’ with universities is simply extortion

Trump’s so-called ‘compact’ with universities is simply extortion

Erwin Chemerinsky writes: On Wednesday, the Trump administration sent letters to nine major universities proposing a “compact.” As The Times reports, the agreement would, among other things, require these universities to freeze tuition rates for five years, limit the enrollment of foreign students and be bound to specific definitions of gender. It would also require them to prohibit anything that would “punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.” In exchange, these universities would receive “multiple positive benefits,” including…

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State terrorism: Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling

State terrorism: Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling

In a ruling he issued this week, William G. Young, a senior U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, wrote: “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence.” Terrorize — not my word, but that of a federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1985. In U.S. law (22 U.S.C. 2656f(d)(2)) terrorism is defined as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine…

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Leaked document justifies boat strikes as ‘non-international armed conflict’

Leaked document justifies boat strikes as ‘non-international armed conflict’

The Intercept reports: The Trump administration is waging a secret war against undisclosed enemies without the consent of Congress, according to a confidential notice that was sent to several congressional committees this week and obtained by The Intercept. It marks the most detailed explanation of the legal underpinnings offered by the administration for a series of lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean that began last month. President Donald Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a…

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Howard Lutnick undercuts Kash Patel’s most unbelievable Jeffrey Epstein claim

Howard Lutnick undercuts Kash Patel’s most unbelievable Jeffrey Epstein claim

The New York Post reports: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in a notable break with the Department of Justice, claimed late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was “the greatest blackmailer ever” — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal. Lutnick made the shocking allegations to The Post’s Miranda Devine on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out now. The 64-year-old cabinet secretary said…

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At least 15 million YouTube videos have been snatched by AI companies

At least 15 million YouTube videos have been snatched by AI companies

Alex Reisner writes: When Jon Peters uploaded his first video to YouTube in 2010, he had no idea where it would lead. He was a professional woodworker running a small business who decided to film himself making a dining table with some old legs he had found in a barn. It turned out that people liked his candid style, and as he posted more videos, a fan base began to grow. “All of a sudden there’s people who appreciate the…

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FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League

Reuters reports: The FBI said on Wednesday it cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that tracks antisemitism, after conservatives criticized the group for including slain activist Charlie Kirk’s organization in a glossary on extremism. In a social media post, FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau “won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.” The ADL said it took note of Patel’s announcement and “has deep respect” for the FBI. Patel’s announcement followed criticism of the ADL…

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Judge fears ‘Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values’

Judge fears ‘Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values’

In a ruling he issued today, William G Young, a federal judge in Massachusetts, wrote: “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.” President Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as Governor of the State of California (January 5, 1967). I first heard these words of President Reagan’s…

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Top Trump aides push for regime change in Venezuela

Top Trump aides push for regime change in Venezuela

The New York Times reports: The push by top aides to President Trump to remove Nicolás Maduro as the leader of Venezuela has intensified in recent days, with administration officials discussing a broad campaign that would escalate military pressure to try to force him out, U.S. officials say. It is being led by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser. Mr. Rubio argues that Mr. Maduro is an illegitimate leader who oversees the export of drugs to…

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Adelita Grijalva says Mike Johnson is delaying her swearing-in to prevent Epstein floor vote

Adelita Grijalva says Mike Johnson is delaying her swearing-in to prevent Epstein floor vote

Rolling Stone reports: Adelita Grijalva made history last week, becoming the first Latina woman elected to represent Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives. She won a special election for the seat previously occupied by her father, Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died in March after serving over two decades in office. Despite a blowout, uncontested victory — and a precedent of swearing in the winners of special elections almost immediately after their elections — Grijalva still has no idea…

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U.S. citizens are ending up in Trump’s dragnet because of the color of their skin

U.S. citizens are ending up in Trump’s dragnet because of the color of their skin

A man was just arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too. pic.twitter.com/uvs7p5t3sX — amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17) September 27, 2025 The New York Times reports: U.S. citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers who are carrying out President Trump’s immigration crackdown and who suspect the men are living…

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How Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

How Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

MSNBC reports: Tom Homan, the White House border czar, became entangled in an FBI sting last year after an associate of his suggested to undercover FBI agents that Homan could facilitate future government contracts in exchange for big money, according to four sources familiar with the investigation and a government document. Julian “Jace” Calderas, a former U.S. immigration official who worked under Homan in the Obama administration, allegedly proposed to the agents — who were posing as businessmen — that…

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The rise of the ‘edgelord’ shooter

The rise of the ‘edgelord’ shooter

Ryan Broderick writes: Most American men under 30 at this point have had a 4chan phase — or at least spent time on an equivalent toxic internet community. Even if the ICE shooter did decide to dedicate himself to antifascism at the last minute — like Robinson may have done — he’s still going to talk like a 4channer and filter those ideas through the prism of ironic edgy internet speak. As I’ve written before, this is the water young…

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