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Russ McNamara @mcnamarawdet.bsky.social · Jul 22

Did a short feature on Canada / U.S. tourism for @marketplace.org that aired today. Check it out:

Canadians are still traveling this summer, just not to the U.S.

As trade talks continue, crossings are down between the two countries. That could lead to a multi-billion-dollar hit to the U.S. tourism industry.

www.marketplace.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Conservative Justices: parents have total rights to know their children's gender identity and any school which interferes with their desire to police and control such identity violates the Constitution. Also, it's completely cool if States make it illegal for a parent to give gender-affirming care.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4h

Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 8h

IDF shot and killed several Palestinians this morning, claiming the deceased engaged in a violation of the truce

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10h

its genuinely one of the most depraved pieces of journalism ive ever seen

Like think what her workflow was like. absolutely depraved

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10h

One thing I am glad this did (might not be accessible in the UK alas unless you have Means) is just absolutely go in on that nonsense "does it really count as starving children if the children are also sick for other reasons?" thing the Free Press did.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 6d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 16h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Aide: Sir the protesters have started dressing up as kid rock. ICE doesn’t know what to do.
Boss: I was afraid of this.

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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 17h

Important. Please share. And support our work as you can.

NPR @npr.org · 20h

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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NPR @npr.org · 20h

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Russ McNamara @mcnamarawdet.bsky.social · 22h

Incredibly good news

Current @current.org · 22h

“WHYY has agreed on their own to go out and fundraise and raise money for that $17 million that is needed over the five-year period,” said Sara Thorndike, Penn State’s SVP for finance and business. current.org/2025/10/penn...

Penn State approves sale of WPSU to WHYY

WPSU had faced a wind-down in operations after a Penn State board committee rejected a proposed deal last month.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News's John Simpson hitting the nail on the head:

"What this doesn't do in any way is sort out the Palestinian question"

"What it does is stop the agony that people in Gaza have been suffering for two years"

"But it doesn't create a future path for them"

"Maybe that can come"

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when we were all about Starter Packs?

Here's my list of Indigenous Scientists in the USA

Please share the link and follow all of us!

go.bsky.app/9LhnuCY

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump in Egypt: "This country is doing very well. It has good leadership. It's nice when you say, 'How is your crime situation?' and they don't even know what you're talking about. Because if he has crime he puts it out very quickly. Some people think that's not nice, but I think it's great."

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Old CBS would’ve probably spelled the guy’s name right, too.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 1d

Finally got to write my magnum opus for NPR on why late night TV still matters, charting how it has mattered so much over 60 years of TV history. I also float my theory that key to its continued relevance may be in today's hosts sticking together. READ: https://loom.ly/MZ0a9IE

Media companies thought late night TV was irrelevant. Kimmel proved them wrong

Jimmy Kimmel's return to airwaves might just point the way forward for late night TV to prove its relevance to American audiences — and to itself.

www.npr.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Russ McNamara @mcnamarawdet.bsky.social · 2d

When you already know the answer, don’t make the headline a question.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

As President Trump tries to send the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, conservative influencers are working to support his claim that the city is burning with viral clips from one block. https://wapo.st/4q5HM0n

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Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 2d

'One influencer, for instance, accuses the Portland police chief of “allowing violent terrorists” to “run the city,” which is horseshit of the highest order.'

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d

Careful and powerful analysis by @gregsargent.bsky.social of the New York Times treating Trump's propagandists as "provocateurs" and decision to treat MAGA's ideologically-driven lies as part of a legitimate clash of perspectives in describing Portland.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday it was a high school homecoming in Mississippi. Today it’s a bar in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Another mass shooting leaves at least 4 people dead and 20 injured. This is America.

4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena left four people dead and at least 20 injured.

www.wisn.com

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Russ McNamara @mcnamarawdet.bsky.social · 2d

You clearly haven’t been to a protest. The anti-ICE / anti-Trump protests in Detroit (with its large Arab American population) are the same people who protested Harris/Trump/Biden.

I know you need someone to blame for why she lost, but I assure you those protesters care more abt Gaza than Harris.

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Russ McNamara @mcnamarawdet.bsky.social · 2d

Pro-Palestinian activists weren’t important enough to talk to on the campaign trail.
Pro-Palestinian activists weren’t important enough to speak at the DNC, but somehow they kept her from winning the election?

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Russ McNamara @mcnamarawdet.bsky.social · 2d

To say this episode pissed me off to no end would be an understatement.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

About a week ago, the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast portrayed Russell Vought as a devout Christian, a true “small government” conservative who loves the free market, and a man with a great work ethic. A remarkable combination of credulousness and deliberate whitewashing.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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