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The image of the police officers comes from a photo of “South American riot police” that was uploaded to the Getty Images archive in 2008. A clear visual clue that the photograph was not taken in Portland was that the first officer’s shield is marked “Policia”, the Spanish or Portuguese word for police.

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When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph of the generally small and tame protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Portland, the Oregon Republican Party’s X account replied: “We’re not reporters, just bad memers.”

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In the charges filed Sunday, prosecutors notably did not mention a loaded gun in Martinez’s car that was referenced in a previous statement by the Department of Homeland Security. But in court Monday, Hennessy said Martinez had a loaded firearm on the passenger side of her car but never brandished it. Martinez’s attorney, Parente, said she has a valid firearm and concealed-carry license.

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It pays to not believe in anything. Sometimes it even pays really, really well.

On Monday, Paramount made official what had been rumored for weeks: It will buy frivolous Substack pamphlet The Free Press for $150 million and name its founder and owner Bari Weiss as the editor-in-chief of CBS News. Thus does Weiss complete her five-year journey from junior editor who rage-quit The New York Times because the whole place was a hornet’s nest of wokeness or something, to running a right-wing rag funded by billionaires she has sweet-talked into giving her money, to heading up one of America’s greatest historic news organizations.

One hundred and fifty million dollars for a website with a reported 175,000 or so paying subscribers. This is like buying a garage on Long Island for $10 million and telling the public it’s an estate that was once owned by the Vanderbilts even as any people touring it quickly note the collapsing roof and the nest of rats in the corner.

Excuse us for just a moment while we pour one out for the legacies of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, and the entire crew of 60 Minutes past and present. Except for Andy Rooney and those overgrown shrubbery hedges he called his eyebrows. Our nightmares are still filled with images of those vast wilderness tracts yelling at us about how much they hate Daylight Savings Time and fancy coffee.

The CBS News owner Paramount will acquire the Free Press, a media startup founded by Bari Weiss, and has appointed her editor-in-chief of the storied US news network. The publication is known for criticizing both the left and right and has been a home for staunch support of Israel.

Weiss, 41, has no experience working in broadcast television, though she has carved out a reputation as a heterodox opinion writer and burgeoning media operator.

The purchase comes in light of major changes to 97-year-old CBS News after a merger between Paramount Global, the channel’s parent company, and Skydance Media, a media company founded by David Ellison, the son of billionaire Larry Ellison, this summer. Paramount is also behind the Paramount Pictures movie studios and US cable channels including MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.

SOURCE: https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3m2ibohwhks2u

OTHER Coverage:

https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/us/judge-diane-goodstein-home-fire-investigation

Last month, Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice, a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and later reversed by the state Supreme Court. The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers, of over three million registered voters as part of President Donald Trump’s March executive order restricting non-citizens from registering to vote. (Non-citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal and state elections.)

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

On Tuesday, a Christian legal group will urge the US supreme court to overturn a ban on anti-LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” in a case that could erode protections for transgender and queer youth across the country.

Lawyers from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which has opposed abortion and LGBTQ+ rights in high-profile litigation, are representing a woman challenging a 2019 Colorado law that prohibited conversion practices for youth under age 18. The ban applies to licensed clinicians who seek to change a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity, tactics medical groups have discredited as harmful and ineffective.

ADF’s petition in the case, Chiles v Salazar, cited several scholars to support its argument that conversion practices should once again be permitted. Two of those experts, however, told the Guardian that ADF had “profoundly” misrepresented their research, which discussed the “psychological damage” of conversion therapy.

A federal workers union is suing the Trump administration for inserting language into Department of Education employees' out-of-office email messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

"Forcing civil servants to speak on behalf of the political leadership's partisan agenda is a blatant violation of federal employees' First Amendment rights," said the complaint, which was filed by the American Federation of Government Employees in federal district court in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

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Israel and its allies are losing allies all over the place, including in the FBI which has severed all ties with the ADL

Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in California as independent contractors, thanks to a bill signed Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom.