curated news excerpts & citations
Dean Blundell: Sniper Fire at Dallas ICE Facility: THREE Migrant Detainees Gunned Down In Dallas Today. Here’s [what] We Know…
Jack Hopkins: Shooting In Dallas: Stop Selling the Story Before You Know It
NY Times: Dallas Shooting Suspect Had Extensive Online Footprint but Little on Politics
Ken Klippenstein: The ICE Shooter’s Politics
Joshua Jahn’s friends speak
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – September 24, 2025
Hours after delivering his delusional and offensive speech to the United Nations yesterday, President Donald J. Trump did an about-face on his previous support for Russia in its war against Ukraine. …
As Nick Paton Walsh of CNN noted, this statement doesn’t actually change much on the ground in the war. What it does, though, is suggest that Trump has lost interest in the conflict and is attempting to wash his hands of it.
The president made a similar escape from a planned meeting with Democratic leaders scheduled for Thursday to talk about keeping the government open. …
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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AXIOS Chicago: Trump’s Argentina bailout deepens Illinois farmers’ woes
The Trump administration threw Argentina a financial life raft this week, and Argentina promptly responded by offering China an enticement in the form of untaxed soybeans.Why it matters: Illinois farmers stand to lose big. We grow more soybeans than any other state and formerly counted China as our No. 1 soy market.
But amid President Trump’s current trade war, Chinese orders for this year’s U.S. soybean harvest stand at zero while Brazil and Argentina reap the rewards.
State of play: Argentina suspended its 26% soybean export tax this week, leading China to double its Argentine soybean purchases overnight.
The move further prices out U.S. soybean farmers, who are already grappling with a 20% retaliatory tariff imposed by China.
AXIOS Twin Cities: U.S.-China trade war hammers Minnesota soybean farmers
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Boing Boing: Permitted Trump-Epstein statue smashed and removed without notice
[from The Secret Handshake Project]In regard to your article: our permitted and approved statue was physically destroyed and removed by the Trump administration at 5:30 this AM.
We had a legal permit for the statue until Sunday at 8pm. We found out at the end of the day that some people within the parks department aka most likely the Trump administration were trying to find ways to say we were not in compliance. We were then told everything is okay and that if the administration decided to remove it we would have 24 hours notice to take it down ourselves.
Instead, they showed up in the middle of the night without notice and physically toppled the statue, broke it, and took it away.
This is a literal example of the trump administration toppling free speech when it has been legally permitted and approved because they are scared about whatever Trump is hiding in the Epstein files.
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NY Times: U.S. Attorney Scrambles to Present Case Against James Comey
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Even if Ms. Halligan meets her deadline, there is no guarantee the grand jury will determine that the government has met the evidentiary threshold to indict Mr. Comey.It is not clear if a career prosecutor would be willing to present the case to the grand jury — or if Ms. Halligan or another Trump-allied political appointee would appear in court.
“Perjury is a very difficult crime to prove,” said John P. Fishwick, who served as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia from 2015 to 2017. “The department must show that a particular statement was false and that the defendant knew it was false at the time he or she testified. Because of the difficulty of proof, it is not often pursued.”
(NY Times more…)
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Reuters: Drones disrupt Danish airports again, Russia denies involvement
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People: Fox News’ Jesse Watters Calls to ‘Bomb’ U.N., or ‘Maybe Gas It,’ After Broken Escalator and Teleprompter During Trump’s Visit
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James Eagle: Can India withstand economic coercion
… [India] is the world’s largest democracy, and an emerging superpower that is now facing off with the current world superpower – the United States. Both need each other. Perhaps both haven’t realised that yet.
(James Eagle more…)
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NY Times: Trump Is Pulling the Plug on Puerto Rico’s Economy
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Fast Company: This company is turning empty offices across America into farms
Area 2 Farms plans to use its modular indoor farming technology to make farms in office buildings.
(Fast Company more…)
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Decoding Fox News: Fox Used a Blowtorch of Conspiracy Theorists to Put Out a Fire
A condensed overview of 22 hours of Fox News for the week ending 9/21/25
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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