![\"Washington](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Washington-Monument-window.webp\" "\\"Washington")
<\/a><\/p>\nMiles Taylor<\/small>:
\nThe government ejected our film crew from the Washington Monument.<\/a><\/h2>\nIt tells you everything about why we made this documentary.<\/em><\/p>\nWe arrived on an ordinary weekday and got tickets like everyone. To be clear, the Washington Monument permits cameras. Tourists and social-media influencers film up there every single day. So we brought in our handheld cameras, got waved through by the first set of guards, and cleared the physical security screening zone. Nobody raised an eyebrow. In fact, they specifically inspected our equipment and gave us the go-ahead.<\/p>\n
Then we got to the top of the monument and started rolling. I spoke about how the corruption in Trump\u2019s Washington was so blatant that you could see it everywhere, pointing through the little windows to the specific locations where the president has defaced the nation\u2019s capital or engaged in corruption \u2014 from the torn-up reflecting pool to the Kennedy Center to the ground where he\u2019s building a soaring arch in his own honor, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when two National Park Service (NPS) staff approached and asked us to stop filming.
\n(Miles Taylor more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a>
\n<\/p>\n
\n\n![\"Ukrainian](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ukrainian-soldier.webp\" "\\"Ukrainian")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Mike Brock<\/small>:
\nToo Big to Nationalize<\/a><\/h2>\nWhen a business becomes critical infrastructure, its relationship with society alters. If SpaceX builds a near-monopoly on satellite internet, no matter how objectively good the product is, and its CEO then uses it to conduct foreign policy according to his own politics and against the interests of the United States, the company has violated the public trust. Full stop.
\n(Mike Brock more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson<\/small>:
\nLetters from an American – October 22, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nAlexander Ward and Lara Seligman of the Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported today that Trump called Elon Musk yesterday to ask him to stop throttling Starlink\u2019s military-grade communications system, Starshield, in Ukraine. …<\/p>\n… it is simply astonishing that the president of the United States, the commander in chief of the United States military, is suggesting he had to negotiate with a private citizen to tell him to stop interfering with American foreign policy.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Zeteo<\/em><\/small>:
\nSunday, Brazil will elect a new president<\/a><\/h2>\nFl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, a right-winger who supports military rule and has a laundry list of scandals to his name, is currently ahead of Lula.<\/em><\/p>\nBill McKibben<\/small>:
\nAmazon deforestation by sitting president<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n![\"Amazon](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Amazon-deforestation-by-sitting-president.webp\" "\\"Amazon")
<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Bill McKibben more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
![\"Mayor](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Elati-Village.png\" "\\"Mayor")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
German Lopez @ NY Times<\/em><\/small>:
\nWe Know How to Fix Homelessness. Look at Denver.<\/a><\/h2>\nHomelessness, all appearances to the contrary, is a long-solved problem. We know both the causes and the cure. You wouldn\u2019t think that\u2019s the case from visiting many U.S. cities. Stymied by political and financial hurdles, progressive bastions \u2014 including Los Angeles, Seattle and Burlington, Vt. \u2014 appear to have given up. They have surrendered public spaces to the homeless and their encampments to the point that it\u2019s difficult to describe these spaces as truly for the public anymore.
\nDenver shows what happens when a city puts into place proven policies with determination and focus. Not only has it significantly reduced homelessness; it embarrasses every other urban jurisdiction that has failed to deal with its Covid-era surge of homeless encampments. Other cities no longer have an excuse.
\n(German Lopez @ NY Times<\/em> more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Adam Gramegna @ Military.com<\/em><\/small>:
\nDOD Memo Greenlights DHS Use of Military ‘Heat Ray’ at US-Mexico Border<\/a><\/h2>\n
![\"Demonstrators](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Demonstrators-in-Paris-on-October-6-2026.-The-Yomiuri-Shimbun-via-AP-Images.webp\" "\\"Demonstrators")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Robert Kuttner @ American Prospect<\/em><\/small>:
\nIs Paris Burning?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThe French mess is best understood in three dimensions that are all connected\u2014the social, the economic, and the political. Socially, the protests, which caught the government by surprise in their ferocity, are mainly symptoms. The most severe riots since the famous events of 1968 began with high school students, who are ostensibly fed up with tattered schools and inadequate materials. But what they are really despairing about is the absence of life chances and hope.
\n(Robert Kuttner @ American Prospect<\/em> more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Apoorva Mandavilli @ NY Times<\/em><\/small>:
\nC.D.C. Ignored Request From States to Validate a New Measles Test<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Samantha Cole @ 404 Media<\/em><\/small>:
\nThis Woman’s Living a CashApp Scam Nightmare<\/a><\/h2>\nCan you imagine sitting in jail for days without knowing why, and then finding out that it’s because someone hacked CashApp to impersonate you?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n- \n
David Lat<\/small>:
\n\u2018Lawyer\u2019 Vs. \u2018Attorney\u2019: Is This A Thing?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Decoding Fox News<\/small>:
\nIn a Last-Ditch Effort to Save Trump Fox News Throws Immigrants Under the Bus<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n![\"Woody](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Woody-Guthrie-and-the-Ghost-of-Tom-Joad-Today.jpg\" "\\"Woody")
<\/a>
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nThe January 6Memory Project<\/a><\/h2>\nICE Detention Expansion Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nA field guide to claims<\/a><\/h2>\nLast Days in Two Nations<\/a><\/h2>\nClimate.us<\/a><\/h2>\nformerly Climate.gov<\/p>\n
Climate Solutions Explorer<\/a><\/h2>\nHave I Been Flocked?<\/a><\/h2>\nBrockovich AI Data Center Reporting<\/a><\/h2>\nresources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\nApocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\nAl Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nMourning Those Who Have Died in ICE Custody<\/a><\/h2>\nMike Ludwig @ truthout<\/em>: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That\u2019s an Undercount.<\/a><\/h2>\nICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\nSergio Mart\u00ednez-Beltr\u00e1n, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR<\/em>: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- October 17: Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias<\/a>\n
- September 18: Carlos Josue Marchena Marchena<\/a>\n
- August 31: Pierre Damas Bel<\/a>\n
- August 1: Edwin Lopez-Cornejo<\/a>\n
- July 19: Jose Chajon-Raxon<\/a>\n
- July 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran<\/a>\n
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero<\/a>\n
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a>\n
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze<\/a>\n
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt<\/a>\n
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano<\/a>\n
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez<\/a>\n
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil<\/a>\n
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam<\/a>
\nApril 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide<\/a><\/p>\n- January 24: Alex Pretti<\/a>\n
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez<\/a>\n
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz<\/a>\n
- January 9: Parady La<\/a>\n
- January 7: Ren\u00e9e Good<\/a>\n
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz<\/a>\n
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres<\/a>\n
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos<\/a>\n
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n
Suffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\nNACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTexas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\nWalk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMargaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\nNPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\nAccountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations … trying to ‘unbury the lede’ Miles Taylor: The government ejected our film crew from the Washington Monument. It tells you everything about why we made this documentary. We arrived on an ordinary weekday and got tickets like everyone. To be clear, the Washington Monument permits cameras. Tourists and social-media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12366,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
We arrived on an ordinary weekday and got tickets like everyone. To be clear, the Washington Monument permits cameras. Tourists and social-media influencers film up there every single day. So we brought in our handheld cameras, got waved through by the first set of guards, and cleared the physical security screening zone. Nobody raised an eyebrow. In fact, they specifically inspected our equipment and gave us the go-ahead.<\/p>\n
Then we got to the top of the monument and started rolling. I spoke about how the corruption in Trump\u2019s Washington was so blatant that you could see it everywhere, pointing through the little windows to the specific locations where the president has defaced the nation\u2019s capital or engaged in corruption \u2014 from the torn-up reflecting pool to the Kennedy Center to the ground where he\u2019s building a soaring arch in his own honor, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when two National Park Service (NPS) staff approached and asked us to stop filming. When a business becomes critical infrastructure, its relationship with society alters. If SpaceX builds a near-monopoly on satellite internet, no matter how objectively good the product is, and its CEO then uses it to conduct foreign policy according to his own politics and against the interests of the United States, the company has violated the public trust. Full stop. Alexander Ward and Lara Seligman of the Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported today that Trump called Elon Musk yesterday to ask him to stop throttling Starlink\u2019s military-grade communications system, Starshield, in Ukraine. …<\/p>\n … it is simply astonishing that the president of the United States, the commander in chief of the United States military, is suggesting he had to negotiate with a private citizen to tell him to stop interfering with American foreign policy. Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, a right-winger who supports military rule and has a laundry list of scandals to his name, is currently ahead of Lula.<\/em><\/p>\n Homelessness, all appearances to the contrary, is a long-solved problem. We know both the causes and the cure. You wouldn\u2019t think that\u2019s the case from visiting many U.S. cities. Stymied by political and financial hurdles, progressive bastions \u2014 including Los Angeles, Seattle and Burlington, Vt. \u2014 appear to have given up. They have surrendered public spaces to the homeless and their encampments to the point that it\u2019s difficult to describe these spaces as truly for the public anymore. … Can you imagine sitting in jail for days without knowing why, and then finding out that it’s because someone hacked CashApp to impersonate you?<\/em><\/p>\n formerly Climate.gov<\/p>\n Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated news excerpts & citations … trying to ‘unbury the lede’ Miles Taylor: The government ejected our film crew from the Washington Monument. It tells you everything about why we made this documentary. We arrived on an ordinary weekday and got tickets like everyone. To be clear, the Washington Monument permits cameras. Tourists and social-media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12366,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(Miles Taylor more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a>
\n<\/p>\n
\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\nMike Brock<\/small>:
\nToo Big to Nationalize<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Mike Brock more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\nHeather Cox Richardson<\/small>:
\nLetters from an American – October 22, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\nZeteo<\/em><\/small>:
\nSunday, Brazil will elect a new president<\/a><\/h2>\nBill McKibben<\/small>:
\nAmazon deforestation by sitting president<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Bill McKibben more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nGerman Lopez @ NY Times<\/em><\/small>:
\nWe Know How to Fix Homelessness. Look at Denver.<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDenver shows what happens when a city puts into place proven policies with determination and focus. Not only has it significantly reduced homelessness; it embarrasses every other urban jurisdiction that has failed to deal with its Covid-era surge of homeless encampments. Other cities no longer have an excuse.
\n(German Lopez @ NY Times<\/em> more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\nAdam Gramegna @ Military.com<\/em><\/small>:
\nDOD Memo Greenlights DHS Use of Military ‘Heat Ray’ at US-Mexico Border<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/a><\/p>\nRobert Kuttner @ American Prospect<\/em><\/small>:
\nIs Paris Burning?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nThe French mess is best understood in three dimensions that are all connected\u2014the social, the economic, and the political. Socially, the protests, which caught the government by surprise in their ferocity, are mainly symptoms. The most severe riots since the famous events of 1968 began with high school students, who are ostensibly fed up with tattered schools and inadequate materials. But what they are really despairing about is the absence of life chances and hope.
\n(Robert Kuttner @ American Prospect<\/em> more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n
\nApoorva Mandavilli @ NY Times<\/em><\/small>:
\nC.D.C. Ignored Request From States to Validate a New Measles Test<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nSamantha Cole @ 404 Media<\/em><\/small>:
\nThis Woman’s Living a CashApp Scam Nightmare<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDavid Lat<\/small>:
\n\u2018Lawyer\u2019 Vs. \u2018Attorney\u2019: Is This A Thing?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDecoding Fox News<\/small>:
\nIn a Last-Ditch Effort to Save Trump Fox News Throws Immigrants Under the Bus<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nThe January 6Memory Project<\/a><\/h2>\n
ICE Detention Expansion Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
A field guide to claims<\/a><\/h2>\n
Last Days in Two Nations<\/a><\/h2>\n
Climate.us<\/a><\/h2>\n
Climate Solutions Explorer<\/a><\/h2>\n
Have I Been Flocked?<\/a><\/h2>\n
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting<\/a><\/h2>\n
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\n
Apocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\n
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Mourning Those Who Have Died in ICE Custody<\/a><\/h2>\n
Mike Ludwig @ truthout<\/em>: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That\u2019s an Undercount.<\/a><\/h2>\n
ICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sergio Mart\u00ednez-Beltr\u00e1n, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR<\/em>: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\nApril 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide<\/a><\/p>\nSuffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\n
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\n
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\n
Accountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\n
GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n