Journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested when covering a No Kings protest in Atlanta in June, has been deported to El Salvador. All criminal charges against him had been dismissed by local prosecutors and he was legally authorized to live and work in the U.S. Lawyers for Guevara argued that he was targeted in retaliation for his work as a journalist, in violation of his constitutional rights. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.

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Joshua Aaron, creator of ICEBlock, has asked Apple to reinstate the app in its online store, telling CNBC in an interview that when the app was first submitted it had been through a heavy review process, and that he is consulting an attorney. The app, which can be used to anonymously report sightings of ICE agents and other authorities, was removed after pressure from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. The FBI claimed that a gunman who attacked a Dallas ICE facility used apps that tracked ICE agents. Aaron likens it to apps that allow drivers to report sightings of law enforcement officers so they can warn others and avoid speeding tickets.

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Joshua Aaron, creator of ICEBlock, has asked Apple to reinstate the app in its online store, telling CNBC in an interview that when the app was first submitted it had been through a heavy review process, and that he is consulting an attorney. The app, which can be used to anonymously report sightings of ICE agents and other authorities, was removed after pressure from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. The FBI claimed that a gunman who attacked a Dallas ICE facility used apps that tracked ICE agents. Aaron likens it to apps that allow drivers to report sightings of law enforcement officers so they can warn others and avoid speeding tickets.

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Journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested when covering a No Kings protest in Atlanta in June, has been deported to El Salvador. All criminal charges against him had been dismissed by local prosecutors and he was legally authorized to live and work in the U.S. Lawyers for Guevara argued that he was targeted in retaliation for his work as a journalist, in violation of his constitutional rights. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.

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Project 2025, dismissed by Donald Trump as he campaigned for the presidency last year, is almost 50% complete, according to a tracker developed by two Redditors. Here's where things are at, with 1,219 days left of Trump's second term in office.

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Project 2025, dismissed by Donald Trump as he campaigned for the presidency last year, is almost 50% complete, according to a tracker developed by two Redditors. Here's where things are at, with 1,219 days left of Trump's second term in office.

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Late night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" has been pulled from schedules "indefinitely" by ABC over remarks the host made about Charlie Kirk. On the Monday edition of his show, Kimmel said: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them." Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr threatened to take action against the network over this, after which Nexstar, one of the biggest owners of local TV stations in the country, said it would replace the series for the immediate future. Here's more from @THR

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Late night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" has been pulled from schedules "indefinitely" by ABC over remarks the host made about Charlie Kirk. On the Monday edition of his show, Kimmel said: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them." Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr threatened to take action against the network over this, after which Nexstar, one of the biggest owners of local TV stations in the country, said it would replace the series for the immediate future. Here's more from @THR

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"The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed," writes Garrett Graff for his Doomsday Scenario newsletter. He chronicles why he feels that today, August 25, 2025, is a date to remember. "Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go," he writes. "Do we end up 'merely' like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an 'American Reich'? So far, after years of studying World War II, I fear that America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015."

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"The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed," writes Garrett Graff for his Doomsday Scenario newsletter. He chronicles why he feels that today, August 25, 2025, is a date to remember. "Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go," he writes. "Do we end up 'merely' like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an 'American Reich'? So far, after years of studying World War II, I fear that America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015."

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The #TrumpAdministration has found a way to screw #farmers and the #climate at the same time. They count that as a win-win, I think. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19082025/usda-bans-farm-renewables-support/

The #TrumpAdministration has found a way to screw #farmers and the #climate at the same time. They count that as a win-win, I think. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19082025/usda-bans-farm-renewables-support/

@jeffjarvis hmm, that group has an excellent chance to take over the #whitehouse and the whole current #trumpadministration during their upcoming visit. Similar to #themagnificentseven saving a poor town from evil villains. With #JDVance ’locked away’ on a UK holiday, #petehegseth always busy bench pressing & combing his oily hair, #littlemarco not doing whatever he’s doing, as well as #uscongress sent on recess by #christofascist #speakerjohnson, this is a grand opportunity to save America🇺🇸

How do you measure editorial independence in 2025? The advocacy group Free Press has created a Media Capitulation Index, ranking commercial media and tech companies on a scale from one to five chickens, and giving a star to just a couple of organizations. Here's Nieman Lab's story; find the full ranking at the second link. “These corporations exist because of public policy,” Tim Karr, the author of a supplementary report on the ranking, told journalist Margaret Sullivan. “There is a genuine popular movement to create a more democratic media system. People should get engaged in this debate.”

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How do you measure editorial independence in 2025? The advocacy group Free Press has created a Media Capitulation Index, ranking commercial media and tech companies on a scale from one to five chickens, and giving a star to just a couple of organizations. Here's Nieman Lab's story; find the full ranking at the second link. “These corporations exist because of public policy,” Tim Karr, the author of a supplementary report on the ranking, told journalist Margaret Sullivan. “There is a genuine popular movement to create a more democratic media system. People should get engaged in this debate.”

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Last week, the social media accounts of the Department of Homeland Security posted an image of "American Progress," a 19th-century painting that depicts a floating white woman herding buffalo and Native people off Western lands. Its caption read: "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending." The original of the painting, which is by John Gast and was completed in 1872, is on display at the Autry Museum of the American West. @19thnews spoke with some of the experts at the museum about its historical significance, how they place it in context, and their perspective on DHS's use of the picture. Virginia Scharff, the museum's chair of Western history, sees the strategic deployment of the “American Progress” painting as deeply insidious. “The Department of Homeland Security is not sending scantily clad White women,” she said, “but instead sending guys with guns and truncheons and masks to grab people off the streets. There’s a deliberate kind of deception being practiced here that is really cynical and really dangerous, in my view."

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Last week, the social media accounts of the Department of Homeland Security posted an image of "American Progress," a 19th-century painting that depicts a floating white woman herding buffalo and Native people off Western lands. Its caption read: "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending." The original of the painting, which is by John Gast and was completed in 1872, is on display at the Autry Museum of the American West. @19thnews spoke with some of the experts at the museum about its historical significance, how they place it in context, and their perspective on DHS's use of the picture. Virginia Scharff, the museum's chair of Western history, sees the strategic deployment of the “American Progress” painting as deeply insidious. “The Department of Homeland Security is not sending scantily clad White women,” she said, “but instead sending guys with guns and truncheons and masks to grab people off the streets. There’s a deliberate kind of deception being practiced here that is really cynical and really dangerous, in my view."

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#Art#ArtHistory#TrumpAdministration#USPolitics#DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity

What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @brianmerchant read his Action Plan and executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"

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