I'm in Portland, where there are maybe 200 people who have gathered for a Proud Boys event. The crowd has surrounded a couple people who they believe to be Antifa, and they are chasing them away.
Some of the Proud Boys and people from the Three Percenters militia group surrounded a person with a camera. They said the man was Antifa and tried to kick him out. Then others intervened and said the videographer was OK. Others said the crowd was acting just like Antifa.
A half-dozen Portland police officers have arrived to cool things down and ask the Proud Boys to leave others alone.
Two of the police officers are wearing hats with a yellow "P" on the front. One says it's a police union hat but said people have told him "nice hat."
The Proud Boys have regrouped for their event, with maybe 300 on scene.
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We have been mapping and studying the known flood risks at Camp Mystic.
It turns out that not only was the camp in a flood zone, some cabins were located in areas that local county officials had deemed “extremely hazardous.”
Here is more of what we found.
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The riskiest areas are known as “floodways,” where rushing waters are expected during flood events.
In Kerr County, like many places, officials put strict limits on development in those areas “to protect human life.”
We found that Camp Mystic had 6 cabins in the floodway, including those housing some of the youngest campers. Other camp buildings were also in that part of the flood zone.
Texas officials have long worried about the dangers to children who packed into camps each summer along the flood-prone Guadalupe River. They knew that warning systems were inadequate.
So why was nothing done? We have reviewed documents spanning a decade to find answers.
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Without a more advanced warning system, the youth camps on the river had instead relied on a word-of-mouth strategy: Upstream camps would warn downstream peers of water surges coming their way.
NEW: There is a fascinating political drama unfolding right now at Indian Creek Village, the small gated island known as the “Billionaire Bunker,” home to the likes of Jeff Bezos, Tom Brady and Ivanka Trump.
It is a saga revolving around the island's 💩
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Despite the island’s extreme luxury (an empty lot sold for $110M), Indian Creek does not have a sewer system. The island proposed sending waste into the pipes of neighboring Surfside but then balked at the town’s $10M ask.
Seattle’s only national park honors the grit of the Klondike gold rush, where Donald Trump's grandfather built the family's early wealth.
But the DOGE cuts have placed the park’s future at risk.
A 🧵 about the park and Frederick Trump...
There are some fascinating twists of history in this story.
Frederick Trump had his first foray into the world of hospitality as a 22-year-old in Seattle, when he opened a restaurant very close to the site of the current national park.
In 1896, Frederick Trump made the family's first foray into U.S. politics in the mining town of Monte Cristo. In a local campaign, he apparently allied himself with William Jennings Bryan, the populist Democrat who railed against tariffs.
For those who haven't seen it, my NYT colleagues did an outstanding project looking at FAA records, air traffic control staffing, and a series of close calls in commercial aviation.
When the budget was signed, the city was still negotiating a new contract with the firefighters’ union. After that was settled, more money was approved, so the total fire budget is now actually $53 million more than last year.