I like how this employee of the federal government, a public servant, posts obnoxious replies to people that are replete with right-wing misinformation.

Absolutely ridiculous and dangerous. These meds have been life changing for so many. Placing an even bigger stigma on getting help for mental health issues.

When Trump admin first took the unprecedented step of designating cartels & gangs as FTOs I wrote about how it was paving the way for military action. At the time, it looked like Mexico would be the location. Instead it was at sea. And now possibly Venezuela. www.justsecurity.org/107850/us-mi...

SOMEONE: Fuck you! BOVINO: That’s not very nice. THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

"There are about a thousand of us"

What is the through line for many of the cities who have ended up getting the brunt of federal escalation? Black leaders, and especially black leaders who are defending their immigrant constituents. The enemy is not just immigrants, it is multiracial democracy. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

🌍 42.5m refugees Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. 🇬🇧 548k refugees = 0.78% of the UK population. It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us. My letter to my MP. #asylum #Mahmood 🧵

A potential prelude to military action against Venezuela—even though the FTO designation as such confers no authority to use force. (And this supposed cartel may not even exist.) A regime change campaign in the guise of counterterrorism.

These incredible fucking assholes. These application processes are already so deeply burdensome and frustrating. They are trying to starve people.

Continuing their war on poor people, the Trump Regime plans to make all SNAP participants reapply www.patreon.com/posts/143596...

Spending the next hour going through my files like a deranged person in case I missed anyone in my previous sweep

Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

A man?? winning the Booker prize????? Is that even possible? It hasn't happened since the far-flung days of 2023. Our legends say that a man also won it in the ancient, prehistoric era of 2021, but surely that is just an old wives tale meant to frighten MFA students before bed.

Outrageously expensive windows have been installed throughout the house for only about thirty hours, but Clementine is already working her magic on the custom-sized screens.

He meant the right wing Roberts #SCOTUS is supposed to bend the knee to Trump (like it usually does) but traditionally it will always calls balls and strikes against Democratic Presidents. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I was yesterday years old when I learned that the Boylstons were involved in the South American silver trade. I know the early modern period was as full of wealthy people doing awful things as ours is, but in my opinion the forced labor in the silver mines was some of the worst (topped by Potosí).

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

Alice Wong helped me accept my disabilities. She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice. She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor. She won’t be forgotten. Don’t let the bastards grind you down: www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...

NEW RESOURCE: For months, ICE has engaged in an arbitrary campaign of warrantless stops and arrests in Chicago. Need security advice for activists under a significant threat landscape shift? Don't worry, we @lucyparsonslabs.com got you. PDF: goldframes.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/LPL_ICEinvas...

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

Last night I went to the MFA’s new special exhibition of Winslow Homer’s watercolors. By far my personal favorite things in the exhibition were his mid 19th century drawings, mostly drawn to be made into prints, including ones from the front lines of the American civil war. 🎨

If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.

I had a bit of time to kill before an event today so I stopped at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social “to do a bit of browsing” in their used & remainder floor. The results were predictable.

The assault on the rule of law continues.

to see this person talk about what she considers the "miserable" conditions in academia that have led to so many of her colleagues leaving is quite something.

"if they did this to megyn kelly they could do it to anyone who goes on national television and argues that pedophilia is fine. it could happen to you next!" no, aaron, it couldn't happen to most of us, are you worried it might happen to you?

You're actually doing the thing

This is an official BlueSky team response to a CSA victim complaining about BlueSky banning Patton Oswalt for saying "Wood chipper. Feet First' regarding Megyn Kelly's defense of CSA and Jeffrey Epstein.

There are 535 people missing from the table. www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

Latino U.S. citizens/ permanent residents racially profiled by immigration agents in Chicago. Even after they told the agents they were in the country legally, officers zip-tied their hands & detained them, in some cases even transporting them to Broadview. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

“Trump's new bond investments span several industries, including sectors that have already benefited, or are benefiting, from his administration's policy changes such as financial deregulation.”

Charlotte is turning into Chicago in the course of a day. My husband went to work earlier this afternoon and was informed Hispanic staff were sent home due to an ICE raid around the block in which all the Hispanic employees were rounded up and arrested. Fuck ICE.

I hope you all are starting to arm yourself with CPB’s greatest fear: Whistles Someone sees CPB, the blow their whistle, vulnerable people know to hide. I hope that takes off around Charlotte like it did around Chicago.

Video from nickdelacanal on Instagram of CBP trespassing on private property and giving up after a few attempts to entrap landscapers.

Thanks to @juansaaa.com for letting me know that this excellent Johnny Harris video on ICE enforcement is out. I talked to his producer for over an hour during the research process and I think it's a good overview of how we got here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbt...

“Yes, life is a complete dumpster fire, but I am reminded that I am not alone, that I am in this with many others.” Gift link:

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This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

“We analyzed 47000 conversations that people had with ChatGPT. We’re pretty sure we don’t have consent for a lot of them. So we are reproducing screenshots here.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51 Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

“Unauthorized immigrants, you say?”

Our first podcast episode with @askhistorians.bsky.social is live! Learn more about our new book here: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

"A veteran Boston Police Department (BPD) Captain is suing the department’s highest-ranking officials, alleging he was pressured to scrub a finding that a rookie officer lied in a police report and an internal affairs interview." #mapoli #bospoli www.boston25news.com/news/local/l...

This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.

NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana: