The cop LEFT HIS GUN in the bathroom. So we’re gonna arrest the kid who found it, but nothing happens to Forgetful Pig’s Barney Fife ass?

The school resource officer remains on administrative leave while a formal internal affairs investigation is underway, officials said.

More than 10,000 Ph.D.s, with more than 100,000 years of federal work experience between them, have been severed from federal employment across a swath of agencies and departments during Trump’s second term.

Last week, the 22 members of the National Science Board — which oversees the 76-year-old National Science Foundation and helps allocate federal science grants in an independent, nonpartisan manner — were all fired on short notice, despite each of them being appointed for staggered six-year terms.

County Commissioner Jessica Vásquez says ICE's court appearances today felt like "a coordinated and simultaneous attack on our immigrant communities." "This is a sound of the alarm to our community... ICE is here, they have not left, they are targeting our courthouses, you have rights," she says.

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Update on today's Chicagoland federal immigration agent activity from community group Hijos de Migrantes: As of 2:24 pm, the group reports at least 4 people taken, plus 1 person reportedly detained by DEA. Reported sightings w/o confirmed detentions in Elgin, Glendale Heights, Pullman.

The more you love ProPublica, the more reason to not visit their site today.

The most striking part of last night, for me, happened after the meeting. Snelling apparently didn't know there exists an IL law barring civil arrests (e.g. immigration arrests) against people attending state court proceedings. Personally, I feel like the city's top cop should know these things.

in an article full of great points and great quotes, this stood out for me the most one of the best articulations I’ve read re: ai being anti human

Everyone keeps saying "serving cunt" and it's making me feel really old. I still call them waiters.

there was a young man from cork who got limericks and haikus confused

Literally the whole “first they came for the immigrants, then they…” thing. It’s beat-for-beat the fascism so many of us feared.

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this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

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LOVED this. Really challenging my entire theoretical framework for activism. The discussion of somatic therapy and surrealism particularly blow me away.

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Very important story about the mechanisms the administration is (ab)using to try to rush its vision into reality and many people working to stop it.

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The biggest part of me still wants every single performer (and all the stalwart writers - hey Paul Chaplin!) to get back together and do it up proper all over again, but just knowing Trace and @frankconniff.bsky.social are getting their deserved flowers makes me so, so happy. More joy please!

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This is the most interesting the Olympics have ever been.

bezos and the post is yet another reminder that it's impossible to have billions of dollars and operate in the public interest at the same time. nobody with that kind of money got it by looking out for other people or putting the common good first. that's why it's so antithetical to journalism

I do not make this comparison lightly.

"The bill, HB246 ... instructs the director of vehicles of Kansas to identify every license issued to a trans person and send written notice that the license must be surrendered and reissued. Driving with a license that has been canceled, suspended, or revoked is a misdemeanor in Kansas."

Police departments in targeted deep-blue cities keep on saying they’ll try to stop ICE from breaking the law and then they do jack shit except occasionally arrest some protesters. Its notable they’re even saying these things, but lets focus on what their actions have always and continue to tell us.

Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.

You have never seen a bad - or even mediocre or average - Catherine O’Hara performance. They just don’t exist.

nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.

I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.

this is it. this is the way forward.

Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could