Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español. The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal... By Erick Galindo

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do. In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap. Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

🧵 UPDATE FOR MY BIRTHDAY: Hi, so AI killed my career(s) and I'm still barely holding on. Some people tried to get me to start a fundraiser, but that felt weird, so I thought maybe if I was contributing something? So I started making shirts. Can you share this and maybe think about grabbing some?

Exodus 8:2 "If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. "I urge you: never sell out your authority" News agencies deliver a service which “requires competence, courage and a sense of ethics”.

#librarians #skybrarians #ALA

Let's goooooo!!!

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups. My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Let's go Portland!!!!

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required license plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

Two new FTP resources that were shared this evening: 1. Friends of the Library 101 - www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo... - created by FTP volunteers and designed by FTP steering committee member @kruttika.bsky.social - learn about from Friends of the Library groups are and do.

I can’t get over that the Court opens the opinion with: “The penultimate song of this feud, ‘Not Like Us’ by Kendrick Lamar, dealt the metaphorical killing blow.” Drake lost the feud so bad, it’s law of the case and an adjudicated legal certainty.

"The reasonable listener of 'Not Like Us' would conclude that Lamar is rapping hyperbolic vituperations."

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: Sen. Grassley's letter to 2 federal judges over GenAI use, the USPTO's new pilot program using AI to search for prior art, and the Discord hack appears much worse than previously thought #lawsky #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Yes, when I want to know what the Black community in Chicago is thinking, I always turn to someone who's really got their finger on the pulse: Stephen Miller.

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Shame on Tim Cook from Apple for taking down and shutting off ICEBlock the app that was protecting thousands of my fellow neighbors. Looking for ways to cut out apple products from my house right now. Fuck him. @apple.com

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

Late tonight, a federal judge issued a sweeping new order prohibiting the president from deploying any National Guard forces—from any state or DC—to Oregon. The president cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.

There are STILL 1250 people missing from Alligator Alcatraz. Seems like this should be a bigger story, no?

For every horrific act of fascist abuse you’ve seen video of in recent months, there are hundreds that you’ll never even hear about.

This really shouldn't be controversial, but if you, as a cop, aren't able to stand stock-still, ramrod-straight, and stone-faced while a civilian screams every insult imaginable an inch from your face but doesn't intentionally strike you, without resorting to violence, you shouldn't get to be a cop

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition. A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

It has been a whirlwind two days. From our launch yesterday to four media interviews today. Nearly 2,000 folks have stepped up to donate to our grassroots campaign. It’s humbling. We are working to come out swinging and take back MO-2 and help working Missourians. ICMYI our kick off video.

By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

I think it's time my newsletter had a logo, and it's either a photo of my Shuri & Elphaba Funko Pops together or I find a real artist. Whether I can afford a real artist is another story ...

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY. CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

Climate risk hammering LA’s housing market: insurance is harder to get and more expensive, homes stuck on the market, price cuts happening. Insurers and the state’s FAIR Plan reel. Market repricing is underway. Investors and the Fed still looking the other way. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

Hey, @svengoolieofficial.bsky.social ... pretty please?

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

The latest edition of Lawyer Ex Machina is out: Hollywood actors reject AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood, CA enacts an AI safety bill, an assessment finds what looks like racial bias in some AI teacher assistant platforms, & more. #law #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...

"Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

May I recommend the great Andrea Pitzer’s summary degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

Instead of this ridiculous story quoting one person who doesn’t want a bathroom in Runyon Canyon because of “odors” (have you smelled the dog piss there?), please read my story about how we can and should have beautiful public bathrooms in ALL our parks

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Just gonna leave this here

Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet. After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!

Perhaps this could be Bluesky's Tom Holland's Umbrella ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbB...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan

Do I love the 1938 film of Pygmalion? YES Do I love Leslie Howard AND Wendy Hiller as Higgins and Eliza? YES Do I love that they appear to be romantically involved at the end? Well, actually ...

Covered California really took the gloves off with this update: 'Unless Congress acts before December 31, the extra help will expire at the end of 2025. This will result in higher premiums for many enrollees in 2026.'