Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

I was thinking of lighting a candle and drinking some wine and reading a book but actually I'm watching a recording of a city council meeting from 2021 because I'm amazing at fun

Got sucked into the side of TikTok commenting on the trend in American evangelicalism right now—where there’s a growing belief that that the rapture will happen this Tuesday—September 23rd This is due to a of set of things happening in Israel interpreted through a tangled "Left Behind" theology+

@somershade.bsky.social heya, I was talking to a friend about the charter reform today, and he wanted a tl;dr, and I said I dunno, whatever Chris Dwan said, and now I can't find what you said even though I'm sure there was a thing! Do you have an explainer and/or recommendation?

ruining the day of everyone at the function by teaching them what bald eagles *really* sound like

Working with a congenitally deaf dog like Winnie has just raised a lot of questions about what deafness (and sound!) even are. #deafdogweek

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

This coming Friday is Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day. So you can plan accordingly to hug a non-microbial life form in celebration.

Tomorrow is going to be a shitty day for many autistic people. The report on itself is bad, but so is the language we're going to see officials use to describe autism.

Technologically advance a band: Earth, Wind, & Heat Pumps

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Here is a list of MA colleges that are free, under certain conditions (e.g. residency, income threshholds) and it thrills me: www.masslive.com/news/2025/09... I will die on the hill that public colleges should be free, at least in-state, full stop. It's a start.

As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

you are not required to do this, i asked today to not have my picture taken, and they do the old boarding pass scanner. took an extra 30 seconds.

Look SciShow, I believe that (knitting notwithstanding) you are generally well-researched, but if you say one more time that some people don't go into menopause until they are 60 I will fucking knife you in a dark alley www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ02...

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Again Bouie from the top rope

I visited a house that produces more electricity than it uses. The owner says the remodel cost less than if he'd followed standard practices. I came away with five lessons and put them in an @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

We're collecting reports of protester injuries at Broadview last night. If you were hurt and would like to share, please shoot us a quick description of how. Anonymity protected. Signal: unraveled.66

This guy just walked around the Charlie Kirk vigil in Boston, yelling Kirk quotes through a bullhorn

Testing a theory: reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient." No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

ah yes, journalists are famed for not obtaining unauthorized material. their favorite pastime

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during Ronald Reagan’s term.

Trump my mom when I go to a train museum 🤝 "Autism is totally out of control"

If knowledge is a curse, pattern recognition is a haunting. A slow, creeping realization that you’ve seen this all before and you’ll see it again.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

One of the examples in the back of my mind is this digitization project, which is fascinating to me for so many reasons. The article doesn't speak directly about toil, but ime engineers often believe that digital/automated will be be less toilsome. slate.com/technology/2...

a corvid serving as its own lawyer is a crow se litigant

gals at brunch serving as their own lawyer are a ro sé litigant

All these white dudes swearing it’s safe to sign up for protests are SO CLOSE to knowing their safety in being public lets them tank in solidarity with people for whom it’s not safe….and yet so very, very, very far.

complaint struck out for being in violation of Domine haec est Wendy's

The right’s “cancel culture” panic was always a convenient grift. But let’s be real: plenty of elites on the left also acted like speech was more threatened by annoying undergrads than by powerful elites. And truth be told, Obama’s not off the hook here either.

Ordered some new shoes on my physical therapist’s recommendation. Just unboxed them and so far, honestly, pretty cute.

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

I studied in the USSR in 1977 and then researched and taught about censorship and its impact on Soviet society. Here are some lessons from that experience. #1: RESIST. For now, they cannot silence all of us & don't yet have a network of informers everywhere, so being loud is our superpower.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Anyway, the operator also mentioned that the system to cancel Disney+ subscriptions is down. So if you think you canceled, double check. The process involves multiple confirmation emails. If you only received one, you might be stuck halfway.

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

the photo they take of you before going through TSA is optional you can just walk away after they return your ID

South Korean protest culture is one of the country's huge strengths and it relies in part upon having large networks of people who can be mobilized at short notice. The U.S. is at nowhere near this stage of organization but it badly needs to be.

Ms. Lettunich told a heartbreaking story. When the kids were released to her by DHS, hidden in a coloring book was message from the mom thanking her for caring for them, warning her to make sure the children didn't swim in the pool alone, and reminding her of an upcoming orthodontist appointment.