Little less conversation, little more ritualistic dancing in the moonlit forest to ward off evil, please.

New PDOcast with @thomasdrance.bsky.social + Bill Zito •Team building approach during time in Florida •Process for identifying fits + getting most out of them •Changes this summer with cap going up + new CBA coming •Organizational buy-in + keeping everyone happy bit.ly/3VQhGR7

Advocacy groups sued to block the Trump administration’s creation of centralized databases of Americans’ personal information for purging voter rolls and launching criminal investigations, alleging violations of federal privacy laws. https://bit.ly/48e1qRp

Serious kestrel side-eye today! 🪶

The Trumpian far-right had great election results in Czechia today, even if the task of forming a government won't be straightforward. www.bbc.com/news/article...

As a former part-time Encore Books employee (and customer), I will take a moment to savor this slice of Schadenfreude pie. (Rite Aid took over, sucked dry, and then shutttered that regional bookstore chain back in the ‘90s.)

There are two races for governor this fall—in New Jersey and Virginia. But don’t sleep on lower-profile statewide elections: the contests for attorney general and lieutenant governor in Virginia, plus critical elections in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

An Indian-American guy in Pennsylvania, wrongly imprisoned for 42 years (!) for murder, was recently exonerated. When he was set free a couple of days ago, ICE immediately took him into custody. And it didn't count as anything more than a local story.

Seeing like ten videos per day of the kind of police brutality that would have kicked off a week of protests ten years ago is probably not good for me, right

Is ANYONE surprised this happened? It was only a matter of time. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

@kevinhfoster.bsky.social reports from the ground in Portland: "I recently visited the ICE facility with my camera and spoke with people there and across Portland—and the reality of what is happening on the streets is very different than what the administration wishes to portray."

Tiny little lives in the rainforest. This Sumatran Gliding Lizard (Draco sumatranus) was flashing his yellow flag is a shard of sunlight

Mantis

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It's Aster season in Wisconsin and they never disappoint. #Asters #Flowers

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

not only are they actively targeting people for speaking out against them online, they are openly providing the evidence — nobody had to go digging and find this. it’s on their website. how are people still denying this reality?

the woman shot by ICE in brighton park today was named last week in a CBP bulletin because she was identifying federal officers online (screenshot from DHS.gov)

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others”

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

There's a bigger play going on here. Slumlords coordinating with ICE to roust tenants, steal or destroy their stuff, damage the building so its uninhabitable. All to trigger legal expedited evictions, make insurance claims, and then sell to developers. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

A lot of these people will now wind up unhoused. And then they'll be criminalized for living on the street. It's a slow-walked genocide of the poor.

This is worth following up with Kind of like the Nazi era unlocked the power to resolve a lot of local petty disputes of property and neighbors under the global rhetoric bsky.app/profile/elle...

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Jennings is there to stir shit up. He's a paid right-wing agitator. His agenda is to derail basic policy conversations and obfuscate the evidence of your eyes and ears.

The military can’t be used as police. But they can be used to protect federal property and personnel. Imagine the Admin’s response if a protestor threw a Molotov cocktail at the detention center. Or just threw back a tear gas canister.

Said federal forces have been conducting aggressive raids: arresting families in broad daylight in a downtown park, storming an entire building, parading in full battle rattle on major commercial streets. I don’t know if they want protests but they don’t seem to mind provoking them.

I am not on site and have no particular knowledge, but it’s possible that what IL State Trooper are doing is not an escalation but a desperate attempt to stop one. IL and local police cannot interfere or hinder Federal forces. (Con’t)

After the Trump regime’s invasion of an apartment building in Chicago earlier this week, all Americans should brush up on their 4th Amendment rights.

A judge appointed by President Trump no less

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism. I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

THE WORD YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IS SLAVES

A judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to halt its mobilization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to protect the ICE building in Portland and its officers amid nightly protests. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

BREAKING: Judge grants restraining order blocking the Trump administration from mobilizing National Guard soldiers to Portland. Full story tk from @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social

I choose video over stills in the hopes i can capture this again.

But the deeper layer is: Taylor’s nod to the Aquarium’s Sea Otter Program isn’t just cute—it’s conservation-coded. 🦦💙 Since the ’80s, we have rescued, raised, and released over 1,000 sea otters—helping restore California’s kelp forests and showing the smallest creatures can make the biggest ripple.

The apartments acted alone, pulling the adults and children out of them without anyone’s else’s participation

"This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. ... "This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law."

"This Court notes that in Los Angeles, the National Guard mobilizations inflamed protests [and] spawned unrest at new locations ... Likewise, the deployment of federal law enforcement officers to Portland in 2020 'reignited' protests and riots that had 'largely self-extinguished.'"

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BIG news here: the second judge to find at least some aspect of Trump’s deployment of the National Guard is unlawful. This comes as Governor Pritzker says Trump is going to federalize the Illinois National Guard.

NEW: Illinois Gov. Pritzker announced President Trump intends to federalize 300 state National Guard troops “in the coming hours" over objections from state and city leaders. We resolutely condemn this potential escalation. It's a power grab meant to intimidate and torment Chicago's communities.

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This was in the last hour but feds about to come out again (now)

FUCK THIS