This is absolutely Brownshirt business.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

DHS just lies constantly but this time they let the truth slip. DHS will arrest you if you are Hispanic PLUS literally any other thing that they think is correlated statistically with being here illegally; occupation, English speaking ability, the neighborhood, etc. It is sick.

An official website of the United States government.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

The compact would require colleges to…cap the enrollment of international students + commit to strict definitions of gender…universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would ‘punish, belittle + even spark violence against conservative ideas.’”

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

In the absence of the American people taking to the streets in massive numbers to say NO to fascism, the safety we can look forward to is being roused from our beds and detained by armed federal agents b/c of our speech or skin color.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

“But tech giants are certainly capable of standing up for the long-term viability of their industry. And for democracy. So far they are doing the opposite.”

In the DC area, ABC did NOT air Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Here are the commercials that aired on ABC in Kimmel's time slot. I won't be spending a single dollar on any of these products/services: Wendy's Sketchers Kia Jeep Cirque du Soliel Safestep Walk In Tubs AMP Sales & Marketing Solutions

lol "it's hard to find Black experts" The Black academic experts on #bluesky in a perfectly curated starter pack: STOP PLAYING IN OUR FACES lol

lol "it's hard to find Black experts" The Black experts in question: bsky.app/profile/beli...

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

Since this is going to be headline news tomorrow… The highest quality research has shown Tylenol use in pregnancy is NOT at all associated with autism risk. To suggest otherwise is to be an amateur that cherry-picks data points from decades ago. What we discussed 2 weeks ago remains true today ⬇️

This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in www.nokings.org

Cancelling Disney+ is fine and well, but here's another strategy that will really get the local affiliates' attention, and thus ABC's attention. CALL. THE. LOCAL. ADVERTISERS.

An INTENDED result of going after free speech is it scares people into being silent in a moment where we need everyone to be the loudest.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

Closing a Department of Statistics, in this day and age, is incredible and shortsighted. Please, read below. I encourage everyone from all over the world to submit their feedback here apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu...

The insane choice by the city of West Hollywood to lower the LGBTQ PRIDE FLAG to half mast to mourn Charlie Kirk’s death, holy shit

Butler and others targeted were given no info about the nature of the claims against them and the university suspended normal processes for reviewing complaints, they said: "That means allegations sent to the administration, even anonymous ones, were simply forwarded without having been adjudicated

this this a million times this

Some conservatives are saying that Kilmeade’s “Just kill them” comment is less horrifying when you see it in context. So here’s a longer clip, where you hear almost 4 minutes of Fox couch banter before he says it. And, uh, it’s not much better. At all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSPa...

The release of personally identifiable information that was not relevant to the government’s Title VI investigation was improper. The Trump admin is investigating how the UC responded to claims of antisemitism, not the individuals named in the complaints. The AAUP condemns this move by UC Berkeley.

Well this summarizes a lot of where we are now. He is asking people to follow him on instagram and TikTok as people are screaming and running for cover. I want a new planet

10 September 1930 | An Italian Jewish woman, Liliana Segre, was born in Milan. In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944. Liliana survived. Today, she is a Senator for life in #Italy and turns 95.

“Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well.” Excerpt on how VP Harries was sidelined due to perceived threat to Biden’s success in the public eye. She is careful to not blame him but his team.

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

All of the U.S. military service academies are canceling lectures and ceremonies which feature speakers critical of President Trump. Dark times.

When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

My God.

Should be an even bigger story. Trump is unilaterally using the military to blow up people without due process and straight up going against his "America First" non-intervention policy. But when you have power, you can do whatever you want. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

This is a HUGE win for American higher education! #DefendHigherEd www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Trump’s fight against Harvard used antisemitism as “smokescreen,” judge says

Insanity. There is no way to go it alone on communicable disease.

Luckily for Florida, it's not a destination for large numbers of elderly people who are especially vulnerable to respiratory diseases for which we have safe and effective vaccines.

"Alarm" to say the least. Fascist fucks.

Corruption left unchecked has real victims. It’s how the oligarchy took root in Russia—and how it’s creeping into the U.S. A united and informed citizenry can demand better.

America as wild and untamed is some classic bullsh!t ignoring the peoples here before the white man invaded. Hoo boy Who helped the settlers survive on the land and why did they fight hmmm

Literally indistinguishable from the manifesto of neo-fascist group Patriot Front

More than 1,000 protests are scheduled today all across America. Large crowds will be standing up to the Trump regime, and joining major unions for “Workers Over Billionaires” events. More here:

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

“Was this roughly what it felt like for many Germans who strolled around Wannsee in the summer of 1935 and then drank Berliner Weisse in the beer garden?” German newspaper re Americans tuning out right now. This hits so hard. We are trying to get people to pay attention but it is so difficult.

21-day public comment has begun on proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. This former Under Secretary at the Dept of Ag (which includes the Forest Service) argues we should amend it the way some states have. #conservation 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...