Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

A car that can shoot a giant flaming battery pack — what could possibly go wrong?

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

“The son in law of the man exercising the powers of the presidency is a pass through for Saudi money to buy American media companies, among other things” is both true and mostly unremarked on.

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Finally, Trump realizes more clearly than do Dems the importance of new media to politics and power in America and he and the right are cornering the market in this area thanks to him and his merry band of oligarchs.

This is why a shutdown over recissions is important. To call attention to what has already been happening. A clean CR just means more of this, so not clean at all.

#ice #

Don't sleep on the fact that Stephen Miller keeps calling the Democratic Party domestic terrorists.

Feeling extra prescient I shelved my home renovation when Trump was elected Though I’m still sad about my 85 year old kitchen and bathrooms Including a kitchen floor held down with gaffer tape

really interesting to me that pete hegseth — who incidentally was accused of domestic abuse — is obsessed with war crimes

Wow

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Just a reminder that in the Los Angeles ICE case, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence played up the extent to which those *not* properly subject to immigration arrest were detained "briefly" and released "promptly." www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-177-... That wasn't true in L.A., and it isn't true here.

You have precisely 24 HOURS LEFT to send in your most dazzling, preposterous, stately and/or transcendent "I Registered to Vote for Zohran" sticker designs to zohranfornyc.com/stickittotheman

Without targets, do we have anything other than vibes?

Michigan Republicans refuse to feed kids

Most informative thing I’ve read so far on this topic

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The same goes for Bill Cassidy, Todd Young, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John Barrasso. AKA the "Grown-ups" in the GOP. They all knew.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up

Worse than Watergate and they're doing the whole thing in public

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

Chotiner: and then you didn't send him to jail, and he ran again? USA: I mean yes but we do have pretty robust institutions, you know, the supreme court and so on Chotiner: I see. So they were able to stop the worst of it? USA: Well now it um the thing you have to understand

What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?

This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)

Stephen Miran just gave a speech outlining the logic of his Fed vote. It's this: He assumes every cockamamie White House talking point is true, feeds them into a model, and out pops the massive rate cut the President demanded. He has unwittingly become a walking advertisement for Fed Independence

“We have a border, strong, and we have a shape. And that shape doesn't just go straight up. That shape is amorphous when it comes to the atmosphere” Who ordered the word salad

I was just notified of ANOTHER death in ICE custody — the 16th since Trump took office. The second death TODAY. This is absolutely unacceptable.

Copters up, gridlock down UNGA week in NYC baybee

Trump and the GOP took away NPRs money and they still brought on Peter Navarro to promote his book and his crackpot theories 🤷‍♀️

Billionaire surveillance enthusiast set to acquire TikTok's US operations

Reminder that Mahmoud Khalil is still being deported for his 1A protected speech.

I suppose "it's illegal to stop a school shooting" is a logical place for America to end up in after Uvalde

A bit of James Baldwin today: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

You’re probably tired of hearing this but the “unitary executive theory” that the Supreme Court is using to hand Trump absolute control over the government is demonstrably false nonsense cooked up by Republican lawyers after Watergate to create an American monarchy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Six Republican justices are speed-running our collapse into a dictatorship and they don’t even have the integrity to explain why. (But we all know why.) slate.com/news-and-pol...

And now a moment of levity: my first attempt at #distractedboyfriend meme as I prepare some lecture slides on hypothesis-generation and theory-testing. #sciencesky #academicsky

NEW: SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it. A 90-year-old precedent meant nothing to the majority allowing Trump to fire an FTC commissioner during litigation. This is no way to run a court, let alone a country. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Last weekend, I was thrilled to spend an evening with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, Anya Schiffrin and a group of brilliant policy minds they gathered to discuss a range of issues facing our city.

Now seems like a fun time to remind everyone that GWAR did an NPR Tiny Desk concert

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”