ring cameras are down because of the aws outage, go. be free. walk around in the world that could have been

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

"No Kings!" Maciejowski Bible - Morgan Library & Museum MS M.638, fol. 11v

He is gleefully shitting on us, his fellow citizens.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The huge No Kings protests, an estimated 7 million people addressing America's worst crisis since the Civil War, get a tiny headline on the New York Times homepage, with no photo. Why does NYT think change happens only when politicians hold news conferences and not when everyday people take action?

“oh here, i have it queued up on this tablet for you already” how i expect reporters to reply to the “havent seen it” replies from republicans

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Pentagon loses it's sh*t over Netflix show featuring closeted gay teen who joins Marines in 1990s. "Boots" is based on Greg Cope White’s 2015 memoir "The Pink Marine." SecDef earlier took Harvey Milk name off Naval vessel. Maybe they aren't aware the Spartans often fostered male-male relationships

Jeanine Pirro becoming the Washington Generals of prosecutors.

So Trump views Vladimir Putin as "his mom."

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

This is something every parent of young kids has to be circling right now. How do you frame your insistence on decency when utter filth has become both the mechanism and the content of success in our society?

THIS is what I mean when Ive been saying that nearly all big tech companies, even consumer focused ones that have nothing to do with surveillance, see the easy money to be made with practically all federal funding going exclusively to deportation and wanting in on it by making tools for ICE.

Recording law enforcement while on duty in public — and sharing that information — is protected by the First Amendment. Social media companies like Meta shouldn't be interfering with that right.

Why no general strike? Please ask how long you are willing to strike from your current job? Are you an at-will employee? How much savings do you currently have?

"Trump will fail if people and institutions coordinate against him, which is why his administration is targeting businesses, nonprofits and civil society, proposing corrupting bargains to those who acquiesce and punishing holdouts to terrify the rest into submission." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

This is because the feds won't stop gassing our neighborhoods so they can flee and, by extension, are also repeatedly gassing the cops. What a moment to be alive

I find this soothing.

really do genuinely feel that our local press needs to find a better word than clash for interactions between federal agents armed to the teeth with chemical munitions and actual guns and some neighbors who are yelling and maybe throwing found objects. not even delving into protests facing the same.

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

Hamas and other militant groups kidnapped 251 people from Israel during the October 7, 2023 terror attacks. All living hostages have been released as of October 13, 2025: https://cnn.it/4q9ktTo

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

Loomer and MTG are currently acting out because they were excluded from the inner circle, they believed they were leading. They were merely useful idiots for him in various formats.

One more time: As it’s not “weaponization of justice” for law enforcement to prosecute someone who committed crimes trying to rob a bank, it’s also not weaponization of justice for law enforcement to prosecute someone who committed crimes trying to overthrow an American election.

Yes! Exactly this. It’s a major part of creating community.

The US Constitution has no innate defense against lying by public officials and complete shamelessness.

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

As Gerry points out in the linked column, the problem isn't that NH doesn't have enough people of means to fund education. We're one of the wealthiest states in the country. It's that NH doesn't *want* to fund education, or much of anything else.

When people ask what New Hampshire is like, the most descriptive reply I can offer is that, 30 years ago, the state supreme court held that the state has to fund public education, and in the ensuing three decades, no one has done anything to make that happen and there has been no legal consequence.

This is just … being a terrible, exploitative person. That’s all this is. It’s funny but also really not.

The firehose of easily disprovable lies from Trump and his allies continues to get worse each month, with one statement after another completely untethered from reality, which is why it is so important for them to take ownership and control of media platforms & intimidate others.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

TIL that ICE tried to detain a colleague’s teenaged son, asked him about his “color,” held a gun on him as he produced ID

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

YES!!! Jury duty is a sacred privilege and responsibility. It’s so disappointing that people are always trying to get out of it.

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance. If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Careful, but I think wrong on key substance. "Roberts’s efforts at judicial self-protection—usually called institutionalism—have often simply delayed conservative outcomes" Equally, Roberts' plan could be to achieve the conservative outcomes, but he is politically astute enough to move gradually.

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

Chelsea residents have been fighting to improve the city's environment and in turn, their own health. The latest setback to that ongoing battle: the cancelation of a federal grant to mitigate flooding.

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.