22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

The crime. The criminal.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

good morning, nocal

my question for ahmari: the federal reserve is subject to democratic control — congress can, whenever it chooses, alter the terms of fed independence. how and why is the unilateral authority of the president, exercised outside of rule if law, more democratic than congress’s legitimate authority?

I struggle to believe that the much-feared Disney legal team, a pop culture metaphor for aggressive invincible litigation my whole life, can’t make a stand against Sinclair fucking Broadcasting. Fuck ‘em. Resume the show’s production, put the episodes on streaming, and make it Sinclair’s scandal.

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Look. I'm not mad you bought a Kimmel picture book. But marginalized creators are getting banned and death threats and harassed all the time. It'd be neat to show them that wallet solidarity.

If a 5'2" king decreed no one is legitimately taller than 5'6" and anyone found engaging in 5'7" or taller behavior was an adherent of a dangerous ideology and an enemy of the state it would not change the nature of what he was about to do to tall people simply because he phrased it in a clever way.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

you can make your GI doc laugh really hard if you write “hi” on your butt before a colonoscopy

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My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

This is probably the best Chuck Schumer statement I have ever seen from his office kudos to the intern that swiped his phone while he was taking a leak.

"we're going to keep showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors" brad lander is truly the best of us

NYC, if this makes you angry, come to the New Yorkers Against ICE rally on 9/25 at Foley Square!

how do the End Times Left Behind crowd not clock this level of obvious Antichrist behavior (i wonder, having grown up as an End Times Left Behind crowd kid and young adult)

This Week's Onion Magazine:

This is great advice for people of any/all genders. The way to be interesting is to be interested and follow those interests. Plus it makes life way more fun.

in multiple languages, too! get that good shit!

Community colleges *cannot* afford to look the other way about this.

I say this as someone who writes about Hollywood and entertainment for a living: People have got to stop thinking Hollywood is one monolithic mass. The creatives are a wholly different group than studio executives. The former group keeps making art despite the latter.

if you're interested in pop culture that actually pushes back against the erosion of freedoms, you'll get more of it from one issue of an SFF zine than you will in a year of every streaming service combined

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

I want to be able to fund JOURNALISM, serious journalism, but we can’t yet. We are instead having fun at @popheist.com — but we need subscribers to grow into a more sophisticated (yet still silly) form

UBI always works always

Happy #BiWeek ! 💗💜💙

This is my nerd rabbit hole of the day: if you spend any time with historical documents to see what people were calling Jefferson to his face for owning human beings, or what very people said about G. Washington right after he died, you see immediately critique and demand are the real american way.

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The universe is just MadLibs now.

The UN has recognized that Israel is committing & has committed genocide in Palestine. Here’s June Jordan saying I SAID I LOVE YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP in 1996 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

When people ask what democrats can do, show them this.

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

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And then by the time 1938 rolls around, you have an entire cohort of 18 year olds whose entire high school education was squandered in this way. How many lives could have been saved if German boys had been educated instead to cultivate compassion, question authority and think critically?

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“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

on the electoral side of things, this is why you need a loud opposition party saying they reject this and will not stand for it. that this country should be safe for people from korea as new immigrants but also for longstanding korean americans.

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Okay--question for the Bluesky Brain Trust. Romance novels. Good ones, ones that actually can help me be more romantic in my own life. (Yes, I'm starting with @courtneymilan.com's works, but...many eyes, bugs shallow.)

I don’t know why I didn’t put this together until recently, but I’ve spent so much time in Meg Webster‘s Stonefield at Hudson River Park — both because I’m at the river as possible, and because there are butterfly bushes amidst the boulders, drawing a kaleidoscope of monarchs 🥰