hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

GOV. PRITZKER: “.. Our small businesses suffer when our residents .. are made to feel unsafe by the jackbooted thugs roaming around a peaceful downtown. Parents are now scared to send their kids to school .. This is no way to live,” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Same old playbook.

Trump-Netanyahu Joint Remarks Ripped as 'Litany of Lies... Not a Promising Foundation for Peace' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-g...

“Trust me pal, there are some walls you don't want to be a fly on.” Art by Ellis Rosen

This is amazing news I’m so glad

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers: NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints. and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

What follows is a letter—an imagined artifact—written in the style of an antebellum love note. It is satire, but it is also prophecy. Every line of this could have been written yesterday or a century and a half ago. That is the danger. cognitivedissident.substack.com/p/on-the-eve...

Don’t let them lie to you! The GOP controls the House, Senate, and White House. If the government shuts down, it's because they chose to shut it down rather than pass a budget that serves the American people. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

The Supervisor you are trying to reach is busy, please remain on the line for the next available response team member. Your call wait time is: ∞ + ∞. Please continue to hold. < #CharlieDanielsBand #holdmusic > #HellIsOtherPeople #KarmaIsAlwaysLate #CorporateBureaucracy

1 transgender shooter GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!" 47,209 white male shooters GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

WE FUNDED YEAR ONE! Now let’s smash some stretch goals and fund year two so we can stick around!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

ICE is a festering pit of evil where men indulge their darkest passions in the light of day without fear or censure. What monstrous mortals could arrive unchanged by their opportunity for depravity? Be afraid. He walks among them, a Pale Rider, waiting for a moment of willingness not weakness.

President Donald J. Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan, crafted with Benjamin Netanyahu, effectively hands Trump sweeping control over Gaza’s future by installing him as chair of a so-called “Board of Peace” that would dictate redevelopment and governance.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Why do people think creativity is like turning on a light and BANG, you have something new, interesting and able to be sold? I try to explain this to my beloved wife: “Every meaningful act of creativity is the sum of thousands of quiet decisions, risks, revisions, and mostly failures.”

Tom Homan is going to leave his lucrative and jail-time reducing government job to start his own influencer-inspired network service: ONLYHAMS! Who could possibly outperform him? (If you know someone, share in the comments)

The 27-year-old, Jimmy Donaldson, with more than 440 million subscribers, and orchestrates elaborates stunts for cash prizes. His latest video, which is titled “Would You Risk Dying For $500,000?”, features a stuntman subjected to seven death traps, all in an attempt to win the huge sum of money.

A webpage I needed to read required 7 clicks to make pop up ads go away, or so I could read the actual bloody text. This is *pushing* regular web users who just want a text input area and answers/results under it to LLMs. They're usable like early search was. I see the battle being lost every day.

Big Ugly Bill — DAMAGE CONTROL New Mexico is showing the rest of the nation how it’s done: Special session starts Oct 1 to protect Medicaid, lower premiums, and keep hospitals open. While D.C. Republicans are playing games, New Mexico is fighting to save health care for every family. 1/3

It's weird: When I was a child, I had prophetic visions. I dreamed that homelessness would expand and sweep across the nation. My home, the Bronx already had it everywhere I looked. In my predictive autistic mind, it was inevitable. I was nine or ten when I had my first such vision. Terrifying.

I think I am done. I don't want to spend what's left of my life in outrage, fighting against a machine that would see me and mine dead, knowing no joy and no relief from the pain and fear my nation wants for me. Conviction is not enough. I can't convince myself that homelessness has meaning.

"My best friend Lauren" may have just cost him that Morgan vote #bb27

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION premiered with "Encounter at Farpoint" 38 years ago today — Sept. 28, 1987. The two-part pilot was was written by D.C. Fontana & Gene Roddenberry and directed by Corey Allen.

You really ain't seen nuthin' yet www.theguardian.com/environment/...

To help the American COAL industry? What's next? Subsidies for buggy whips? Wages for whalers? Why do we keep propping up non-renewable, predatory-polluting industries? COAL is dead — and should stay that way. How long do you think you can embargo the sun before people get tired of your shit?

“I own you” Fuck that bitch. I hope @tizzyent.bsky.social identifies her.

This really is just the start By 2040, almost one third of the world's cropland will suffer severe drought every year Just imagine the colossal impact on yields and food supply www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Those in Law Enforcement will tell you ICE has never been known for hiring the most competent. In fact, it's traditionally been the agency of last resort for those who couldn't get hired at other agencies. Trump chose the agency as his secret police for that very reason. Many are bitter rejects.

“With the suspect in custody, the ICE agent wearing a balaclava walked toward the group of onlookers and appeared to ask, “Want to be next?”” ICE are terrorists.

“Want to be next?” www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Umm. Cool story bruh. You might want to pick up your magazine. You are probably threatening someone with an empty gun. Worse, you are demonstrating just how incompetent you fuckers at ICE truly are. I have never dropped a magazine from my active firearm. EVER. Gave ICE more money? Why?

Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files

So far, @ebonstorm.bsky.social has one of the best, most nuanced takes on the #CharlieKirk shooting that I've seen. He was a vile human being, but I'm not dancing on his grave, either. cognitivedissident.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks

Paul‬@dedikend.bsky.social‬ said: Dear MAGA, ask yourselves: Did he... ❌️Build the wall ❌️Drain the swamp ❌️Make all women happy ❌️Stop the Ukraine war in a day ❌️Make you all rich ❌️Make America respected ❌️Stop the Israel war in a day ❌️Lower drug prices by 1500% ❌️Release the Epstein files #USDemocracy

Thanks for including me, Maricella! Following all these fine folks. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social