Kavanaugh's explanation of why racial profiling is Actually OK was obviously a crock of shit the day it was written but also, in light of the new lawsuit by a US citizen arrested by ICE twice in 2 weeks, and the horrible Chicago raids, the shitpot is aging poorly ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism but saying this in response to a post about a Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue outside of Israel absolutely is antisemitism. Hope that clears this up.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Feel like @durbin.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov should maybe answer that fairly basic question?

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans forced a government shutdown tonight. Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs. What happened to the art of the deal?

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

’tis true that we are in great danger, The greater therefore should our courage be.

“You kill people and break things for a living” could easily have been something I made my Skeletor or Cobra Commander action figures say to their plastic minions in 1986.

I’m still processing what happened this morning. Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

What Hegseth did today was inform an organization he’s unqualified to lead that (a) any area in which he believes he personally excels (e.g. physical fitness) is all that matters, and (b) any area in which he’s deficient (leadership, morality, ethics, record, experience, intelligence) is immaterial.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Oh, you have criticisms of my paper? Surely you noticed the part of the paper where we already rebutted your critique, by writing “Possible criticisms: the methodology of this paper is bad. We are aware of this.”

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record 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 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.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Trump is building a personalist regime where every university must bend the knee or lose funding and every business must bend the knee or face tariffs, H-1B fees, and regulatory blackmail. You can't cover each domain in isolation; they are all the same story.

ALSO I’m low-key obsessed with this video of baby Tom Holland and baby Zendaya dancing in someone’s basement (?) youtu.be/wx7DEB-PhHg?...

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

Illinois will always defend Americans’ right to peacefully protest and make their voices heard. We denounce any violence against the general public, members of the media, and law enforcement or first responders. Even when the Trump Administration does not follow the law, we will.

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.”

‪Cardinal McElroy: “Our first obligation as a Church is to embrace in a sustained, unwavering, prophetic, and compassionate way the immigrants who are suffering so deeply because of the oppression they are facing.”‬

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

We cannot normalize militarizing American cities and suburbs. Make sure you know your rights and stay alert.

Here's the irony: in an effort to force universities to based on decisions on what it considers merit, the Trump Administration is planning ... to no longer base research funding on the project's merit. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

So exhausting..

What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”

klein has somehow got it into his head that the way to do politics "like" charlie kirk is to start by accepting that charlie kirk was right on the substance, instead of studying his tactics and his strategy and then using those to stand up for your own principles

Today I review the second study RFK Jr cited in his autism & Tylenol press conference: acetaminophen in pregnancy from the Nurses' Health Study. You're gonna wanna read this for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

Heidi is a wonderful person who has endured the unspeakable over the last few years. Please donate and/or spread this around as you’re able, and let’s help our colleague.

This only happens to you once

Basically, you can get fired as a government employee for doing what Jerry Jones and Jaime Dimon did in 2020

"I've not heard of anything this egregious — a donor calling up and saying I need help and getting it while others may be getting denied assistance or otherwise waiting in line for help that may or may not come."

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

755 views on this is /criminal/. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeM...

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

CHOTINER: So you guarantee the reals have a well-ordering? AXIOM OF CHOICE: Correct. CHOTINER: And you can ensure that every vector space has a basis? AC: Yes, I’m pleased with that one. CHOTINER: Could a person inspect all the elements of such a basis, if they wish? AC: Well, um, I suppose… if…

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

Sharing the other two Truth Social posts so you can see the "Heavy (Big!) Trucks" quote for yourself.

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

The Olympics and FIFA World Cup coming to LA means they’re already digging around for any signs of terrorism. The focus on anti-ICE rhetoric pointed to in the EO should worry Angelenos and surrounding counties.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“40 cloves of garlic pasta sauce but with 40 bulbs instead” Final clove count: 417! Was it edible? Yes! The verdict? The garlic is not the problem here, would make again but with some other adaptations. Our house? Reeks.

I don’t know how @clhubes.bsky.social does it, but she’s funny and sincere and incisive every time. My Thursday morning needed this

With everything going on in the nation and the world, DON'T FORGET we have an election going on in NJ! Elect Mikie Sherrill for governor, and Democrats down the ballot, to keep Trump's followers from taking over our state government! @mikiesherrill.bsky.social #mikiesherrill #voteblue #keepnjblue

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