ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

The posted meme is about a war movie filled with delusional madmen. Also remembering that T quote from the Stern show that venereal disease was his personal Vietnam. And further remembering that the US humiliatingly lost in Vietnam.

A beautiful day to get one’s ass and soul truly rocked at Bumbershoot! Linda Lindas, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, and Digable Planets are this day’s in-process highlights

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

Robert Wilson, the acclaimed theater director, playwright and visual artist died on Thursday at 83. Wilson upended theatrical norms with wildly imaginative stagings of works like “Einstein on the Beach.”

Wolff: I was talking to Epstein and he went into his safe and came out with photographs... And it was Trump with girls of an uncertain age in Epstein's house...There are two in which topless girls are sitting on Trump’s lap—and then a third in which he has a stain on the front of his pants.

Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...

🚩🚨ALERT🚨🚩 ICE kidnappers are returning to the federal building to snatch people at immigration court tomorrow July 9. They haven’t been back since they met heavy opposition on June 10. We need a repeat. Follow superfamilia_KC on IG for updates

Make sure to do this if you are in Seattle and support more housing!

Sen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."

They just detained Brad Lander.

This is so clearly illegal, unconstitutional, unAmerican, and antidemocratic I don't even know where to begin.

Anyone cultivating your own angry protest playlists to get you through this? What’s on yours? Here’s mine. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

This is an out-of-control paramilitary agency, taking orders from radical white supremacists, operating outside the law and attacking Americans and states. Shut the whole thing down

“I believe ardently that nonviolent resistance is in the big picture and the long term the most effective strategy, but that doesn't mean it must be polite, placid, or please our opponents, not least because nothing ever will and they'll lie and distort no matter what.”

👇👇👇 [Alt-text] post reads “If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."

SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

Trump Cut Deal To Let *Sinaloa Cartel Members* Into US apnews.com/article/el-c...

How about a compromise: Trump gets that luxury plane from Qatar, but then must immediately drop it off the side of an aircraft carrier into the ocean?

If masked paramilitary routinely grab people off the street without warrant and without identifying themselves, what keeps non-government fascist cosplayers from doing the same. Are these actual ICE agents. Are they Pinkertons? Are they Proud Boys? How are we to know?

"This is disturbing what they think they have the ability to do." Here is @jenpsaki.msnbc.com 's interview with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier tonight: youtu.be/-MdwHCOWwiE

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Seattle May Day Rally and March!” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/77...

Just seven families gave GOP superPACs more than $1 billion in 2024.

This is a good day to drop into the comments the greatest of Lee Greenwood’s (newly of the Kennedy Center) songs… youtu.be/Bf3e9Cl1-Bs?...

This is Donald Trump’s economy.

College faculty: sign this letter to encourage university president to unite against Trump’s threat to higher education

Proud of this little act of resistance inspired by #seattletroublemakers and made with care in Seattle by an all-volunteer cast & crew. Big thanks to @alexwinter.com for the most excellent narration! And @laceyleavittgray.bsky.social for asking me to direct! 🙏 #teslaregretsyndrome #crewtopia

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Here's the script, folks. It's now or never. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Local office numbers: www.congress.gov/members/find... RTs appreciated.

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

On Friday, April 11, traders placed large, aggressive bets that Apple’s stock would jump within days. They bought contracts that would only be profitable if the stock moved up fast. Hours later, the White House quietly announced a major policy shift. data-and-politics.ghost.io/173-returns-...

1/ The number of protests planned for tomorrow is enormous. Given what Trump has done to the economy, and everyone's collective ability to pay for household expenses/retirement I'd expect them to be huge. Find out more at handsoff2025.com

Such a distillation of the con: guess who got Musk's $1 million check yesterday? The head of the Wisconsin College Republicans. meidasnews.com/news/republi...

#OnThisDay in 1942, Bainbridge Island's Japanese American residents, the first to be incarcerated under Executive Order 9066, were removed from their homes. historylink.org/File/8277

This is chilling. It is a national emergency. We are consigning this person to torture so Trump can further curry favor with Putin.

I’m old enough to remember when a sitting vice president was so security conscious, she refused to move beyond corded earbuds, not trusting bluetooth (he thought about for no reason whatsoever) www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), perhaps a federal agency you’ve never heard of, has made the work I do possible. DOGE has put it on the chopping block for complete elimination.

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB