Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

I had a real crush on Home Alone Catherine O'Hara when I was a kid. But my favorite adult Catherine O'Hara movie remains A Mighty Wind... www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtvS...

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

mn-ice-witness.org/list/citizens A Minneapolis friend passed along this sourced list (which will be ongoing updated) of what ICE is doing in ther city

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

The peaceful protest continued down near Downtown Crossing station in Boston with repeated chanting.

His whole remarks are pretty remarkable. Liberation theology lives. www.nhepiscopal.org/blog

I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges. Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

this is bananas; you must not teach Plato in a "contemporary moral problems" course!

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

Another way to look at this is when ICE, CBP, et al lie on reports, now they can blame AI. “U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote… that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents’ credibility and ‘may explain the inaccuracy of these reports.’”

Has any one written anything about why so many people seem to use AI so much? Asking bc I truly don't get it - even aside from the terrible environmental implications, and so many other terrible things it does economically. But why do people like not doing their own thinking/seeking/making?

Has any one written anything about why so many people seem to use AI so much? Asking bc I truly don't get it - even aside from the terrible environmental implications, and so many other terrible things it does economically. But why do people like not doing their own thinking/seeking/making?

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be? Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it

Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.

this

we are going to win

this is a great piece - and maybe explains to me why i haven't really watched tv and movies for like a decade...

Three of my books were here; you should all file a claim…

Summers must be removed from his post at Harvard.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Tonight was a very bad night.

Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

Infuriating. MA voters said we don’t want a standardized test to determine whether students graduate, and now they want more standardized tests? Do we need some kind of constitutional amendment banning high stakes standardized testing, to prevent this chicanery? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/m...

"Lia Smith was a student-athlete, but she wasn’t allowed to participate this year because of a hostile government and the cowardice of the NCAA. Two years ago, Lia was a talented young swimmer at Middlebury; now, her name is almost entirely absent from the college’s athletics website..."

Political theorists have lots of explanations for this

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Zhao, White House says reut.rs/49eixmn

I got completely off Blackboard this year for my big intro class. The students seem to be okay.

here is my favorite sign from today

Fenway Health, founded to give queer people the health care they were denied elsewhere, ceases offering gender affirming care for minors. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe. Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

I thought Trump wanted to stop US military action abroad and keep American resources in America; but instead they are interfering like crazy: bailing out right wing Argentinian government, and trying to do regime change in Venezuela...very Nixon/Reagan/Bush www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

I used to live in Roger’s Park ❤️

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.