ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Bonkers idea to ponder this Friday: maybe Trump and Putin made a secret Molotov-Ribbentrop style pact at that Love Fest in Alaska to divide things up an end Eastern Europe over? Pretty clear from the deafening silence from DC that NATO is being allowed to dangle

❗️Today, three Russian MiG-31 fighter aircraft entered Estonian airspace without permission and remained there for a total of 12 minutes. MiG-31 headed toward the Estonian capital, Tallinn. The jets circled for about 12 minutes and Italian F-35s were scrambled to repel them.

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In the great scheme of things, the subhead error may seem minor, but the FCC Chair is not the “boss” of the other commissioners. Perhaps civics education could start with news media?Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse Than You Think It Is newrepublic.com/article/2006... via @newrepublic.com

Chicago born man tased by ICE goons and they grabbed his father who has lived here for 30 years. This is America.

It is very important to understand that this was not just an editorial or business decision about what to air. This was in response to a direct government threat. This was government censorship of political opinions.

the Golden Rule

New from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

Gregory Bovino, leader of Trump’s LA and Chicago raids, personally testified that he saw a protestor strike a Border Patrol agent. The jury did not believe him and the protestor was acquitted. The Trump admin is losing these cases left and right. Their credibility with jurors is virtually nil.

sadly, completelyfuckingbelievable. The Dems are simply unready for the moment and they are failing the country. Support only those who are crystal clear that they will restore Article I supremacy, end DHS abuses & eliminate ICE, punish the insurrectionists and crooks, and otherwise stand the F up.

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Reports from Koreans detained by ICE are shocking Korea making this response from the Lee administration necessary. Bruised wrists from handcuffs and zip ties. Force tuberculosis shots. Slow response to medical emergency by facility staff. 1/ m.yonhapnewstv.co.kr/news/MYH2025...

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For no particular reason, I’ve been thinking about the guy who obsessed about killing racial justice protesters, searched online about killing racial justice protesters, & told friends he may kill a racial justice protester. Then he killed a racial justice protester. And Gregg Abbott pardoned him.

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The rapid movement to use the Kirk shooting to bring more division to America & attack groups feels far to well planned & coordinated. Almost as if this planning has been going on for a long time. Not saying the shooting was planned, but I am saying that they were waiting for a moment like this.

Sad that the great genius Hermeto Pascoal has departed - I saw him play Vicar Street Dublin with his Big Band in 2004 - I think 29 people on stage - all with coconut shells for "Jegue" (Donkey) - if I'd won the Powerball last week - I would have bought a donkey www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtNq...

Why does Western Paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often use abbreviations? Our new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices using cognitive science experiments. A thread 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The images serve as a beautiful and powerful reminder of just how brave America's first pioneers in space were.

The only good smart glasses

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I asked two brilliant journalists, @annneumann.bsky.social & @audiosand.bsky.social, to think about Erika Kirk's public performance of grief with me. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-mourni...

Question: When in the actual fuck, as a country, did we decide that our government gets to demand that we mourn someone in some particular way?

The spray painted plastic filigrees seem to be spreading, like a skin disease

hell of a piece: "The sight of our workers being led out in chains resembles images of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries being dragged out by their owners" "treating allied workers who are trying their best to assist in realizing this pipe dream as if they are slaves of a vassal state"

You “regret” mistakes. This was not a mistake. They deliberately shackled these people and distributed video of them being humiliated. They detained them for days after. What they regret is that, this time, their gleeful anti-immigrant violence wrought negative consequences for the administration.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

UNC installing fresh surveillance in the middle of the quad.

The extreme, opportunistic, completely disingenuous reaction to Kirk's murder also makes clear that if there's an Oklahoma City or 9/11-level attack in the next few years, this administration will absolutely exploit it to try to end our democracy and permanently entrench itself in power.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

Meanwhile in Korean media there is clarity that Trump directed this raid out of spite following his Oval Office meeting with the ROK President, who pushed back aggressively on Trump's praise for the North Korean dictator. They're right. US media have no clue of what's going on.

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

ICE killed one of our people, and lied about it.

Bad to worse

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Totally 100% absolutely without doubt would have been the response no matter what the demographics of the shooter turned out to be

a grim tribute to the man: Honoring his intense desire to stifle speech he did not agree with

“President says we should model our judicial system on Communist China.” How’s that for a headline?

In our magazine: I couldn’t help but think how these resources might have been used differently. How many of the region’s children could have been sent to college? How many medical bills could have been paid? How much infrastructure built? How many teachers hired?

As a niche bird history account I gotta share that there was a run on pet canaries after 9/11 because people thought they'd help protect against poison gas, one pet store owner said "I don't want to seem unpatriotic or anything but canary business has been great ever since 9/11"

One sign that the US is hosed is that it would prefer to piss off an enter country, a rising power, at the behest of a failed local politician. This is the sort of dumb, petty end of empire behavior.

ICE has focused on LA car washes, grabbing more than 250 people at 82 different places

The one dissenting judge, with the awesome name of Justice Fux, referenced OJ's glove of all things several times in his argument

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus