Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

if these kids were conservative influencers, it would not have been "things can happen"

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders. But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

The congresswoman said her son "always carries" his passport with him.

A Christmas elf’s candy cane stripes represent their achievements in battle. Red indicates an elf has drawn blood, while green is reserved for those with confirmed kills. More exotic colors designate elves who take a particular pleasure in dismemberment

This answers so many questions I've had over the years and many I'd never considered.

everyone calling this stuff “divisive” was also demanding that the church excommunicate Joe Biden

i have more contempt for people who clearly harbor bigoted views but can’t accept this about themselves and contort themselves trying to pretend their bog-standard gutter hatred is some kind of complex intellectual schema. just say you hate jews. have some spine and self respect. my god.

the more depressing alternative is recognizing that politics is a team sport….and people’s social and professional affiliations have a huge weight on what team they choose when they are forced to

the parsimonious explanation for why a pundit you followed crashed out in a trumpy way is that times of normalcy allow for people to be flexible and care about how they are perceived by polite audiences

The proper transliteration is “Xanike.”

Got a merino long-sleeved polo shirt thing and it's so incredibly comfortable but also very thin so I may have to become sweater-vest-pilled.

It can feel like ICE agents are everywhere. That, presumably, is how they want it to feel. At the same time, more and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. trib.al/zNVrQNn

"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

One fruit seller with more courage than ten entire Uvalde police forces put together.

"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...

Ahmed Al Ahmed’s cousin: “He’s a hero. 100% a hero.”

Again, even though the Japanese government leading up to 1945 committed terrible atrocities, none of us think that Japanese internment was caused by the Japanese government. It was caused by American racism.

Maybe I am missing something but can't this guy just find a table that matches his preferred playstyle? Everything has to be like, world-historical stakes all the time, it must be exhausting. I doubt the murderhobo munchkin types and the lesbian orc cafe proprietors are hanging out together anyway?

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

This is a textbook case of political asylum.

Apropos of nothing I am wondering if anyone else has had a slow, gong-like realization about how many people in positions of tremendous power are absolutely out of their minds on drugs.

so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card

After the glorious working peoples' (terms and conditions apply) revolution, every Wingnut will have his Welfare! Why should only Nazis with internet fandoms get hundreds of thousands of dollars for racially abusing people?

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

We've reached a point where they blur together. We don't even remember the names and places anymore. We have failed. And worse? We stopped caring that we failed.

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

oh, one more thing, news com au reports the hero is Ahmed El-Ahmed, owner of a fruit stall. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

NSW premier Chris Minns confirmed that the Bondi attack was, as we all knew, targeting the Jewish community. 12 people were killed (not sure if this includes the dead terrorist) and 29 injured. The event is being considered a terrorist attack.

29 civilians injured and taken to hospital, and 2 police officers injured. over 1000 people there celebrating Hanukkah when the attack occurred. third offender has not yet been ruled out, and police are investigating, according to the press conference.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”. Hope the media is proud.

they should categorically ban people with Kalshi and Polymarket accounts from having security clearances

One of these students went to Brown in fact abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-p...

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

Well, at least the rest of the time the massive quantity of weapons in civilian hands is being used to prevent the tyrannical overreach of a domestic police state that detains and deports at will regardless of pretext or citizenship.

Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs will abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs. The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.

i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.

Often, these gamblers told us, video games with gambling features drew them in. The three I heard most often: NBA 2K (with its gacha-esque packs), Fortnite (through wagering) and CS:GO (with its skins market). Many gambling streamers got famous with these games, especially 2K.

Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours. New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

restaurants don't want you to know this but technically steak tartare is a gluten free dessert

“Deportation, Inc." produced with @situ-research.bsky.social is a investigative video series on how immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry shaped by private profit and political power. Watch the first episodes now. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

An Old Stone Church Blizzard in Cleveland, Ohio

Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care

Say what you will about Bari but landing Kai Winn as an interview subject is a serious get

In a better world, where humanity as a civilization learned how to be more just, moral, principled and kind, there are people whose full time job is to chase those who gamble and facilitate gambling on war and beat them with heavy rust-covered chains