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...

Very telling example of ideological blindspots. Dylan Roof not part of the extended MAGA cinematic universe for reasons you can figure out for yourself.

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

2017: "President-elect Trump [is] committed to ensuring that the activities of the Trump organization are beyond reproach and cannot be perceived to be exploitive of the office of the presidency." - Trump attorney Sherri Dillon

The job market weakened sharply during the late spring and early summer as Trump's tariffs began to take effect. Trump responded by calling for the firing of a key labor statistician.

Maybe this breaks through to Christians. In my old district union carpenter — literally named Jesus — behind bars. Good record, kids, church, job. Came from Venezuela 2021, the year TPS granted for them. Info to help family in article. This is insane. www.observer-reporter.com/news/local_n...

An account by an accuser of Jeffrey Epstein shows how Donald Trump could appear in unreleased investigative files in the Epstein case. The accuser said that she told the FBI in 1996 and 2006 about what she considered a troubling encounter with Trump.

The newly passed BBB requires that the iconic Discovery space shuttle be moved from the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in DC to Houston. It sets aside $85 million to transport Discovery and construct a home for it at Space Center Houston.

The number of people in ICE detention without criminal convictions nearly doubled in the last month — a significant increase compared to detainees who have been convicted of crimes.

Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.

A new study estimates that USAID saved 92 million lives from 2001 to 2021, and that its demolition could kill 14 million people in only five years through 2030. That would make the end of USAID by far the most impactful action Trump has taken this year. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

The consumer protection agency also dropped cases against four other companies including Rocket Homes.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.

Good lord.

A public State Department procurement document for fiscal year 2025 listed the purchase for $400 million. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is a top White House official.

U.S. Department of State forecast shows that $400 million will be spent on armored Teslas www.state.gov/procurement-...

3/ Aid groups and government officials say they’ve never faced a catastrophe this sudden and extensive. Here's a stark example from a group of malnutrition clinics in Sudan.

President-elect Trump falsely suggested on social media that the man who drove a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans was an immigrant. Officials identified the suspect in the deadly attack as a U.S.-born citizen and Army veteran.

Welcome to the cult Robert!

The daily effects of strong winds, large waves, as well as rising sea levels — which are fueled by human-caused climate change — are causing beaches on the Outer Banks to wash away.

Is Bari Weiss going to do a new series of "The Twitter Files" now that Twitter is an actual propaganda arm of Trump and the Republican party and Elon Musk is acting like a shadow president? Or is platform bias on Twitter no longer worth discussion? Asking for a friend.

An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world. The headline: