"Trump and his top aides are re-creating in America the conditions and terrors of failed states," George Packer writes, by "erasing the distinction between the perpetrators and victims of violence":

The Trump Administration is gutting America’s science engine, wiping out thousands of grants in cancer, aging, engineering and more. Our district’s world-class researchers feel these cuts every single day.

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

South Floridians from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela expecting to become U.S. citizens this week learned instead that their naturalization ceremonies had been canceled after the Trump administration issued a sweeping directive aimed at halting immigration from so-called high-risk countries.

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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Officials cite a 1,000% surge in assaults on ICE agents, but court records reveal a different picture. Read more here: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-01/dhs-1000-percent-increase-attacks-on-ice-agents-times-analysis?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

‘The hotspots are getting hotter’ in US data center boom www.semafor.com/article/12/0...

One Year Ago today, choreographer to the stars, Leejung Lee posted this dance challenge with… someone quite familiar. #방탄소년단 #BTS #DailyBTS #DailyBangtan #BOTD #BangtanOfTheDay

🚨The Russian government has banned us as an “undesirable” foreign organization. Our work hasn’t changed. But what’s changed is Russia’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies, its staggering rise in repression & the scope of the war crimes its forces are committing in Ukraine. bit.ly/48mvicJ

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Undocumented immigrants — along with others who are afraid they will be swept up in raids — are staying home. “They don’t care if I have papers or not, only because I look like a Latino,” said one construction worker who has temporary protected status.

Several days of torrential rains, storm surges and catastrophic flooding caused by #HurricaneMelissa have impacted the lives of more than 700,000 children across the Caribbean. UNICEF is responding swiftly to their needs. Here's the latest on the humanitarian response:

Federal immigration agents fanned out across Chicago and its North Shore suburbs on Halloween, chasing suspects through front yards, driving SUVs onto sidewalks and using chemical agents during confrontations with furious residents.

Federal immigration officers are using chemical irritants to disperse protesters in ways that violate American policing norms and test the boundaries of use-of-force laws, video footage from Chicago shows.

French bakery in Bed-Stuy offers free breakfast to SNAP card holders

Kristi Noem says “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained." Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.

The Senate approved a bipartisan resolution to end the national emergency underpinning President Trump’s tariffs on Brazil — an indicator of growing GOP frustration with the president’s trade policy.

UT Austin alumni: the school is bending the knee to Trump

Taehyung has arrivedat the VOGUE WORLD HOLLYWOOD event. (This thread will be updated with the links! Follow along!) www.instagram.com/voguemagazin...

ICE detains British Muslim political commentator at San Francisco airport

#V broke the tie and now became the 2nd K- Soloist with the most songs surpassing 500 Million streams on Spotify! 1. Jungkook— 5 songs🔥 2. V— 4 songs🔥 #WinterAheadbyV500Million CONGRATULATIONS TAEHYUNG HALF A BILLION FOR WINTER AHEAD

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital. "I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!" The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck. Houston, Texas.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

U.S. immigration leadership is reportedly being revamped in the image of a Border Patrol chief who will be in federal court TOMORROW for allegedly violating a court order by personally throwing two tear gas canisters into a crowd without provocation. More on him here youtu.be/7PER0Pcc800?...

Big shakeup in immigration tonight as Trump/Lewandowski feel they haven’t been aggressive enough with simply busting out car windows, grabbing random people off the street, firing pepper balls at clergy members, and setting off tear gas in residential neighborhoods www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Russian missile attacks on Kyiv over the weekend destroyed the warehouse of one of Ukraine's largest pharmaceutical distributors and a production facility of a popular coffee chain, reportedly causing over $100 million in damage and losses.

ICE's hiring surge is turning out to be an entirely predictable disaster. It turns out if you’re hiring for a pariah agency using nakedly fascist and racist messaging, America’s best, brightest, and most fit don’t apply. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-hiri...

Sudanese force's capture of Darfur city could cement country's split reut.rs/49llNMO

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⚡️Update: At least 5 injured, including 2 children, in Kyiv amid drone attack on residential buildings. At least five people have been injured, including a child that has been hospitalized, amid the Russian drone attack on residential buildings in Kyiv, the local military administration reported.

If you have not checked out Caolan Robertson's latest documentary The Farmers of Kherson, then I highly recommend checking out and supporting this film! @caolanrob.bsky.social youtu.be/jlTnKYTxWOY

The decision to kill other people's infants is a personal one.

Yesterday, I went to an ICE check-in with 16-year-old Joel Camas and his lawyer, who expected him to be out in time for school by 8am because he has special immigrant juvenile (SIJ) status. Instead, he was detained. Here is what happened (free link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...

Mario Guevara's deportation signals a dangerous precedent for press freedom. ICE detained him for over 100 days for live-streaming law enforcement, despite the fact that he was permitted to work in the U.S. Hear more on the newest episode of At Liberty.

Today in D.C., our youth leaders are advocating #ForEveryChild. Even though the U.S. Gov't is shut down, they met with Congressional offices to encourage them to support UNICEF funding when the Appropriations process resumes. Rutvi and David explain why children cannot wait for lifesaving support:

Nothing to worry about, just dead bodies washing ashore in a region where the US is carrying out extrajudicial killings of boats at sea

This is authoritarianism. Picking his media oligarchs.

Unidentified bodies with missing limbs washed ashore on Trinidad’s coast after the U.S. carried out its first strike on a boat in the Caribbean. In Trinidad, some are questioning whether the prime minister’s hesitance to cross the Trump administration is keeping residents from getting answers.