Yesterday, charges were dismissed for myself and five others protesting ICE. Yes, it was a win. But it’s not justice. And it’s not over yet.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

Goldilocks is still asleep in Baby Bear’s bed.

I have achieved heard immunity.

All the good words have already been taken.

I like to listen to a belly.

Sometimes you find yourself at the end of the sentence and you wonder if you will ever have a complete thought.

If you picked up a meal for the president would it be (a) a Happy Meal from McDonald’s, (b) a footlong po’boy from Subway, or (c) Thai green curry?

My legs are better at walking than lying abed.

I don’t think you should be awake when you’re asleep. But the king of dreams doesn’t care.

How do you decide to write? For me, it’s when a gun is pointed at my head and the gunman says —

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

Even the short books in my reading pile get bigger. glenningersoll.substack.com/p/pile-of-re...

Bring back the era of Eat Crow

I had the audience in the palm of my hand, then I started to applaud.

O sweet world, where is thy ache?

Jesus loves you, but Jesus is not in love with you.

Everything happens for a season.

If I had it to do over again I would do.

His highs achieved great heights.

I’m the one asking questions here, and this isn’t one.

Long since time to reform the Supreme Court. The Constitution, too,

My favorite way to end a sentence is with a.

Don’t sweat the sweets.

Where there is a will there is a well.

Do you have DNA? I like to think so.

My intelligence was provided me the old fashioned way, by animal instinct.

I can’t be the first to note that Keats and Yeats were poets whose names didn’t rhyme.

If broke is the past tense of break, would woke be the past tense of weak?

Somebody needs to write the biography of the great poet Lord Bryon.

None of the rubber trees caught on that there was a plant among them.

A dog is sitting. Why is it sitting? Can you read its mind?

If you were naked when the air raid siren went off, would you think, “I bet she doesn’t have any clothes on either”?

A giant wave from a giant waver

I’m not awake! I’m not awake! YOU ARE!

Real... You can't make this Sh*t Up..🤡

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

DHS deported a US citizen to Mexico. Brian Morales is 25 years old who was born in Denver. Pulled over in Texas with his construction crew. Didn’t have his ID on him and told officers he could get his birth certificate, Social Security card, and medical records from home.

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

"ICE's account does not match the police report or timestamps and content of witness video..." www.wbaltv.com/article/ever...

I’m awake at 5:44am. This is not usual, but I am feeling okay. I did a few things yesterday, even though I felt powerless. Today will likely be the same.

My sympathy for Israel has faded and faded until, I’m afraid, I can no longer make it out.

Remember that time when ICE shot a man as he fled into his home and then claimed he beat an agent with a snowshovel? And we were all like "you're lying"? They were lying www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, ready to start their new life together. Instead, ICE detained her. She was brought to the U.S. as a toddler. People like her should be citizens, not treated like criminals.

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

This really won’t take much of your time. glenningersoll.substack.com/p/does-it-ne...

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...