A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Kavanaugh stop

I’m mad at America for electing Trump. #notAllAmericans - but too dang many.

Big kudos to PSF. Bravo

I support low cost high impact basic science #savechandra youtube.com/shorts/sE-RU...

Losing Pax Americana is a really big deal. That the current GOP is so consumed by short-term selfishness that they cast aside Pax Americana without caring, is at best sad. And, the transition - to what, Pax Sinica? - could be very - euphemistically - “messy”

The Department of Homeland Security created a new job — “deputy assistant secretary for elections integrity” — then gave it to a known election denier. We debunk her false claims:

Comes across as patiently earnest

Say it with us: in November 2026, we are going to flip the House and Senate blue. Repost if you are ready to do the same.

Oh man. Lindsey Halligan didn’t come across all that impressive before. But this…. Oooh, this is not good

@solarchase.bsky.social is the bomb. If you don’t know about her, today’s your lucky day! Brilliant AND knowledgeable AND humble, how does she do it?

This is Ukraine..

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

170 and counting reasons why Brett Kavanaugh can eat shit ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

I’ve believed for a long time that the liberal-conservative spectrum is strongly associated with population density. Looks like that association has only gotten stronger recently.

What is a legitimate reason for anyone to desire let alone trust Russia’s “findings” on who assassinated JFK? It sounds crazy to me.

The linked blog post is a treasure trove of updates on methane emissions tracking

An afternoon's desktop review of Fjernvarme Fyn (Odense, Denmark) district heating, including a Meta data center as a heat source. This is a low-grade review. Please don't think that my mind is made up on data center heat recapture for district heating. It's complicated. But, I caution DH advocates.

As the guy in the White House has recently insisted, today is Columbus Day. What to do about it, given Indigenous peoples’ entirely merited dislike of the whole thing? A couple-three ideas that I've been thinking about. 1/

John Oliver delivers, as expected. Bari Weiss makes herself an easy target: so much of her record is indelibly public. The crazy thing is that in this fractured media ecosystem, it doesn't matter. She can be blatantly wrong, and be criticized for it, and her core audience won't care.

One very human pattern that bothers me is “why don’t they just.” I gently ask of you, dear reader, to start with the presumption that people with decades of experience in $billion industries have thought of everything that you might come up with in an offhand tweet.

Today is (or was, depending) Columbus Day. I can’t encourage you enough to go read 1493 by the very thoughtful Charles Mann @charlescmann.bsky.social. 1493 engages frankly with the changes wrought upon the world from connecting Europe to Asia through the Americas. Fascinating, and educational.

Please look up your local No Kings event and go to it.

One Piece has over a thousand episodes. How much free time does this guy have?

This just feels naive to me. Biden committed to huge investments in areas that went and effectively voted against him. This feels like an academic disconnect - modeling voters as rational actors trying to maximize economic well-being. But they aren’t and don’t. Perception > Reality.

It’s good to celebrate wins

Nuthin to see here, just an innocuous lil Kavanaugh Stop.

Just a little ol’ Kavanaugh stop. Briefly detained and then released, I’m sure. No harm, no foul, right Brett?

Entirely predictable, and bad.

Nothing to worry about, just a little ol Kavanaugh stop

I’m very interested in specific medium to long term forecasts like this. Broadly, we know bad stuff is coming. Identifying the specifics is really important, though.

Yes! Say it with your full chest!

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Those dangerous antifa terrorists armed with *checks notes* pajamas and doughnuts. www.oregonlive.com/galleries/GW...

Interesting that Ellison became disillusioned with the Democratic Party after Obama’s presidency. Why? Racism? Or did he want more control, and democrats didn’t cede that to him? This is why billionaires are dangerous, they can write their own rules.

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

I’m a Black Lawyer who spent the months leading up Election 2024, thoroughly briefing Project 2025. Yet to identify anyone in academia or news media who is better versed with the 900-pg policy document than I am. Noting this, not to congratulate but to offer Project 2025 insight as public service.

NEW: Illinois Gov. Pritzker announced President Trump intends to federalize 300 state National Guard troops “in the coming hours" over objections from state and city leaders. We resolutely condemn this potential escalation. It's a power grab meant to intimidate and torment Chicago's communities.

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.....Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared...." ~ Anne Frank

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

It’s true. All persons are protected.

Fascists hate comedians because of mocking and satire. Comedians are the natural allies of anti-fascism. So it feels like the fascists are winning if comedians get co-opted, lose their independence, their freedom to speak truth to power.

Huh, interesting way of looking at it

David Cross is awesome

Green energy ecosystem beating economic forecasts, yet again

This makes me sad.

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

3 years later, he’d have to reappraise how China is attacking climate change

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’ english.elpais.com/culture/2022...