NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

The GOP Shutdown premise is basically this: “If you don’t let us kill you by gutting your healthcare, we will starve you to death by blocking your SNAP. Sure you’ll die either way, but hey, at least we’re letting you decide how.”

GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown. REPORTERS: 😳 KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?

The Substance (HBO) is about Ozempic, and I won’t hear otherwise.

so glad i got a $700 raise just to watch my health insurance alone jump $1800 love working harder for less each and every year

really? she announced this after mamdani won nyc? read the room

A break from writing today for a short local walk near my Shetland home - hoping for a decent late migrant bird, Woodcock the best I could manage. But delighted to find Smoky Spindles, a fine grassland coral fungus, the first time I’ve seen this on the isle. #FungusFriday

There’s a video going around of a family being terrorized by ICE in Fitchburg, MA. A man is having a seizure in the driver’s seat of his car with a cop’s hand on his neck, as his wife is protecting their baby from ICE agents trying to take it. All while Fitchburg Police protected the ICE agents.

EVERY DAY SOMETHING IMPEACHABLE

angry women is my favourite genre

Boston/Cambridge film buffs, "Every Noirvember at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge and the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, it’s a month for floozies, flophouses and hard-drinking private dicks played for patsies." #FilmSky 🎬 brattlefilm.org/film-series/... coolidge.org/programs/noi...

my pocket of joy lately is reading the babysitter’s club graphic novels. (i was ooooobsessed with the books as a tween bc stacey has type 1 diabetes.)

a fun thing about mcas is how the flares can be stress induced so now anytime anything stressful happens, I have to go full potato mode or risk losing a week of my life to a flare

An immigration judge in Virginia says 13-year-old boy from Everett currently in federal immigration detention can return to his home country of Brazil.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.” www.transition2025.com/apply

asked for an accommodation for my disability (discussions over email so i can read and process) from my own family lawyer aaaand they filed a motion to withdraw as my lawyer? citing client-attorney breakdown? court date is less than a week away, $8k retainer drained. does not seem ethical.

HEY BOSTON PEEPS! If you live in/near Dorchester and you have the means to help a family who's fighting the SNAP struggle, please DM me and I'll connect you with a known local org that's matching people up. (IDK if they want to be shouted out so until I hear back imma play it like this.)

i reiterate my idea that we all redistrict such that 1 district = 1 person (i know it’s not possible, let a girl dream)

sometimes when i can’t get the chill out, i blast the heat in my car and work inside it right in front of my house hotboxing but for low iron

this is a hate crime against bostonians, i just can’t prove it

the worst thing about all social media is that i can’t search for someone just by describing their pfp i know none of your screen names, just vaguely what your tiny picture looks like

“why can’t i focus” (realized i was attempting to listen to scotus oral arguments and read unrelated case law at the same time)

EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE

Is anyone doing live coverage of all the folks packing up and leaving NY?

Curtis Sliwa is getting this framed and put on his wall while laughing so hard he pukes

are nerf/xshot guns a thing in other countries?

obsessed

are you there god? it’s me. your strongest soldier. can u pls do me a solid

“The #Massachusetts State Police spends nearly $70,000 a month on a sophisticated GPS tracking system designed to enhance accountability and public safety. But 25 Investigates discovered a loophole: hundreds of cruisers are equipped with a ‘kill switch’ that allows the tracking to be disabled.”

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, your decision today hinges on a very simple question that goes right to the soul of what America is all about: should a man be allowed, out of the goodness of his heart, to give a delicious sandwich to a member of our law enforcement community?

sometimes you just have to read your sister’s text and move on with your day

Cheney dying and Cuomo losing on the same day?? crank up the volume, go vote, and pray that good things come in threes

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Break Stuff tops the Billboard charts and Dick Cheney is dead. The timeline is trying to heal itself.

production filming her in this foundation is a television crime

on my local food pantry’s site

NEW — The TRiiBE obtained audio of a 911 call made by a Border Patrol agent to report a crash injuring a 49-year-old Black woman in Chicago. In the aftermath of the crash, a federal agent was captured on witness video apparently placing a Black man in a chokehold. thetriibe.com/2025/11/list...

"Great news: The sexual predator endorsed the other sexual predator" was my wife's reaction to Trump endorsing Cuomo

hot mulligan’s stage work is so funny “any cops in the building? if someone next to you cheered, bully that guy.”

been seeing a lot of footage of college men dancing on top of bars, some even fighting women to get their spot there’s something here about how women used to wear blue, used to be called handsome, etc and how cis dudes demand special treatment despite already being society’s little pwincesses

He got bullied out of Boston University, which makes it even funnier

update: s/o to my migraine med, ubrelvy 🤙 my pupils are back in the game

They’re counting on you to sit this one out. Don’t give them what they want. Get loud with your ballot. Drop it off today or hit the polls tomorrow ASAP. #CAVoteYesProp50

Tonight, at 8PM ET there is a virtual documentary screening for Tremane Wood, a man facing execution in Oklahoma next week. northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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