Under Kansas law, he must use the women's bathroom or be subjected to criminal charges in government owned buildings or $1000 vigilante lawsuits in public spaces. I think everyone can understand why this is absurd and causes more problems than it was ever intended to fix.

Fascinated by this glowing Seattle Times profile of longtime Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen that’s like “haha yes, there were bumps in the road, for example, he was ruthlessly anti-labor, compromised the paper’s editorial independence, and shot a dog” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Every day there are horrors, but with horror comes clarity. "Live as if you were in the first days of a better nation." -Alasdair Gray

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...

Like if another candidate for office put me in this advertisement I would probably say something.

What is wrong with this country? -Blind refugee, speaks no English -Police called when he wanders onto a woman's porch -Beaten, tasered, and arrested after "not complying" -Charged with trespassing and possessing a weapon (his walking stick) -Released without telling anyone -Found dead in snowbank.

Daily Beast: Kristi Noem has shut down plans for a new federal immigration detention center in her alleged lover’s home state after protesters made it clear it was not welcome. If deportation is the goal, why are they building massive detention centers? #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutGOP

I always try to explain to the cat what I'm doing when I build the fire, but this morning it occurred to me that the reason kitties don't understand fire is that there is no kitty Prometheus who stole fire from the kitty Gods! Too bad, I guess!

Epstein files document reveals DEA investigation of he and 14 others for trafficking narcotics [stupéfiants], from 2010 through the date the note was redacted, in 2014. Nothing in the English language press about this, naturally!

Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people. Me: Ok. May I talk to a person? Corporation: No. Never again.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

RJ Matson, Congressional Quarterly

As someone with an advanced but non-terminal degree, it's pretty annoying that in order to teach you either need the terminal degree or you need to know literally nothing

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

One more message I sent to @senangusking.bsky.social . Let's see if I get a response this time!

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

In the words of ICE: "He got his shit rocked."

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

The Democratic establishment in a nutshell! See how a "30-year veteran" and "expert" on political strategy responds to questions:

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Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Another post for @senangusking.bsky.social !

“A Maryland man is navigating two devastating blows to his family after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested his wife just days before their 15-year-old son’s death from cancer.” www.kkco11news.com/2026/01/12/t...

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

New note to @senangusking.bsky.social just dropped!

A mile and a half from where I used to live, Border Patrol kills a woman by shooting her in the face as she tried to flee.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another. Our #3 most-read story of 2025:

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Merry Christmas

Happy Crisis

Stephen Miller, shouting at the burning workers as he welds shut the doors of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory:

Complete dissolution of border patrol and ICE, followed by criminal trials aimed at removing these monsters from society, followed by redistribution of agents’ personal assets as reparations to victims, followed by a denazification process to prevent the cancer from taking hold again.

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Trump’s comments are vile. I am just as angry at the media outlets that bothsided Jamal’s murder, wrote puff pieces for MBS (Atlantic). And, the Washington Post opinion page that dismantled the platform that Jamal wrote for, ended the fellowship in his name, and purged its human rights writers.

In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.

Sending a letter to Senator King! Beautiful chicken card purchased from Good Goose Graphics over on Etsy!

“thrown into the air” NYPD cops swerved *into* a Black man on a scooter, and then tried to blame him… until the video dropped

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫