Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

welp, just learned that a work contact I hadn't heard back from was quiet because he was vanished off the street, so that's a fun new normal I'm super excited to adjust to

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals! Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Me: Oh right I hafta kill the old creamer before I can start the new creamer Ecta: The creamer is dead! Long live the creamer! [brief pause] Ecta: ...things are so bad. Me: May I put this on the Internet #BootsAndEctaShow

In light of the everything, I did an abbreviated NNR. I believe it's really important that people see the larger picture of the last few weeks. nationalnewsroundup.org/2025/09/30/y...

Trump and Dems are officially meeting Monday. This is after Trump cancelled his last meeting with Democrats because they were holding firm on immigrant and transgender protections. The Republican budget has dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ riders. Call your Dem senators, people, don't let them capitulate.

MSF forced to suspend activities in Gaza City: “We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.” www.msf.org/msf-forced-s...

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

No Democrat should vote to keep the government open unless ACA funding is restored for the millions of Americans at risk of losing health coverage next year. Remember that this funding is on the chopping block because Trump and Republicans want to give the richest Americans a giant tax cut.

Since Lindsey Halligan personally indicted Comey she should personally try the case and not hand it off to someone else. She can show us how competent and qualified she is for this job in front of a jury.

I just want to call out the fact that we're all expected to just go about our normal business while these extraordinary events happen around us. There has been a massive escalation and consolidation of authoritarian power in the past couple of weeks and we still have to like. Buy groceries.

A divide in journalism right now that's worth watching is between reporters who understand how bad things are but are mindful of their reputation and not wanting to be perceived as too extreme or hyperbolic and reporters who feel things are so urgent they have to use urgent, clear language.

I just described myself as knowing the plot of a movie I've never seen "because I've watched the shadows on the fanfic cave wall", and I don't know how I've never thought of that metaphor before but brb using it everywhere

Me: You hafta love me Ecta: Yeah well, same to you buddy #BootsAndEctaShow

well I just had to type the phrase "Thursday White House meeting was canceled via Truth Social, so shutdown is likely" in my work notes and die a little more inside Relatedly: www.npr.org/2025/09/23/g...

tbh I'm not quite sure how to feel about the Catholic Church currently being better-run than the US government

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way." Just another day at the FCC, where the chair is threatening a major network over some comments by a late-show host. And the network is ABC, which doesn't bode well. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

So, even (or especially if given the right's scapegoating) the roommate is trans, the person clearly appears shocked and is working with the police. How is the shooting their fault? www.advocate.com/crime/tyler-...

These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.

Doing policy work right now is just one long parade of fighting new policies that will kill kids while hearing new rhetoric daily about how you personally murder five children before breakfast And I will die mad about how little of an exaggeration that is

Motto In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

It’s long past time that I take responsibility for what I wrote on Israel/Palestine in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR. & with the Gaza genocide, our thinking about what amends & healing may ever involve is even more urgent. Even if there may never be “forgiveness” or “atonement.”

It may be distasteful but it is not illegal to mock someone's death and it should not warrant arrest, ever. The 1st Amendment exists specifically to protect disfavored speech and what is happening now is one of the greatest threats to free speech in the United States.

Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from NY if NYC elects Mamdani. An impeachable offense for any other president in any other era. In this one it’s just another Monday.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

Me: What do you want to do with the cauliflower leaves? Ecta: Let's just recycle them Me: Uh, do you mean compost them Ecta: IT'S PLANT RECYCLING #BootsAndEctaShow

"Not all homeless people deserve involuntary lethal injection" is one hell of an apology.

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

This you? Just two hours later?

I need all y'all out here saying "I didn't agree with all of what [Charlie Kirk] said" to understand that marginalized people will hear you say "I agreed with some of what Charlie Kirk said"

Me: I think we're losing [physical] spoons @ectafoole.bsky.social: Huh, how bout that. Something is reducing our spoon count at an alarming rate. #BootsAndEctaShow

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

So after days of Republicans blaming and vilifying Democrats and trans people for Kirk’s murder despite having no clue who the person was, we find out it’s a white guy from a Republican family in Utah who loved guns.

And who appears to be a right-winger. bsky.app/profile/iwri...

What this says to me is: 1) PROTEST WORKS. Pritzker and everyday Chicagoans effectively repelled the threat, at least for now. 2) They are weakened. Afaik it's the first time he's seriously threatened to do this in a GOP governor state. Which tells me they're feeling less confident facing off

Per the press conference, the actual inscriptions on the casings are: "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" "hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three down arrow" "O bella cao, bella cao cao cao" "If you read this you are gay lmao"

They're doing an interesting (and deeply dishonest) two-step here, by pointing out that the *victims* of political violence have run the ideological gamut as a proxy for "extremism on all sides," but failing to note that the *perpetrators* of that violence mostly come from the right.