@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

Pritzker’s observation that Trump is being manipulated by his own staff is quite savvy. Not in a political way but in the sense that our Federal leadership has been corrupted. Trumps descriptions of Chicago and Portland are so off base…someone is feeding him lies. Which he repeats.

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

Interesting 👀👇 Great job Scott MacFarlane! youtu.be/K3Ccg_RxfuM?...

Thanks. FTR, the very first time I had to call NCIS (I was working for the Navy) and then the FBI because of threats from Trumpers was almost ten years ago. I also had to fight being fired; I told my family, including my young daughter, that I might be unemployed soon. /1

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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Wow. This really says it all.

. @janefonda.com is so inspirational www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Lots of crim legal reformers have been arguing—correctly—that ICE’s behavior that is drawing outrage isn’t *that* much different from lots of routine police actions. But I think this is. Even the bigger gang raids have not indulged in this magnitude of wanton indiscriminate collective punishment.

If Trump "determined" the moon was made of green cheese, would the NYT give it a headline this stenographic? I'm glad they broke this story (gift link) but it is such an outrageous "determination" it ought to be treated as such AT THE TOP. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Theresa Claiborne "retired badass Black woman pilot 👩🏾‍✈️✈️💙" 7 years USAF active duty 13 years USAF Reserves duty 34 years as a united pilot (767 and 787) President of Sisters of the Skies And most recently, recipient of the Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Aviation Inspiration Award

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Lutnick on Epstein: Devine: So how come these other people could hang around him and not see it? Lutnick: They participated. That's what his M.O. was, "Get a massage" And what happened in that massage room, I assume is on video. This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That's how he had money.

Dear @apnews.com The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once. Fix your headline.

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

Our Ed.D. program is up and running at Mizzou and it's excellent. It's fully online with a cohort of passionate educators who earn their doctorate within 3 years. Faculty are supportive and the work is designed to be handled on a part-time basis. Apply by Nov 1 online.missouri.edu/degrees-prog...

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Late-night fans will see a rare host swap next week when Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert appear as guests on each other’s shows—on the very same night.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Don't look away. This is being done in your name, my fellow Americans.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

I found this in the Gift Link section of Bluesky. It worked for me www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Cancel the Cuts. Lower the Costs. Save Healthcare.

Lunch at The Blue Heron, Arusha, Tanzania

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has indicated that the Trump administration is considering whether it can suspend habeas corpus, the right of an individual to challenge their detention in court. Here's what that means.

We would like to thank Northumbria Police and the Crown Prosecution Service for bringing the case regarding Sycamore Gap to a resolution. Photo: John Millar

#dataviz password resistance to brute force www.tumblr.com/datarep/7824...

A more interesting (aerial) shot of the Princess taken just now.

Egyptologist in Paris Discovers Secret Messages on the Luxor Obelisk gizmodo.com/egyptologist...

Castell Pen-yr-Allt near Cardigan, West Wales - recorded as an Iron Age defended enclosure later reused as a medieval motte and bailey castle. The 📸 (my own) shows an old wall abutting the sheer, huge rock-cut side of the rampart on the east side of the monument. #HillfortsWednesday

Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

See also: Columbia Sportswear and the nurses pocket www.marketplace.org/2019/05/29/t...

Hi! In July I'm once again running a program for K-12 math teachers called "21st century mathematics". Its goal is to help teachers to connect math they teach with some math that has been discovered in the 21st century. Pass it along! Info+register: justinlanier.org/21st-century...

Stunning image of the full moon from last Saturday night. Photo credit: @deltadc.bsky.social

Richmond to Hampton Court alongside The River Thames. A overcast day in London. April 25 @ramblersgb.bsky.social @stormhour.bsky.social

Cannot recommend enough @ottensam.bsky.social's special episode on Science of Math, with @mathematize4all.bsky.social knocking it out of the park. www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mat... #mtechat

The people were angry: It took a wheelbarrow of German marks to buy a dozen eggs. Disillusioned nationalists rallied behind a charismatic wannabe dictator who claimed only he could save them. Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

Got to watch www.countedoutfilm.com tonight, thanks to Lauren Keough, Lora Bailey and David Austin. It is great. Can't remember any edu doc where I could similarly endorse it 100%. Centered on Bob Moses' work, lots of great #MTBOS folks, great math educators, stellar math representation.

here's my list open.spotify.com/playlist/1ED...