Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

A thread of two photos, each worth more than 1,000 words: The Rev. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., is detained by Illinois State Police at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility Via Freelance photographer Jim Vondruska/Reuters 1/2 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

@tkingfisher.com I wanted to thank you for the Saints of Steel books, which have kept me sane these past few months when I was immobilized for long stretches from medical procedures. Just what I needed--engaging, heartwarming, with an interesting set of puzzles and characters I came to love. Thanks.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I feel like the Guardian is usually better than this. What kind of "brief struggle?" Who initiated the contact? How did he "become unresponsive" after being taken into custody? Why did he need medical aid (and when were paramedics called)? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Finally got to read Wild Faith by Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social and it's unbelievably prescient Also starts off with this quotation, which meant she had me from the first page

Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.

Grok is off the rails 🥴

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

I was literally eating a donut when I read this, so perhaps I'm biased. But should we really be taking healthy lifestyle advice from the heroin-and-roadkill guy?

once again reminded of how the NYT sent me more emails to fact check Rice Truck than they have had critical sentences about invading greenland or whatever the fuck ol pudding brain was on about that day

Just found out my husband's sang "Son of Preacher Man" and "Afternoon Delight" with his 8th grade choir (~1979) because the choir director thought they were about 1) religion and 2) a picnic My husband figured it out when I started laughing uncontrollably at his sentimental playlist. This year.

This is my back story. The Jorts Lore, if you will. It’s a pretty funny story actually even if people were upset at the time www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...

PSA: I am probably going to be meaner than usual this week as I watch my country decide if it’s going to install a blood thirsty mad king with access to nuclear weapons who wants to kill me and my loved ones. I imagine this goes for many Americans.

Reskeet if you are in the United States and are, in fact, like "oh my gosh, I will die if I don't have health care" politicalwire.com/2024/10/17/b...

The first 40 accounts are now active, and the automated updates should be running. There are 122 local NWS offices, and it takes a few minutes per site to create and configure the account, but I'm working through them. Holler if there's one you want prioritized.

Well now, there's a thing

Learned this morning that my partner, who votes in every single election, was removed from the voting rolls here in Ohio because of "inactivity." He got it fixed but what the fuck. If you're in Ohio and planning to vote this November, please PLEASE keep checking your registration as it gets nearer.

Find me these English professors. I have questions.

Putting the final touches on my syllabi means I ask ChatGPT my favorite question: “How effective were the CSA Lycanthropy battalions during the US civil war? I'm particularly interested in their battlefield performance against US ordinary troops and the US wyvern cavalry.” ChatGPT's answer?

The Guardian today tries out several explanations for why TFG keeps bringing up Hannibal Lecter, and honestly this one had not occurred to me but seems entirely plausible: www.theguardian.com/culture/arti...

That’s it, I’ve officially muted the word for a husked tropical fruit until various white people enthusiastic about politics do some homework on the history of the word as a slur. (Hint: the fruit is brown on the outside and white on the inside.) Now if I could just mute emojis.

PSA: I know its become a sort of rallying meme but trust me white folks, you do not want to be asking your desi friends/colleagues "are you team coconut" just had someone try that and the results were... not good. Just don't. It won't end well.

"We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." - Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel of Nominations for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Grassley, on what he'd do if he worked in the next Trump administration's Justice Department.

The cunning artificers at Discworld Emporium posted this on another site. Modesty prevents me from describing its best feature

I would humbly argue that the Missouri AG arguing that an innocent person should be kept on death row because to reopen his case would destabilize the system is proof that the system most motherfucking definitely needs to be destabilized.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

A fifth-grader from Brownsville ISD reported being bullied by his principal. Five days later, he was handcuffed and detained. He spent 3 days in solitary confinement. A horrifying story uncovered by Investigative Reporting Fellow Josephine Lee:

Trick or treat

@scalzi.com it is astounding how many times I have needed to tell people to read Starter Villain just so we can discuss who in our real lives should be taking part in the Pitch & Pitch. I swear this comes up once a day. Thank you for the perfect mental image. And for the dolphins.

Good news, (probably) still not zombies, though Merry's expression is worrying me a bit