Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.

Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?

Good god, I’m embarrassed to be an American citizen today.

Three days ago, Venezuela was under the control of a maniacal dictator. Nothing has changed.

Another sickening point for the devastating tally of Russell Vought and Project 2025. Consider giving up one of your streaming services and making a donation to PBS and your local PBS channel instead. Unless you want us to only have state-run media fronted by billionaires...

NEW: Sen. Mark Kelly RESPONDS to Pete Hegseth for censuring him, cutting his military pension, threatening to demote his rank, and warning of possible criminal prosecution for telling soldiers to obey their oath.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

And just think, one time the wife of the President of the United States wore a sleeveless dress.

Because to Republicans, amateur sports is way more important than underage girls being raped.

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

“Transparency”

The orange felon has added plaques under the Presidential portraits in the new gallery in the Colonnade. Here's the one for Biden underneath his "portrait", which is just a picture of an autopen signature. Our country is becoming the biggest "shithole". abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

More evil.

Good god. The depths of disgustingness that it takes to be a member of Congress, see this, and look away is astounding. Can it be any more blatant that our country is being run by a lunatic? And the cowards in Congress won’t do anything about it.

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

I wonder what the battle bot will answer if a soldier asks whether they are allowed to kill shipwrecked people.

Imagine living in a country where questioning the health status of the leader is considered treason. Seems more like North Korea here every day.

Intravenous (IV) drug treatments (via hand) for early Alzheimer's disease, such as lecanemab (brand name Leqembi®) and donanemab (brand name Kisunla™), utilize MRI scans (umm, has he had those?) extensively for both patient screening and safety monitoring.

This is a great explainer about the legality of the boat strikes. Or illegality, as it were. www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper...

It doesn’t have to be like this… youtube.com/shorts/0mcdj...

Trump is just the worst! The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

Every major importer and retailer should follow suit. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

Kegsbreath. I am still occasionally chagrined about some small stupid thing I said 20 years ago, but these idiots continually spew out the most asinine comments and simply don’t care.

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

I guess in dementia-world, Trump thinks that his own headlines are flattering?

School district is about 1/3 Hispanic. And whoever named this ICE operation “Charlotte’s Web” clearly didn’t do their elementary school homework. That story is about friendship, sacrifice, kindness and solidarity. Couldn’t be further from ICE’s actions. www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

New: Trump has pardoned a woman convicted and imprisoned for threatening to shoot FBI agents investigating Jan 6 - www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

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NEW: Trump pardons the husband of GOP Rep. Diana Harshbarger. Bob Harshbarger pleaded guilty to fraud & distributing kidney drugs from China that weren't FDA approved. His wife was an officer in the company, but claimed she wasn't involved. The WH says the pardon was not related to his last name

Cruelty really is the point. Who else would go to court begging for permission to starve their own citizens? Meanwhile, they send $40 billion to Argentina, buying two private jets for ICE “Barbie,” and Trump has already burned through $1 trillion in less than two months.

Cade Cothren. How much do you want to bet Trump says he doesn't know him either?

Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.