that last line

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This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

More than 40 per cent of Apac businesses plan to shift focus away from US, even though a quarter of them identify US as their primary market. www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...

“Singh’s family has tried and failed to have him released on humanitarian grounds, to treat his growing brain tumor. In response to queries about his condition, McLaughlin said: “This is the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their entire lives.” theintercept.com/2025/09/26/i...

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

“Subu designed & led literacy programs, raised funds for Big Brothers Big Sisters, & tutored hundreds of fellow prisoners working toward high school diplomas. He became the 1st person in the 150-yr history of the facility to earn a master’s degree [..] by correspondence with a 4.0 GPA.”

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I'm just thinking about how Mamdani talks (and defends) trans people for two minutes more than the democrats did at the last convention. And the video is only two minutes and five seconds long.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Dinner.

“The US is the only country in history to allow a seditionist to run unpunished. Even Hitler went to prison in between his putsch and presidency. But “scholars” of American politics have refused to ask why this unique disaster happened here.”

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Pig butchering scam operators trying to lure jobseekers to slave-like conditions in Cambodia by advertising jobs through a Singapore-registered office. www.straitstimes.com/singapore/po...

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur. from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to pioneers of 1980s quantum mechanics, the foundation of today’s quantum tech. From quantum computers to cryptography, this research is shaping the next digital revolution. www.wired.com/frontiers-of...

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

Evidence collected by the medical community shows Israeli soldiers are *systematically* shooting and killing children in Gaza. revealnews.org/podcast/gaza...

“In all, Russia has spent 22 months, at least 2 combined-arms armies, and 13,000 soldiers in the Kupiansk direction for nothing but blood and ashes”. euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/03/f...

They’re literally socially constructing gender out of sand and metal after a decade of tut-tutting about women being adult human females ONLY

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era. Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Today, at Law Dork:

...from that to all the Covid disinformation, to fake autism/Tylenol claims, etc, it feels like ppl who want to believe in scientific conspiracy theories are sadly winning the communication battle (for now, at least). anyway, this video was cathartic & resonated w/me www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJb...

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

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.

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

I don’t disagree. www.espncricinfo.com/story/pakist...

What concerns me is not that Democrats will compromise on something like trans athletes--that question is at SCOTUS now and thus beyond their reach anyway. What concerns me is that I hear far more about what rights of mine they're willing to sacrifice and very little about what rights they'll defend

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

I appreciate them taking the time to write this out because it's the equivalent of a veterinarian journal article explaining why you can't sew a porcupine inside a pig. Like what even is any of this and why must we discuss it? Everyone involved should be impeached and jailed.

Billionaires, lawyers, college presidents you can stand up for the rest of us anytime….. I know it might be inconvenient but this guy is driving us into a ditch

I also spoke to @jmberger.com about what such a designation might mean: he said it will allow the FBI “to group together, prioritize, and probably fund investigations into trans people.” Even if it will mainly be an administrative tool, it is “almost certain to be abused by this administration.”

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Wired, Teen Vogue, New Yorker, Arstechnica… old-school Conde Nast publications are still holding up. Moved my subscription dollars from NYT/ WaPo to these earlier this year. Glad they’re validating my choice.

you look at all of this and it tells a very clear and unmistakable story no matter what the conservative justices say at conferences or in interviews or whatever they tell themselves

This was a great read. Two very good thinkers/ writers in the same room. Loved it!

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

Was watching a TV show called Sivarapalli (“Panchayat” in Hindi; available on Amazon Prime) that was arguing women sarpanches in rural India shouldn’t let their husbands run their village panchayats in their names. Bizarre to see this reflected at the highest echelons in 21st century US.

Finally got my hands on this beauty. can’t wait to get started in it! Seeing some familiar names in there. @blaft.bsky.social

Finally got my hands on this beauty. can’t wait to get started in it! Seeing some familiar names in there. @blaft.bsky.social

Singapore’s very last fishing village: kampong spirit behind gates, paid for with a yearly permit to let fishermen catch fresh fish and prawn between Grab rides. www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/yi...