The mother of the 5-year-old taken into ICE custody reports that the child is getting sick due to the quality of the food at the facility: “He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.”

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Monday that Mark Carney was "very aggressively walking back" some of the remarks to Trump— Carney said on Tuesday: “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president — I meant what I said in Davos"

Watercolour drawing (quite large) of the garden a couple of summers ago. A very hot year and we had a good crop of plum tomatoes. #watercolour #penandink #pleinair

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

They are grabbing and bursting testicles. That’s sexual assault. We already know women detainees have been raped, assaulted and in some cases sterilized. This is sick stuff. They want to inflict maximum pain. They’re abusers drunk on power. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“The peasants you kill are your own brothers and sisters. … No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you; in the name of God I command you to stop the repression.” - St. Óscar Romero

Take me BAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK

ummm I think Jesus already claimed that title thank you very much.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...

Note: this is issued by the new board - none of those who made the initial decision remain.

This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn’t exist – it’s AI Blakface theconversation.com/this-tiktok-...

Oh no

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system. It’s a feature. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

GRIEVING SUCKS! THANK YOU!!!!

We visited Renee Good's memorial. There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone. Flowers & stuffed animals galore. Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water. Grief. And belief. Scenes from Minneapolis:

Get his fucking ass AOC

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

Well, I was going to be on a panel at the Adelaide Writers' Festival but I'm not any more.

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

The woman murdered by ICE: 37-year-old Renee Good.

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

Rob Reiner (1947–2025)

Serfs, Karen, the word you're looking for is serfs.

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

The internet killed the video star

autism is not a "problem"

Cyberpunk 2077: My nominee for the Most Game of All Time. Writing is unremittingly awful, both dialogue and plot, and the constant snickering chanlord misogyny really sucked the fun out a lot that should have been more enjoyable, but I felt bludgeoned into admiration by the sheer scope of the thing.

Remember that authoritarians have ZERO sense of humor. About anything.

web.archive.org/web/20250414... Here is the guy who sent the letter, calling Greens members Nazis in a Liberal Party group chat. Seems this is who gets to be in charge of who can participate in public discussions about children impacted by war.

I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.

What the fuck was Starmer thinking

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

I don't know what comes next. But I do know after talking with Republicans that they have a bunch of unvarnished rage, they blame Democrats and they want to see something happen to them. This is... kind of scary. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

It’s exhausting seeing people’s hard work and knowledge being stolen, and then redeployed against them by this bullshit AI scourge

is today war crimes day or something

FUCK

i recognize that this is not actually how anything works in the real world but more than anything i'm shocked at the total lack of *embarrassment* from the people who own, run, and even work at these platforms. setting aside the "politics"—these platforms are just awash in depressing low-rent slop

ive been writing about this for years and i still find myself taken aback at how completely platforms have abdicated any kind of oversight or moderation over the last three or four years

The US is burning through foreign goodwill at a break-neck pace.

Just unbelievable how badly Covid destroyed so many people on the Right. I hope I never see another pandemic again because if one comes soon these people will be even more unhinged they'll easily kill another million people while whining about it the whole time.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

The original right-wing radicals did it because they wanted to relive the elan of the first World War but as victors. Our modern pastiche of it is because of aurafarming edits on social media.

Call me old-fashioned, but I ask you: WHY do we let the tech industry do whatever the fuck it wants? I, for one, don’t WANT the future Silicone Valley is shoving down our throats. NO to strangers being able to dox me as I walk down the street. NO to them being able to do it to my daughters.