Trump: "I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships, by the way. We have a Secretary of Navy who came to me, 'cause I look at the Iowa out in California and I look at different ships, the old pictures. I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea. And I look at those ships... "

“This is truly disturbing. He is clearly unwell even for Trump,” said a second defense official, who later referenced the 25th Amendment.

"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

"Racism is desperately seeking the other in the form of an evil to be combated." - The Perfect Crime

Trump's NSPM-7 represses freedom of speech & association, investigating any organization with "anti-capitalism" or "anti-American" views. I ran a primary in 2003 against the Patriot Act & war in Iraq. NSPM-7 is a greater infringement on freedoms than the Patriot Act.

Indicators of "extremist violence" according to new directive NSPM-7

NSPM-7

Reg Butler, Ophelia, 1955 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123409

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.

Profiting off reporting on how much we bleed after declaring open season on us, how lovely.

....i didn't realize this sort of thing was going on..... i recommend *not* wearing a titanium ring with a lithium battery in it ?? and if it starts to swell while you're wearing it to absolutely not get on a plane ???

academy award contending tiktok

Yellow Body by Robert Rauschenberg, 1968 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137707

Blocks 61-64, New Belgrade r/brutalism

The ADL should do more to combat not just Defamation, but also Bigotry. The rising tide of antisemitism can only be defeated by an ABDL.

"Who would you blame for a government shutdown?" 🔴 Republicans: 45% 🔵 Democrats: 32% Morning Consult / Sept 28, 2025

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

What? Ed Zitron has been wrong about everything. In fact I want a Zitron reader to tell me one single thing he's ever been right about about. He said OpenAI was closing by end of 2023, then by end of 2024. He said they'd never be able to serve Sora to public.

8. In 2024, when Democrats had full control of the Senate, they allowed an anti-trans youth care tricare ban to pass. They refused to even hold a vote to remove it, because it was what was in the final negotiated bill for the military.

⚠️ Update: #Afghanistan is now in the midst of a total internet blackout as Taliban authorities move to implement morality measures, with multiple networks disconnected through the morning in a stepwise manner; telephone services are currently also impacted

babe wake up it's time to force myself to read conservative hawk writing on China (also for the love of god can publishers pick another cover for China books besides the dragon thing or the red star?????)

people absolutely conflate "efficiency" with "leanness" and they are not the same thing!

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Broadview police investigating ICE while Hakeem Jeffries fights to save rural hospitals lol

I hope every rural hospital all across Trump country closes down. Fuck those people. If Dems ever win back power they shouldn't lift a finger to help them. No really, if they're such big fans of self sufficiency they should get it good and hard

If Democrats cave on this, I will never, ever, ever, ever vote for them ever again. Ever.

average urbanite: 27, software manager, user privacy and security @ meta, donates $15,000 to the dccc every cycle, 5x/wk at barrys. average suburbanite: 57, owner of sales consulting firm specializing in industrial whale slaughter. registered independent. considers themselves an enviromentalist.

#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/photo_221@22-12-2019_02-14-01.jpg

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:

the alternative office of geometry is open at all angles, except where it's not

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

on days like these I am thinking about the years of leonid brezhnev

i don’t think he was supposed to post this. this is a company lobbying for medical cannabis, specifically for medicare coverage of it, and i think they made a whole commercial for an audience of one. “YOU will…” “cementing YOUR legacy,” millions will thank you… this was just for trump

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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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.

Buy America is a scourge!

Martin Puryear’s ‘Ladder for Booker T. Washington’ (1996). Collection Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas

Good rock

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false: www.wired.com/story/herita...