A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

🚨10am-12:30pm October 25th Annual Halloween Parade and Party for families in the community get tear gassed by ICE in NW Chicago. This is a terror state; a police state. 1/2

This isn't just a war on immigrants, it's a war on us. If you think you're safe because you're white and native-born, you're lying to yourself

For my son Derek. Born 9.29.1979. Died on this day 10.26.2011

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

NY Times Gift Article. How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught History lessons are being wiped from the internet, and California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

One thing that is clear from the kicker to this excellent WSJ story on the WH ballroom is that Trump himself can't believe how easy it is to run roughshod over rules and traditions. There's probably a metaphor in there somewhere. Free link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Lawyers in the case before Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago respond today to this DHS statement about Greg Bovino’s use of tear gas: “The statement is a lie,” they say.

From @stevanzetti.bsky.social: In February, the Texas Observer confirmed that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an ICE assistant chief counsel in Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account. Now, ICE refuses to tell us, or members of Congress, if he's still employed.

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor. And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

This document is … insane? Incredible? In it the USG shakes down a university for $1.17 BILLION “to avoid legal action” and dictates how hiring, promotion, admissions, scholarships, and CURRICULA REVIEW will be conducted. It stipulates how and when students can protest on campus. It is un-American

The Canadian traffic into Buffalo has dropped dramatically as Canadian visitors stay home. NY Times Gift Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/n...

He’s not sundowning. He’s using an old authoritarian trick: filling the airwaves with lies to disorient the audience and make it difficult for them to differentiate between facts and falsehoods. Here’s just one of hundreds of articles explaining this phenomenon. bfi.uchicago.edu/insights/the...

ICE officers should not take legal advice from this ignorant Trump crony, who is practicing TrumpLaw without a license. If federal officials engage in violent crimes, they could well be indicted and convicted by state law enforcement authorities.

Comer: "I think President Trump was right when he was talking about the IQ levels of Hakeem Jeffries."

Trump flunkie Todd Blanche says it's a crime for states to hold violent ICE thugs responsible for their crimes. He is wrong.

Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"

Q: Would the administration consider putting troops on the ground in any capacity in Venezuela? STEPHEN MILLER: These are terrorists and they're gonna be killed

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Feds play more games over where to dump Kilmar Abrego Garcia on the global map. Now: Liberia. Reminder: Abrego's lawyers agreed that he'd go to Costa Rica, but feds' insisted on sending him to Uganda, Eswatini & Ghana. A judge's patience is running thin. www.allrisenews.com/p/abrego-gha...

After trying to bribe Kilmer Abrego Garcia into pleading guilty by telling him they’d send him to Costa Rica if he did and to Africa if he didn’t, the Trump admin is now refusing to acknowledge that he agreed to be deported to Costa Rica — but won’t plead guilty.

DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators

Team Canada is awesome: N.I.C.E. Agent welcomes US tourists in Canada 🇨🇦🤭💙

Where we are as a country

They are firing pepper balls into the faces of clergy, again www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

This photo. @sfstandard.com #SFO sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/b...

NEW: The Ninth Circuit votes AGAINST an en banc rehearing of the case on the deployment of the California National Guard to LA, leaving the panel decision permitting the deployment intact. Eleven judges file a dissent. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Make Atrocities Great Again

The population of Iceland is 389,444, half of them women. 90% turned out in 1975. If only we could get 25% of OUR population to do this. That would be 60,000,000 people. kvennaar.is/english/

“.. The American intervention to prop up the Argentinian peso has failed. Despite the United States intervening .., the Argentine peso lost 10% of its value in the first two weeks of October, pushing the overnight interest rate to 157%.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social $ARGT

ENTEN: “.. Trump's at new lows when it comes to economic net approval. .. Q-Pac (-19 pt) & CNBC (-13 pt) find him at the lowest level of either of his presidencies. “.. Also, he's lower than any president at this point in a presidency or 2nd term on record.” @cnn.com @cnbc.com

ROSENBERG: “.. the AI spending boom has taken over everything, and when we strip out all the direct and indirect spending related to this theme, there has been absolutely no growth in the economy so far this year.”

Looks like we are about to see a significant increase in snatch-and-grab operations around the Bay Area 408-290-1144 is the hotline for the Palo Alto/Mountain View area www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

BREAKING: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Senator Merkley continues to hold the Senate floor! Tune in! www.youtube.com/live/BPJcq9u...

Go Jeff! He’s been a super strong voice in our fight against authoritarianism. I hope people tuned in.

Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was working at a construction site in coastal Alabama when ICE agents tried to take him to the ground as he yelled, “I’m a citizen!” They held him handcuffed for more than an hour and dismissed his REAL ID as fake. Two weeks later, he wrongfully held by ICE agents again.

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

Proud Oregonian here! Go Senator Merkley!! www.youtube.com/live/H1VL5Po... #Oregon

💪 Nearly 23 hours in, Merkley isn’t filibustering for attention: he’s fighting for We the People. From calling out Trump’s authoritarian tactics to exposing GOP attacks on healthcare and justice, he’s proving that courage doesn’t clock out. Thank you @merkley.senate.gov

Story told by Sen. Merkley talking in Congress now 20+ hours about the growing “authoritarian grip” of Donald Trump and his allies. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Sen. Merkley (D- Oregon) is holding court on the Senate floor, and has been for hours!! Why am I just finding out? www.youtube.com/live/BPJcq9u...

No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.