ICE goons entered a woman’s home without a warrant, guns out, terrorizing her and her two children. The man they were looking for didn’t live at the house. www.fox5ny.com/news/ice-rai...

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.

"Converting from Islam is treated as apostasy, and converts face arrest, interrogation and prison terms."

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

New music Friday in Hong Kong! Listen to JENNY ROTTEN - the new single from DAVID BORING of Hong Kong. Streaming everywhere 👇🏼 link.damnably.com/JRdb Their aptly titled sophomore DOUBLE album 'Liminal Beings and Their Echoes' is on pre-order 👇🏼 davidboring.bandcamp.com/album/unnatu...

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

"Gonza"?

This is a genuine problem/ challenge. Turning off intrusive AI features, from Gmail, also turns off useful anti-spam and related features. (Sort of like Trump using the govt shutdown as excuse to end all SNAP benefits. Google didn't have to do this.)

I've seen in-person politics since the time Jimmy Carter charmed Hunter S Thompson. Which really mattered, then. Nothing matches the way Mamdani made Trump into his little fan-boy today. Maybe tomorrow, Trump will realize this and go berserk. But for this moment—it's like when I saw Sandy Koufax.

"Weisenburg and Thomas are also accused of coercing a minor to engage in sex acts on camera."

Here’s a thread on how an attempt on Venezuelan oil could go horribly wrong. I watched it happen in Colombia for years. Now add cheap drone technology to the mix & that oil infrastructure becomes EXTREMELY vulnerable to sabotage. Refineries & storage tanks weren’t designed to withstand attacks.💥💥🔥🔥

And both Hong Kong and (Mainland) China, it'd be considered criminal to openly assert that Hong Kong is not (part of) China.

This is perfect. A Fox 52 episode podcast about the life of Jesus, apparently built on subterfuge, theft and lies. Many or most of the actors billed as participating had their voices repurposed from other work and didn't even know they were part of it. ew.com/celebrities-...

Framed #1351 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf The sign was kind of a giveaway.

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews. At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...

Hong Kong’s elite schools alert to the danger of books and how they might endanger national security: “…many alumni and supporters had donated books to show their backing, but it found that some titles potentially risked breaching the national security law..” www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Optics don't matter when you think you should be above the law and will do anything to stay that way.

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

When I try to find a job To earn a little cash All you got to offer Is your mean, old, white backlash But the world is big Big and bright and round And it's full of folks like me Who are black, yellow, beige, and brown Just what do you think I got to lose? I'm gon' leave you with the backlash blues

This is hilarious to me. Wait until they find out about pro wrestling www.pennlive.com/entertainmen...

Reporting their activities to the authorities who’d then come up with accusations has become a common strategy to harass indie bookshops pressure them into closing down. Indie bookshops have been so courageous, creative, & resilient in carving a space of #freedom. Solidarity with Book Punch

The optics, of course, suggest that they decided to keep him stuffed away in a jail cell until well after the election is over to make sure he can't ruin the election any more than he already has. Maybe not. But it arguably kinda looks that way, is my point.

"It is truly mystifying how any detention facility can let someone leave their room, create three nooses and then hang themselves without anyone knowing."

I noticed something “interesting” about the Hong Kong “patriotic” election posters this year. In the past, political posters were a lively gaggle of colors, styles, typo + graphic design. Now all the candidates’ posters look virtually identical , as if they came from a single design shop.

Extraordinary that the Texas government would be so corrupt that it would have to black out more than 80% of its emails with Elon Musk.

Not only that but every time he golfs he does it on one of his own properties & charges the government, putting tax money in his private coffers. Each golf trip is a self dealing grift and an unconstitutional emolument.

Wasn't expecting the AI-pocalypse to be led by kawaii toy murderbears. Well played, Silicon Valley.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Framed #1350 🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf Not especially proud that I know this one. But I do.

And he wears it well.

Happy International Men’s Day everyone.

The 31 still in prison inc.: - ex law professor Benny Tai (not expected out until 2032) - nurse-activist Owen Chow - journalist turned activist Gwyneth Ho - ex ICAC investigator and legislative councilor Lam Cheuk-ting - veteran activist "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung - nurse-union leader Winnie Yu

China underground church pastors arrested, face up to 3 years in jail, NGO head says reut.rs/486ybOM

As someone who's been doing conferences for 29 years, my all-purpose rules (which others have mentioned) are: 1. Comfortable shoes. 2. Eat what you can when you can – don't think in terms of normal meal schedules. Carry snacks/water as backup. 3. Do your best to experience the city you're in.

I've been to this very spot in Barcelona multiple times and I am here to tell you I saw no nudists at all. Ever. Not once. Unless they were off duty. Then maybe. No one was naked, is what I'm saying. Maybe this postcard was sent before 2005? Or I got invited to the wrong parties? I dunno.

1/ Hong Kong’s punk community has raised HK$21,375 for hungry Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip. hongkongfp.com/2025/11/19/h...

Same

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

"And here’s the sick joke of it all: the more you linger on a video to discern if it’s AI-generated, the more of its kind you’ll see." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At this stage it's not hard to imagine Trump is jealous that the crown prince gets to order his ppl to kill journalists and he doesn't.

Detecting a pattern here ...

I'm assuming that by "denaturalisation" he means even if you've legally obtained citizenship, the US govt will strip you of that citizenship and deport you anyway. And at this stage, there's no reason to assume this admin will limit itself to naturalised citizens.

take a deep breath, drink some water, stretch, red panda fact

Like some kind of grim Omen of things to come, #Hawaii ’s #Kilauea volcano just unleashed a MASSIVE WING SHAPED eruption with lava fountains soaring 1,500+ feet high

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Trump's DOJ confirmed 97.4% of people ICE has been arresting in Chicago have no criminal record whatsoever. The state is using its power to terrorize a community. Worst of all, Chicago is not an isolated example and these abuses are not stopping at U.S. borders. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-ice...