EXPOSED: @lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US. It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

Unpopular opinion: I actually love self-checkout. Of course, I'm so introverted that when the pandemic shutdown happened my life barely changed. My ideal shopping experience is to have customer service people sitting in comfort somewhere I can go ask them questions, and to otherwise be left alone.

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.  Looking forward to No Kings Day.

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

College Sara (c. 1987) was an early adopter of the Bettie Page revival bangs look with neo-Victorian/proto-Goth tendencies. Also extremely, unbelievably nerdy. Like "I read The Silmarillion at 15 and liked it, also had D&D in the pink box" nerdy.

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure. Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing. 3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes. You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

womp womp.

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action. #climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

The lawyer for Marimar Martinez (the woman shot by CBP on October 3) seems to think the communications that led to Tricia McLaughlin's claims about the shooting might start disappearing -- he's asking for a preservation order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

- Everyday we must remind people that gestapo agents and their enablers are committing atrocities. This is an ethnic cleansing. These are crimes against humanity. And they will be held accountable.

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

It’s worth noting that when he decided to speak out about his unconstitutional ICE detainment, DHS accused him of assault. They lie. They blame the victims. George did nothing wrong. He was just trying to get to work and was hit with chemical munitions and detained for three days.

I'm wondering how much of US protests are being seen on the news and/or via the internet in other countries. Do you know of the Emergency Naked Bike Ride? (in Portland, naturally). How about the frogs? Catholic priests marching down to the ICE facility in Chicago and all but exorcising it?

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places. But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

This Is Fascism

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

It's not so easy to cancel your subscription to the Federal government... but you CAN take some of that $ you were spending on Disney and donate to Leticia James' defense fund.

Next Saturday is #NoKings Day. Stand up for democracy before it's too late. Find a protest near you at nokings.org.

Post this everywhere‼️ -and- RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Donald Trump has been illegally shutting down the parts of government he doesn't like and firing tens of thousands of federal workers since Day One. Republicans’ shutdown doesn't give him any more power to create chaos. It’s workers and the American people who will suffer.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

When annual reports come around this year, gonna be a lot of university employees looking for the fields pertaining to “last stand organizing and advocacy activities aimed at protecting the few remaining basic core functions of the institution.”

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying” (#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified. kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

What the actual fuck.

Donald Trump, who has ordered the U.S. Navy to sink unarmed boats from Venezuela which he *suspects* of carrying drugs - an order that clearly violates international law and is arguably a war crime - and is also sending soldiers into American cities against civilians ... wants a Nobel Peace Prize.

My non-lawyer ass has spent a lot of time listening to court cases this week. And month. And couple of years. They keep telling me not to go to law school.

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Racism as we now know it is comorbid with capitalism because it artificially suppresses labor costs. They were literally invented at the same. Sexism and misogyny... kind of, but there are other factors at play.

Well then maybe we let the industry die? Just saying

The ICE stories in this Reddit thread should shake every American, regardless of party, to their core. We no longer have a Constitution. This is fascism, pure and simple.

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean. If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law It hasn’t been hung