Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have withdrawn from the International Criminal Court. The past and present show that only states who fear accountability for atrocity crimes attack or leave the #ICC. guardian.ng/news/burkina...

More than 2,000 people went off-roading along the Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago over the weekend, as EV automaker Rivian turned Pioneer Court into a pop-up wilderness course.

5) Accounting for staffing changes changes the picture entirely, & matches what agents in the field have told me since the 1st Trump administration-they are not overwhelmed but slow-walking processing or shutting down the asylum system to create the optics of an “invasion.”

3) Note how it is MPP & Title 42 that causes the increase. As every Border Patrol agent knows & Trump’s administration definitely knew, shutting the asylum system causes illegal crossings to spike. Period. No doubt about this. MPP & T42 proved this. Then it starts to drop once processing begins.

Appalachian Trail over I-70 Eastbound in Western #MD.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Erika Kirk said Charlie Kirk’s Christian mission was to “save the lost boys of the West.” Just in case anyone missed that his support rested on his project to strengthen misogynistic white supremacism.

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

JUST IN: Wall Street Journal seeks dismissal of Trump libel suit over article disclosing his alleged birthday note to Epstein. WSJ: 'There is nothing defamatory about a man sending a bawdy letter to his friend' & is consistent w/Trump's reputation. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

There is only one way to resolve this. RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Editorial note: they actually mean the exact same thing

He never misses an opportunity to do harm.

Meltdown on "Truth" Social in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Justice Kagan, dissenting, says the majority will clearly overturn Humphrey's Executor soon—but objects that "our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars," or to "transfer government authority from Congress to the President."

Removal protections are gone. Humphrey's Executor is overruled in all but name by the Shadow Docket. Rest in peace to the Presidency, and long live the Monarchy.

ice activity has definitely picked up somewhat. multiple arrests today in chicago's southwest side. traffic stops in addison, sightings as far as streamwood, butterfield, and aurora. we think agents are generally most active during the middle of the week, based off our (very limited) observations.

If you were one of the many people who flipped for @staceywescott.bsky.social's excellent photographs outside the ICE building in Broadview Friday, you might like reading her walk-through of the morning and the process of making that picture. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/t...

Tribune visual journalist Stacey Wescott has been making pictures in and around Chicago for 26 years. On Friday, she documented former Marine Curtis Evans carrying an American flag amid a cloud of gas in the middle of a confrontation outside of an ICE facility. Here's how she captured that shot.

Hundreds of Hollywood and Broadway stars — including Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Selena Gomez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep — are urging Americans “fight to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights” in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension.

Thanks to the Texas Tribune for this comprehensive, fully reported account of the firing of the Texas A&M Instructor for teaching “gender ideology.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

VT just closed its religious studies department.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

A white bus (doesn't appear to have detainees inside, think it's returning from transporting captives earlier today) pulls into the driveway. SRT emerges. An agent on the roof fires some pepper balls at protesters.

Gen AI has been trained and developed in ways that no university research ethics committee would approve. And yet as academics we supposedly need training in how to use it ‘ethically’…

I'm old enough to remember when people criticized the 1619 Project for exaggerating the depth & persistence of American racism. Good times.

Trump is STILL doing everything he can to distract us so we stop asking about the Epstein files.

Just getting around to listening to unhinged, fanatical Stephen Miller at the Charlie Kirk Memorial. www.c-span.org/program/whit... (5:34) (cartoon from the archives)

Reminds me of the classic Rick Mercer clip from Speaking to Americans: congratulations, Canada, on your national igloo

Photo credit: @staceywescott.bsky.social

Photo: @staceywescott.bsky.social

All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Committing war crimes and violating international law

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

hey political scientists, wake up, wild new country-pair just dropped.

congrats to Canada and Azerbaijan for resolving their differences; i'm so glad Trump spoke to both the Congolese and the Austrians

Reminder that in the Trump immunity ruling, the Supreme Court ruled specifically that the president has total immunity when it comes to his communications with Justice Department officials:

Things I didn't know about my own county until recently: Mississippi has a large Native American population. In a few places, they're the majority of the population.

Reading the article you’d never know that the gun range in question is operated by the Katy Police Dept.

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

ice is active in chicago's southwest side this morning. confirmed sightings in the chicago lawn and gage park neighborhoods. there looks to be at least one arrest so far. it seems to be a quieter morning, though, overall, so far.

What if we just had laws passed by Congress, without the personalist authoritarian grift & arbitrary policy cycling?

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

A transcript of Disney's testimony, as well as Ronald Reagan's, is at History Matters: historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6458

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...