ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen. But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win. But at NIH we have seen this exact play before. It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture. A 🧵:

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Since it is Friday, I am once again reminding you that I am running for CA Assembly District 72, and that my solemn pledge not to use any campaign funds to eat excessive amounts of tortellinis remains in effect. These are personal tortellinis. secure.actblue.com/donate/kluwe

If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.

The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago. Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7." @timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

And if any media outlets need a former lawyer/stringer to cover legal proceedings for them in Chicago, I'm available!

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

I keep trying to explain to him how ICONIC and HISTORIC the castle is and he couldn’t possibly be less impressed

THAT’S HENRIETTA PUSSYCAT’S HOUSE YOU DISRESPECTFUL CHILD

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

The religious elements of the solidarity happening right now are BEAUTIFUL

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Trump: "AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of information out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on information on AI."

So yes, I think these men have no use for other humans - they wouldn't be so obsessed with robots if they did - and they want to eliminate creative work. But the other half of "why can't they make labor easier" is they don't do a lot of that labor. They invented the roomba and called it a day.

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

we are all sherman

One fed employee told me the internal conversations feel very different from previous shutdowns. www.gravityisgone.com/federal-empl...

I love how each ink cartridge contains more computing power than was owned by NASA between 1963 and 1985 but almost no ink.

I maintain The Cutman Cometh is the funniest sitcom episode ever.

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

from now on I'm just going to truncate the taylor series for sin at the first term. sin(x) = 0 for all x. this approximation - is efficient to compute - has bounded error - has excellent analytic properties - has very high accuracy for small values, which occur frequently in applications

Always fun to see the amazing people who win. Congrats to mathematician Lauren Williams on winning a MacArther genius grant! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown. Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

Quite a headline www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

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."

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

RFK Jr. fired Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (the institute led by Anthony Fauci for 38 years), after she filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that the Trump regime had undermined vaccine research and defied court orders.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Boxes also work on bobcats

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