ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Um… isn’t this the sorta thing a judge shouldn’t have to order?

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

I frequently call the GOP a “lie-based” political party. The lie changes minute to minute. But the lying is utterly, dreadfully consistent.

The best team goal ever in the Europa League

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

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[The pope] calls for a renewed commitment to fixing the structural causes of poverty, while providing unquestioning charity to those who need it.

Sounds like Jesus of Nazareth: " The...preferential option for the poor has existed from the start, is non-negotiable & is the very essence of what it means to be Christian. apnews.com/article/vati... 
Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

Yes, but, OMG:

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it."

continued. The judge, a Reagan appointee, compared immigration agents to “cowardly desperados & the despised Ku Klux Klan” & declared that federal efforts to deport outspoken protesters amounted to a "full-throated assault" on freedom of speech. "Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible

“ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police,” he... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

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I was just there.

As Iago (of all people) pointed out:
“You shall mark many a duteous and knee-crooking knave that (doting on his own obsequious bondage) wears out his time much like his master’s ass for naught but provender, and when he’s old, cashiered.”

"We took the freedom of speech away." - Donald Trump, 10/8/25

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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

"The U.S. economy is very close to falling into a damaging contraction — and many states are already experiencing a recession, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.: www.marketwatch.com/story/are-we...