JUST NOW: Trump asks President Herzog to pardon Netanyahu, who faces multiple corruption charges

(Birds of a feather — so he knows he’s guilty then?😬)

These masked immigration enforcement thugs are brutal, unhinged, racist, and lawless.

A van full of masked feds leaves the ISP protected lot to many shouts of "fuck you."

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Administration officials pile lie upon lie upon lie. When a president and his aides are doing that, it’s no longer America.

When masked government thugs take potshots at a priest, it’s no longer America.

State-sponsored mayhem starts at the top. trib.al/kEhMBeh

Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.

Two large buses being driven by masked agents arrive at the detention center (got a good look inside the white one and it appears empty).

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
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The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

Broadview.

Sassy Broadview bee.

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

#WarRavagedChicago

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murde...

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

A Leominster family who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years said federal immigration agents held their 5-year-old daughter, who is a US-citizen and autistic, in custody outside their... TikTok video by The Boston Globe

Truly disgusting

ICE detained an autistic 5 year old girl in Leominster, Mass

Using this child-a US citizen-as bait to lure her father-who has lived in the country for 20 years-out so they could arrest him

How do these people live with themselves

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A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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.

🚨A 6-year-old boy with leukemia was detained by ICE at a Los Angeles courthouse, missed vital treatment, and saw his symptoms worsen—prompting a federal lawsuit alleging civil rights violations and medical neglect by the Trump administration.
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6-Year-Old NYC Elementary School Student and Her Mom Deported The mother's 19-year-old son remains in ICE custody in New Jersey, while her distraught teenage minor is now in the care of her 21-year-old brother.

A 6-year-old girl and her mother — whose arrests by ICE last week sparked widespread condemnation — were deported to Ecuador Tuesday, local elected officials said.

Arresting 6 year olds.

Donald Trump making America a Fascist shithole.

Today on WFMU: On Surface Noise w/Joe McGasko, The Musician's Life. Tune in to hear musicians sing about their chosen profession, from the celebratory (forming a band, writing a song) to the cautionary (crooked contracts, crazy tours, fleeting fame) (9 a.m. ET).

The Indictment of Letitia James and the Collapse of Impartial Justice The question raised by the prosecution of James is: would any other federal prosecutor have brought this case against any other defendant? The answer seems to be no.

Federal mortgage-fraud prosecutions are exceptionally rare. The amount allegedly at issue in the Letitia James case is so paltry that it would not normally draw the attention of federal prosecutors, @ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

Live updates: Nor'easter batters New England, causing power outages, flight delays A powerful nor'easter continues to bring heavy rains and wind to Massachusetts and the rest of New England.

LIVE UPDATES: A powerful nor'easter continues to bring heavy rain and wind to Massachusetts and the rest of New England, causing power outages and air travel delays. Follow along with our live blog here: on.nbcboston.com/TOgvVkG

Trump: Religious Freedom for Me but Not for Thee His administration wrapped itself in faith while making worship a risk for others.

"For decades, federal policy treated houses of worship as 'sensitive locations,' places enforcement was to avoid unless absolutely necessary. That protection ended in 2025, when ICE and Border Patrol were authorized to conduct arrests around churches and religious services." /1

Narrow-angle composite of Atlas taken on August 1, 2005. Atlas is seen near the left ring ansa here. Taken at a distance of about 877 000 km and at a low phase angle. Frames taken through infrared, green and ultraviolet filters were processed to approximate natural color appearance.

Atlas - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2hb9Wo

Xi Shows Trump Two Can Play at Export Curbs Chinese leader happy to fight fire with fire in trade spat with the US.

President Xi Jinping has made it clear he’s happy to fight fire with fire in China’s trade spat with the US.

The real winners of Trump’s attack on clean energy aren’t American U.S. politics are undercutting clean energy at the same time economics are propelling it forward globally. Can the U.S. afford to sit this out?

Renewables are expected to overtake coal as the largest global source of electricity by next year despite the pullback of the U.S.

“No one can stop the energy transition,” said the director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency.