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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

"I've been through a lot worse in service to my country. The president and Pete Hegseth are not gonna silence me."

Yesterday, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) addressed the Pentagon investigation against him:

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

Don't sleep on Little Voice.

Time Enough at Last is the one I think of again and again.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

This look amazing! Putting it on my list.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

We all joked that our meals came with their own toothpicks.

One year when I was a kid, we went to my grandmother’s for Thanksgiving and found ourselves picking little wood pieces out of our bites of turkey meat. It turned out that she hadn’t thawed the turkey in time, so she took it out onto the wood pile, hacked it into bits, and cooked the pieces.

narrator: 50 years ago...

me: [nods] in 1945

narrator: in 1975...

me: what

A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.

Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.

ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal.

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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Trump is literally doing to the White House what the heroes of United flight 93 prevented terrorists from doing.

Frogs for freedom. #NoKings

Jesus Christ Superstar, Hamilton, Evita. The musical The Last Five Years is a terrific film, and so is the film version of Waitress on Broadway (with Sara Bareillis). The Apple Tree with Alan Alda and Barbara Harris.

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

An inflatable frog costume

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

Would I could find a fine frog!

I hereby nominate the Portland Frog for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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"does the president know what is real and what is not" is a legitimate question that should probably get asked a lot more

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

This is the way.