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The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go. “I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

@bbkogan.bsky.social if you have time to respond, what was the draft CR language?

Painting featuring a white woman in bed, upper half, holding her child, all next to a bedside table with cup and saucer

Mary Cassatt, Breakfast in Bed, 1897 #womensart

So exhausting..

Turquoise Cotinga.

The turquoise cotinga or Ridgway's cotinga (Cotinga ridgwayi) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Costa Rica and western Panama.

📸: @birdingctew

Basically, as long as they can keep one district gerrymandered reliably deep red, the MO GOP can kill popular democracy in their state. A metaphor for the entire country - rigged minority rule. (with some help by some bad antiquated design in the original superstructure)

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal.

The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.

Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

Tapping the sign:

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Emilio Pettoruti, Argentine (1892-1971), El Quinteto, 1927, oil on linen, 149.5 x 131.5 cm, private collection

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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.

Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

*global hegemon destroys its entire network of post war diplomacy and trade that gave it control of the world economy for the last 80 years while liquidating its own bureaucracy, world renowned education system, and engineering a collapse of its public health system*

yeah 50bps should do it

oh my GOD

Happening now: smelled a chemical smell wafting from the parking lot, went to check it out.

It's Chicago ICE agents unwrapping and assembling a stack of fresh riot shields.

In what appears as a celestial dreamscape, a blue and black sky filled with brilliant stars covers about two thirds of the image. The stars are different sizes and shades of white, beige, yellow, and light orange. Across the bottom third of the scene is a craggy, mountain-like vista with spire-like peaks and deep, seemingly misty valleys. These so-called mountains appear in varying shades of orange, yellow, and brown. The soaring spires are going up, up, up, where a wispy, ethereal white cloud stretches horizontally across the scene. Steam appears to rise from the mountaintops and join with this cloud. At the top, right corner of the image, a swath of orange and brown structure cuts diagonally across the sky.

NEW JWST IMAGE AND IT’S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PICTURE I’VE EVER SEEN OH MY GOD THE UNIVERSE IS BEAUTIFUL!!!

This is like watching a Victorian time traveler befuddled at trying to work an iPhone. Just completely lost and confused by all the intervening context of the different era he's now in.

An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1

Hummingbird courtship ritual

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need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

A meme featuring Lois from Family Guy (labeled Dems Comms Staffers) looking desperately at a bottle of pills labeled "this is just a distraction"

This fascinating time-lapse of an orb-weaver spider building her web is even more remarkable considering she removes it before dawn each day and constructs a new one every night to avoid daytime predators.

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if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
look, we’ve all been fooled before
when a deep-fake makes us sore
but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake
::clap clap::

not sure how much more mobility innovation I can take

Okay men, it's time to clean up this town!

Meaning what, exactly?

You know, push people around, make ourselves feel big

/3: Also, protip: Do NOT let Subway or Jersey Mike's or whatever cut your sandwich in half, even if it IS a large. Because if it's in two pieces under Pam Bondi's charging memo that's two predicate acts and you know what that means. RICO.