Joe Gordon

critical, sure, but now many scientific concepts are guaranteed to get your grants cancelled, or mean you'll be fired from your govt health agency job, or are verboten. all of which are outrageous and for the firing and censorship maybe illegal and certainly worth suing over BOOM lawyered

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

I mean, you cannot eliminate crime except by abolishing the concept. There’s still crimes in a police state.

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Of course not. What about the executives and shareholders of GEO and CoreCivic, who hold humans in bondage for $$$ and have lucrative relationships with ICE and top Trump officials?

Back in the land of reality, here's what one of the Black people whose home was smashed into during the apartment raid last week said about his Venezuelan neighbors: "They were cool people."

Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.

Her experience with journalism was as a college student, when she was eager to silence voices she disagreed with. Then she became an easily-fooled sucker at nyt. She’s no reporter. She’s an opinion-haver

To expand on Eileen’s point: if you are dooming then your presence here is harmful to you and perhaps others. Either log off, or stop interacting this way. It is literally counterproductive to anything you may care about.

It’s a choice. “Is this newsworthy?” And then if Trump wouldn’t want it to be, no.

Philip Morris dba Altria

I do like “secondary chosen name” as the initial stop on the way to a new official chosen name

Trump deploying National Guard to U.S. cities is not popular — its support level matches his (underwater) job approval rating

Deploying active duty finds even less favor, with only 31% of Americans saying troops in their area would make them feel more secure

Latest: www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

Yikes

Omg it wasn’t even a personal declaration, it was the minutes from the meeting? Which had been mischaracterized in the reporting? Damn, y’all.

So like the draft judicial complaint that had the “attach the sworn declaration under seal once it’s ready” got, what, finalized and submitted? In an attempt to recuse or otherwise remove a judge who was wailing on them?

Second, too

Ah, a repeat offender: bsky.app/profile/msza...

Right? The familiar past usage - for times when the country wasn’t already in a crisis - is convenient for people who aren’t thinking. But they should! Reach for better, more accurate metaphors. “Risks deepening a crisis” is still lousy. No sense of stakes or history, I tell ya

Plenty of OOF for the lawyer for DOJ.

Regular reminder that you don’t have to be a stooge or patsy or represent bad people running the government. Quitting is an option.

Reminder that if you are interacting with law enforcement in Illinois, this IS a stop and ID state. Also, aside from identifying yourself and asking if you're free to leave, the ONLY thing you should say to law enforcement, state or federal, is:

Yes to the curry idea and to shakshouka, thanks for the help autocorrect I definitely meant sharks hula, but also egg salad can be spicy.

Right. Sag A was being sarcastically mock ignorant, I misread them and got didactic but did accurately say it was Saudis that did 9/11, because they did. I mean not all of them personally. But it was mainly Saudis and not say Iraqis or W.

I’ve heard we stop maturing emotionally at the age we were when something happened that we never got complete with.

Some men will destroy democracy and ruin our decency and standing in the world rather than go to therapy

Station Eternity by #MurLafferty. Also opening up the Jeremy Renner memoir and a couple books my rabbi edited, one on the Jewish response to trauma titled The Sacred Struggle, the other on Genesis called Seven Days, Many Voices

Commemorating four years of Public Notice And a special offer for readers.

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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UBL was born there, to a Yemeni oil billionaire. Members of the Royal Family funded. The hijackers were mostly Saudi (15/19) with two Emiratis, an Egyptian and a Lebanese guy…hadn’t realized how much Saudis dominated the group

Still: Not All Saudis Did 9/11, but it was mostly Saudis

Misread this as Saudis did 9/11 and went into a google rabbit hole for a second. So yeah no obviously not and DM has brain rot.

But… it was primarily Saudis to an extent I had forgotten or not gotten, that did 9/11, as you presumably knew to have jokingly asked that:

The Corkboard Is Too Long, greatest thread in history, locked after 173 physical replies

I am blessed to have my husband home. I’m immensely proud of who he is and his moral compass that guides him to stand, and speak, for those who cannot.

I am grateful 4 @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov
who had members of their office supporting us thru the day.