Leslie Crow

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Scheduling the women’s hockey gold medal game at the exact same time as the women’s figure skating free skate is real annoying.

this is donald trump's america. the line must be drawn.

The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise.

The floor is now The Hague.

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN.

This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.

Honestly? Living in Alabama.

When you live between Selma and Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, it is fairly impossible to fall into the "this is the worst it has ever been and it can't get better" pit.

It was way worse for people here, in living memory, and they didn't shrug & give up. So I can't either.

The illustrated cover of SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE by Olivia Dade (subtitle: "A Harlot's Bay Novel") is a warm peachy pink, with golden light coming from an overhead light fixture. The picture is set in a bakery, with racks of golden-brown pastries and loaves of broad. In the foreground, a pretty fat woman with long brown hair is sitting on a table, with a handsome fat man with ruddy hair and a beard standing between her legs. She has a hand tugging on his apron, and he has a hand on her thigh. They are nearly kissing and gazing at one another with desire and adoration.

SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE is warm, cozy, & out today. I hope you love it! 💗

The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!

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My English teacher heart enjoyed this conversation so much!

At some point, I wonder when this becomes a fatal quality-of-use issue for the platform.

Maybe never. But a lot of us are here because we disliked the earlier version of this on X. And a lot of us have cut back on Facebook use because it’s swamped real-life connections with ads and rage bait.

I hate it when my morning autopilot malfunctions and I accidentally brush my teeth before breakfast.

Trap door is stuck in the open position?

Problematic stage gap.

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

Happy Getting Up An Hour Early Day to all those with dogs and small children.

We gave out candy and a couple of kid-appropriate comic books this year and the comics were a big hit!

My favorites were a girl who asked if she could have both books (of course!) and a little Spider-Man who said “I heard you had comics” as soon as I opened the door.

Why yes, I am making a pot of chili tonight 🍁🍂

When I say we've worked on a lot of covers together, I mean we've worked on A LOT of covers together! (And there are three more in progress, FYI.)

i like that we know the ICE fitness standards now because now we all know exactly how fast we need to be able to run to be just slightly faster than any given ICE agent. a useable training goal

I suspect that this ballroom will in fact be used as Mar-a-Lago North—an exclusive club where the ultra wealthy can pay massive fees for access to the President. It’s all going into Trump’s pocket somehow.

He’s already done a soft launch of the concept with the Rose Garden club.

Just for giggles, I wrote my MAGA congressman asking him to explain why he's fighting the ACA subsidies that make healthcare possible for me. Instead of his usual Trumpy bullshit, his response was "I'm hearing a lot of this, I'll get back to you." Hmmm. Maybe they are getting worried?

They are asking for $2300/month for a plan that has a deductible over $6000!!!!

For those who do not understand American healthcare (hahaha cry) you have to pay $27,600 per year and then on top of that you have to pay over $6000 out of pocket before it actually covers stuff.

the thing about a lot of the wine moms who mobilized for the Women's March a decade ago is that they stayed mobilized all that time! my aunt's local Women's March Facebook group became an ongoing grassroots organizing effort to elect local pro-choice women Dems in her small North Carolina town

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians