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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

In a sane world, repeated declarations that "I want the Nobel Peace Prize" would be a disqualfication from being awarded it.

#wato

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

The contrarian got the job by convincing the third-richest man in the world, a key supporter of the sitting president, that she shared his worldview

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Showed a clip from a documentary about Korematsu this morning and managed not to yell back during the part where Justice Anthony Kennedy explains that presidents should never be granted unlimited powers or blindly trusted when they say it's an emergency situation.

“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Big seas with birds lost and found. Fowl craig, Great auk, Snow bunting and Twite from a North end excursion yesterday.
Papay - Orkney.

ICE is Seizing the Best of Us : The View from Across the Atlantic On a drizzly September afternoon in Lynn Massachusetts dozens of people gathered inside the Lynn Arts Gallery in support of Emmanuel “Manny” Kenga, a member of our North Shore community seized by I…

ICE is Seizing the Best of Us : The View from Across the Atlantic theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/06/i...

A Snail of Two Cities
For Whom the Shell Tolls
The Adventures of Shell-lock Holmes
The Scarlet Pimpershell
Frankenslime
The Slime of the Ancient Mariner

You can fill in the rest...

A snail on the steps behind the library

We have no cats today but say hello to the library car park snail. 🐌

We think he was on his way to borrow a book but he's not arrived yet.

I feel like we may have missed out by visiting Papay during calm weather this early September. These photos of the wind and waves are ferociously glorious.

The Pillar of Mad Geo.
A line of sight.

Papay - Orkney.
Stonebuilt.

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Trump proclaims triumph over soaring food costs, a narrative that clashes with the grim checkout realities baffling ordinary shoppers. #Inflation

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

Guys… a decade ago a community (🤚🏿) was intentional about the deep militarization of the American police against its own citizens

America should listen to Black people

The federal police presence we are now witnessing is the metastasizing of unchecked local police forces

life is hard enough as a baseline, let alone watching all these constant fascist outbursts with queasy dread

everything is just so relentless

They’re not acting like they’re in a four-year term.

They’re acting like they’re in an everlasting dictatorship.

Are we all clear on this?