Dr. Laura Barberena

I gotta sit down.

Just found out all these wonderful folks at Rhode Island Comic Con helped me raise over $86,000 for @trevorproject.bsky.social !!!

Thanks everyone!!

It was joyous to meet you guys and to see every bit of obscure Jon Cryer merch under the sun.

And I signed most of it. #RICC

“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”

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Cat looking menacing and trash dumped everywhere

A true criminal

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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On August 11, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois, an ICE GOONS threatened an elderly woman with the use of tear gas at point-blank range.

Noem wanted to buy Spirit Airlines planes - except the airline didn’t own them DHS looked at buying the planes from Spirit Airlines, according to a report

Kristi Noem ordered ICE to purchase ten Spirit Airlines jets for deportations. Two problems: Spirit doesn’t own the planes, and they don’t have engines. Has there ever been a more incompetent administration?
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New York judge slaps down Texas AG Ken Paxton as he tries to fine doctor for prescribing abortion pills In a test of New York's 'shield law,' Paxton wanted a court to enforce a judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills.

In a test of New York’s ‘shield law,’ Paxton wanted a court to enforce a judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills.

JFC, America is such a shit show.

ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.

Newsom: Anyone checked out my Patriot store? We do have some knee pads. It’s a signature series. They’re sold out at the moment. The universities, and all these law firms, and certain media organizations—I figured they can use these.

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Infighting at DHS Is Complicating Trump’s Deportation Push White House pressure to speed up the pace of deportations has led to internal discord in the Department of Homeland Security over tactics, people familiar with the matter said.

"CBP have been forced to later release many people they have taken in, finding out they are US citizens or have legal protection from deportation. Noem said recently no citizens had been arrested, but at least one citizen has sued the admin for arresting him twice..."

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How different the world would have been had the Rehnquist Court not been corrupt

Forbes: The Trump Organization’s second-term cash grab has reached the military: Coast Guard stores are now selling Trump-branded wine and cider

A DHS official confirmed it, saying, “The brave men and women of the USCG are pleased to be able to buy Trump wine and cider tax free”

According to the video, this woman was reporting sexual abuse in Riverside Court House & was accosted by ICE.

What if she were your daughter, sister, mother or wife?

How does this #ICELawlessness make us safer?

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Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?

Character isn't something you tell people about.

It's something you live.

This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.

100% serious here.

A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Brown dog with red ball

Brown dog no longer with red ball

A play in two acts

As a longtime wearer and clutcher of actual pearls, I am APPALLED and HORRIFIED at the proliferation of “pearl-clutching” as a derogatory expression for performative overreaction.

I stand with my fellow pearl-wearers and all the diverse ways and reasons we fondle our pearls

The woman in this video had just had kidney surgery.