Tom Leyden

feelin' alright tonight

A brilliant schmuck.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

YouTube video by MOTTTHEHOOPLEVEVO Mott The Hoople - All the Young Dudes (Audio)

#MusicInMusic
Day 5:

🎶And my brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on that revolution stuff
What a drag
Too many snags

Mott The Hoople - All the Young Dudes
youtu.be/yNHdPPJGowY?...

Fox News is really fun to watch tonight. All the hosts and guests have this queasy look, like they ate shrimp that had been sitting out for 2 weeks.

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Let's do the time warp dance.

Torpedoes away.

Drum majors lead not for glory, but to set the example: first in love, first in justice, first in truth. Lead in the quiet moments. Keep the beat for peace, equity, and righteousness. Continue to be what you want to see.

A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

That toddlin' town is at it again. Look at those big shoulders.

Eight residents of the tiny tourist town of Medora, North Dakota, decided to hold their own No Kings rally outside Theodore Roosevelt National Park rather than drive to a neighboring city. “We’re all so sad that our national parks are closed,” said Sandy Baertsch. (Photo courtesy of S. Lambert)

#NoKings in Indianapolis.

Empty shelves Sept. 2025.

To which his flak, Frank Sullivan, scolded reporters to write what the mayor meant, not what he said.

He speaks like a poet.

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat ARLINGTON, VA—Saying the Pentagon had acted swiftly on an insider tip about the vessel having a “big adventure” planned, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. military had car...

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Chef’s kiss.

Attacks and targeting of journalists by ICE must stop immediately! The Board of Directors of the Chicago Headline Club condemns the targeting of journalists, reporters and photographers covering protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other federal agencies. The Headline Club is calling for ICE, Customs and Border Protection and others assigned to Operation Midway Blitz to stop this practice immediately. The Headline Club is aware of incidents of journalists being shot intentionally with bean bags, chemical munitions and at least one working journalist being taken into custody on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. Journalists have a constitutionally-protected right to cover stories as afforded by the First Amendment. No federal or state agency should interfere with that right either by threats or action taken against working journalists. The Headline Club demands that Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and Board Patrol Commander of Operations At Large Gregory Bovino take immediate action to ensure journalists are not targeted by officers of ICE or the Department of Homeland Security. Respectfully, The Chicago Headline Club Board of Directors

NEW: The Chicago Headline Club — the local chapter of the @spj-posts.bsky.social — has released a statement condemning ICE attacks on reporters.

In recent days, ICE has shot journalists in the face with pepper balls, assaulted journalists, and detained a reporter in Chicago.

On the ICE shooting.

1. It's terrible.

2. Too many disturbed people have access to too many guns in this country.

3. Too many political figures use incendiary and dehumanizing rhetoric. By far the most significant of them is the president. The fish of political violence rots from the head down.

The River Epte - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10095

Dublin airport under evacuation. No reason given. Passengers moved to the shops area. Big retail surge coming. This follows hackers attacking airline check in systems in Europe. Will Tom get to Scotland?

If only RFK Jr hadn't been vaccinated as a child.