Pamela Wildermuth

Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly White South Africans | CNN Politics The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previo...

This is what you enabled with all your talk of groceries and a funny laugh, with all your talk of shareholder profits, with your eye on mergers, your obsession with deregulation, and your “both sides” excuses. You have betrayed the promise of this country.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...

Disgusting.

Seems like this should be a bigger story.

Occasionally the Times just totally nails each part

😲 SEATTLE: Shackled at his wrists and ankles, an elderly man struggles in the cold rain to mount the slippery stairs to this Avelo jet, which will fly him to another detention facility in Texas 👀

Every once in a while, I notice an interesting sky from my studio. Don’t know what those saucer-like clouds are called, but they’re different.

Protested on Saturday and I’ve voted for CA Prop 50.
Doing what I can.

Yes! Quality work like this doesn’t always get a lot of love from kdrama fans who are invested in cute, feel good romcoms, but the gritty realism achieved in this series is commendable.
It started slow and built to an on-the-edge-of-my-couch crescendo. Bravo.

They’re all steeped in palace intrigue and power struggles.
My favorite genre 😊

For film, you might try The Frozen Flower (2008). It’s no romcom, either.

It’s impossible to make a recommendation without knowing what you’ve watched, but if you enjoy sageuk and the Sopranos, I’ll go out on a limb…
The Queen Who Crowns
Captivating the King
Under the Queen’s Umbrella
Haechi
The Murky Stream

They are different. The jdrama is a little darker, but they are both good. Watch the kdrama first and then the Japanese version.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

I’m enjoying it but I’m wary of the concealment/secrecy trope. If it starts to irritate me like Love Next Door, I won’t go back.

Karoline Leavitt wants to convince people the left is comprised of "terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants" while Trump sycophants want people to believe No Kings is a hate America rally comprised of "antifa" & pro-Hamas terrorists. Tomorrow we get to prove who really loves America.

Will be there with my flag and my anti-fascists sign. I’m 78 and I’m angry 😡 😡😡

With the dumbing down of America that started in the early 80s.
Simple.

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...

Another "ice" shooting in Chicago

They're not "ice" they're ISIS. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

I would just like to say that I have been making signs and dragging my old body and my lawn chair to protests for months now.
Been doing it for free.
Is there a place to sign up for this organized funding?

Both could be true.

There are some great indie journos on the ground in Chicago with up-to-date information as it happens.

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

An FBI raid revealed 57 victims of forced labor living in cramped quarters at a lavish #Florida mansion connected to the leaders of a church, federal officials say.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.com

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The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

💯

Nothing screams “small government, free speech warrior” like the FCC chair rocking state-mandated jewelry of a convicted felon.

Brendan Carr went from pretending to guard the First Amendment to cosplaying as Trump’s mall cop.

Indeed. The Lord did not command that we beat swords into ploughshares so that gaslighting grifters could farm rage.

I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

"I'm gonna tell you mommy!"