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ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers.

"What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder.

"The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back.

Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.

Charles II, the restored king, retained the power to fund the military on his own, without parliamentary assent. And indeed the suspension of Parliament was one of the main grievances underlying the Glorious Revolution (1688-89) and its ensuing "settlement."

You know things are utterly FUBAR in the US when @bellingcat.com is doing satellite imagery analysis of the White House.

GASP

An old time-y illustration of a Beetroot.

Today is Quartidi the 4th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate beetroot. #JacobinDay

More information on beetroot

Justice Department unexpectedly drops fraud case against Alzheimer’s scientist Decision comes after disclosure of university letter concluding Hoau-Yan Wang did not engage in misconduct

I think it’s pretty bad for science and biotech if committing massive scientific and business fraud carries no punishment www.science.org/content/arti...

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...

They need $4 billion a pay period to pay the entire military

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Look, it's just an unnamed foreign national paying the army's salaries. What's the worst that could happen?

Pee Wee German cannot grant federal immunity.

From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: A friend's son, a US citizen, has been abducted by ICE in Chicago. No charges, no due process, no explanation, no idea where he is now. Explore this post and more from the ICE_Raids community

“A friend's son, a US citizen, has been abducted by ICE in Chicago. No charges, no due process, no explanation, no idea where he is now.”

Original source r/ICE_Raids:

Article excerpt with a section of the second paragraph highlighted: State social studies standards for years have included discussion of how white Tulsans murdered as many as 300 Black people. But once the 2021 state law that restricted teaching about race and gender passed, some teachers avoided the topic. The law prohibits teachers from singling out specific racial groups as responsible for past racism. It specifies that individuals of a certain race shouldn’t be portrayed as inherently racist, “whether consciously or unconsciously.” In addition to teachers’ licensure being on the line, repeated failure to comply would allow the state to revoke district accreditation, which could result in a state takeover. When educators questioned how to teach about a race massacre without running afoul of the law, state legislators and the Tulsa County chapter of the conservative parent group Moms for Liberty weighed in to say that white people today shouldn’t feel shame and that the massacre’s perpetrators shouldn’t be cast as racists. A Moms for Liberty chapter representative did not respond to questions from ProPublica.

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.

➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

Oneida resilience and Polly Cooper’s courage and care fed an army when it mattered most. Comment below if you knew this story! #IndigenousPeoplesDay #PollyCooper #OneidaNation #RevolutionaryWar

I’m quite certain Portland, Oregon, is in better shape than the White House.

a young boy on roller skates, being pulled along by a black dog

Unknown Photographer. Anonymous Roller race. England. 1930

Between Democracy and Dictatorship: Where We Are and How Long We Have There won’t be a day when we wake up and the Wikipedia page suddenly says “The US is a Fascist Christian Ethnostate.”

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Hybrid regimes. We studied that.

The absolute lawlessness of this administration. Blatantly illegal deadly stuff happening all over the place.

UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...

WE WON. Again. Think they’ll take it to the Supreme Court? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Exclusive: GENDER QUEER - THE ANNOTATED EDITION hits shelves next spring Oni Press has announced Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, with commentary from creator Maia Kobabe alongside cartoonists and academics.

It can feel strange to share good news right now. Important, but strange.

Here is some of that strange, Important, good news: GENDER QUEER - THE ANNOTATED EDITION is coming in May 2026!

I'm honored to be among those invited to provide annotations!

www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-ge...

every day leaders of the new tech frontier are spending billions of dollars to digitally reconstruct the mind of george zimmerman

Get in, nerds. The records of Truman's Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion (1949-1952) have been digitized.
www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/fede...

The president said today that a donor had given the government $130 million to help pay troops during the government shutdown. He declined to name the donor, but described him as a “patriot” and a personal friend. If evenly distributed, the money would pay only about $100 to each service member. But is not yet clear how the money will be used, or whether the donation violates a law prohibiting federal agencies from accepting money in excess of congressional appropriations.

New York Times reports that it is unclear whether having a federal agency accept money in excess of congressional appropriations "violates a law prohibiting federal agencies from accepting money in excess of congressional appropriations." I guess we'll never know!

A guy with a very assistant professor look (glasses, beard, bright blue jacket, white shirt with no tie) in a Zoom interview, sitting in an attic office with a life-size set of Imperial Stormtrooper armor in the corner.

The fact that this "expert" is arguing on @pbsnews.org that it's OK for Trump to blow up innocent fishermen under the guise of "the war on drugs" with a set of Imperial Storm Trooper armor in his office is too on the nose, even for these absurd times in which we live.

@DHSgov: "end of the dark age, beginning of the golden age." with a black box saying: "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner."

The Department of Homeland Security shared a fash-wave-style video of police in Portland arresting and hitting protesters with teargas yesterday along to a remix of MGMT's "Little Dark Age." It looks like the band hit them with a copyright claim, as this is what viewers get as of this afternoon.

50 listens that define the 21st century (so far) Explore the standouts that represent the best of the past 25 years.

Very happy to have The Hemingses of Monticello on this list.

www.audible.com/blog/best-au...

The White House is a 24/7 pay-to-play enterprise.

The latest? Trump is pardoning Changpeng Zhao, who built a company that allowed terrorists and sex predators to launder money.

Why? Because Zhao made a huge investment in Trump's corrupt crypto business.

Pay-to-play.

Top Democrats demand details of spy agencies’ role in boat strikes Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.

Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy:

"Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."

I assumed that second quote was satire, or at least a paraphrase. It’s not. The thug trash said that.

At @oieahc.bsky.social conference, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social delivered an engaging paper centering enslaved Black children & the Battle of Yorktown as a historical lens through which to frame questions of freedom during the American Revolution.

If I were the rest of the world, I’d do my best to ignore the United States for the next 3 plus yrs. With this madman in the White House, the rest of the world can’t trust the United States. As long as this madman is in the White House, the United States is not a force for good.

The NRSC putting out a bullshit poll boosting Platner is some incredible trolling, and based on my feed, a lot of folks took the bait. Maybe he’s leading—I don’t know—but I’d be careful sharing anything from the Republicans like that.