Ben Steele

Black graphic with a quote attributed to Juana Rodriguez, ACLU client challenging an unlawful immigration raid in Wilder, Idaho: "My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos, experiences that no child should ever be exposed to. I'll never forget hearing his little voice pleading with me to give him food and water for hours on end."

As a proud U.S. citizen, Juana never thought she'd be zip-tied and detained by ICE for hours with her 3-year-old son, especially while attending a family-friendly event.

They’re two of hundreds of people we’re defending in court for being targeted in an unlawful militarized immigration raid.

"Thomas Jefferson was a dumb scumbag who bought all of his putative intellectual achievements Epstein-style" is sadly true.

a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution ALT: a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution

Roses are red
Violets are blue
If you’re born here
You’re a citizen too

"I never want to see a child run away from our own government again."

As we continuously hear about the loss of the grants and amazing things this nation has done for its citizens, this is the central statement for me. If children must run from the government, the government must fail.

My gym app 🤝 My sewing pattern
Demanding all my body measurements

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

I'm taking all my sewing classes with the technical possibility of talking myself into trade school, but there is nothing I've ever done like this to make me realize that using scissors is an important and more difficult than I thought skill.

The most violently Washingtonian sentence I have read in my life is as follows: "The proviso is to fund a work group as part of the interim plans to develop a bill for the next legislative session."

Congratulations to WWU alum Breezy Johnson!

Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation.

Dismantle the agencies.
Prosecute everyone involved.
Redistribute all the funding.

Google thinks it will be a Sears, at minimum.

Either that or this person thought a band was a nice look. But every once in a while I just see one so close to the shoulder that I really can't help but feel it's either braggadocio or they have the world's tiniest chest cavity.

Every once in a while I am confronted with visual material that just makes me realize some people have had a man go entirely through their digestive tract and out the other side, and I'm really not sure how that works since the diaphragm has to get in the way.

the public health response to this has to be “close the camps and free them all” and nothing less

A Canadian online just claimed they can't imagine a non-English performance at a public event north of the border.

Québec, mail me a sword. I'll take care of this one for you.

congratulations to the Seahawks, who are technically named after the gorgeous Osprey — a great victory for birders everywhere!

below is my rendition of an Osprey soaring to victory, drawn with full attention to detail. and no, this is not a photo!

Yes. Ring cameras are ICE cameras.

Or Ring.

Get ready with me commercial from Tree Hut teaching you how to disable a Flock camera.

Don't show me those man's posts unless it's his admin announcing he has died

"Am I sexual?" getting pulled to ensure no one thought about how their wallets get used for CSAM was pretty on the nose though

Bad bunny just name-checked all of CONCACAF.

A sign on a door reading "ONE PERSON PER STALL"

The staff shirt: SEX, MUSIC, [BAR NAME]. The signage:

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

free them all

Straight to mamá, you are ready to summit Tahoma in pajamas and this.

The first year or so of pay in the civil service is pretty brutal across the board. It ramps up reasonably quickly (2 years to full pay in most positions I'm aware of), but there's a solid reason to avoid these jobs like the plague if you can't hold out for a year.

I do question the minimum some, though. Literally everywhere in the US has a locality pay adjustment when you flip through the GS, which I assume is nearly in lockstep since that's also roughly my position's grading.

The Gates Foundation is not enough. Based on the Epstein files drop, Gates' fortune should be seized.

With the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything?