Laura Thorsett

48 hours before convention we have decided we want to suspend a canon. Changes to the canons must be submitted 90 days in advance.

48 hours < 90 days, according to my math.

If we suspend the canon with the DPA assessment and don't replace it, does this mean no DPA? 'Cause I guess I'll take it.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

If you tell me 8 days before the meeting to discuss and approve the budget that we cannot discuss the budget at the meeting, I'm going to assume you're doing something shady.

Especially when paired with "we have a one year grace period where we don't have to follow the organization's bylaws."

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Oregon Rep. Hòa Nguyễn dies at 41 after cancer diagnosis • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon State Rep. Hòa Nguyễn, D-Portland, died Thursday morning following a months-long battle with advanced stage cancer. She was 41.

“In the Capitol, Representative Hòa Nguyễn will be remembered for pouring her heart and soul into bringing communities together.”

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/09/o...

Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames

Harris: Biden couldn’t show Gazans empathy, support for Netanyahu helped lose election PM disregarded White House loyalty, 'wanted Trump in the seat opposite him,' former US vice president and Democratic nominee says in her account of failed 2024 presidential campaign

One of the least surprising revelations from Kamala Harris's book was the fact that Joe Biden couldn't bring himself to empathize as much with the Palestinians as he did Ukrainians, saying simply "I am a Zionist."
www.timesofisrael.com/harris-biden...

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I always fear that if I'm TOO helpful I will be scrubbed from future samples.

This just feels like something that would have been set as a debugging exercise in intro to CS.

What insane coding issue makes Siri interpret "set timer hour and a half" as "set timer for one hour and two minutes"?

I would definitely prefer consistency and clarity!

I struggle with this -- most of my bsky followers follow me because of my day job, so I feel weird/bad posting random church governance questions on main, but Reddit is so insufferable.

(I maybe need an alt, but that sounds complicated)

Immergut's second order, given from the bench, will prohibit the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to Oregon.

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Governor Kotek Statement on the Mobilization of Texas National Guard to Oregon Salem, OR – Today, Governor Tina Kotek released the following statement after the Oregon National Guard was informed that the Texas National Guard is preparing a deployment to Oregon: “I have been notified that the Department of War has ordered the Texas Adjutant General to deploy 400 Texas National Guard members to ‘Illinois, Oregon, and other locations throughout the United States.’ “I have received no direct explanation from President Trump or Secretary Hegseth about the specific need for this action. It is unclear how many will go to what location and what mission they will carry out. “This is a continuation and escalation of the President’s dangerous, un-American misuse of states’ National Guard members and hard-earned taxpayer dollars. “I join Illinois Governor JB Pritzker in his call on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. “I will continue to keep the public apprised. As Governor, I will continue to fight to uphold the rule of law and the right to govern ourselves.”

Gov. Tina Kotek on news of Texas National Guard: "This is a continuation and escalation of the President’s dangerous, un-American misuse of states’ National Guard members and hard-earned taxpayer dollars."

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.

Very hard not to conclude that the Dem messaging strategy of focusing on healthcare has been highly successful at shaping public impressions of the shutdown fight so far despite being hated on here to the point that major accounts were actively adopting GOP framing to attack it

I can’t believe (positive) that I’ve lived to see a woman Archbishop of Canterbury.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Comic. PERSON 1 to person with white hat: I finished all the gen-ed back in 2010, and I’m up to the 400-level courses in most departments. But now one of my advisors is saying I “can’t have more than 20 majors” and “need to graduate next year.” It’s outrageous! [caption] My university is making it really hard to finish a 100% all achievements speedrun.

100% All Achievements

xkcd.com/3148/

The funniest and most frustrating part of old Twitter/new Bluesky is that it consists largely of smart and well-educated people having arguments about things outside their areas of expertise, in ways that rehash the contents of intro classes in the subject, with no self-awareness about it.

i was invited to a gathering tonight and initially wasn’t gonna go because every extra thing feels like so much these days but i made myself go and i’m so glad i did because it turns out community is so fucking important right now

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

One more thing about the WNBA, which is that I know, from experience, that when the only thing keeping your organization standing is the folks in charge demanding loyalty and silence, baby, you are COOKED. It’s the end of the road when you’re a leader spending all your time trying to shut people up.

I feel like it's bad that I can't tell if Alexandra Petri was actually live-tweeting this speech or if it was satire.

An Entire Generation of Americans Is Turning on Israel Young people — on the left and right — are growing increasingly skeptical of Israel.

Until very recently, both Republicans and Democrats saw political benefit to emphasizing their pro-Israel credentials and their support of the defense relationship. That may be changing.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.