Michelle

What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

After some finagling to get the assembly procedure just right we are finally releasing the aluminum bodied POLARIS air purifier, made-in-Canada and based on the open-source design by Zack Deis.

1/3

#airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne

“These rich, powerful old men are like 11-year-old boys talking about the crush that they have, and they're asking Jeffrey Epstein for advice about this.”

@timmiller.bsky.social and Alex Wagner discuss how the Epstein emails reveal how sex, power, and insecurity warped the elite.

I feel like it should be obvious that he should not be in public, much less public office. And yet.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

The 9 most shocking revelations in the Epstein docs The emails, released by the House Oversight Committee, include exchanges with dozens of prominent individuals spanning over a decade.

The most shocking thing in all of it is how completely banal and unsophisticated these people all are. They’re not even smart, just completely devoid of character and very sure they’d never be found out.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

billionaire puts automatic pedophile machine in a car, wants a trillion dollars

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Election day feels like a good day for this one by Andrea Gibson. May their words live forever now that they are gone.

From You Better Be Lightning: bit.ly/gibsonlightning

#poem #booksky #writing

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

Data journalists start news site to track extremist movements Decoherence Media is a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right,” co-founder Tristan Lee told Semafor.

On Monday, former Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper will launch Decoherence Media, a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right.”

CCMBC: “It’s not the ad that first ended trade talks. It’s the fact Canada elected the SAME LIBERAL CLOWNS. Trudeau 2.0 = Carnet 1.0 Different face, same circus. They don’t know what the hell they’re doing and it shows” Photos of Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau digitally altered to look like clowns

CCMBC: “No roads = 15 minute cities = control” Photo of Stephen Guilbeault and Justin Trudeau

CCMBC: “All in the name of saving the planet? This is an example of why entities like tbt WEF and WHO are persona non grata in FL. Genetically engineering humans to become allergic to meat because some elites think people eat ‘too much’ of it is insane. Let us alone!”

CCBMC: “Strong men lead – globalists mislead Pierre Poilievre for a strong Canada Globalist Liberals for a 51st state”

This is the Canadian right-wing group the US Ambassador just gave a keynote address to:

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

YouTube video by DW News Netherlands' Nazi collaboration files spark privacy debate | Focus on Europe

It feels like maybe a good moment for some people to think about what’s going to be filed away and what the files on collaborators will say about them.

youtu.be/zNcZAKsSG7M

Generative AI is a societal disaster Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Also, now the people of Argentina feel a foreign power is taking over their democracy, which makes it less and less likely that the gamble on Milei pays off.

Oh dear.

So despicable. So so stupid

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Opinion | The GOP’s coordinated attack on the No Kings rally is ridiculous The Republican talking points are out of touch with the reality of Saturday's protests.

Standing up now is not radical. To speak out, to march and to demand accountability is not defiance; it’s what Americans do when they see a wrong being committed.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Those of you who keep a close eye on the right wing will want to be sure to read this all the way through to the end... the discussion about the (alleged) leaker and where he works today will be of interest...

No one in those three groups (assuming "violent criminals" means people who have been convicted of felonies) can vote in US elections. Apologies for pointing out the obvious, but we should remember that there was once a time when shameless lies like this would get people ostracized from public life.

Emergency!

We need every democracy loving American to show up either in person or digitally for No Kings Day this Saturday, so tell all you friends.

Protest is one of the most patriotic things you can do.

It shows that you care enough to make change.

I didn’t realize the news still had the ability to make me feel sick… but man, this does.

Spend the time and give this a full read, if you have it in you. I can’t imagine the hopelessness that care providers are feeling, after the burnout and trauma of COVID and its terrible toll on pregnant and birthing women and their babies.