Allison Torres Burtka

They are trying to deport a CHILD who's been abused, neglected, or abandoned. Endangering a vulnerable child on purpose.

As a freelance writer, I interview experts a lot. Today's the first day someone declined because they're an immigrant and they're afraid of having their name in an article that's critical of a government initiative. This is a professor. He loves living here and wants to be able to stay, he said.

How are these kids--and their parents--ever going to get over this trauma?

telling the media he doesn't know anything about whatever it is they're asking him about

White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...

This list is full of major companies like Apple and Microsoft. Other than retreating to the wilderness and going off the grid, I don't even know how to boycott the scores of corporations that have collaborated with this regime.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

I'm about to google how to boycott google.

Even kids in overcrowded schools get more personal space than that.

An ENTIRE wing of the White House!

Even the formerly enthusiastic UT Austin hasn't agreed to it yet.

And you know that thing is going to be the tackiest room ever created by humans.

Bee bee wheel is the best part. I hope it stays on the internet forever.

This is the best. My husband and I take every opportunity to yell at each other: Call the Coast Gaaaaahd! That's good meat, bro!

Yes another way they're actively harming Americans and American companies.

This includes 20 children.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

That's 6 out of 6 so far! Now that the compact is open to other universities, I'm sure some will sign on, but it matters that 6 (of the 9 initially asked) have taken a stand.

Opening it to others is a little like inviting the whole class to a party after the first few kids you invited said no.

This gives me hope for the future of journalism.

I'm celebrating all these rejections, but it would be nice to see a more forceful rejection from some universities. So far, Brown has said the most.

That's 5 out of 5! I'd like to see a more forceful rejection from one of these schools, but any rejection will do.

So far, Brown's is the most forceful, and USC's is the most polite and diplomatic.

Somebody tell them that families have to pay for health insurance for each kid.

Yes! That's four!

I think this one is the nicest of the rejections (I'd like to see more of what Brown said).

Here, USC is the most diplomatic friend in your friend group. The one everybody nominates to tell your train wreck friend that she's been treating everybody like shit and things need to change--but without hurting her feelings.

Yeah, I'd like to know how many of us digital subscribers canceled and told them why.

This is awful. It's as if @stephenking.bsky.social wrote the Shawshank Redemption in his typical horror genre.

This guy basically is a real-life Andy Dufresne.

If only those WWJD bracelets were still popular

So none of these straight white men wanted to be named publicly as the straight white men who got rejected by the Michigan Law Review and blamed diversity. www.freep.com/story/news/e...

Exactly. The racism is his main point here, but he and his people are making it pretty rough to be a young pregnant American citizen woman.

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

It would have been so easy to write this in a way that made sense and didn't blame people for wanting to keep taking breaths and living.

Using it as the main photo in the context of Portland, particularly as it shows up in the social media posts. I don't object to using the photo somewhere in the article, but presenting it this way is misleading--intentionally or not.

The Oregon GOP using completely fake/irrelevant images is worse.