Aviel Mann Ballo

Thinking about some kids and parents staying home tonight for fear of ICE. The ghouls are unquestionably real this year.

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

The Onion: ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

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plane yuri

Name a more iconic trio! I'll wait.

The fact that some of the companies who run the games industry are fighting so hard to stop unionization just proves how much power the workers have when they stand together. This disgusting action only delays the inevitable; solidarity will win.

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're "on the D" and in the medical unit. There's some various gadgetry and screens in the background and a crew person working on something in the back. Front and center is Worf, Crusher, Picard, and Riker, all in colorful uniforms of blues, golds, and reds. They're standing over and studying a circular bowl of pepto bismol looking pinkish goo. A hand is reaching out of it.

💀

this is EGREGIOUS (complementary)

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston

If they eliminate the filibuster, it means national bans on gender affirming care, bathroom bans, a sports ban, gender marker bans, elimination of legal recognition etc. It will make life unlivable for trans people in the US, even in blue states. It's a worst case scenario.

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

"ICE is all but extricating itself from the process...while effectively turning immigration enforcement into a service industry; a continuous, privatized, & largely unseen system capable of moving detainees 100s of miles overnight while operating w/out direct federal presence." @dell.bsky.social

Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

Weiss living up to her name, which translates to white.

Just want to reiterate that there’s no reason for this. There is no increase in crime. There are no riots. There’s no insurrection. They’re doing this without provocation. At least until they create one.

Who EVER would’ve thought

T'Pol from Star Trek: Enterprise

Head over frickin' heels

Truth.

Army investigating social media post showing Nazi symbol The Army opened an investigation after a National Guard unit posted a photo online that contained a symbol worn by Nazi SS troops.

Re Graham Platner: A lot of folks are just now realizing how much our military’s culture is deeply right-wing and regressive—a place where Nazi and white nationalist iconography are commonplace (even if sometimes not recognized by the troops themselves).

This was literally last year:

Screenshot of a text: Your silence will cost you, Betty. We're not going to ask again. Finish your MAGA Voter Profile to resolve the problem: https://r-gop.net/RXp6gWV6 Stop=end

My husbands cell phone occasionally gets text for a Pennsylvania Republican named Betty, and uh, they’ve recently become…somewhat aggressive…

Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital affairs, new book claims A new book claims the former prime minister had an ‘extracurricular’ leg-rubbing friendship and two extramarital affairs

Only two? She literally shafted the entire country. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Great. Fantastic. Just the sentence I wanted to read this morning.

As the spouse of a teacher... 37 kids in a single classroom is an abomination, no matter how good they are. America's education system is deeply broken – yes, teachers are heroes, and also, WE NEED TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM.

Why do the taco costumes have hats 😂 What part of the taco is that supposed to be???

Obsessed with you two being IRL friends 🔥

spotify pays millions to transphobic anti-vaxxer Joe Rogan and so my production company pulled all our podcasts off the service years ago and never looked back

they “pay” fractions of pennies to every musician there too

consider finding a better service

shouldn’t be hard when the bar’s this low!

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

HOLD THE LINE EGGHEADS

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.