We sang this song in our secular kindershuleh. I am iffy about “nobody else is like this,” though.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Ack. Alt text went away. It is dog lying with butt on pad and the rest on the hard floor.

Unclear on the concept

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

Broadview police chief says he was verbally attacked by ICE agent; mayor criticizes ICE in letter There are new claims of heightened tensions between ICE agents at the Broadview immigration processing facility and local police, the ABC7 I-Team learned. The mayor has also issued a blistering letter...

ICE attacked the police chief in Broadview, IL. He says his officers are being tear-gassed by ICE and diverted from their duties. Over 20% of U.S. cops are veterans. Kristi Noem and Donald Trump's forces are anti-cop, anti-safety, and anti-American.

Yup, that’s how I read it, too.

Wait, what? Go back. What?

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Throw a few bucks at ProPublica, people. They are doing democracy’s work.

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters.

Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30, a casualty of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s f...

“Transgender for everybody?” Does that mean I have to be the boy and David has to be the girl now? Oh, no! Who will mow the lawn?

Upholstered furniture is important to our national security? Oh, excuse me, to our National Security. Got it

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Credence Brackishwater

How lazy do you have to be to say the three syllables of “antifa” instead of the four of “anti-fascist?”

Had anyone ever seen Ed Martin and Tucker Carlson in the same room at the same time?

Fool thinks he is white.

Nazis.

elite centrist/lib transphobia is one of those classic contrarian things where they’ve built up a huge pile of facially convincing “evidence” that collapses immediately if you put it under serious scrutiny

You know someone is a woman the same way you know they’re a Christian. They tell you. I mean, you sure can’t tell by how they act.

It’s almost like they never saw a movie about blackmail.

Most American Jews would like Trump to stop pretending to help A strong�majority of American Jews are sick of being used as a tool for President Donald Trump to carry out his illiberal agenda, according to a poll conducted by Ipsos for researchers at the ...

Most American Jews would like Trump to stop pretending to help https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/18/2344213/-Most-American-Jews-would-like-Trump-to-stop-pretending-to-help?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Is there a reason you are not sharing the phone number?

In defense of free speech A cartoon by Calder Robinson.

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Accurate

Defense Bill Opens Door To Guns-For-Hire At The Border The must-pass legislation that just passed the House would, for the first time, allow the Pentagon to send private military contractors to the border.

🚨BIG NEWS: Republicans just quietly added a line to a defense bill that would empower the Pentagon and Pete Hegseth to deploy armed private mercenaries inside the U.S. at the southern border for the first time in American history.

Sept. 15, 1963: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing The 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in an act of terrorism in Birmingham, Alabama.

#tdih 1963 Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, & Addie Mae Collins -- all 14 yrs old, & 11-yr-old Denise McNair were murdered in terrorist bombing. A 5th child, Sarah Collins Rudolph, was severely injured.💔

Read more & see teaching resources on link ⬇️ & 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/16...