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Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Installing Debian 13 on a spare mini pc I have here. What kind of shenanigans can I get up to with this, I wonder...

It ended in 15 innings and was awesome. I had time to make a batch of cookies in the time between the 12th inning and the walk-off single in the 15th. What a game.

Listening to this now 12-inning Tigers vs Mariners deciding Game 5 on the AM radio as my ancestors did

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Thinking about the story that Alfred Nobel allegedly made a foundation that gives out a peace prize because a prematurely published obituary called him a "merchant of death"

"Paralyzed by a feeling that nothing matters anymore," www.theroot.com/something-bi...

Someone should write a book about how to manage like the anti-Elon, explaining why all of his management ideas are very, very stupid.

Cubs win! One more until they get to sweep the Dodgers.

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief “[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

STORY: ORANGE MAN LIE AGAIN

OLD WAY: “CRITICS SAY STATEMENT MAY BE MISLEADING.”

ANIMAL WAY: HIT KICK DRUM, YELL “LIE!” HIT TAMBOURINE, WHISPER “but other side lie too” IN SOFTEST MIKE JOHNSON VOICE.

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

RetroStrange TV Halloween 2025 - RetroStrange RetroStrange TV1 is now switched over to 100% Halloween-only public domain movies, shorts, and more for the rest of October. We even threw in some vintage ads for toys and food. The perfect background...

RetroStrange TV Halloween 2025 is on! The channel is switched over to 100% Halloween content for the rest of October. We added some new shorts, a film, and some vintage toy commercials too. The perfect thing to have on in the background of your Halloween party! retrostrange.com/2025/retrost...

UMG responds to the dismissal:

Hablet is a nice 1-minute per day thing.

Apple Took Down ICE-Tracking Apps. Their Developers Aren't Giving Up “We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.

Apple has removed at least three ICE-tracking apps from the App Store. WIRED spoke with the developers about where they go from here. from @thiccreese.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Similarly describing him as an "expert on antifa" rather than an "antifascism researcher" further legitimates antifa as a proper noun in a way that makes zero sense

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

OpenCV 3D: Building the Indoor Metaverse - OpenCV Live 187 YouTube video by OpenCV

We're live with principal engineer Gursimar Singh, show is showing us the latest indoor 3D localization tools for robotics navigation in OpenCV www.youtube.com/live/4MLxUeh...

Michigan Avenue right now.

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

I just said to my partner, "Kash Patel is a Garth Ennis character," and I don't think either of us are okay with how 🎯🎯🎯 that is.

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Cubs win, Cubs win

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

Right now, Donald Trump, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and other officials are participating in a panel about "Antifa," threatening to "destroy the entire organization [sic] from top to bottom."

This is a good time to revisit our guide to preparing for repression:

crimethinc.com/Safeguarding

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.