Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

I can’t unsee it.

I'm trying to use Bluesky to sell tickets to my comedy special taping. Don't make me promote on Twitter. I'd rather have an empty house. But it'd be so much nicer if it were full.

This man left Costa Rica in Dec 2024 to look for work.

He was in perfect health.

Snatched by ICE on Dec 27, held for 8 months in Texas, and now dead.

Picked up in perfect health, then deported back on an ambulance flight, and died shortly after his return.

Something monstrous is going on.

Do not forget that this happened and that Trump should be in prison for it right now.

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

The ICEmen were presumably looking for undocumented immigrants. Retes’s driver’s license, which he says the ICEmen never asked to see, identifies him as “Veteran Army.” His license plate includes “DV”: disabled veteran. While ICE’s warriors were trying and ultimately succeeding in smashing his driver’s-side window (the better to pepper spray him), they apparently did not notice his rear window’s “Iraq Combat Veteran” sticker.

How George Will describes the unlawful arrest of George Retes in the Bezos Post.

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Intolerable. Americans are being treated like citizens of a conquered territory

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.

I had it exactly backward.

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

“Stop, you’re hurting him.” Can I talk to him? Can I talk to him please before he leaves? Let me — that’s my dad."
As Carlos is placed in the vehicle and they get ready to leave, both boys cry out, “Pa, te amo. (Pa, I love you)."

This is grotesque.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/f...

Democrats should just start rolling out ad after ad of Reagan voiceovers.

Here is the video or Ronald Reagan saying church and state must remain separate.

Reagan’s words about tariffs are going viral after Trump’s insistence that they are “fake” created a “Streisand Effect”

Reagan hated tariffs. The ad was accurate. Trump just can’t be honest about the fact that he disagrees with a conservative icon about trade, immigration and other issues.

You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?

THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.

I think that the next step in the civil resistance campaign to Trump should be inflicting punishment on elites and institutions who cave. They need to understand that there are costs to compliance

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

It's not a pipe dream if you vote. But you have to be registered.

Check your status and register now: the deadline is Saturday!

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100000000 percent, we must TRY.

Heather Cox Richardson
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Pope today: “With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty but grave crimes committed and tolerated by the state. Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted, even celebrated politically, that treat these 'undesirables' like garbage.”

the right would literally be storming the white house if obama was demolishing the entire east wing. this just feels insane.

Die Neue Reichskanzlei ("New Reich Chancellery"), Berlin, c. 1939: (1) reception hall; (2) main dining hall; (3) entrance to the office of the Führer, with SS guards; (4) office of the Führer.

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

In 1977, when his father, Mario, was running against Ed Koch in that year’s mayoral race, signs surfaced reading, “Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo.” Nineteen-year-old Andrew, a key figure in the senior Cuomo’s campaign, was widely suspected of being behind the gay-baiting of Koch. When asked about the incident by Gay City News in 2002, Andrew Cuomo at first challenged whether the incident had in fact occurred before denying any responsibility for it.

Also useful to remember this bit of history: gaycitynews.com/mr-cuomos-sh...

Threads post from julieceye At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.