Shay O’Reilly

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities. In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account. These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

There is no question of whether we as a society can afford to have every child cared for by someone. We can, because we already do. The question is whether we want to keep the burden of paying for it primarily on parents, where it currently is, or whether we want to spread it more broadly.

A man’s hand holds a mushroom with a broad, flat top with dark brown gills and a frilly, tutu-like ring around the stipe.

A perfect little white mushroom that is quite cute because of its curving shapes and tidy lip around small white gills

A cluster of those same white mushrooms amidst leaf litter and English ivy

Sulfur tufts, small mushrooms with orange centers fading to white rims.

Mushroom update

I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Photos: Carol Guzy

"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."

German government pledges more than €2 bln for nuclear fusion

I’m pretty skeptical that governments who cannot muster the economic and political power to build out wind, solar, and grid improvements will somehow be able to do this for a wave of new nuclear technology.

www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-...

If you want to have a baby ever, don’t wait until you feel fully ready. You won’t ever feel or be fully ready.

This is Ilan Wurman’s argument. a pet jurist for the fascists ascendant.

Just unspeakably ludicrous that the only people whose rights are harmed by domestic deployment of the military are those specific persons who are physically assaulted.

Got my normie Portland apolitical in-laws (including an evangelical former marketing VP from Texas!) listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social and @bishonentype.bsky.social’s Executive Disorder as one of the best overviews of what is happening federally and why it matters.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Yes I think it is! also I’m 99% sure the amanita was a blusher (it did indeed turn pink where I broke it off) but I 100% don’t fuck with amanitas.

(I am not picking mushrooms to eat … unless I find some chanterelles or black trumpets.)

A man’s pink hand holds a shiny orange-yellow mushroom, detached from the ground. It’s a larch bolete.

A man’s hand holds an amanita mushroom by the stem. It’s a very mushroom looking mushroom, with a curving white stem with stipe, white gills, and a darker top.

Pink mushrooms sprout from a leafy forest floor

A brown fan-like mushroom with pale edges grows from a mossy log.

Not as many bird species coming through here so getting into fungus spotting instead

They are extremely not people you can organize haha

Got my normie Portland apolitical in-laws (including an evangelical former marketing VP from Texas!) listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social and @bishonentype.bsky.social’s Executive Disorder as one of the best overviews of what is happening federally and why it matters.

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

The existence of billionaires and the existence of democracy are basically incompatible.

"What they propose is in effect a mass surveillance free-for-all, opening up everyone’s intimate and confidential communications, whether government officials, military, investigative journalists, or activists. For all of Europe’s talk of sovereignty, this is a bizarre cybersecurity decision"

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

The publications in Alaska lost significant staffing after the owners made changes to an article that had drawn criticism from a Republican state lawmaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

No one really seems to care about this anymore but I think ICE detention centers turning away members of Congress is a good scandal to evaluate where we are right now. It is as clear as statutory language gets that members have the right to make unannounced visits; completely unequivocal 1/

Two men and a small child sit in a hammock facing away from the camera, out at a lake framed by deciduous trees just beginning to touch with yellow and orange. One man holds a gigantic döner sandwich

A tram stop in the middle of the woods with those gorgeous tracks through grass and moss, you know it

Light filtering through conifer and deciduous trees

You can just grab a döner and take a tram through the woods and hang out in a hammock by the lake. They can’t stop you

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

Fossil fuel industry exploiting Europe’s energy crisis, says Al Gore Former U.S. vice president warns EU risks locking into long-term dependence on dirty energy.

The fossil fuel industry is exploiting 🇪🇺's scramble to replace Russian gas to lock the continent into a long-term dependence on dirty energy, says Al Gore.
Replacing it with new 🇺🇸 LNG is moving from one gas trap to another instead of pursuing true energy security.
www.politico.eu/article/al-g...