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"For nourishment, the Frenchman survived on a string of onions he happened to be wearing at the time"

A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail. The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.

It's insane that this even needs to be said.

“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com.

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Ty to everyone who has told us about the ICE recruitment ads which have been running on the only general-interest US legal podcast co-hosted by a practicing deportation defense attorney.

We trust that these ads are wasted on our listeners in a way that they would be wasted on few other audiences

JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures

Newly unsealed documents show that JPMorgan alerted federal regulators to potentially suspicious transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and top Wall Street figures.

[These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

They don’t even know who they’re killing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

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A newspaper full page ad with a brightly colored burst of exploding powder, Adobe logo in the corner, copy reading “experience the magic of buying new software every month forever”

Print edition @theonion.com ads don’t miss

Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly White South Africans | CNN Politics The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previo...

This is what you enabled with all your talk of groceries and a funny laugh, with all your talk of shareholder profits, with your eye on mergers, your obsession with deregulation, and your “both sides” excuses. You have betrayed the promise of this country.

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Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained." - .

FACTS: "Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear."

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Sounds right.

Platform Decay, the eighth entry in the Murderbot Diaries series by @marthawells.com , will arrive on May 5, 2026. 🔥

And if you haven't seen it, the first season of the TV adaptation, available since this summer on AppleTV, is very fresh.

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

As Darfur's last city falls, fears grow 'there will be no one left to save' Sudan's army has lost its last foothold of el-Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings unfold before the world.

Sudan's army has lost its last foothold of el-Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings unfold before the world.

That brings the total to 61 murders in less than two months.

Sudan siege ends in bloodbath despite pleas for mercy Evidence emerges of atrocities committed by the paramilitary RSF after it seized control of El Fasher

"Nathaniel Redmond, director of the Yale school of public health, said on Tuesday that the “horror, scale and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites"

Pity the West simply does not have any tools to pressure UAE, which is the RSF's main funder and supplier

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

That smile says "people are going to be giving me, the Vicar of Christ, sports jerseys for the rest of my time on earth, and that is not a problem I thought I would have in my papacy."

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

Struggling to imagine the chutzpah it takes to say that someone "doesn't understand New York culture" because they're an immigrant.

the ketchup banchan is fucking destroying me

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

People are so fascinatingly stupid about Mt. Washington.

“Oh, it’s not that tall,” they say, little knowing it is haunted by Weather Demons

What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin The mayoral candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma. Listen to this article • 12:37 min Learn more

By Jeremy W. Peters Oct. 28, 2025 Updated 3:17 p.m. ET It wasn't so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it. "We're going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!" the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary. Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation's name "AH-ee-tee" - near-perfect Creole elocution. "When I heard him say that, I smiled," recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani's former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani's reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti's status as the first republic founded by former slaves.

Jeremy W. Peters identifies the tell-tale sign of “leftist dogma” in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: pronouncing Haiti’s name correctly

Right. I am 53 and so white I’m a Mayflower descendent and this is a totally normal idea for me.

Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody promoting Zohran

POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet

A small posie of pink Sweetpea flowers held in a white person's hand against a pale grey background.

I really thought these were over, and yet, here we are, 28th of October and I've just picked some Sweetpeas. 🤷🏼‍♀️ #TinyJoys

Bovino says he can get that to the court by Friday.

Reports about future uses of force and body-worn camera footage must be submitted to the court within 24 hours.

Ellis orders Bovino to report to her in person *EVERY DAY* at 4:30 p.m. to recap the events of the day.

Laughter erupts.