Brendan

Gotcha. I don’t have any firsthand experience.

Specifically it’s the HSI side of ICE - they have investigative roles. Considerably different than ERO, who are the goons in the street, apparently.

Stephen Miller obviously lied as well, but from a journalism standards perspective, you can still make the “he’s just a pundit tweeting” case. Noem, the head of DHS, held a press conference and lied. She made a claim with no evidence, minutes before evidence completely refuted everything she said.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

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The absolute depravity of our government must be opposed. This is gutting. I hate these people so fucking much.

Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'"

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@gregstolze.bsky.social I assume this is a years delayed promotion for Bring Me The Head?

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.

This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Very much looking forward to the second season in March…

Different case. (Though I agree it’s likely the most recent one is faked as well.)

Totally get it!

Fwiw, the quote is about an invasion of Greenland.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

chickenshits www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

This is a test for Democrats right now.

If you really want to grab the mantle of leadership and emerge as a frontrunner, you have to speak out forcefully and against ICE...

Right now.

No centrist mealy-mouthed bullshit.

I’m an American and I hate all of this evil shit. All of it. Fuck you if you don’t.

It’s just so demoralizing - there has to be a system where the players are appropriately paid, and there’s enough movement to let everyone find the right spot for their careers, but this level of turnover is just bad for the sport. Rosters get gutted, and the coaches and agents need to share blame.

A Mind Forever Voyaging is up there.

Night Witches There was a night bomber regiment in World War Two composed entirely of women. Natural-born Soviet airwomen. These 200 women and girls, flying outdated biplanes from open fields near the front lines, ...

Not sure if you’re into TTRPGs but @jasonmorningstar.bsky.social has a great game that’s focused on them:

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Great album, but I would rate 1965 higher. 1965 has the canonical sexy dirtbag vibe, and is 1000% an auditory reflection of 90s New Orleans.

Hogan’s Heroes punctured that idea a bit - though also sanitized them.

WFRP 1 Easter Eggs: Something Rotten in Kislev It’s fairly common knowledge by now that Something Rotten in Kislev was not in the original plan for the Enemy Within campaign. Ken Rolston became available and GW management thought that his…

AFAICT all those GW dudes in the 80s were just trying to make each other laugh with increasingly ridiculous names. Graeme Davis has a series of blog posts on some of the inside jokes with the Warhammer Fantasy names: graemedavis.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/w...

I took three years of it in college. Primary use to date is confusing people who try to sell me things at the door. “Jeg forstår den ikke. Unnskyld!”

The other games in that Hogshead series are also great - but Power Kill certainly a great commentary on murder hobo behavior.

He’s just incredibly wry, funny and readable - the text to Bring Me the Head of the Comte de Saint-Germain makes me wish I could get my players to read through all the details post-game to enjoy the bon mots.

Written by @gregstolze.bsky.social, who continues to put out lots of great (and prescient) prose.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Anyone recommend the Redwall series (Brian Jacques) yet?

I saw someone else mention the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold and those are also great.

Darklands.

Given the history of the movie, I assume James Cameron is involved somehow and just hasn’t gotten around to it.