You know who probably hasn’t been watching the reentry and return? The narcissist-in-chief. Because it’s not about him.

Flashing back to watching every Apollo mission in blurry black-and-white.

What If the Protest Is the Thing That Refuels You? Research on collective action suggests people often leave stronger than they arrived.

I’ve said before that showing up together is as much for us, for fighting the overwhelming by seeing we’re not alone, as it is for the people watching. Science supports this.

www.the50501movement.org/p/if-you-fee...

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Here’s a bunch of organizations in MN supporting people on the ground. If you feel kind of helpless, giving a few bucks to one (or more) of these is something concrete you can do to help. www.standwithminnesota.com

Demand Your Members of Congress Co-Sponsor the Melt ICE Act Now! 🗣️Tell Congress: Close ALL Detention Centers! The Melt ICE Act would close all detention centers and release our detained neighbors back into our communities, where they belong. Join UWDA in taking ...

🗣️ Tell Congress: Close ALL Detention Centers! The Melt ICE Act would close all detention centers & release our neighbors back into our communities, where they belong. Join me & UWDA in demanding members of Congress co-sponsor the Melt ICE Act: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

Kind of ironic that in attacking and murdering white observers this administration has done more to erase white privilege than any previous administration.

This country’s federal government is at war with its people.

Make it viral.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

It’s not just TACO; now we have DACO. Dems just sold out all the Americans who will no longer be able to afford healthcare.

If you are approached by federal law enforcement call the Federal Defense Hotline 212-679-2811

If you are approached by federal agents: invoke your5th Amendment right to remain silent, and your 6th Amendment right to counsel, by saying “I cannot answer any questions without my lawyer."

'Chilling': FBI shocks with visits to homes of innocent protesters under Trump's orders Under orders from President Donald Trump, the FBI has started visiting the homes of innocent protesters, according to a report.In one case, special needs teacher Miles Serafini, 26, told independent j...

Day #276. It took 276 days. Freedom of speech labeled terrorism.

#proudblue

www.rawstory.com/fbi-protest/

Which tells you everything you need to know about how much he values the American people.

If the billionaires (supposedly) contributing toward that ballroom had a shred of decency, they’d be paying for people’s SNAP benefits and health insurance subsidies instead or in addition. But decency is pretty thin on the ground lately.

While Americans are paying more than ever for basic necessities, the Trump family has been making themselves richer.

In autumn, no less. I know climate change is happening, but much of the US does still have winter.

Universities across the world seeing this:

"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"

Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of her district. They are being denied their duly elected representation. Mike Johnson must swear her in now, whether he likes it or not.

Posting this for no particular reason…

War-ravaged Portlandia.

Yes, I was thinking if seven people happened to be crossing the street carrying open cans of paint and stumbled and spilled the paint…

I went to a local burrito place the other day and found it suddenly shuttered; I am assuming the same cause.

From Stalin To Karimov: What Happens When Dictators Die? When a trio of Soviet leaders died in quick succession in the 1980s, the ballet Swan Lake was the cue that something dire was about to be announced on state TV. It's a different scenario these days fo...

Posting this for no particular reason. www.rferl.org/a/authoritar...

I worked at Wabash a zillion years ago. Best job ever.

Full mittens. Rounded. Design ending before decreases is fine.

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.

Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

That sounds like a great class! We saw filmed versions in school. I didn’t see S plays on stage until I was an adult. I love seeing them on stage. Especially get a kick out of the ways the ghosts are handled in Macbeth and Hamlet.

We really are living in “Idiocracy.”