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Stalking my ballot on the correos website as it makes its way from Spain to Ohio. Godspeed, little ballot!

BREAKING: Another immigrant has died in ICE custody, the 28th death in ICE detention in 2026.

I do not at foreclose the possibility of various sorts of political shenanigans even after Vucic’s concession but this extraordinary result in Serbia is what happens when people show up: in the streets, at the ballot box. That’s the lesson. If you care about democracy, show up.

The ingenuity and indefatigability of Serbia's student-led civic protest movement is one of the most inspirational political stories of my lifetime.

Not a Culture War: Attacks on Women’s and LGBT Rights Are ‘Central’ to Autocratic Playbook

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

What could possibly go wrong?

Sorry, MAHA moms. These grifters only cared about commodifying your anxieties. They never cared about protecting you and your kids.

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Corporate profits now represent 14.9% of GDP, the highest share on record going back to 1947 Citadel Rubner

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

ICE has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them. apnews.com/article/ice-...

Vote Safe dot org (avoiding link creation) is an Elon Musk funded site that claims to register you to vote but just steals your information. AVOID www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

what do I know really though, I just want to live on a peaceful, habitable planet, on which all people are treated with dignity

If AI could also kill all the fruit flies and their families in my apartment, then maybe, just maybe it would all be worth it.

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...

A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.

A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?

Filed my piece... not sure it was what they wanted, but had no energy to write about the details of Saxony-Anhalt... People need to understand that we are in a different reality, where the main fight is for liberal democracy, rather than between different types of liberal democracy.

Ah, middle age… when you get sore after a casual game of ping pong.

“We have already seen an increase in swastikas drawn all over the school, Vietnamese pupils called ‘cat-eaters’… One former pupil who uses a wheelchair was very badly bullied. A group of boys told him, ‘Back in 1936 they would have gassed people like you’.” www.thetimes.com/article/0083...

magic bean seller is sure these are the most magic of all the beans

Also, the deaths, disablements, and trauma from destroying USAID are only just beginning to unfold and will keep getting worse and worse, because there is no replacement for the funding and infrastructure that was suddenly taken away by Musk and Trump.

Dolly Parton dying hits so hard. She felt like one of those figures who always was and always will be. She felt like America when it was trying to be the place it promised to be. As beloved as her music is, it’s even better than people give it credit for. There won’t be another one like her.

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

The AI nanny, Mary Sloppins

The consequences of Trump 2.0 will be felt by generations of Americans.

BREAKING: in July 2026, *every single one* of the 2,528 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 10,255 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

I just noticed I started my last two replies with wow and now I feel like all the bot language we are constantly inundated with is eating my brain. Sigh.

Today I learned that Infantino is 56. Seriously, by appearances, I thought he was in his 70s or late 60s at least. Eeps!

Trump kicked millions off health insurance while failing to check inflation & hiking gas prices so uninsured forego care or end up in ERs racking up unpaid bills & hospital profits fall & they raise rates on the insured & insurers hike premiums - a hell spiral. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

@jamellebouie.net calls Musk what he is. Gift link. Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Oopsie I destroyed a big chunk of the federal government & directly caused the deaths of millions of people! Oopsie poopsie! Ah well!

Officially mayhem here in Barcelona!!