Local journalism on the 13-year-old boy taken from his family in Everett by ICE and shipped a thousand miles away. www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...

It’s a lawless government. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Kash says he can still pay salaries at the FBI, the head of OMB plans to close an agency, Trump is levying taxes —_ahem, donations_ — to expand the White House: when does the idea that we've entered a post-constitutional period enter the mainstream conversation?

Students writing public op-eds criticizing the state of Israel: "Deport them! They're adults responsible for their actions!"

Students privately praising Hitler: "Kids will be kids."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Here's how differently-abled and disabled folks can join No Kings 2: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

I just want to be very clear here. This is the Vice President of the United States saying it’s a regular practice among white people to enthusiastically endorse slavery, Hitler, and rape.

The Trump administration wants the U.S. to be a home only for those who think the problem with Europe is that it isn’t white enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Also hauling journalists off zip-tied in vans.

DHS is tear-gassing the Chicago PD. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

Welp, the fine folks @prowroxroz.bsky.social created a monster by inviting me to ask questions at their City Council At-Large forum.

My thirst for attention knows no bounds, so I am now moderating our Allston-Brighton District 9 City Council forum.

RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/bosto...

For Indigenous People’s Day, I’d like to infodump about the Cahokia mound. Built near present day St. Louis around 1000 CE, it was a vast trade hub with a population of about 20,000. This made it the largest city north of Mexico on the continent, bigger than London and Paris at the time!

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Joking about getting PTSD is tacky enough, but joking about PTSD while you try to prevent people—including people who ACTUALLY have PTSD— from accessing care while you also enjoy your subsidized ACA healthcare is pretty fucking nervy.

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

What they really mean is “I want to live in the Bay Area, but don’t want poor people to exist there.”

Crypto markets are making corporations less accountable to the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/m...

I ❤️ whimsical protest

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

any cop who walks because mamdani gets elected is almost certainly a cop who fears accountability and should never have been hired in the first place

The landlords of greater Boston figured this out some time ago. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘Minor Keys’ tackles common myths around #Gender, #Technology and #CulturalProduction head on, introducing the concept of ‘ameliorative work’ to recognise the continual and considerable additional work that minoritized genders do in order to succeed.