and if you think he's going to willingly leave his newly renovated manse Jan 20 2029....
This demolition is a statement of *ownership*

Read this: "Nothing is Holy," by Ava Razavi. I taught a course on writing about the Trumpocene. Ava said, "I don't want to think about it." But she couldn't stop thinking about it. Gorgeous, heartbreaking prose by a new writer on looking for answers. callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/nothing-is...

On top of everything the fuck else, a crucial task of the insurgent wing of the Democratic Party right now is to make it the anti-Nazi party in US politics.

like in the past two days he started illegally tearing down the white house to build a ballroom paid for from money extorted from american companies and demanded that the government secretly pay him a quarter of a billion dollars for investigating him for crimes he more or less admits to

One of the many public health impacts of data centers - In Mexico, a community experienced a hepatitis outbreak because the data center had depleted the village's water supply.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

Here is my fuller dispatch from this afternoon in @hellgatenyc.com

Also very bad for local journalism when people like this destroy trust and cause harm like this. Why we need a news ecosystem that skews heavily toward community centered / in language reporting by journalists with cultural competency.

I have to say I’m really fucked up by the events of today. I have been interviewing recent arrivals from west Africa and stories include political persecution, people fleeing to protect daughters from FGM, people escaping enslavement in Mauritania.

To think they’re just rounded up? It’s too much.

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

State rep. Hoan Huynh shared video of agents surrounding his vehicle/stopping him + staffers shortly after he said one agent pointed a gun inside his vehicle at him while another threatened to break a window. They were following feds in Albany Park after four people were reportedly taken.

Story tk.

NEW: Scientists are using non-targeted analysis to detect wide swaths of whatever chemicals are lingering out there, ones that government agencies like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aren’t looking for or don’t even know about.

This story was first published by @knowablemag.bsky.social.

1. outrageous and offensive

2. speaking as someone who's spent eight years running an organization with a very clear rule that "when the primary's over we get behind the winner, no matter what", I do not think centrist Democrats understand the pandora's box they are unleashing with this bullshit

You're also not a sucker for believing in people. I get the sense that this needs to be stated from time to time.

You simply cannot be a political journalist today if you don't know the deep ins-and-outs of the nonsense conspiracy theories. Because people will just constantly say stuff that is blatantly false and you NEED to be ready to call it out with receipts.

“Maybe you should show a little gratitude that you get to live in a country with such healthy, Aryan, sexually attractive horses.”

Maybe it was a sign when the person Trump put in charge of the DOJ's Civil Rights division was a protege of Jeffrey Hart at Dartmouth, a man who wrote this column in 1977.

Get has been detained for 790 days. He's been prosecuted under Section 112 in 4 cases for a total of 10 years & 6 months.

Today TLHR released a letter from Get, he asks "When those who control the past control the future, what are the "people" in Thai democracy?"

#FreeOurFriends

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Fellow academics, I'm doing it. Going all in. Pulling the plug, literally.

This is on my syllabus for Spring 2026: "This is an analog class. No Canvas; this syllabus is your guide."

All readings are printed books; hand-written exams; no laptops. #academicbluesky #Highered #academia #Rutgers

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."

Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...

"While Johnson & Johnson’s hip implants caused immense harm worldwide, the company treated Indian lives as less valuable than those in richer countries, with the company exploiting weaker regulatory systems across the Global South."

Disha Shetty:

Emergency officials have warned that in many cases, entire Alaskan villages will need to be rebuilt.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...