Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...
Can attest to this. Trump and his goons have made life a living hell in DC, from USAID to the DOGE cuts to ICE raids to the intimidation of nonprofits.
NEW: "It’s been hell."
"I’m dead inside."
"I honestly don’t know if I will ever find work in the U.S. again, let alone D.C."
"It’s akin to screaming into a void."
What is going on with D.C.'s job market? Contributor Abi Newhouse investigated:
So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week.
theprint.in/feature/erik...
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility.
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
Texas state Rep. James Talarico is attempting to gain ground with Texas’ 2.7 million Black voters. Some strategists and local lawmakers think the Senate candidate is falling short.
From NY Times article on newly-reopened Goya Museum in Spain: If I already had plenty of reason to dislike "immersive" art experiences, looks like for this projected image they inexplicably tweaked the colors in Goya's famed "Third of May" painting. Why..?? Art museums get ever closer to Disneyland
🇫🇷 Representatives from #French high school student groups on Monday hailed the government’s first measures to calm the crisis over ongoing unrest linked to their protest movement, including a gradual replacement of higher education admissions platform Parcoursup.
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oh fuck no, google's AI bullshit is coming for the 25 year old lorem ipsum generator website which has been the top of this search forever. this is like Amazon just rolling up to your local bookstore and levelling it to the ground
Why have the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good and the impunity for their killlers not been an issue in Dems midterm campaigns? I know there’s no shortage of issues but those were defining atrocities of Trump Two which every Republican owns.
This is how the 98’ Yankees played. Ball in play, good defense, and good pitching.
Bernie with a 1 dot with 26 home runs. Jeter and Knoblauch with 30 bags. Plenty of horses in the pen.
I miss this kinda ball.
This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”
A consensus position in Israeli politics is that Israel should not be a democracy (there is no democracy while occupation exists), and neither should any other country.
We've been in Seattle for 6 months and I was unemployed for most of it. It got very tempting to sell my soul and take a six figure job doing graphic design for one of the many tech companies in the area. I'm glad I didn't abandon my values.
The NBA has reached deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to make them the league's preferred prediction markets partners. The companies can now use NBA IP on their platforms, while the NBA gets right of approval on markets that they offer. That and more:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...
Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis).
Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...
In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.