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Credit to Reuters for first reporting and confirming many of the details in Marcos Leao's detention. He's been released, per them.

A little Mrs. Brisby sketch because when it comes to fictional moms, she's a GOAT. I mean, she's a mouse, but also a GOAT.

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

BREAKING: Reuters has published video images of Marines carrying out the first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles

Watched clips from his appearance at Congress yesterday and the Secretary couldn't give a simple "yes" or "no" answer when asked. Everything became some kind of spiel you'd expect from someone who used to be a cable news talking head dancing around an actual answer.

Demonstrators in LA think it sure would be a shame if ICE agents couldn’t get any rest www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thank you, @esb.lol, for fixing this crucial mute-words bug

Greetings! I’m at 9200 Sunset; where a group of demonstrators have entered the building. I’m told security have already called the police. They’ve begun picketing in reception.

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

There are no ways to not let this become the story. The media & the moneyed-yet-mediocre who are in bed with fascists will not stop calling any space that does not welcome fascists an echo chamber until they do. It is a rhetorical trap designed convince people to welcome foxes into the hen house.

Just in case anyone needed an additional reason to canvass for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. www.zohranfornyc.com

ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.

Silicon Valley tech execs are joining the US Army Reserve

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: Sen. Alex Padilla’s crime? Being Mexican in MAGA America. Share, porfas!

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when Cuomo listed off all the boroughs and then also said "et cetera," I think he was talking about Gotham and Bludhaven, which are criminally neglected by the rest of New York

So I just realized that this is the federal building by the West LA VA...which is by the 405. I was there yesterday, zero protests or action. The Marines are trying really hard to have as little to do with this clusterfuck as they can while still technically complying with orders.

This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all." He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota. www.instagram.com/reel/DKzbcQe...

Of course. MAGA's over on Twitter have been suggesting they "check his papers." What a world.

shout out to the people who for 12 years have wanted to "actually, the National Socialist Party existed from 193-" blah blah this is nazi shit full stop and the people who said so from the jump were always right

Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

Direct quote from the front desk at a Burbank hotel: “if ICE was staying here, I wouldn’t be able to divulge that… but I can confidently tell you they are not and you should keep up the good work because it’s a topic of conversation at every hotel in the city right now, so keep the pressure on.”

this 48-second video of a protest in ontario, california is top-tier storytelling 🤌🏽🤌🏽

TV industry's ability to punch itself in the face remains undefeated. Star Trek--an OG example of "tv episodes can work each week on their own"--came up with a show, the fun Strange New Worlds, that could RUN FOREVER, so of course they're ending it w/a truncated S5 🤡 variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Billy Long's sole qualification to run the IRS is that, in 2023–24, he ran a large-scale tax fraud operation. I am not making this up.

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to "return control of the California National Guard" to CA Gov. Newsom, finding that Trump's order taking control was illegal because it did not follow the required procedure. The order is stayed until noon Friday. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

HERE IS A THING that EVERY American can do: 1. Call your Senator. 2. Say the following: "I am requesting that you place a hold on the nomination of Bill Essayli as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of CA for directing federal agents to assault a U.S. Senator." 3. Call other Senator, repeat

THE SUN MAY BE CONQUERED AFTER ALL! 1/ Insurrectionist Enrique Tarrio is suing the federal government for an Ashli Babbitt-style payoff from Trump. His lawyer, I shit you not, is named "Augustus Sol Invictus." Turns out that Mr. Invictus may have failed to tell the court about his prior felony...

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

Sometimes to calm myself down i make fake 2000's memes

Thanks for wanting to help! Should we go on strike, the most important thing is not to cross the picket line: don't click on, read, listen to, or watch any Vox Media products for the duration of the strike. Should we go on strike, we'll have more specific ways to help out, so stay tuned! Thank you!

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

I would like to once again say that once they arrested Ras Baraka every elected Dem should have understood what was in store.

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

Hey Shivam, @munocard.bsky.social rocked up in my DMs this morning with I HAVE SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR FUN GUNPLA so you two should talk, you're both great. :D

Harvard Crimson - A federal judge orders the release from criminal custody of a Harvard Medical School researcher who was arrested by CBP after failing to declare samples of frog embryos. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Student walkout at my son’s high school over a classmate who was seized by ICE and disappeared and she hasn’t been heard from. There is a **police helicopter** flying over the student walkout. This country is so broken. But I got hope in these kids

LA Tenants Union is saying they found where ICE is staying now, call and email ESPECIALLY if you often stay at Marriott and are willing to boycott the chain over this!

SCOOP: Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...

I'm not surprised Trump is a fan of Les Miz, it was a mainstay of 1980s NYC yuppie culture, when he was rich and famous and aging hadn't yet brought low his virility. He probably has a poster of it above his toilet like Patrick fuckin' Bateman

Learned some more about a few of these dangerous new ACIP people