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The parties included a 7, 8, and 4-year-old. "None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys." "The 4-year-old girl in the tie-dye shirt raised her hand, dangling her pink plushy above her head. It wasn’t clear – was she responding to the question, or just playing with her toy?"

Good job team America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"By Penn Station standards, the LIRR is the most efficient operation there." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Having taken the LIRR for over 30 years I can say this may be the only place where the LIRR is the most efficient operation anywhere.

On February 26, cartoonist Becky "R.E." Burke, visiting the U.S. from her home in Wales, was taken into ICE custody while trying to cross the border into Canada. For the next 19 days, she became a prisoner of the U.S. immigration system. She told her story to @comicsjournal.bsky.social.

again, written the cartoon I have www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Oh Lord, I can't imagine what bizarre statement will come from the WH today in response to Pope Francis' death.

"MaryJaneCon" would feature shoes, candy, and red-headed women, but probably half the attendees would be confused stoners.

U.S. President #DonaldTrump said on Friday his administration is set to change the employment classifications of tens of thousands of federal workers, a move governance experts say will make it easier to carry out more mass layoffs. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

Harvard stood up to the bully — and the bully blinked

Less than 100 days in, and many of these have come to pass, in addition to the economic body blows not mentioned here but endlessly hyped up by Trump while he was on the trail

Last week, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED learned.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/17/t...

Weird news, 2014: the tan suit is bad Weird news, 2025: David Brooks is calling for the guillotines

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

timeline cleanse

Letting this administration redo Penn Station means it'll still be essentially a big toilet, just gaudy.

A Florida county is detaining and refusing to release a U.S. citizen born in the U.S., after ICE asked the county to detain him: floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

“'…your a child predator and your only hope is your b**** a** wife that is a cop otherwise someone else woulda already delt with u for ur wrongs,' Rivers allegedly wrote in the error-filled message to the teacher." I sincerely hope this mom isn't planning on homeschooling her child.