On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

more good content! imagine publishing content that's just nice! reveals a little bit about having fun on the internet! people just doing things because they can and the internet was nice!

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4d ago

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

I think it’s a good (silver lining) that a good person & scicom like Hank is the character of this article. Being able to confront the topic in a rational and reflective manner that may yield some good going forward.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

One of the few real insights from Fauci's diary is that he was friendly with and gave time to console Katie Miller during her pregnancy with Covid. Then Miller blasted him. Then Paul belatedly redacted the sections featuring Miller, because political allies get privacy. people.com/dr-anthony-f...

Dr. Fauci’s Private Diary Says He Frequently Consoled MAGA Mouthpiece Katie Miller During Her COVID-Era Pregnancy

Entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary that were released by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., last week suggest he had a close relationship with Katie Miller during the first year of the COVID-19 pandem...

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Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

Revisiting classic I SPY books and instantly transported back to childhood, where imaginations ran with imaging playing with the unique items of each page. Man, these are great

…And here we observe the chicken pox infection of Alaska…

The Slides@theslides.bsky.social · last wk.

"Alaskan Air Command," slide 18 of 21 [gallery]

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault

A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."

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The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

One scientist’s mission to save Ghana’s disappearing guitarfish

One scientist’s mission to save Ghana’s disappearing guitarfish

Fishers from western and central Ghana are renowned in the region, traveling the length of the West African coastline to cast their nets in the richest fishing grounds. These migrant fishers, relying…

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Ultimately NASA civil servant force shrank by about a quarter between January and September of 2025. One in four people quit, most of them with 10+ years experience. In no universe is NASA as capable with 75% of its force, mostly decapitated of leadership, but also the sudden stop of new hires

BREAKING @crisesnotes.bsky.social from @juanhanes.bsky.social and I: HUD is planning to add "special conditions to grant awards” that will require grantees to submit all invoices & individual payment information from themselves, "subrecipients" AND contractors www.crisesnotes.com/breaking-hud...

BREAKING: HUD is Planning on Hobbling Federal Financial Assistance for Housing by Burying it in Paperwork.

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"It’s an existential threat. States are absolutely contemplating a world in which SNAP isn’t available."

Lauren Bauer@laurenhlb.bsky.social · 2w ago

And now Arizona joins Alabama in admitting that the OBBBA cost shift policy could force them to drop out of SNAP period. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 12mo ago

Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision

“The researchers performed advanced nickel isotope analysis of samples collected from the K-Pg boundary to narrow down the Chicxulub asteroid’s composition.”

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs May Not Have Done It Exactly How We Thought gizmodo.com/the-asteroid...

this shot is so bleak lmao

BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

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Visualized.

Denali@denali.bsky.social · 3w ago

Husband just came in to tell me that since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln every American president has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

🎶 Taxes going up as the air quality goes down 🎶 😵‍💫

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3w ago

Trump says he is going to increase tariffs on Canada due to the wildfires

Drillbit Taylor

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

Brenda Fricker (1945-2026) 🤍

5-year-old Camila's crayon drawings in detention look just like my 5-year-old's drawings. We need this to end, and then we need prosecutions for everybody who had a hand in harming these families. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT

On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.

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Trump's teleprompter operator allegedly made $100K via Kalshi bets on what Trump would say during the State of the Union and other speeches.

White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources

President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say.

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There was a nearly 13% increase in Iowa CAFOs with 1,000 or more animal units from 2019 to 2025, the Environmental Working Group report notes.

Iowa has 15,309 animal feeding operations, aerial mapping finds — thousands more than the state monitors - Little Village

An analysis from Environmental Working Group (EWG) mapped 15,309 animal feeding operations in Iowa, which is several thousand more than what is tracked and monitored by the state. The group utilized s...

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Goal!!!

New meme just dropped

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.

A 15mw turbine burns the equivalent of 450 gallons of gasoline/hr. 40 of them at a single site is like having 10 thousand cars idling in one spot. You can talk unit level efficiency all you want but some of these data centers, like xAI are almost incomprehensible in terms of stuff combusted

Greg Wester@gwestr.me · 3w ago

orders of magnitude cleaner than the diesel generators in every hospital, high rise, etc. and those don't seem to bother anyone in highly urban environments. hell, a diesel truck in the parking lot causes more pollution.