There may well be active duty troops in the Middle East right now who have family members locked in ICE jails. Congress authorized Military Parole-in-Place specifically to avoid this situation. But the Trump admin has shown little care to families caught in this situation.

AILA@aila.org · 7h ago

"President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda." https://bit.ly/4br4M4m

FYI Science Policy News: More U.S.-trained physicists are leaving the country, an exodus that adds to fears of a U.S. "brain drain" www.aip.org/fyi/physics-... a near-doubling of non-US citizens left the US after receiving their PhD, around 29%, in 2025 @aip.bsky.social

Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate

The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.

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This apparently happened underneath (and maybe because of of) a sign she had hung on her house that said: "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing."

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday

"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

I put together a timeline of the major Trump initiatives on the immigration/concentration camp front since January 2025—including many of the ways those plans have been thwarted—and looked ahead at what to expect in the coming months.

Breaking ICE

A timeline of Trump's war on immigrants, and what lies ahead.

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When I was running a record store in DC, I had a friend who ran one in Philly and was also in a band. They were great live and got signed to a label on Caroline Records. Even then, pre-collapse of record sales, it was hard to break through. They just didn't make it. Here's remembering The Low Road.

The Low Road - Hallelujah, She's Gone (April 1994 at Liberty Lunch in Austin, TX)

YouTube video by markydare

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The billionaire class is both a threat and an embarrassment to humanity.

This is like when I was a kid and my stepfather ruined his credit, so then my mom stepped up to ruin hers on his behalf, because no one would give him the benefit of the doubt anymore.

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump's about used up his power to shift markets with his lies, so now Bessant's relatively fresh reputation is on tap for strip mining

This is utterly appalling

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Underneath solar panels, plants grew much more and used less water, "Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield."

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 3d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

Prepared to donate to candidates whose platform includes opposing genitalia inspectors for little girls.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Through generous machinations by people I’ve never met, this is where I find myself tonight…

I first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.

Regarding the Max Miller horrors: I worked with survivors of sexual assault for most of a decade. Many who experience partner violence are desperate to normalize relations with their abuser to avoid further harm to themselves, and are far more likely to do so if their child is also being assaulted.

"Cunningham needed the culture war to get on the map, needing it as much as it needed her. ... The result is a star, the latest participant in an old game no more complicated than checkers but far less interesting."

David Ambaras@borderlander62.bsky.social · 3d ago

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Further, we must stop calling abductions and even murders "immigration enforcement." "Immigration" means movement of people into country; reasonable people can disagree on policies like # of visas, process for green card, etc. substack.com/@anatosaurus...

Call Trump's Concentration Camps What They Are

Andrea Pitzer on the history we cannot allow to repeat itself.

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Area Dog: 2 Fast 2 Furrious

In the dementia ward this morning… ME: What’s my name? MOM: Karen.

India's 'cockroach' protesters have wounds consistent with pellet-gun fire, say experts www.bbc.com/news/article...

CJP protest: India's 'Cockroach' protesters have wounds consistent with pellet-gun fire, experts say

Ballistic experts say the dozens of tiny round punctures are tell-tale signs of pellet gun injuries.

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“It Never Entered My Mind,” Rodgers and Hart (1940).

We will never get to real democracy until public figures learn how to handle disingenuous concern-trolling by bad actors on behalf of people those bad actors don't actually give a shit about.

The Friday roundup is here, with links to the podcast! I also wrote about a conversation back in 2019 with some people who were doing good work in the Office of Refugee Resettlement, but were torn about whether to stay under Trump. This week, the ORR was in the news again, and not in a good way.

Working for the enemy

Links to the podcast! And seeking change from the inside vs. walking away.

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"THE FUCKING PEDOPHILE-IN-CHIEF IS NOT GOING TO PROTECT YOU" This is the most patriotic, neighborly, First Amendment American ass shit. I'm so proud.

🧵 Who's profiting from the imprisonment of children at the Dilley ICE Camp? #1 is of course CoreCivic, which expects to generate $180M in revenue annually running the facility. 1/4

Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · last wk.

112 children are imprisoned at Dilley. The youngest child imprisoned at Dilley is 2 months old. None have committed any crime. Private investors make money for each new child taken into Dilley. We need to #ShutDownDilley and end family detention.

After 31 years of lifting, I finally have a gym nemesis. Lately I'm finding myself there with a guy who supersets by claiming two machines at once while somehow still resting before and after each set of the theoretical supersets and not wanting anyone to work in on either machine.

The Cockroaches of India. The Flamingo Revolution in Albania. In this week's Next Comes What, Andrea explains how small protests can transform into big movements, creating possibilities for massive change.

Despots, Cockroaches, and Flamingos

Listen to Despots, Cockroaches, and Flamingos from Next Comes What wherever you get your podcasts!

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If you have money to spare, this is the link @detentionwatchnetwork.org shared just now to help cover funeral costs. 💔

Donate to Help cover Funeral Costs for Prisciliano, organized by Joanny Santiago-Hernandez

***Update: Prisciliano fought hard to battle everything going on wi… Joanny Santiago-Hernandez needs your support for Help cover Funeral Costs for Prisciliano

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++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

You can tell how badly conservative brains were broken by COVID with all the dissonance around the virus: “It was a deadly Chinese bioweapon that wasn’t actually dangerous. The real killer was the vaccine which murdered millions and we can thank Donald Trump for developing it so quickly”

It was, in accelerated fashion, a parallel to how living through climate change is making Republicans far worse on emissions & pollution.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.