Here’s my unedited letter: To the Editor, As a parent of two young children at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School, I am outraged by the 9/17 deployment of large numbers of heavily-armed, out-of-state National Guard and FBI agents during school drop-off hours. 14/

My maiden name is Townshend. Quite Irish. My branch came over in the late 1700s, early 1800. Wonder how they were treated, as disgraced nobility.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 3h ago

Trump calls Somali Americans "garbage" and said today about Ilhan Omar: “She comes from a country that is a non-country." If he'd been alive in 1915, he would've said that about Italians. If it was 1850, he would've said it about the Irish. He traffics in ethnic hate. We have to stop him.

Yeah, people tend to want deals that benefit them. Not rocket science. Zelenskyy isn't the enemy for rejecting a shit sandwich.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

Q: How are going to make Putin abide by the ceasefire? TRUMP: I think what's happening is he wants to make a deal and we have to get Zelenskyy to want to make a deal. I think Putin wants to make a deal more than Zelenskyy.

Retribution justice system + priceless destruction = lame duck courts.

MJ@bstnboy.bsky.social · 10h ago

"Judge slams brakes on Trump golf course tree-cutting and demands to know who gave order" The plan filed with the Court was under 150 trees were coming down, they dropped 529!! l.smartnews.com/p-8FCGSk0g/q...

Laughing hysterically at this.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterday

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Trump: alright, fine. This lovely billionaire patriot will pay for them..

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · yesterday

ALERT: Federal judge in New York issues order temporarily halting further taxpayer-funded Trump TV ads

Ori Goldberg, Israeli human rights activist and a prominent voice for Palestinian rights, lost his life to colon cancer today, at the age of 50 💔 Goldberg was a man who always said the truth, without filters A terrible loss, he will be missed may you rest in peace Z"L יהי זכרו ברוך 😢

The Houthis claim responsibility for four attacks on Saudi Arabia in the past 24 hours. These include the deadly attack on King Khalid International Airport yesterday, attacks on Aramco’s Shedgum gas facility & Tanajib oil refinery, and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam.-i24

So, today alone: 12 killed and more than 300 wounded by the Houthis; Iran warned ships away from the UAE; a ship was hit by a projectile off the UAE coast; and multiple drones and missiles targeted airports in Saudi Arabia. Sure we will get a Truth Social later about how they are dying to negotiate.

This is truly horrifying and somewhat predictable. That said, I am a little concerned at how much this is doing the Supreme Court’s work for them by saying they “effectively ratified” this. At most, it was a likelihood standard. And the appeals courts shouldn’t be suggesting more than that.

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 2d ago

5th Cir. issues a rare Saturday order. Holds that the Supreme Court's stay in D.V.D. forecloses a stay of removal for a Senegalese man with witholding of removal to Senegal who DHS intends to immediately deport to Sierra Leone. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

NEWS: Trump personally approved public execution. Catholic and Evangelical leaders denounce him. One Republican calls him a jihadist. Trump cuts deal with Putin for oil, labeled a 'traitor.' Trump sanctions International Criminal Court hours after Nobel Prize snub. And that's just the beginning.

NEWS: Mass Outrage as Trump Cuts Deal With Putin, Personally Approves Public Execution, and Sanctions ICC After Nobel Prize Snub

Hey everyone, what a week.

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Only a criminal imposes sanctions on a criminal court.

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."

ICE disappeared him. Fucking nazis.

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 3d ago

The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...

‘raises questions’

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles’ daughter posts a pic at a training camp with a pro-Russian militia in Bosnia that specializes in destabilization… totally normal stuff! “The photo raises Q’s about White House links to the pro-Russian politician”🤔 www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...

The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4d ago

"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize

🚨NYPD clash with ICE protesters outside a hospital where a man is receiving care after being SHOT by an ICE agent, all while the man's child was in his car's back seat. LIVE NOW ⬇️

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Is Not Enough

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 4d ago

Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film.

Oh good. Real-life Thought Police. Exactly what I always wanted. #MakeOrwellFictionAgain

hahahahaha. OMG, if someone did this to me, I would pretend to have a health emergency and leave the stage.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."

Protesters raise a huge Palestinian flag and red flares on the rooftop of a building in Athens, Greece, opposite the Israeli Embassy. 👏🇵🇸👏🇵🇸👏🇵🇸👏🇵🇸👏🇬🇷

Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.

An ICE officer shot and wounded a man today around 4:00 in Manhattan. Exact details are still coming in. I'm not seeing any further information other than that the man is at a hospital now.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another ICE shooting, in NYC abc7ny.com/post/person-...

Jesus Christ, I didn't think we'd actually get to the "public executions" stage of Trump's project to roll back the last 100 years of societal development.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.

Two roads for two different people Apartheid.

JUST IN: Judge Kelly appears inclined to grant longer-term block on President Trump's ban of POLITICO, CNN and MSNOW from the White House. He seems most bothered by the lack of due process preceding the ban but is also weighing First Amendment concerns. Details TK

An organizer in the state said that one of the lead organizers of the hunger strike, a Russian asylum seeker named Idris Makhmudov, has reportedly been placed in solitary confinement. Remember, ICE also retaliated against a Delaney Hall hunger strike organizer👇🏽 #AbuseofPowerWatch

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Many of us have been separated from our families,” reads the letter, which was signed by 45 detained immigrants, as dozens joined in to stage the hunger strike. “We have missed births, funerals, years of our lives while sitting behind fences without having committed any crime.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

How is it that Senators stay in office so damn long and are so hard to vote out?? Because their corporate and foreign sponsors make sure they become wealthy through various legal but immoral opportunities and entrenched in the Senate via unlimited campaign contributions to forever do their bidding.

I really can't wait for live community notes during interviews. Just a ticker bar across the bottom "Community notes would like you to to know that this is all bullcrap."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

taking some pics of notebook doodles today. here is ol Chibb from the Redwall series #skyework #birds