USF professor detained by ICE, sparks outrage and calls for releaseLawani, 39, a native of Nigeria who has lived and worked in the United States for 21 years on a valid work permit, was taken from her Lodi home in shackles by ICE
🚨 ICE Officer Involved in Maine Shooting Expressed Anti-Immigrant HatredThe agent talked of foreign bloodlines, denounced noncitizens and more, according to emails obtained by The Times. His fatal shooting of a Colombian-born motorist in July remains under investigation.
“He is dangerous and should not have weapons,” Mr. Brouillette’s mother, Susan Bedard, said of her son in a text message to The Times. “Believe his victims, not him.”www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/u…
Only a couple hundred votes separated the candidates in North Carolina’s state Senate race, which will determine whether Democrats gain full control of state government.Sen. Danny Britt (R) led by 0.4 percentage points, within the margin for a recount.
Maggie Ellis, the incoming Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and first queer statewide officeholder, wants to eliminate an accommodation that allows judges to refuse to perform gay weddings.
We still haven’t seen any new photos or videos of Davis in many years. The Liberty Counsel ditched her as a client after losing before the Supreme Court in November 2025.
A British colonial-era gay sex ban is overturned in Trinidad and Tobago. The ruling could usher in similar challenges from other former colonies. https://cnn.it/4k3sSan
CFLC celebrates West Hollywood’s new polyamory and non-nuclear families ordinance! It’s now possible to register as domestic partners with several people, in or out of a romantic relationship.We’re proud to be part of the team that drafted this landmark legislation!www.latimes.com/california/s…
Looks like Karma to me 🤔"Mississippi Free Press news editor Ashton Pittman noted Wednesday that Colom would “likely be a federal judge right now—not [Hyde-Smith’s] opponent—if not for the fact that she blocked [President Joe] Biden’s nomination of him over his support for trans rights.”
NEW: A Republican member of the election board in Forsyth County, Georgia, challenged dozens of midterm ballots, claiming four were cast by dead people.ProPublica found all four are alive.
NEW from me + @paulblumenthal.bsky.social: Dems' wins in state legislatures are still piling up, and just wow:549 seats flipped.12 chambers flipped.13 GOP supermajorities busted.22 Democratic trifectas. A "shattering of Republicans’ control of the states." http://www.huffpost.com/entry/democr…
McGovern: "They do not listen. Speaker Johnson said yesterday that 'the voters made the wrong choice.' Are you kidding me? … you just ain't listening."
Freedom Caucus lays out legislative priorities for lame-duck sessionThe conservative group is also pushing GOP leaders to not leave Capitol Hill until the list of demands is met. http://www.politico.com/live-updates…
Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar emerged victorious against a Republican challenger, showing how President Trump may have miscalculated in pushing a state redistricting effort and granting Cuellar a presidential pardon. on.wsj.com/4iXdCe0
NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-2077 Democrats voted YES on the bill: – Jared Golden- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez- Henry Cuellar- Tom Suozzi- Laura Gillen- Don Davis- Vicente GonzalezOne Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
Cuellar and his wife, charged with bribery, money laundering and conspiracy, were pardoned in December. In a social media post, Trump indicated he expected Cuellar to run as a Republican.
‘Loyalty does matter’: Trump backs Tijerina again, attacks Cuellar for not switching parties Source: Laredo Morning Times share.newsbreak.com/jtv0x27k?s=i16
ICE's misfits; Trump's mass deportation push has led to bottom-of-the-barrel types being given a badge and a gun by ICE, including:- a Detroit cop who shot a teenager in the back and killed him- an NYPD detective who stole $3,000 in champagne- an Arkansas cop fired for anger management issues
Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."
BYRON DONALDS: I didn't really hear any Republicans try to blame gas prices on BidenWELKER: We had a number of Republicans on this show who pointed the finger at Biden
Jake Lang thought he was outing a furry convention, turns out it was actual cats.I hope he donated to the event for shelter cats. pic.twitter.com/OHcRywbZ7R
Trump posts as president of the United States but he's allowed to sell early access to his posts for more convenient insider trading. Just obscene vile corruption:
🤯 even Hassett can't spin hotter than expected inflation data: "It's a disappointing report … things have accelerated over the last three months … the trickle down from higher energy prices is definitely very palpable in the data"
They are a all literally insane. Now Ronny wants to be President. After the biggest political shift in 60 years, what are the odds he could win the Presidency? Something with a zero in it?www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
Four GOP House lawmakers in North Carolina have lost reelection.Reps. Addison McDowell, Brad Knott, Richard Hudson and Tim Moore were all ousted after winning by more than 15 percentage points in 2024.
Iowa Governor-Elect Rob Sand worked as a high-fashion runway model in the early 2000s to help pay for college, walking for Prada during his time as an undergraduate at Brown University.
BREAKING: Yes, Election Day was 2 days ago but Judge Jamal Whitehead (Biden/WAWD) just blocked DOJ from demanding election officials in WA state reject ballots from voters on lists of suspected noncitizens & from threatening those officials w/prosecutionwww.politico.com/news/2026/11…
NEW: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has tens of millions of dollars invested in the AI industry. Meanwhile, he is leading the Trump administration’s charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.
But reading a book with a gay character in it is somehow harmful and OK to restrict. Show kids people dressed up as another gender is Ok to ban but not adictive features in social media. Get real people. Look at what some states call harmful to warrant banning it but big tech companies think they should be exempt from these same rules / laws. Hugs
We did the crime but now that the crime is done you can’t punish us for doing it; it is not the way the law is supposed to work. But it seems to be the tRump and crew operating mode. Same with the ballroom, the tree cutting on the golf course, and the many deportations they were ordered not to do. I hope the judge fines them or some kind of sanction. Hugs
The Trump administration says a lawsuit over its taxpayer-funded advertising campaign should be considered moot now that the midterm elections are over, arguing that a judge can no longer remedy any harm the ads might have caused.
"[The judge] mocked the administration’s central claim that Congress authorized Trump’s arch a century ago, when lawmakers approved a somewhat similar project that was never built." http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
But the action does not prevent future presidents from restyling the iconic office that Trump has filled to the brim with gold flourishes, nor does it prevent a successor from rolling back the proclamation itself. Trump himself has reversed national monument designations made by his predecessors.
Trump: We have something that’s of great interest to a lot of people: the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room.
And I’m going to be signing a document which will make them into a landmark for the ages. It won’t be able to be taken down, destroyed, touched, or anything else.
Trump announces he's making the Oval Office a national monument so that there can be no major modifications done without the approval of Congress: pic.twitter.com/3VvVAtj3uW
Calley Means is best known here for spearheading a push for hospitals to ban serving Jell-O to patients. He even wanted a Jell-O snitch line. His nutbag sister, Casey Means, almost became Surgeon General.
(RNS) — 'I think it was pretty much an economic election, inflation election, a dissatisfaction with Trump election,' said political scientist Ryan Burge.
Harrison last appeared here in September 2026 when he forced the University of Texas to delete a web link to its LGBTQ history archive as a violation of new state anti-diversity laws.
In 2025, he got a professor fired after Christian student complained that she had mentioned LGBTQ rights during class.
In June 2026, Harrison unleashed a furious tweetstorm after the Texas city of Arlington posted about Pride Month.
Harrison appeared here in March 2025 when he went “undercover” at a University of Texas LGBTQ arts exhibit and posted dozens of outraged photos on his X account.
He first appeared here in 2022 when he introduced a bill making it legal to use the HOV lane while pregnant because “unborn babies” constitute the required additional person.
Harrison coordinated the HHS response to COVID during the first Trump administration. After being elected to the Texas legislature, he advocated against mask and vaccine mandates.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) confirmed that he’s running for minority leader.Thune, 65, has served as majority leader for nearly two years since winning a competitive race to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell (Kentucky).
Far from Washington, Democrats forge huge state-level gains“We do have a big list, and we are going to be ambitious,” said one lawmaker in Wisconsin, where the party now controls the government.
BREAKING: Democrats seized control of the Texas House in Tuesday’s midterms for the first time in more than two decades, capping a night in which voters ousted Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and left Republicans reeling in a state that has long anchored national GOP politics.
Moss appeared here in March 2023 when the Michigan Senate approved his bill providing statewide LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed his bill into law several days later.
#BREAKING: Democrat Jeremy Moss wins to become Michigan's first gay congressman
Breaking News: Sam Forstag, a former union leader and smoke jumper, won western Montana’s House race, flipping the seat and becoming the first Democrat elected to the House in the state in more than 30 years. nyti.ms/4AeMJbo
‘It Is Never Enough’: Susan Collins Couldn’t Outrun Trump http://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u…Sorry, Susan. You only voted against Trump when your vote wasn’t decisive. Brett Kavanaugh belies your claim.
"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf."House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
Mayor Mamdani challenges MSG owner over facial recognition, pushing for a ban on biometric surveillance. #Privacy #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #BiometricData #NYC #SecurityNews thedailytechfeed.com/nyc-mayor-sl…
According to researchers, the hacking only worked if phone owners were using outdated versions of iOS or Android.
The attackers exploited previously patched iOS and Android flaws in an attempt to hack visitors of multiple websites, including one celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence: arstechnica.visitlink.me/70HOOP
NYT: "Senator Marsha Blackburn, the governor-elect of Tennessee, declined to say on Wednesday whom she will name to fill her vacant seat in the Senate, calling it a conversation for another day. … One possibility is Pete Hegseth, the current Pentagon chief who is a Tennessee resident."
“The New York Civil Liberties Union brought the lawsuit in 2024 on behalf of the Long Island Roller Rebels, a women’s roller derby league that welcomes transgender women.”
NY appeals court strikes down Nassau County's ban on transgender athletes gothamist.com/news/ny-appe…
Courts have repeatedly ruled that aiming a middle finger at authorities is constitutionally protected free speech, but the right to bear finger guns is legally murkier.
A former Mossad agent who became a naturalized US citizen assisted Bolsonaro in escaping Brazil in violation of a judicial order barring him from leaving the country.www.jpost.com/internationa…
Iran has done more damage to US military bases in the Middle East than commonly understood. A @wsj.com examination finds 274 structures at 24 installations in seven countries were damaged during the first six months of the war. http://www.wsj.com/world/middle…
Cellphone video captured an ICE agent pointing a gun at a bystander walking two dogs during an immigration enforcement operation in North Hollywood on Friday.
The footage shows masked officers detaining another man before two agents rush toward the dog walker after he appears to… pic.twitter.com/HbHAxlNyjV
BREAKING — DC *and* Virginia are suing to block President Trump's planned triumphal archThey say 250-ft-tall arch is illegal and would cause harms to region, like affecting traffic, violating DC's Height Act and other disruptions.More at @washingtonpost.com
Election officials in at least one Florida county are urging in-person voting amid reports of mail-in ballot delays.Broward County Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott said delays are affecting both ballots sent to voters and returned to his office.
When those, who previously took an Oath, organize a seditious conspiracy of fraud electors and draw an armed insurrection against the Constitution and Congress and are rewarded by being placed back into the very Office the crimes were committed from, THEY will become emboldened.
We are actively working to protect our democracy from Donald Trump. That is the moment we are in. Vote accordingly for the sake of our 250 year old experiment. The times have found us. http://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u…
Astonishing. The hands, the expressions, the tone, the projection… He should get a Daytime Emmy for his impersonation—if you can get those in prison. https://t.co/dgC8S0syANpic.twitter.com/4UscIed73c
— Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@jimstewartson) October 30, 2026
Schatzline, a Baptist pastor and Liberty University graduate, last appeared here when he led a training session at a Christian nationalist Texas megachurch about how there’s no such thing as the separation of church and state.
He appeared here last year when he gave an award to a private Texas Christian school for its “least-vaccinated status” among all Texas schools.
Also last year, he authored a bill that would allow private citizens to sue bookstores for selling “obscene books.”
He appeared here in March 2023 when he sponsored an anti-drag bill. Critics then quickly resurfaced a video showing him in drag while in college. Schatzline’s X and Instagram posts feature many notorious far-right figures.
State Rep. Nate Schatzline resigned from the Texas House Thursday to take a new position as Gov. Greg Abbott’s senior adviser on election policy. bit.ly/4y2Zg18
MAGA cultist Nate Schatzline says that everyone should trust Trump's handling of the Iran war because "he's being led by the presence of the Lord": "I know that man is inviting wise counsel and godly counsel into the room and I believe that we are headed into the golden age of… pic.twitter.com/48bgHmqdqz
New: a federal judge Friday was openly skeptical of Trump admin arguments for the arch and suggested she could pause the project.“The arch is somehow going to deter assassination attempts on the president?” Judge Chutkan said — one of several times she appeared incredulous.
🚨 BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed questions about the Trump administration paying $496 MILLION for a shuttered Minnesota prison that private contractor CoreCivic had previously offered the state for just $75 MILLION, a staggering $420 million difference.… pic.twitter.com/afncjf0gKB
Q: If the administration has declared on waste and fraud, could you explain the $420 million overpayment for a prison in Appleton, MN, when they company offered it to the state for $75m?
Thousands march through Taipei for transgender equalityOrganizers said around 3,800 people took part in Taiwan's eighth transgender pride march in Taipei on Friday, one day before the island's larger gay pride parade.
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is a sponsor of Taiwan Pride 2026. I guess the Trump administration will have to cancel all contracts with #TSMC for being woke & DEI! #trump #woke #lgbtq+
🌈 An estimated 150,000 participants marched in Taipei for the annual Taiwan LGBT+ Pride parade on SaturdayVice President Hsiao Bi-khim was one of the participants. She is a long term supporter of LGBT rights. In 2006 she first introduced a same-sex bill to the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Taipei Mayor Wayne Chiang made a short appearance at Taiwan Pride🌈, where he left 10 minutes later after being confronted by voters chanting his challenger Puma Shen's slogan.150,000+ people marched today, partly spurred by the discriminatory crackdown on queer-friendly venues under Wayne's watch.
Guess Trump's DOJ (Donald's Orwellian Justice) legal team had a new Comey hissy fit retaliation indictment all ready to go, or blanched one together real quick, as Comey's daughter won her case.DOJ charges ex-FBI Director James Comey in new case
As many of you surely know, prominent cultists and elected Republican routinely and falsely claim that mass shooters are transgender, often before the identity of the suspect is even known.
Widely-shared MAGA memes falsely list many mass shooters and domestic terrorists as transgender.
Among the most notorious for doing this is Libs Of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik.
Marc Rosenblum, whose blistering resignation letter from a decade-long career at DHS garnered national attention, says the government is overstating how many unauthorized immigrants have left the country during President Donald Trump’s second term.
Breaking news: A federal judge barred the Trump administration from cutting, damaging or impairing any more trees at East Potomac Park without first obtaining a court order, challenging President Trump’s plan to remake the public golf course.
“If Republican state officials refuse to certify a Peltola victory, then Senate Republicans argue the Senate rules would not allow the upper chamber to seat her when the Senate convenes for the new Congress on Jan. 3” thehill.com/homenews/sta…
“President Donald Trump and his allies have spent the final weeks before the midterms showering his supporters with a relentless stream of doubt about the legitimacy of the election, priming them to question results if Republicans lose.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
Right-wing activist Seth Gruber says that God destroyed the world with a flood because everyone was "having gay sex orgies": "It was the LGBTQ movement that caused God to murder everyone."
"Support Builds on the Right for Prosecuting Women Who Get Abortions. ‘What is the accountability for these women?’” Of course this where the GOP is heading. The GOP is about religious fascism. Oppressing women is a big part of that. Gift link below http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/u…
BREAKING:Israeli election officials say they will not be extending voting hours tonight. The Likud party had requested an extension.It's currently 8:45 PM in Israel and polls close at 10 PM.
Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.
I am sorry. I worked all day on and off between needing to lay down or doing other things to try to manage my pain. I took extra medications which my doctors allow me to do when needed because if I don’t need them I don’t take them. With the cut back on medications those days are few and more rare. I got up at 4 am and started working on this post. However as I mentioned I can’t simply sit at the computer and copy and post stuff. My back won’t let me and the pain gets too intense even with medications so I have to go lay down on the bed.
That is so frustrating.
Then I get up and start again, but when I am posting from a site like Joe. My. God. He keeps posting far more than I can keep up. Ron was out with Diane his sister all afternoon, and when he got home he was very tired so needed to nap. So I tried to keep working. When he got up near 5 pm I was already in agony and had to take my evening medications for pain an hour early. Well 2 hours early as I am trying to switch them to 6-12-6 instead of earlier.
Ron realized that issue as soon as he got home but he was so tired I told him to go to bed, take a nap. But when he got up my stomach had totally shut down. He wanted to cook supper and I agreed as I could eat it for breakfast. He was upset and begged me to take a supplement drink which I did. I love him and I know he is worried about how weak and how I have very little interest in anything but the news and posting it I am. His sister has repeatedly tried to have him make me join both of them on their days out even if to just go out to eat. I just don’t want to. I care about her, I adore my husband and if she gives him an outlet I am OK with that. But I don’t have the energy to do so or join them.
Anyway please enjoy my day’s work. Loves and hugs to all. Hugs, Scottie
Trump:Somalia—98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes-Benz. Low IQ, and they live better than you do.
Trump:I can see the fake headlines: "Trump is talking about all the money they're making while people are suffering." That will be the headline.I don't give a damn. We're making a fortune.
New Jersey GOP Mayor Matthew Bianchini faces criminal charges after going after a citizen and resident. MAGA is melting down because they thought Americans would be okay with what's going on.
Republican Mayor Matthew Bianchini of Pemberton Township Council, New Jersey. At the end Bianchini lunged at and threatened at resident Michael Sawka and saying "I'll get you. I'll fucking get you!" He tried to come for him a 2nd time too! WTF!?! How does that mayor still have a job?
House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein.The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.
At least four Trump merchandise stores have closed this year. Store owners say with Trump in his final term, there isn't as much to fire up his consumer fan base and sales have softened. n.pr/4Bm45o5
This is a remarkable portrait, and puts the general failure among our richest and most powerful people to risk anything at all in sharp relief.www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u…
JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story.www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u…
A federal labor agency flagged so many problems in a recent arbitration filing that it suggested the Department of Health and Human Services used artificial intelligence to draft its brief.
Parnell had to drop out of GOP senate primary because he beat his ex-wife and children, losing custody of his kids. He is not a good person, so of course Hegseth wants him to be the next Army Secretary.
Top Democrats poised for powerful roles next year are demanding that major banks and ports preserve any records they have tied to potential imports or other deals involving Russian diesel.Exclusive: Democrats lay groundwork to probe Trump's diesel dealwww.axios.com/2026/10/26/d…
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today.Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
The Plain Dealer editorial board endorses Democrat Amy Acton for Ohio governor, citing her preparedness and community engagement, while condemning opponent Vivek Ramaswamy's weaponizing of Acton's childhood sexual abuse for political points.