I’m so old, I remember when publishing and transporting anarchist zines wasn’t a crime.

The experts and my own eyeballs agree that Calibri is slightly easier to read than Times New Roman — an improvement in legibility that means a lot to people with poor eyesight. Republicans don’t give a shit about people with vision issues, probably think the blind should pull themselves up by their eyebrows, so Times New Roman it is.

When I was a kid, schools did diddlysquat to protect kids from bullies, and when one kid beat up another, usually both kids got the same punishment — no distinction between aggressor and defender. Looks like there’s still no interest in protecting kids.

Excerpt: Behind that policy was a quieter goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in the US judicial system, where court cases could force the administration to show evidence justifying President Trump’s military campaign in the region.

Excerpt: It is not clear how many Somali community members have been arrested, temporarily detained or asked to show documents as part of the crackdown , which has also netted people of other nationalities. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said via email that they made no arrests in the neighborhood Tuesday, but provided no further details.

Osman said armed ICE agents went to East African restaurants in the neighborhood Tuesday, closed the doors and demanded people’s IDs. They found only U.S. citizens and made no arrests, Osman said.

… After checking the IDs of some people stopped at random on the street and temporarily detaining at least one U.S. citizen, Osman said, the agents went in seven to 10 vehicles to a nearby city-owned senior housing complex. There, he said, a group of mostly white young people he called “heroes” blew whistles to sound the alarm and confronted the agents, who responded with pepper spray.

Excerpt: CBP told 404 Media it does not have an arrangement with Meta, indicating this official was wearing personally-sourced glasses.

Me again: If a federal agency under Trump makes a definitive statement like this, it’s likely the opposite is true.

Excerpt: From Massachusetts to California, people seeking citizenship and their lawyers say, federal immigration officials are canceling naturalization interviews and oath ceremonies for immigrants from Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Haiti, Somalia and other countries restricted by Mr. Trump in June. Those almost-new citizens have been left in uncertainty about their futures in the United States, with some making sure they carry their documents in case they are questioned by immigration authorities as they go about their daily lives.

More of this, please.

But more likely, we’ll see more of this.

This is OK coverage, late and mild but needed, but the distinction between US citizens and non-citizens is moot to me. Nobody should give a third of a turd where a 15-year-old kid terrorized by ICE agents was born. It’s wrong, whether the victim is ‘legal’ or not.

I gave you the quid, where’s my pro quo?

Excerpt: The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable. Under a header titled “total realizable base tuition less budget 2024,” every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run.

It won’t work, of course. Prohibition never does, and any smart 12-year-old can get past an internet blockade.

Tourism to America is only down 30% under Trump, but surely with this strategy we can get it down a lot further.

MTG has been despised by Democrats for years, but death threats are new to her, now that she’s despised by Republicans. This says something about a difference between Dems and Repuglicans.

We don’t know what the jury heard, but if it’s even a rough approximation of what’s described in the article, then anything less than conviction is Trump-level insane.