And now the news, 9/12

White House Press Secretary says Trump wants to invade “every Democrat-run city”

It’s war on anyone who’s not a fascist, but the media insists it’s a “crime crackdown.”

Me, looking grumpy, reading the news

AND NOW THE NEWS

#547
SEPT. 12, 2025

a recurring roundup
of news, memes,

and my brilliant opinions

Supreme Court yields to Trump again — OKs roving patrols based on racial profiling, language, job, or location

This is damned-near-literally an approval of Gestapo tactics.

Supreme Court “temporarily” allows Trump’s illegal evisceration of foreign aid

Supreme Court allows Trump to illegally fire FTC member

BUT THAT’S UNCONSTIPATIONAL

Texas attorney general wants students to pray in school – unless they’re Muslim

ICE and DHS kidnapped women outside the DTLA Federal Detention Center protest for filming

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DYSTOPIA

North Carolina now requires teachers to publicly list all the books in their classrooms

And the list isn’t even intended for parents to scrutinize and criticize — the lists are public, so anyone anywhere can file a complaint and second-guess public education.

DHS claims videotaping ICE raids is ‘violence’

School children hassled at DC’s Union Station by multiple law enforcement agencies while the National Guard watches

Where are you taking him?

Feds kidnap Boston man on his way to church on Mother’s Day

GIVE US YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, SO WE CAN IMPRISON THEM

Surprise rule change upends a decades-long understanding of federal law and could subject millions of immigrants to mandatory detention

Federal agents are enjoying their newly-restored powers to racially profile

Alarming levels of dehumanization by ICE and Border Patrol

A US citizen detained by ICE for three days tells his story

Irish woman with green card faces US deportation over $25 bad check from 2015, long since paid

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo

Under Trump administration, ICE scraps paperwork officers once had to do before immigration arrests

Excerpt: For more than 15 years, before they conducted any operation to arrest an immigrant in the United States, officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division have been required to fill out a form with details about their target — name, appearance, known addresses and employment, immigration history, any criminal history and more — and give it to a supervisor for approval.

This year, in a sign of how the agency has moved from targeted enforcement to broad street sweeps under the Trump administration, that policy has been ended, six current and former officials and agents of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News.

“It’s hard to fill out a worksheet that just says, ‘Meet in the Home Depot parking lot,’” one of the former ICE officials said.

LIMITLESS COLLUSION and COMPLICITY

President of Northwestern, under attack by Republicans, resigns

Texas A&M University removes dean after viral video depicting trans-inclusive education

Is there no-one in academia with what used to be called balls?

DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret

Amazon, IBM, and Dell helped build China’s surveillance state brick by brick, investigation finds

Paramount picks former head of right-leaning think tank as “ombudsman” for CBS News

Republican false electors from 2020 will not face trial

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world

LIMITLESS STUPIDITY and BULLSHIT

DHS lies that raided crews were not firefighters

Republican Congresswoman calls for Charlie Kirk statue in US Capitol

Republican Senator says radioactive shrimp will turn you into the alien from Alien

WHAT WILL BE RUINED NEXT?

As COVID surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: ‘terrified I might kill somebody’

Trump regime quietly seeks to build national voter roll

Trump moves to scrap Biden rule that protected public lands

AND I SAY TO MYSELF, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

Parliament burns in Nepal as protests force prime minister to quit

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites

Brazil’s Bolsonaro found guilty in 2022 coup attempt

THE CRUELTY IS WHAT THEY LIKE BEST

Trump admin returns Russian dissident asylum seekers to Putin

This is killing people, period.

Trump’s new law will limit payments to hospitals that treat low-income patients

This is killing people, period.

$10 million in contraceptives have been destroyed on orders from Trump officials

Citing concerns about ‘DEI’, Trump regime halts program that aids deaf and blind students

Police dismantle longstanding White House peace vigil on Trump’s orders

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE

Review revealing ‘shame’ among troops deployed to cities accidentally sent to Washington Post

“Rise up, America. It is time to take back this country.”

Court staff cover up Banksy image of judge beating a protester

Protesters shout “Free DC, free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time” as Trump eats dinner

DC resident blasts Star Wars ‘Imperial March’ at National Guard

Trump ally Charlie Kirk shot dead at campus event in Utah

My first reaction to the news was laughter and applause, and my second reaction was certainly not to regret my first.

Here’s Charlie Kirk, on the subject of his own murder:

I think it’s worth [it] to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

Trump blames the ‘radical left’ for Charlie Kirk’s killing, before a suspect or motive is even known

KNOW YOUR REPUBLICANS

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible

Video shows Republican Congresscritter lied about shoving protester [click ‘option 5’]

1/6/21 rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ hoodie is arrested on animal attack charges

Trump human trafficking advisor is former baseball exec who said game ‘controlled by Satan’

Vice President JD Vance doesn’t ‘give a shit’ that Venezuela boat strike was a war crime

I don’t think you can have ‘war crimes’ without a war, so the attack on the boat was merely eleven murders by the government of the United States.

Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay people, conspiracy theories, and crude insults aimed at critics of Trump

Drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Trump is found guilty of violating terms of his release

Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor

OUR FRIENDS, THE DEMOCRATS

Mamdani holds huge lead in New York mayor’s race, but top Dems still won’t back him

Ezra Klein has always been boring, but after this he’s dead to me

THINGS THAT BARELY MATTER IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS

Oliver North marries Fawn Hall, his document-shredding secretary at the center of Iran-Contra scandal

Black hole collision shows Einstein and Hawking were right

AMERICAN POLICE ARE OUT OF CONTROL

ANYTHING GOES

DEAD PEOPLE

EYE ON AI

IGNORING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS

MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN

And that’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives

9/12/2025

Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, Lorem Ipsum Dolor, Mitchipedia, Sloth Unleashed, Toad’s Lily Pad, Voenix Rising, We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.

Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.

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2 responses to “And now the news, 9/12”

  1. no name Avatar
    no name

    I have it on real good authority that Charlie Kirk is a paid crisis actor and this was all a false flag.

    1. Doug Holland Avatar

      Shirley you can’t be serious, but seriously, nothing is beneath such bastards. They’d do it if they thought they could get away with it.

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