Democracy and trains

A little Morse codesque with pauses, didn’t catch a repeating pattern. To be fair, I didn’t stick around that long either.

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

The woman who told FBI agents that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was as young as 13 recalled that she and her mother received death threats afterward, with callers saying “we know where you’re at, you need to keep your mouth shut."
Here's a Miami Herald gift link.

Sigh. Yeah.

Heya, #nolasky can anyone think of a good reason or even just a reasonable reason for there to be repetitive electronic beeping coming from within a storm drain?

He’s pivoted out to stay in my peripheral vision and is loudly giving financial advice with very large numbers. It’s giving 1989 NYC vibes, there’s slicked back hair and a pastel shirt and a bottomless chasm of need.

But also there’s rocks within reach and I just want to get through these emails!

I know everyone is watching what’s happening in Iran, but Ice arrested another set of journalists for reporting on their black bagging of American citizens in Nashville last night.

I should be allowed to throw things at people who do the ‘I’m going to sit proximate to you and do lots of attention seeking behavior in public rather than just say hello like a normal human’ thing.

Dear Kurdish opposition, please don’t trust the demonstrably least trustworthy person on the planet, thank you.

Appellate court limits options for immigrants to seek release from detention The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals eliminates the pathway to release from detention that freed a Salvadoran man in Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, La. in October 2025.

Appellate court limits options for immigrants to seek release from detention

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals eliminates the pathway to release from detention that freed a Salvadoran man in Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, La. in October 2025.

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

It's just absolutely gobsmacking. Can you imagine any other president talking about this subject so casually? And if he actually means this—if this isn't just typical lack of control over his mouth, further addled by dementia—how GROSSLY irresponsible that his administration is not preparing people.

US House narrowly rejects resolution to end Trump's Iran war The US House votes 219-212 against a resolution requiring Congress's approval for further military action on Iran.

The US House votes 219-212 against a resolution requiring Congress's approval for further military action on Iran.

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Adds popcorn to grocery list

Huge hugs back at you!!!

This is perfect @juliocapojr.bsky.social ❤️

We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.

Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Google is pushing Gemini heavily in schools, btw

Define “real people” though

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

Whitewashing Selma: The Trump Administration's Assault on Civil Rights Memory When Preserving the Past Becomes a Threat to Power

Of all the NPS sites that tagged interpretive materials as potentially problematic, the one that hits hardest is Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Oh hell yes

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

A tweet from Eleanor Klibanoff saying, "The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily BLOCKED a Dallas judge’s order to keep the polls open til 9, ordering the county to separate out votes from people who were not in line at 7pm. Not a final ruling, but will create chaos in getting results from Dallas County"

Wow. If any races in Dallas County are super tight, this will be a huge legal fight as thousands of votes hang in purgatory.

Trump's Wish to Nationalize Elections Is a ‘Terrible Idea,’ Mississippi Elections Chief Says President Donald Trump’s suggestion to nationalize elections is a “terrible idea,” Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson said.

Trump's call for Republicans to nationalize elections is "a terrible idea," says Mississippi's Republican Secretary of State, Michael Watson.

“The Constitution is pretty clear on the delineation of the powers there,” he said.

Truly doesn’t seem like it

“.. A handout picture released by the Iranian foreign media department of graves getting dug for the victims of a strike on an elementary school.”

@reuters.com

Footage showed babies being evacuated from a hospital in Bushehr, Iran after the facility was damaged amid US-Israeli strikes. Staff and Iranian Red Crescent workers could be seen wheeling the infants needing specialised care from the neonatal unit to waiting ambulances.