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Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.

I hate that we have one fewer Catherine O'Haras than the bare minimum we need. I hate that we have multiple supernumerary narcissistic sociopathic ignoramuses with power. I hate that those are both true simultaneously.

a group of people dancing on a stage with a cloud in the background Alt: The cast of Red, White, and Blaine finish the song "Nothing Ever Happens on Mars."

I'm so sad, so in order to cope, I'm narrating this as Ron and Sheila's heavenly reunion.

I'm impressed this song lets you relax. I'm mere months from being an empty nester; one kiddo is out in the world and one is a high school senior. While I love this song, I need several boxes of Kleenex in order to listen to it.

Do you think, at the state and local level, a meaningful number of Democrats are dissuaded from running for office for the first time because it would put them under the scrutiny of the louder and more puritanical elements of the left? Or is that not really a factor?

Well, I'm overcome with delight. Until now, my "Things Tom Nichols Has Said On Twitter And/Or Bluesky" mental folder had been entirely separated from the "Murdoch Mysteries" mental folder, with nary a cross-reference to connect them. Turns out you're basically a more well-adjusted Brackenreid.

A bowl of candy and a bowl of russet potatoes.

I've had three kids opt for the potato!! 😍😍😍

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Happy Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle!

I'll try to remember to wish you a happy Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle in Oct. 6. 😊

Not Orthodox but I recognize this as St. Thomas the Apostle. Were you named for him?

Cesar Chavez holding a shofar while attending a Yom Kippur service in 1971

The UFW wishes our Jewish friends a sweet #RoshHashanah. The first institutional religious support for grape strikers came when boards of rabbis in big Eastern cities declared boycotted products non-Kosher. More @ ufw.org/roshhashanah

America Is No Longer a Safe Haven for the Russian Opposition ICE is deporting asylum seekers into the arms of Putin’s secret police.

Many genuine opponents of Putin’s regime could now be threatened by the Trump administration’s immigration policies, writes Christian Caryl.

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

I got carjacked by a dog once! It was a hot day in OK and the dog was loose in traffic. I pulled over to see if it had a tag, but then it jumped in my car and refused to leave. It was a big snarly dog. I had to have a firefighter get the dog out using the long pole with the hook on the end.

prescient (from 3 months ago)

This is a yellow tomato that has been sliced in two. The middle part is red. It calls to mind a Georgia O'Keefe painting, maybe? Sure. That's it. This is an art appreciation post, nothing more. Art and tomatoes.

Here is a tomato I grew in my garden and sliced into this evening. The cultivar's name is Gin Fizz. And that is the extent of my comments on the matter.

jeeezus

I have a doctorate in theology and I diagnose Don Jr. as having a gravely disordered character and a critical deficit of basic human decency.

It accidentally just flirted with a Carolina chickadee so it's reminding itself of the subtle differences between the two species.

Thank you!

When do you think it will be clear when the severe weather will arrive in Tulsa? My nightmare is a school pickup line situation. My kid's school building is a century old. Trying to decide whether to just bring him home early.

The fact that Fountain Park and The Ville got hit, and especially the tower collapse and death at Centennial Christian, is just so unfair and heartbreaking. So many churches would have been empty on a Friday afternoon but not them. They were feeding the hungry.

We were never supposed to have this much access to stupid people’s thoughts

A beautiful hand-lathed gavel made of black walnut.

(Background: I'm in my late 40s and I'm in law school trying to start a new career and it's really hard and I'm spending Mother's Day studying for finals.)

Y'all, my 17yo made me a handmade GAVEL for Mother's Day! He made it himself on a lathe!! 😭😍

The use of "worse than 9/11" for events or situations in which not a single soul has died is a weird Republican hyperbole tic that really tells us how their minds work. Mike Kelly (PA-16) used that line on the day that birth control became available without a co-pay under the ACA.

It's unhinged.

A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

Eastern kingbird sitting on a rear view mirror, as viewed from the car driver seat.

This was my friend in the carpool pickup yesterday. Recently fledged, completely charming.

(Btw at first I misread "lukelukeluke" as though it rhymed with ukulele so if you ever need a nickname...)

I'm so sorry! I hope you feel better very soon!