#Chicago's #children are getting caught in the chaos of #Trump’s #immigration crackdowns

The 2-year-old boy was so frightened, he stuttered.

“Mommy, mommy, mommy,” he repeated, clinging to her.

His mother, Molly Kucich, had been grocery shopping when her husband called, panicking. She heard “immigration raid.” Then: “tear gas.”

#law #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-trump-crackdown-school-children-c9a19835cac13c0fbbebcc9f4bf4f0a2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Immigration+and+kids

Ok, Canadians. You know what to do.

Tighten our belts.

Strengthen our resolve.

Show our unity.

Demonstrate our national pride.

Support our real allies.

Put Canada first forever and always.

Dear California farmers and Congressional representatives:
Trump has just literally thrown millions of gallons of #water away that farmers were counting on this summer, purely to brag that he could.
That #cawater cannot be captured or used now by anyone: not farms, not cities, not firefighting.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-31/trump-california-dams-opened-up

Big Announcement!!

Mastodon treasure Laffy @GottaLaff has moved to @GottaLaff

Things haven't quite settled down yet, but you can go ahead and follow the new account.

h/t @stefan for the cool graphic.

And thanks to @stux for providing such a great instance platform.

Someone posted an Apple News link to an article that looked interesting. I asked him to please point to the original, rather than feeding data to a centralized corporate giant.

He agreed and fixed the link.

Best practice: Point to the original site, rather than a data-grabbing intermediary.

If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots.

Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones.

Thank you, Mariel Garza.

Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/los-angeles-times-editorials-editor-resigns-after-owner-blocks-presidential-endorsement.php