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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is assaulted by a protester during her first town hall meeting in her district of Minneapolis amid ongoing tension and protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. The protester jumps out of his seat and charges the representative before reportedly throwing a substance on her. This came following her call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.

It's going to keep escalating. Wonder when this will mirror the Caning of Charles Sumner.

Dom and Toby are coexisting in the same space now. So yeah, intros are going very well

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“They are beaten in the face. They beat them.” A viral video posted on Reddit and Facebook apparently shows leaked footage from a downtown Baltimore ICE holding facility, with at least three dozen people crammed into a single room. The video has not been verified. However, in a released statement ICE did not challenge the authenticity of the footage, blaming overcrowded conditions on bad winter weather.

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Ecuador’s minister of foreign affairs has filed a protest with the U.S. Embassy after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tried to enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis without permission Tuesday.

A video of the attempt on social media shows a consulate staffer running to the door to turn the ICE agents away, telling them, “This is the Ecuadorian consulate. You’re not allowed to enter.”

One ICE officer can be heard responding by threatening to “grab” the staffer if he touched the agent before agreeing to leave.

International law generally prohibits law enforcement authorities from entering foreign consulates or embassies without permission, though sometimes permission may be assumed granted for life-threatening emergencies, like fires.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.

A short while later, the White House posted the same photo – except that version had been digitally altered to darken Armstrong’s skin and rearrange her facial features to make it appear she was sobbing or distraught. The Guardian one of many media outlets to report on this image manipulation, created a handy slider graphic to help viewers see clearly how the photo had been changed.

This isn’t about “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world.

Midwest USA, September 2025

Oly E-M1 @ 300mm, f/6.7, 1/500s, ISO-250. Edited in darktable.

Cormorants have such beautiful eyes. This is on a river that bisects my town. All year you'd walk by and see cormorants posted here. This was by far their favorite spot.

Nearly half of the databases that public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were updating on a monthly basis have been frozen without notice or explanation, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The study—led by Janet Freilich, a law expert at Boston University, and Jeremy Jacobs, a medical professor at Vanderbilt University—examined the status of all CDC databases, finding a total of 82 that had, as of early 2025, been receiving updates at least monthly. But, of those 82, only 44 were still being regularly updated as of October 2025, with 38 (46 percent) having their updates paused without public notice or explanation.

Examining the databases’ content, it appeared that vaccination data was most affected by the stealth data freezes. Of the 38 outdated databases, 33 (87 percent) included data related to vaccination. In contrast, none of the 44 still-updated databases relate to vaccination. Other frozen databases included data on infectious disease burden, such as data on hospitalizations from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

The finding stood out given that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a fervent anti-vaccine advocate who has worked for decades to undermine trust in and use of life-saving vaccines.

https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1qotsxq/ice_agent_you_raise_your_voice_i_erase_your_voice/

Now that MAGA has a police state all of their platitudes about the First Amendment, Second Amendment, and right to assemble have gone flying out the window. ICE agents are blatantly telling protestors they will kill them for yelling.

Amendments for me but not for thee!

https://xcancel.com/edkrassen/status/2016239206163742862

It was a tool that gathered job listings from all over the web. I thought I had bookmarked it, but I can't seem to find it there or in my saved posts. I'm pretty sure it was submitted around or before late August. I think it may have been posted to the technology comm but I can't remember and I couldn't find it in the search bar. Does anyone happen to remember what it was?

Two federal officers fired shots during the encounter that killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a Customs and Border Protection official told Congress in a notice sent Tuesday.

Officers tried to take Pretti into custody and he resisted, leading to a struggle, according to a notification to Congress obtained by The Associated Press. During the struggle, a Border Patrol agent yelled, “He’s got a gun!” multiple times, the official said.

A Border Patrol officer and a CBP officer each fired Glock pistols, the notice said.

• all of the planned new Firefox features for 2026 are "AI"-based (except for a new paid support tier)
• they're taking our money and establishing an "AI"-focused investment arm
• all of the art appears to be slop

Remember when Mozilla was not awful?

While the Asahi Linux project has made good progress on bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, much of the success and in turn upstreaming to the Linux kernel has been around the aging M1 and M2 Macs. Apple M3 and newer has been a struggle but progress is being made. One of the Asahi Linux developers shared the ability now to boot to the KDE Plasma desktop with the experimental Asahi Linux code on an M3 MacBook but without any GPU acceleration yet.

The initial Apple M3 hardware debuted back in 2023 while the Asahi Linux bring-up has been slow given engineering changes that have also carried on to the newer M4 and M5 hardware too. Paired with the reduced volunteer manpower, it's been a slow process being able to enjoy Linux on newer Apple Macs. Asahi Linux developer Michael Reeves shared some progress though this week on the porting to the M3 hardware.