The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.

Much of the world is greener than it used to be even within living memory.

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Fanny Churberg - "Winter Landscape, Evening Atmosphere" (1880)

Heard someone here wasn't caring for a stranger.

Politicians who later become congressional leaders trade stocks like everyone else ... until they ascend to power. After ascension, their portfolios beat peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts.

🚨BREAKING: ICE and Border Patrol are once again making it clear that they don’t believe the Constitution applies to them… this time by entered the private property of No More Deaths in Arizona, a humanitarian camp providing water, food, and medical aid to migrants in the desert

there's this artist named cf payne who makes drawings of birds in the shapes of u.s. states and i find them absolutely delightful giclee42.com/gallery/

NEW: ICE’s acting director has told a suburban Boston parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene — stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing Pope Leo XIV’s call to stand with migrants. open.substack.com/pub/lettersfro…

ICE now admits that hundreds of children were held past the legal 20-day custody limit set to protect their safety. Five were kept for 168 days. Some faced unsafe conditions and went days without medical care. This crosses a moral line. Regardless of your politics, people

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

Christmas Avenue by Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet The New Yorker, December 2025

Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by Rio Giancarlo

Nobody lied here. Please read tables more carefully. You say private grocery data (Datasembly: 2.7%) is higher than BLS (1.9%.) But Truflation is at 1.5%. Also, I think the OER complaints are valid, but their effects may not be that big. Zillow inflation is down. Zachary Foust

New England Snow Scene 1950s #RalphHulett

4 Raws Remix but the beat is Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

People keep asking me: How’s NYC’s economy and budget doing? There’s good news and bad news. Here are 7 #’s that tell the story.

This video is making the rounds — and it’s one every American should see. Law enforcement showing up on Americans’ doorsteps for lawful political speech — speech that doesn’t even remotely rise to the level of incitement — is absolutely intolerable in a free society.