#FunFact: Barry White was a member of the Businessmen. A Black Los Angeles gang that was formed to protect their neighborhood from a white supremacist gang named the spook hunters. Before he was the "Maestro Of Love" he was the headbusser of skinheads
BREAKING🚨 A Somali man was chained, beaten, and denied food and water on an ICE deportation flight — and by the time it landed, his relatives say his body was covered in bruises.
His relatives told The Charlotte Observer he was shackled at the wrists and ankles for the duration of the flight, unable to move, unable to eat, unable to drink. They say guards ignored his pleas. They say the restraints were never loosened once.
His family described what they were told in three words: chained, beaten, deprived.
They say he was one of many packed onto the aircraft, deported from the United States to a country many of these men had not lived in for years. Some, his relatives say, had spent much of their lives in America — built families here, worked here, raised children here — before being pulled onto a plane in restraints.
What his family keeps returning to is the physical condition he arrived in. Not a bureaucratic complaint. Bruises. Dehydration. A body that showed what happened on the flight.
Deportation flights operate largely out of public view. There are no reporters on board. No cameras. The only accounts that reach the outside world come from the people who survive the flight and the families waiting on the other end, comparing what they were promised with what they actually received.
His relatives say they raised the alarm because they were afraid no one else would. They say they were told he would be transported safely and humanely. They say the man who stepped off that plane told a different story with his own body.
ICE flights like this have faced complaints before of prolonged shackling, of men left in restraints for hours, of food and water withheld. Each time, the answer from the outside is the same silence, because the flights are sealed and the passengers have no way to record what happens to them.
His family is now asking a simple question: who is accountable for the condition he was in when the doors opened?
Rolex names Nigerian conservationist Rachel Ikemeh as 2026 Laureates for the Rolex Awards after she saved the red colobus monkey and other endangered monkey species in Niger Delta.
“Beyond dystopian.”
Novelist Dave Eggers is sounding the alarm about AI, which he argues is harming children’s education:
“You have a ten-year-old who is unprecedented in the history of the world. There's never been anyone like that person… To think about that one-of-a-kind-in-the-history-of-humanity person shopping their vision out to a machine, how tragic that is. That's beyond dystopian. It cannot be allowed. Not even one ounce of AI can be allowed in the humanities and youth education.”
Heat 2 casting confirmed with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Chris Shiherlis (previously Val Kilmer) and Christian Bale playing Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino).
Adam Driver still in talks to join sequel to Michae Mann’s legendary 1995 film.
People who say “I can’t do that, it’s against my religion” are practicing religious freedom.
People who say “You can’t do that, it’s against my religion” are practicing authoritarianism.
Did you know the department of energy deleted almost 6000 web pages on energy saving, all because they matched the advice Mamdani was giving in NYC?
It’s the world’s dumbest cult.
Before you pass away, Remove your kids as direct beneficiaries of your assets. Then place all your assets in a revocable trust and name your kids as the beneficiary of the trust. This allows them to by pass the lengthy probate process and gain immediate access to the assets.
Trump just approved $846 million in disaster aid for nine states, and all nine voted for him in 2024.
Americans in blue states pay the same federal taxes and suffer the same floods, fires, and storms as Americans in red states.
No president in history has treated FEMA as a reward for voting the right way. Every American deserves help when disaster strikes, no matter who their governor is or how their state voted.
This is disgraceful and we will not let it stand.
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Apparently a plan was proposed in March by a Trump bootlicker appointee to replace the 200-year-old columns on the White House with more "ornate" columns that match his style.
Scaffolding has gone up. The White House says it's "routine maintenance."
Congress is silent.
NEW: Pope Leo has written a letter to the US marking its 250th Anniversary; Leo writes: “Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting, and assisting immigrants.. “