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NEW: Officer Jaron Alexander says he didn’t come back to Ingram, Texas, to help deport his neighbors.

But one year after joining ICE’s 287(g) program, his department has handed over the equivalent of 10% of the town.
https://www.propublica.org/article/deportations-ingram-texas-287g-jaron-alexander?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Police #Immigration #Immigrant #Deportation #Texas

As the education scholar Gert Biesta has argued, over the 1980s and ’90s the very idea of “education” was displaced in favor of an ideal of “learning.” Education implies a teacher, a subject, and a purpose; learning is something an individual does. What Biesta termed “learnification” meant that the transmission and application of knowledge became a priority […]

The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers on the iPhone Duo. Ten machines included: “Macintosh, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Amiga 500, Windows 95, ThinkPad, iMac G3, iBook G3, PowerBook G4 and Windows XP.” XP even crashes sometimes. Love this.

Ten days out from a consequential midterms, let's prebunk the myths and outright lies that are being and will be spread after the election.

Bathing girls with town in the backgraund, 1913 #macke #orphism

Fox's Brooke Taylor ambushed Texas Senate candidate James Talarico outside his polling place in Austin, TX, this Friday. Thankfully, Talarico wasn't taking the bait. #NEW: As Talarico arrived to cast his ballot in Austin, I asked him about the deadlock race, his message to...

I've used the same title as WaPo because it's literally what is going on here. Republicans in Iowa are about to get crushed, and they know it, so they're resorting to this sort of foolishness. Sarah Trone Garriott is an ordained minister with a Master of Theological Studies...

Page Six New York Post reported that McHenry had just been "promoted to a new role leading External Affairs & Press for under secretary Jacob Helberg’s team on Wednesday." That night, she was caught on camera throwing her drink at a fan she got into an altercation with at a Washington Wizards game.

Oh well.

Source: TMZ

Another blonde bites the dust ... Britt McHenry is OUT at the Trump White House after being caught on video throwing a drink at a fan during a heated altercation at an NBA game.

Britt was forced to resign Thursday from her job as a U.S. State Department press adviser ... according to Page Six.

She was forced out hours after we first published video of Britt throwing a drink at a fan at Wednesday night's Washington Wizards game. Video showed Britt leaving her section to a chorus of boos and blowing kisses.

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Press Watch: Depraved Ramaswamy ad is being normalized by news-speak.

First Draft: The big tent.

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Trump orders DOJ to file suit to block any Senate outcome in Alaska other than a Republican victory.

This Modern World: Generic Trump speech.

Bark Bark Woof Woof: Creative walking.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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While summarizing my history with Emacs, I was curious about just how many Emacs News posts I've written and how many links I've highlighted. 564 posts, > 34000 items, an average of 60 items per posts. Analysis: It turned out that my emacs-news/index.org only went bac...

Bunnie has been dreaming about owning horses for a while now. Continue reading…

Your chance to be on camera this holiday season. Adams Fairacre Farms is casting Hudson Valley residents of all ages for a Santa photo shoot. Continue reading…

Four Poems by Svitlana Povaliaieva

With luxury home prices up 30% to 40%, the city has a whole new crop of eight-figure neighborhoods 

The owners of Bare Bones are good friends and industry pros with many years of restaurant experience. And yes, they’re serving porchetta.

A major new study reveals that drinking just two alcoholic beverages a day is associated with a 1 in 25 lifetime risk of death from alcohol-related causes, challenging the idea that moderate drinking is harmless. Researchers also found no significant overall health benefits from alcohol, with risks rising as consumption increases.

Missing blood pressure medication could mean losing much of its protection against heart attacks and strokes, according to an analysis of more than 91,000 people. Patients who consistently took their medication experienced an 11% reduction in major cardiovascular events, while those who missed too many doses saw little or no measurable benefit.

A common, inexpensive medication could hold an unexpected clue to preventing dementia. Researchers found that older adults with a specific genetic profile had a 70% lower relative risk of dementia when taking low-dose aspirin, even though previous studies found no overall protective effect. The discovery suggests that genetics could help explain why some people benefit while others do not.

For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful humans moving through the real world. Now, scientists have identified a mushroom species, Lanmaoa asiatica, responsible for these extraordinary hallucinations in China and the Philippines.

Astronomers have discovered three actively feeding black holes inside a single galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years away, revealing a remarkable scene from the universe’s infancy. Two of the black holes are separated by just 620 light-years and are expected to eventually merge, while a third lurks farther away. One weighs an astonishing 80 million suns, and another is growing faster than conventional theories predict.