today's xkcd regards a recent public forced deportation of a grad student in randall's home city . [the story kind of reads like snowden or something except the subject appears as a random grad student
some influences judge this likely to be a kidnapping, [possibly funded by a foreign government somehow ??], because there is so much work to hide the people involved and deter due process
it's also notable there has apparently been edit conflict on wikipedia regarding whether or not it should be mentioned anywhere that the people apprehending the student were all masked
i don't know anything about it i assume these things are worked on by people less messed up than me
we see strange edit conflicts like that a lot so things like this can help us understand them a little bit more