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Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

yo, protect this little sister at ALL costs ✊🏽✨

lol SO I MET TIM WALZ. And it was the MOST wholesome thing ever: *shows Tim the decree he signed for me in 2023* "OMG I REMEMBER YOU. What are you doing here?" "I'm a PhD student at Harvard!" "THAT'S AMAZING." *fist bumps*

@npr.org for every minute spent talking to a non-autistic person about autistic people's needs, you should be giving at least 2x that amount to actually autistic people— & not just in written stories, but on-air. Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.

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Tech bros only have one idea; dismantle labor forces. Capitalists in general think the primary function of labor is productivity & that the primary function of business is profit. But the primary function of any system we live under is creating food, safety & shelter. They undermine that.

BREAKING: We just got wind of Republicans' higher education bill text for reconciliation. We skimmed it. It's the most dangerous Higher-Ed bill in history. It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.

This is also what mass deportation looks like - the state harassing and humiliating citizens. These kinds of stories can further turn the public against already unpopular policies.

Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians

New — Rumeysa Ozturk was supposed to be transferred to Vermont this Thursday. Instead, the Second Circuit has stalled it until a panel of judges hears the Trump admin’s arguments to keep her in Louisiana. Rumeysa has not been accused of a crime. She co-wrote a campus op-ed.

So they never requested a ceasefire. So they just lied to us. Stalled us out. And intended to forever. But it's not their fault. Do I have that correct?

you’re laughing?? The conservative leader of Canada who had a landslide in the polls three months ago has lost his seat and you’re LAUGHING?

Congratulations to our neighbors up North! I think many of us learned a ton about the Canadian political system tonight watching your election returns. Very cool!

Once you discover a person is miserable… all of their movements start making sense

The horrific anti-Palestinian violence we saw in Brooklyn this weekend — a pro-Israeli government mob beating, chasing, and harassing anti-genocide activists, all while the NYPD was largely absent — is the inevitable result of this type of policy which criminalizes support of Palestinian freedom.

W.E.B. Dubois was the first Black person to graduate from Harvard. EVERY DAY I remember his quote: “The honor was all Harvard’s.” Fuck them folks.

These people can and must be opposed, and they can be stopped. Get loud, get persistent, whatever way you can. Believe me when I tell you that I am tired and I am scared, but there have been wins and these people Have been forced to reverse course in multiple areas. Keep pushing. However you're able

i know very little about canadian politics, life in canada, or what issues Canadians face (beyond, obviously, what's been in the global news), but I have met Mark Carney a couple times and he's not a politician but he is a stickler for things being Done Right, which is, imo, a good quality in a PM

Some have responded w/ a version of "why are you elevating this story when non-citizens have it much worse?" This story shows, in a concrete & visceral way, that citizenship is not a shield from state lawlessness in a mass deportation regime. That realization can turn ppl against such policies.

The world is a dark and dreary place these days, so here's something to cheer you up: a miniature diorama by Japanese artist, Tatsuya Tanaka.

Sen. Van Hollen, and Reps. Pressley, Balint, Raskin, Jayapal, Velázquez, Frost, and Dexter are hosting a "Free Mohsen Mahdawi" rally tomorrow outside the State Department to call for his release & due process for all, and to highlight others kidnapped by the Trump administration.

Everybody kneads more Brutus in their life 😘

They're seriously going to ethnically cleanse Gaza after a monstrous extermination campaign and then look us all dead in the eyes and tell us we need to hate China.

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Biden officials never pressured Israel to reach a ceasefire. Ever. @ryangrim.bsky.social reacts to new revelations from Israel’s Channel 13 investigation, based on interviews with nine senior Biden officials.

10 *spoiler free* reasons I loved #Sinners

New — 51 days since the Trump administration detained Mahmoud Khalil and 2 weeks since it detained Mohsen Mahdawi, Columbia University administrators finally name the pair in an email just sent out to campus:

The price of racism? Was your freedom Was it worth it ?

Yall know when we really start to feel the effects of The Tarrifs, his voters aren't going to blame Trump, right?

The idea that people in power are persecuted by those they are oppressing has always been a staple of white supremacist thought. Here, it is updated to imply that police violating civil rights laws are the real victims.

Louis Theroux’s The Settlers shows Israeli settlers expanding deeper into the West Bank, backed by soldiers, while Palestinians face violence, harassment, and the constant threat of being forced from their homes. 🎥: Louis Theroux: The Settlers (BBC, 2025)

Me, 4 hours ago: Oh jeez I forgot Canada's elections were tonight Me, 10 minutes ago: *Long cigarette drag* Well you see the history of Polliviere's riding means that with 115 of the 266 polls reporting and Fanjoy up by nearly 7% it's a statistical unlikelihood for a comeback

As we reach the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War's end, Rep. Rashida Tlaib has introduced legislation to provide care to people impacted by the toxic Agent Orange used by the US military: Vietnamese victims, Vietnamese-Americans, and US veterans' children with birth defects.

The word "antisemite" has become so meaningless that now whenever someone uses it you have to ask them "What kind? The Hitler-was-right kind or the stop-bombing-hospitals kind?"

I missed this, but this is very very good news. Federal Judge David Briones destroys the argument for Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act, resulting in the release of two people, thus far, & halting the use of the Alien Enemies Act in west Texas, *At All*. Click through for the rest of the thread

Columbia: "We continue to be deeply concerned about Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi" Also Columbia:

Finally, some good film.

Israeli forces shot a 23-year-old pregnant Palestinian woman in the head, reportedly using a drone, in Gaza. Doctors at al-Shifa Hospital performed simultaneous brain surgery and an emergency C-section at 32 weeks to deliver her baby.

This is all I'm asking of billionaires: Make me feel torn about hating you, please. Open a library, fight fascism, do something.

OMG. I woke up to find that I've been looped into an honest-to-god Reply All email vortex. All the classics are here. People hitting "reply all" to: say - Stop hitting "reply all." - Please remove me from this list. - There seems to be a problem. It's so nostalgic. We learn nothing. It's amazing.

OK so let me break down the pending cargo ship disaster for you. Maybe you think, I'm fine! 32% of the world's plastic comes from China. Thats NEARLY ALL of your goods containers. Everything you use in a plastic container is about to be gone from the shelves. Good luck.

A number of us have claimed that Trump administration is segregationists and a high-profile pundit mocked the claim. But destroying the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department is an escalation. And the burden of proof should be on those that claim this *is not* a segregationist admin.

This is how i learned De Niro has a trans daughter ~ Airyn De Niro Is Ready to Be Seen on Her Own Terms www.them.us/story/airyn-...

Goodnight from Robert Fitzroy, sure he can hear a metallic voice scratching behind the Radio 4 Shipping Forecast. Goodnight from Joanie and Andy Needles, increasingly concerned about just how imaginary their daughter’s invisible alien friend really is. Goodnight from Hookland.

In the last week: JD Vance killed the Pope Trump killed Canada's Conservative Party Who's next?

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir confronted by CAIR delegates in Congress ⬇️

⚡️NEW: Israel Rejects Hamas Offer to Free All Israeli Captives and End Gaza Assault in Exchange for 5-Year Truce Here are five key things to know from the latest reports today:

Only just catching up to this fascinating little mini-controversy. I will say that one of the advantages of keeping up with fandom is it puts you more in contact with women's iddy sexual or romantic preferences, and so makes this phenomenon obvious... nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/this-inter...

“Measles ain’t nothing to fuck with.” - me, an infectious disease epidemiologist

COFFIN COLLARS like this one were used to thwart bodysnatchers in the early 19th century. The collar was fixed around the neck of a corpse and bolted to the bottom of a coffin, making it nearly impossible to remove the body from its grave. Bodysnatchers sold corpses to medical schools.

I'm so proud of you Canada. 🥰🇨🇦❤️

I guess we’ve finally run out of soft toys for the nest

Err… hello… @theguardian.com … a whole article on when to worry about forgetfulness and you forgot to include even one mention of (peri)menopausal brain fog, which more than half of all women suffer from? Help for that sort of brain fog is available, and women should know they can ask for it.

I be so emotionally exhausted... like bro... go to hell

Black women's hair is political, but it's also extremely versatile. I've worn just about every style known to Black womankind and enjoyed them all. Despite the Crown Act and the natural hair movement, 4c hair is still seen as less beautiful. I've loved my soft coils even when the world didn't.

Many formal checks and balances in DC have failed but other checks seem to be holding up: — National mass protest — Courts (to a degree) — Powers like voting decentralized to states — Political culture that’s skeptical of autocracy — Big country that sustains pockets of resistance. What else?

Receiving this letter from a civil rights lawyer in NYC who read _Strike_was perhaps the most moving piece of mail I have ever received. I can’t tell you how much I will cherish this letter for the rest of my career. 🥹

A #Roman pottery colander found in Vindobona, present-day Vienna. Just like today, colanders were also an important utensil in #Roman kitchens - and the form hasn't really changed. Form follows function. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD 📷me 🏺 #archaeology

WATCH: Israel is accelerating plans to split the West Bank in two — cutting off the north from the south with military zones and settler roads. Follow @mondoweiss.net for more.

Excited to announce that @blacksky.app is a winner of this IPFS utility grant and being awared $25K!! Working on our project rsky-satnav which is already available to use today 🚀 Our goal with the grant is to make CAR files (Content Addressable aRchives) more accessible to every day users 📂

Biden Never Pushed For A Ceasefire In Gaza They lied that whole entire time. They committed genocide and lied about it, and then they said you were crazy and irresponsible if you didn’t support them. People's rage should shake heaven and earth. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-neve...

📌READ: Pro-Palestine students are being abducted and disappeared into for-profit ICE prisons in rural Louisiana — the same blueprint the South used to enforce white supremacy for centuries. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/why-...

hi, still sober.

Just an update. My dad is still in the hospital. It’s been two weeks. There were setbacks. We are still in good spirits.

Oh yeah this reminds me Jalen Hurts agent and management team are all Black women www.si.com/nfl/2022/08/...

Let me remind everyone that polygraphs are, in practice, pseudoscience interrogation tools not ‘lie detectors.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Furthermore, use of polygraphs enables interrogators (knowingly or otherwise) to launder their own biases & bullshit thru the machine.

I was watching clips from Cowboy Carter's opening night and that Blue Ivy???? I know her mama is so proud but also happy bc she can let Blue do some of the heavy dancing while she stands upstage chillin' with the mic. Working smarter, not harder lol

I really hope Ryan coogler lets people build out the sinners universe

lol I've seen enough. WALZ 2028.

Two months of total blockade on Gaza. Starvation of 2 million people, and some are already dying. Given the strong military, political and economic links between the UK and Israel, the United Kingdom is complicit, and statements like this one mean nothing.

Just about the same amount as the total annual budget for every single NEH-funded state humanities council.

I cannot stress enough how important it is that we save Little Tokyo.

I took my braids out two weeks ago in part because I've learned about the toxic chemicals used to manufacture extension hair. Fortunately, our sisters over in Nigeria and Uganda are one step ahead... they are manufacturing hair for braiding from plantain and banana stems! 🤯 youtu.be/pR0HbOSBano?...

The real enemy of the bbq is that nasty potato salad

This better have gone all the way viral by the time I wake up tomorrow morning. (threatening)

Canada looked at the U.S. and swiftly said "That ain't my ministry."

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The children call it the 'Pirate's Grave' or the 'Bone Angel's Friend'. This isn't surprising. Conspicuous memorials always pull stories from the loam of lore. More interesting are the tokens they leave it, the ritual games where it is treated as a living thing, an additional playmate . – Dario Tóth

With that orange fuck allegedly posting “2028” hats…. This man has the chance to do the funniest thing…..

This reads as the precipice of martial law. Siccing the military on the population.

This being inevitable, and the potential of captured audio repetition exercises are why I dropped it the second they announced its implementation.

I can't share what award committee I am on, for what organization, and in what country, (and I am in more than one) but I just put nearly all women and people of color on one of the lists for A Thing, because they are all brilliant and deserved it, and the men were mostly mediocre. Not sorry one bit

There are students who don’t feel safe leaving home anymore let alone coming to campus. This is real. Let’s remember this when we’re grading this year— your immigrant students, Arab students, others whose lives you don’t know the details of, are struggling right now.

I’ve got a new man in my life

Canada is willing to consider US statedom, in that their election results state to the US "Fuck off forever Donald Trump and Elon Musk."

💥 from the letters page of today’s Times of London

We are absolutely forbidden from using AI at work. Even the built in shit that comes with Microsoft doesnt work for us. They basically brick all our laptops lmao Health information on the blockchain is just some shit the tech oligarchs are saying cause yall dk any better.

It's another Executive Orders night. This one is about punishing sanctuary cities--first by taking away all of their federal funding, then if they still don't obey, by "all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I volunteer at a place; Boop (tux) and Rascal (white/gray) still not adopted… poor things. Their owner had a debilitating stroke. They are 1+ year old and adorable. Boop is super playful and clever. #cleveland #cats

On this day in 1770 Captain James Cook and his crew arrived in Australia, landing in an area they later named Botany Bay after all the species of plants they discovered. But did you know that in 1780, a year after Captain Cook's death in Hawaii, his ships visited #Orkney?

I'M SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAAMING

“But the Hounds might hurt the kittens!” 🐕🐕

In case you didn't see the reports. As if we didn't have enough to deal with! Relaxers contain harsh chemicals. Human hair for weaves, wigs, and braids sometimes involves questionable practices exploiting poor women in China, India, and elsewhere. And now braids... hsph.harvard.edu/news/synthet...

I want somebody to look at me like “our” president™️ look at cake

"Someone who refuses to vaccinate their kids because they’re afraid of autism has made the decision that people like me are the worst possible thing that can happen to their family—& they’re putting everyone at risk because of it." @fodderfigure.bsky.social: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/im-a...

👏🏿... now, that's what I call a fine young man. I know his wife and his mama are proud!

Ordinary Notes in paperback. Grateful for everyone who has read it.

We just can't impeach and remove Trump, we have to impeach and remove all of them.