In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

Just finished and already, I want to read it again. 'Abuelita Faith' has challenged, inspired and excited me.Would definitely recommend!

This morning's joy is a coffee so scalding hot I could shower in it

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

We're going to an in-person church service today. First time in a long time. Doing lots of mindful breathing and may even take a stress ball in my pocket, just in case.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Happy 'Hollie Davidson is the first woman to referee a men's Six Nations game' day! 🙌🏉

We've just bought a new vacuum cleaner so, naturally, B tests the suction power by sticking it to his face

Watching the winter Olympics and reflecting on the fact that sometimes I lose my balance when I'm putting my socks on

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Six Nations is kicking off, and ITV will be broadcasting the home games with live audio description (AD) 🥳 The first game of the year, England vs Wales, will feature live AD. You can watch the games as usual on ITV1 and access audio description by turning it on on your TV. Will you be watching?

If you put someone in a concentration camp, you do not get any credit for anything you did around it. This is classic abuser behaviour.

The trend that needs to die the swiftest death is “pretty white women crying online to the trauma of others.” I promise you can let these things affect you without putting yourself at the center of the conversation.

Almost as if rushing to build and open a new 'mega' prison simply to create more spaces in an already broken, understaffed & burnt-out Criminal Justice System wasn't a good idea ...

“When non-Indigenous groups ask us to justify the relevance of our identity and cultural practices to our faith, how often we would like to offer the same challenge to them.” Reading the Bible on Turtle Island, pg. 161.

If our beliefs about the gospel of Jesus as Christians are somehow threatened by diversity, inclusion, equality, and the empowerment of others, we have deeply misunderstood the gospel of Jesus.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

When you see unhoused people asking for money what you should see is a fracturing of the social contract where an issue (housing) that should be addressed on a municipal or statuary level is instead foisted on individuals in a way designed o put callouses on their souls

I continued to laugh and cry my way through until the end. RHE'S writing has restirred hope I'd worried was lost. It is possible to exist in this space. It is okay to wrestle with this space. It is necessary to name this space. It is Holy to welcome this space.

Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp. Every time. The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.” 👀

Monkfish - 13th century, Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 533, f. 26r

All of this. I agree it was a choice & not a mistake but it's wild to me how, for some, "it was an accident" justifies the fact that the video existed in the first place. "Woops, I didn't *mean* for the world to see my racism, I had it on my phone for funsies" The video should never have been made.

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

My mum used to encourage us to draw using our non-dominant hand and also with both hands at once. Taught me so much about letting go of perfectionism and finding joy in simply creating.

Just ordered and I cannot wait to read it.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

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I just saw a tagline for 'H is for Hawk' that simply says "time doesn't heal, it re-arranges", and I don't remember the last time, if it's ever happened before, that a tagline for a film had such impact

I had a wonderful time. H is for Hawk is as beautiful and raw as I hoped it would be, the pick n mix sweet selection was sublime, and I was delightful company. Will definitely date myself again.

TW: pregnancy loss Something that isn't spoken enough about is the hidden work of grief. The amount of energy that already goes into basic functioning when you're grieving, then the extra work of patience, understanding & grace you're expected to muster when someone says something insensitive.

When money and power protect abusers instead of victims, the system itself is broken. Trump didn’t invent that reality — he took advantage of it. And until the system changes, accountability will remain optional for the powerful.

Sunset over Bamburgh, 2016, photo by north-east photographer Sophie Henderson.

Taking myself on a date to the cinema tomorrow evening to watch H is for Hawk! Never gone alone before but I've decided I need to take myself on dates more often. I wonder if I'll get the pre-date jitters? Will I like me? Do I shave my legs?

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This takes me straight back to summer evenings spent laughing over a pint in the Granta (or as our college fondly named it 'seminar room 3'!)

He's great at this. Unrattled, reasonable, and manages to make this ridiculous question look just that without overdoing it.

“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?! This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple. Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

"Don't let anyone tell you that this isn't your home" ❤️

this is who runs this account

This made me cry, no lie. Complicated reasons, one being its fuck you to the baked-in structures and strictures of the world that consider harm to be inevitable.

I am very very happy for my tax to go towards the education of others. Supporting other people to thrive is exactly where I want my tax to go, actually.

Lots of tears and feeling exhausted by grief tonight but I am so grateful to have this little face right by my side at all times. Dogs bring so much joy (Photo taken at Christmas ... we do not have our tree still up 😅)

I haven't been to church (as in the organised service in a building sense) regularly for two years. My faith in God has not been shaken. My love for and trust in the Church definitely has. I've started reading Rachel Held Evan's 'Searching For Sunday: Loving, Leaving & Finding the Church' and

In other words, she wants to "stop the boats" for those fleeing for their lives but will happily jump ship from a sinking one

We start here. Keep your heart fiercely kind, especially towards the vulnerable.

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