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404 Media is suing ICE for documents relating to its $2 million contract with Paragon Solutions. These are the journalists you should be supporting with your subscription money because they are meeting the moment. www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

adding fictional characters to art: thread

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

Just finished Play Nice by @rachelharrison.bsky.social, tore through it in less than 24 hours, could not stop. Love love loved it. ❤️‍🔥

If you like page turners you can order it here! bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

Joe Sacco's comic on @comicsjournal.bsky.social: The Angel Laughs. I cannot imagine what it's like to be a journalist and cartoonist who has covered Palestine for decades. www.tcj.com/the-angel-la...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Fuck yeah! You wanna be in the Gestapo? You better own that shit with your full fucking face you fucking cowards. “In Chicago, law enforcement cannot wear any mask, covering, or disguise” Officers or armed forces must also display their federal agency, last name and badge number or rank”

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews Will only test for salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC). Stopped tests: 6 additional pathogens: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia.

Hey, the Unbound for Gaza fundraiser is here, starting September 25th. www.32auctions.com/unboundforga... The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.

just finished FantasticLand by @mikebockoven.bsky.social and I sure am glad to find he's written 3 other books I haven't read, I couldn't put it down. excellent storytelling!

If you live in a state that still permits it sans prescription gone get your covid shot before you literally can't

The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?

When Americans talk about healthcare, they pretty much only actually think in terms of the health insurance industry. The actual healthcare is harder to think about than the whole financialized process of paying for it, applying for it, etc.

For folks in Maine and MA looking to get involved in local community organizing and community building. I, along with some others, have created a resource list of organizations that you can connect with. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

URGENT: If you have ANY information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and/or the process to send him to Uganda, PLEASE message me on Signal: marisakabas.04 Your anonymity will be fully protected. I know it’s scary to speak out, but this is a man’s life.

new horror bookstore opening in Brooklyn www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Grace just sent this me this tok of a woman accidentally recording her cat in slow motions, and I am SOBBING from laughing so hard

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

Gretchen Felker-Martin @scumbelievable.bsky.social needs to be reinstated immediately. Her ban is either a mistake or it’s wildly transphobic and unfair. Bluesky get it together

“During the course of the 26-day sit-in, the Black Panther Party played a leading support role in providing food for the demonstrators. Over and over again, the disabled protesters credited the BPP with literally sustaining their struggle, “keeping us alive body and soul,” as one person put it.”

My 10.5 x 8" copper wire portrait of Grace Jones

album covers but with muppets: thread

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from! The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

attn western Mass folks: there is a caterpillar exhibition at Quonquont Orchard tomorrow. 🐛

I'm finally starting this project to watch the entire Touchstone Pictures filmography (every film associated with the Disney label whether through production or distribution) from 1984-2016 & share my thoughts on each release in this thread. Follow along as I revisit the hits, misses & obscurities.

Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed u.afp.com/Sg9Z

Here are some nice mushrooms

Because this is unbearable, I just gave to the Sameer Project - recommended by @prisonculture.bsky.social. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Say we're working at the top of a tall building. If I burst into your office and say "the building is on fire!" you'll be thinking of evacuation, of raising the alarm, calling the fire department—and understandably so. A building on fire is very bad news. www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-...

I wrote about the absolute moral necessity of Congress impeaching a president who represents a threat to democracy, the nation, and every person on the planet—and also about the practical necessity of doing so, because not doing so tells a incoherent story. www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-...

How to Pick the Best Blog or Newsletter Platform in 2025: https://llbbl.blog/2025/01/11/how-to-pick-the-best.html

I happen to think that a lot of big things ought to change quick, and I also believe that the first steps to having big things change quick involve saying they should and believing they can.

“We posted a series of screenshots without any alt text of a thread we shared on the site owned by a Nazi to explain why we amplified the words of a Nazi thanks to a freelancer we sought out to bring us the words of that Nazi which he hacked so we could spread meaningless distortions.” Fuck you.

New poster design for @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, published by @akpress.org 🦋