*and another thing* let’s assume this is correct, everyone just decides “fuck LA, i am moving to fargo, they have a major airport now”, and fargo somehow builds it out — do they think, in this farcical scenario, those states stay blood red?

These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.

ah the Peace President

The thing that makes “gutter racism” an appropriate term for this is that it goes beyond even what segregation’s savviest defenders were willing to say in public 60-70 years ago. They understood that this level of explicit racial animus was embarrassing to the cause.

gross. why bother with reasoned debate in the public square when you can just duke it out in a cage

The Trump regime is closing its borders to US citizens, including US public health service officers, if they're at high-risk of Ebola "Leaving Americans in Africa rather than bringing them home is 'a dramatic abdication of what we owe our own,' Dr. Spencer said." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

The scariest thing about hantavirus is not the outbreak itself--but the way we responded to it When it comes to pandemic-causing pathogens, it's our own terror that matters New story on Cross Pollinations on Substack crosspollinations.substack.com

Lockdown Jay www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

Tucker Carlson’s comments that immigration OBVIOUSLY has to be shut down due to AI-driven job loss went uncontested during his 2-hr long interview w/ @nytimes.com But he is as wrong as Malthus and a simple goldfish experiment proves it crosspollinations.substack.com/p/the-goldfi...

Mamdani's New York is coming to tax your private jet. Here's how to prepare: 1: get out your check book 2: write a big fat check to the government 3: be very, very grateful

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

The legal definition of a concentration camp is a facility where civilians are held without due process. That is what these are and we must tell the truth about them to marshal the outrage needed to demand they cease to exist.

Sewage treatment is woke.

Repellent and absurd. I guess the logic here is that White people have no race. That way, anything that serves Black communities--voting districts, sanitation systems--are by definition racialized which is now equivalent to forbidden DEI www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

Wow. This NYC pop up is 🔥 The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is open as a public installation displaying all 3.5 million pages of the released and partially redacted Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 volumes. This shouldn’t just stay in NYC. Take it on the road.

Capitalist ideology obscures the reality of our multispecies partnerships underneath the idea of nature red in tooth and claw—which is partly why the woman who attacked the police with bees is so fascinating 🐝 Full story on Cross Pollinations

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

Guardian reporting. Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Waiting for RFK jr. to say Tylenol is the cause of the hantavirus. 🤔💀

some new flu virus with pandemic-causing potential is almost certainly percolating right now but do go ahead and worry about hantavirus instead SHEESH

THIS exactly

Looks like foreigners don't want to risk being imprisoned by ICE just for a chance to see a soccer game.

May we one day have a Secretary of Defense who is not all hepped-up on "death and destruction" and is not driven by rage, arrogance and ignorance.

Hegseth's cancellation of the flu-vaccine mandate is reckless not bc it compromises military readiness but bc US troops circulate across HUNDREDS of military bases in dozens of countries And everyone who comes into contact with them will now be more exposed Story at crosspollinations.substack.com

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

We can be glib, but the fact is the Supreme Court destroyed the America the Civil Rights Movement built today. And I have no confidence whatsoever that the Dems will react w/ urgency to curb the return of Jim Crow voting. It is a dark day. And requires serious reflection on what is to be done.

New right-wing attacks on Indian immigrants claim that their reverence for other animals makes them unassimilable Read more on why they’re wrong at Cross Pollinations Http://crosspollinations.substack.com

Its true whether we realize it or not

How do butterflies remember their past lives as caterpillars and what does it mean about the possibilities of change in an uncertain world?

I was inside the courtroom listening to DOJ lawyers defending the Trump administration's plans to convert a warehouse outside Hagerstown, MD into a detention camp. **They had the LAMEST arguments** My full account on Cross Pollinations substack.com/home/post/p-...

From the Pixar film Hoppers to Thomas Nagel’s famous 1974 essay “What is it like to be a bat?,” the idea that other animals are unknowable ciphers is a canard of industrial society. But in fact we do know what they desire—and even find beautiful. youtube.com/shorts/qRW58...

You know what other animals find beautiful--and so do I. But just why that is is a mystery. The story plus link to a quiz that tests your ability to distinguish between sounds our fellow animals find attractive or unattractive, at Cross Pollinations 🌺 open.substack.com/pub/crosspol...

I don’t think a lot folks understand how massive Péter Magyar’s election was today in Hungary over Viktor Orbán. It was a massive 33% swing in votes. That’s insane. That would be like a Democratic supermajority being created in Congress overnight. Holy shit.

I cannot wait until we have this moment in the USA.

1. A lot of people are focused on the apparent contradiction/absurdity of Trump blockading the Strait if he wants to open it. And yes, that is a real issue. But the even more immediate concern is what the U.S. Navy must do to actually put this plan into effect.

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

his what

BBC picked up the story, great to see it getting more visibility - I just hope it leads to action: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump was ranting about birthright citizenship at 4 am on Easter Sunday. But it's not just about the Constitution--it’s about who we are biologically. The landscape changes our physical bodies and our behaviors in eerie and incredible ways. More @Cross Pollinations crosspollinations.substack.com

ICE is now pretending that they're only planning to imprison 540 people--not 1500 people-- in their Hagerstown warehouse. Why would anyone believe this when they paid over $100 million for the warehouse PLUS $113 million to retrofit its **825,000 square feet of space** into a camp

“I can generalize” is Trump saying “I’m a fucken racist lalala” knowing that no national press outlet or pundit will say a goddamn thing about it.

Giving all these different locations the same name is also stupid just from a navigational standpoint

Just admit that we go to big rallies for the weird neurohormones substack.com/@soniashah2/...

Organizing mass protests is not just about making political change. It’s also about altering our brain chemistry in strange and necessary ways. Read more at Cross Pollinations, my new Substack about science, politics & humanity's place in a world on the move

At this point, any map of the Strait of Hormuz that does not include topographical features constitutes an act of misinformation soniashah2.substack.com/p/irans-forb...

The implausibility of the Trump regime's lies exploit a key aspect of human psychology--which is actually quite beautiful open.substack.com/pub/soniasha...

Repeat after me: migration is not a crisis, it’s the solution If you’re curious about the social and ecological value of migration for humans and for our fellow species—and why we’ve been moving all along—check out my recent convo with the lovely Gabriella Souza open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...

Two things here. One, you don't sit there and whine about media coverage and headlines if things are going well. Two, the administration is just outright saying that they fully expect Ellison to use CNN to be a Trumpist propaganda organ.

JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.