I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

I recommend the excellent American Experience documentary, "THE BINDING OF ISAAC WOODWARD," which includes audio of Welles' broadcast. See also this Newsweek article by Andrew Whalen. www.newsweek.com/listen-orson...

When Tom Homan, Trump and other Republicans defend the masking of ICE agents, I can't help but think of Orson Welles announcing on his radio show his intention of identifying the South Carolina police officer who violently attacked and blinded the uniformed Black veteran Isaac Woodard in 1946.

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

love to be looted by our criminal president

literally shrieking in my apartment about this movie oh my GOD

update www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Happy Saturn and Neptune at zero degrees Aries!! Happy start the fuck over!

Substack boosting nazis and now adding in polymarket, creating the most evil internet voltron of websites

At least somebody learned the lesson, so there’s that.

They faked attentionslop. The one way these guys really are innovating is in finding new reasons to hate their guts

Bari Weiss and CBS has done a tremendous job repeatedly never learning what the Streisand Effect is.

As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.

this is what your inseam looks like

A country taking away refugee status for a theft conviction is itself a crime against humanity. That road helped lead here, and now the Fascists have murdered another.

It took me days to read Rachel Aviv on the Pelicot case, and on how the revelation of horrific trauma blew apart an entire family, which might not be put back together again.

One thing I'm getting from rooting around in early postwar periodicals is that middlebrow culture was good, actually and we're impoverished for its demise.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

lol. Totally.

We need tuition-free college. And we need quality union jobs with good pay and benefits that don't require a college degree. And we need a free, universal health care system that isn't tied to you having a job to get quality care in the first place.

been wanting to perform this cover ever since that guy got kirked

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

here you go

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Hope @mayor.nyc.gov pushes back on this

how many major [media] industries went on a prolonged strike between the years 2020-2025, I wonder

This is glorious.

School districts across the country are reconsidering their picture day partnerships after social media posts pointed to a link between a major school photo company and a billionaire investor found in the Justice Dept.'s files on Jeffrey Epstein.

Companies like Starbucks are scared of workers unionizing because when we take action together, we can win material change instead of empty promises. After taking action, these baristas won their union despite Starbucks trying hard to stop workers from organizing! ✊

please do not try to date the computer

On the same day hospitals caved on healthcare for transgender children, the ACLU proved that when you fight this administration in court THEY LOSE! The people & places who give in just wanted to do so all along. They had no principles, that’s why they didn’t fight.

anyway a clear takeaway of today is that nobody remembers the start of The Thing

more counterspectacle at all times! “We cannot normalize this moment when Trump is marching our country toward fascism,” said Mr. Van Hollen. “I refuse to be a prop in the chamber as Donald Trump shreds our Constitution and attacks our democracy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Olympic highlight in this house.

As a millenial it feels very on brand that we would simultaneously accomplish two strategic goals (national awards and top-tier national/international review coverage) at the moment everyone says the book industry is officially falling apart.

Man

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

New Past Lives: Moll and the Indian Slave Trade in Colonial America. While the horrors of the Transatlantic trade are well known, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people were trafficked into slavery in North America as well. Moll was one of them. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

A dozen Baltimore County librarians got fired for organizing their union and then won their jobs back with their union. youtu.be/eAMK9ugqqhc

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

Since the troll column seems to have worked: The very very very very very very very obvious question is not "why hasn't the left embraced AI" but "why has the right so eagerly embraced a tech product built on theft, sold by fraud, and optimized for abuse and misinformation"

Union density, the most important measure of worker power in America, was stagnant for another year. We can start turning this around whenever the labor movement is ready to put on its ass-kicking shoes. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/labor-move...

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