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SeaWorld at night. #sandiego #seaworld #california

I am so excited for this! #kickstarter

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One week until launch time! I'm really looking forward to this one!​

Excellent ICE response guide for academic library workers from the Library Freedom Project. Includes proactive defense prep as well as rapid response. Please RT, library friends. libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

My biggest complaint with the new Superman movie is them giving Ma and Pa Kent southern accents. They're Kansans; they're not from the South! Other than that, though, fun movie!

This is literally "Your papers, please." It's Stasi shit. That's what Homan is declaring, here. Anyone who "looks foreign" is subject to detainment and harassment. Fail to persuade ICE thugs of your citizenship, and you risk arrest. And we've all seen video of what happens if you try to turn away.

. Watching Grok morph into Mechahitler within hours of Elon “de-wokeifying” it is the best unintentional ad for content moderation I’ve ever seen. .

Interesting theory that recent LLM modells' use of the em-dash is tied to token minimization (and the scanning of pre-digitization texts). https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/the-mystery-of-emdashes-part-two​

An interesting and unsettling database of regulatory changes that have taken effect since the beginning of the current administration. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/tracking-regulatory-changes-in-the-second-trump-administration/

This is so true. 99% of book bans have the intended effect: you never hear about those books again. The 1% of banned books that become infamous bestsellers elsewhere are not the norm.

Along the theme of interesting data, here's a database of lawsuits challenging Trump administration initiatives. https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/​

Another interesting and scary interactive map: This one shows people disappeared by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and where they were taken. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

This is an interesting interactive map of government fundings cuts and their localized effects around the country. Kind of scary, really. https://theimpactproject.org/the-impact-map/​​

Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son. Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice. From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

This is Alexandra.

How is your day going?

WestJet's preparation for takeoff/safely video is trippy. There's a giant lumberjack, a magic goose, a lake monster, a wand that turns cigarettes into chewing gum...

This is me.

My job is funded by federal grants. It’s a worrisome place to be right now, as the organization that issues those grants has just been eliminated by NIH. We’re scrambling to apply for a grant elsewhere, but the state of public funding is pretty abysmal right now.

Trump and DOGE are making devastating cuts to agencies and programs that serve the public — all in the name of rooting out "fraud and waste." Meanwhile, the regime is reportedly planning a military parade for Trump's birthday that could cost an estimated $92 million.  Hello?

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

So my morning has been trying not to think about the fact that this administration is now arresting judges they don't like, all while my son demands more stories about anthropomorphic fire alarms. How are you?

I'm laughing, but also crying.

He sent a woman to prison and took her visa for writing an op ed

Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.

We’re not joking, Miller and his puppet Trump really do want to fill universities with Soviet communist-style political commissars. Check out the letter—

Breaking: Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen just announced he'll depart tomorrow (Wednesday) for El Salvador to attempt to secure the release of Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia. "We must urgently continue working to return Kilmar safely home to Maryland."

i support any action that leads to the people in this video being put in front of an international criminal tribunal

Other people have already said this, but the next step is for courts to enjoin the admin from sending any more detainees abroad. There is no “oopsie we can’t” response for that. I’m not sure anyone in particular can be held in contempt in the current impasse, but that would be good too.

There will be lots of people who have previously been complicit who will find some courage, realize a line has been crossed, want to act. It’s gonna piss me off to welcome them but we’re gonna have to do it.

If you love your library, listen up…

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

Honestly, people going "you can move to Thailand" is the natural culmination of this meme.

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

The Social Security Administration is now wrongly informing some SSI recipients they are no longer receiving benefits. This comes as agency cuts have led to repeated website crashes and overwhelmed phone lines.  This is what DOGE's "efficiency" looks like.

To put more emphasis on this: Hundreds of thousands of Americans in at least 1400 cities and towns across the country, including in heavily Republican areas that never protest, protested Trump and Musk and their 401Ks being wiped out yesterday, and it’s NOT a main front page story in the Times.

Worthwhile thread:

I was flipping through Gary Provost’s “100 Ways to Improve Your Writing” and I had never seen this beautiful dedication before:

This whole thing is a layup for Dems and they should never stop complaining about it

My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.

In DC:

For those of you who are morbidly curious, here is a compiled spreadsheet of all medical research (from NIH grants) that has been illegally cut (impounded) by this administration. airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...

And, to be clear, it's almost certainly happening *because* the base has been screaming for action from elected Democrats. This isn't "relax, they've got this." This is "keep yelling, it's working."

If there was ever a symbol of why we need to get big money out of politics, reform campaign financing, stop conflicts of interest, and tax great wealth, Elon Musk is it. Kudos to Susan Crawford on this big victory for democracy, labor rights, and reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.