NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

Some follow-up steps to push for full divestment here. actions.eko.org/a/microsoft-...

I’m just so thankful that the federal government is using every tool at its disposal to protect American children from the threat of … qualified professionals who want to oversee their educations at public sector salaries

In recent weeks Georgie has figured out that I will get out of bed faster if she stands directly on top of my bladder and frankly I think she is abusing this knowledge

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

introducing vibes (derogatory)

rip vibes it was a good word, perhaps a bit overused, but it served us well and now it’s dead, killed by Zuck

why is it so swampy

It’s literally not popularism though! It’s a principled position that was established at a time when it was incredibly *unpopular*, not because it might become popular, but because it was considered right and just!

they’re doing some street work near my apartment and Georgie is TERRIFIED of the temporary ramp they put down a lady sitting nearby said that she’s watched five dogs in a row freak out at the ramp and refuse to use it and we agreed it must have a negative aura

make it stop

not with a bang but a wanker

an abundance of babies amirite

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

pov there’s a dog on you

really seems like every news media best practice wrt covering shootings has gone completely out the window in the past few months

Georgie is such a good girl waiting for me outside the yarn store and not being at all judgy about the fact it’s the second time we’ve been this week

This is great.

what the expression for when one person races ahead and then spoils a whole area for everyone else who might want to follow

Are you autistic? What did you think of the announcement yesterday? I want to hear from you for a Guardian US article: [email protected]

my deepest admiration for the purity of this hatred

thinking about participating in a yarn crawl

I would very much like to read an article about who made this, how it came to be in Eric Adams’s possession, and any conversations he had about the decision to wear it for Rosh Hashanah.

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Trump that his desire to do eugenics is sincere

Even down to how they exploit the changes in diagnostic criteria to suggest there's some "contagion" or "epidemic." What those changes actually point to is a move away from a model of suppression to a model of acceptance, and that's what actually terrifies them

whom hoping to get raptured before they have to file

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

just the sweetest girl

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

i've been saying this for a long time. think about how all the anti-trans/lgbtq+ policies would be reported if they were in russia (they are - we're borrowing from them). "repression" would be the language. do we see it here, anywhere in mainstream reporting?

I just don’t really understand how this isn’t being treated more like an emergency situation

ngl I think more funerals should have fireworks

It’s important to know in advance that you will regret going along with it, but it’s also important to say to those who made the wrong decision that you can always stop going along with it, in fact it’s the best thing you could do

Georgie met a fairy godmother today. A lady was sitting on her stoop and Georgie went right over and asked for pets. The lady said that animals love her and she has a cardinal that comes to her back window to eat nuts from her hand and within two minutes Georgie was showing her belly.

“We follow not Christ but Horst Wessel”

NYT spelling bee accepting “fanfic” while rejecting “iftar” is a choice

If the concern is authoritarianism, I struggle to think of more than a very few things a state can do that are more intrusive of human rights, dignity and freedom than forced pregnancy.

this exists it is called thinking

NEW: US law enforcement have claimed the use of certain *emojis* could signal affiliation with the Tren de Aragua gang, records reveal. The "ludicrous" claims, like assertions about tattoos, could further fuel false gang labels + deportations. W/ @propertyofthepeople.org emoji docs excerpted here ⬇️

"No One Ever Told ME What To Write/Say" spoken entirely in unison by a huge group of people hired & promoted *entirely* because of their eager sensibility at writing & saying *exactly* what their bosses want said along with their ability to never perceive their bosses telling them what to do as that

It is bad that our industry rewards people who go on TV to brag that they are stupid, unthoughtful and uncaring

“Horst Wessel fell, but thousands newly arise”

this is such a bizarre article it points out many of the reasons why a new diagnostic category for mental illness might be problematic without grappling with the fact that literally every diagnostic category for mental illness has the exact same problems

Psychiatry has yet to identify a single bio marker of “mental illness” but sure let’s do high tech physiognomy that sounds fun

this is actually a lockout

and the Pulitzer Prize for sophistry goes to …

this is going around knitting reddit and it feels like a really helpful example of how the insistence that every aspect of our society be sorted into a strict partisan binary of democrats and republicans has made us all meaningfully stupider (m1r is a knitting increase that leans… right)

somehow missed that at the time lithos agreed to star in the new Harry Potter series, he was starring in a play about a once beloved children’s author whose legacy was tarnished by the fact that they were also quite the bigot ?? ?

I keep seeing trees budding new branches right next to trees with leaves already turning and it’s making me feel a bit discombobulated and confused. Is this normal for fall and I’m just noticing it for once?

so the Atlantic ended up paying Ruth Shalit Barrett more than $1m for her retracted article about high school sports which I think works out to infinity dollars a word