“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”

Many low-income service workers already work 80+ hours per month on average. But 1 in 3 such workers will fall below the 80-hour-per-month threshold in at least one month in a year because of hours inconsistency or spells of unemployment

We pay ICE to round up as many bodies as they can for the private for-profit detention industry. Bodies = profits for investors. That's why they've almost eliminated release-on-bond for immigrants. That's what this cruelty boils down to. Tax money theft. www.brennancenter.org/series/priva...

NEW: More than 300 judges — including 33 appointed by Trump himself — have now rebuffed the Trump administration’s bid to dramatically expand efforts to lock people up while they fight deportation. www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/trump-administration-immigrants-mandatory-detention-00709494

Courts blocked troops from deploying in Chicago and Portland, Ore., and the Los Angeles deployment effectively ended after a judge blocked it earlier this month. n.pr/49fi9CC

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

The police procedural that we have chosen for hygge 2025, is ::drumroll:: Dark Winds it's pretty awesome!

See Cheryl Harris, “whiteness as property“ 1993 harvardlawreview.org/print/no-vol...

Once again, marginal income, capital gains, & wealth tax rates are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic

Guess how old I am from this thing I just said: “OoOoOoh this a good napkin, I’m taking it!”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u... A baller move by uni leaders in forward thinking states would be poach clusters of scholars from TX institutions. You’d inject a generation’s worth of teaching and productivity power to your school for bargain basement prices. Paging Ass. Deans across the nation.

What's the name of Trump's coms chief again? oh yeah, it's

Federal tax prosecutions have fallen to their lowest level in decades — dropping 27% the past year. This comes after Trump made deep cuts to the IRS. DOJ agents were reportedly also told not to prioritize tax prosecutions. Tax cheats must be thrilled.

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Headline du jour www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

They've contributed more than Trump in taxes...

My sister in law makes the best salsa on earth…

Important, sobering writeup on the history of deportation policies and practices Trump is a matter of degree, not kind Notable to me is that many tactics he’s using were signed into law in 1996… for those who think it’s a “them” thing Thanks @austinkocher.com open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

farts and hairs

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

Professors aren't bad people, we've just made bad choices...

NEW: I wrote for @statecourtreport.org about the important role *state* law plays in immigration enforcement, and some ongoing litigation in WI, NY, and CA that will shape the relationship between ICE and the states and localities in which it operates. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

Fox chyron reads "ANTI-ICE PROTESTS ROCK CHARLOTTE" while in the background on their liveshot you can see people in frog and dinosaur costumes

“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” a Trump appointee wrote in striking down the new lines. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”

yeah... scientific disagreement requires more than just..."It contradicts my social and political beliefs."

“This suggests a role for white racial attitudes, and, indeed, we find that state-level white racial resentment predicts Black-white representational disparities.”

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/

Some people say you should speak Spanish to identify as Latino. I disagree. I think hating Yolanda Saldivar is the only prerequisite for Latinidad.

I am SHOCKED that the thing i said would totally happened based on all of my expertise and experience.....has happened

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

wow!! she looks great after that surprise leopard attack!

Now I'm wondering if the dodgers managed to win because for their internal clocks it was only 9pm but for the blue jays it was really midnight 🤔

My Halloween disguise is someone who has their shit together

Brooke Rollins is a big fat liar

The Trump administration makes it official: The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500. As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf

"If we had a contingency fund." You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded? www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Private prison executives casually discussed the "3,000 arrests per day" quota in earnings calls—despite the Department of Justice previously denying any quota exists. This is fueling immigration raids nationwide while companies rake in record profits.

It is simultaneously frustrating and exasperating the number of calls I get from poor white people who are angry that they are the victims of the policies they support when they're used against racialized people and immigrants.

this really hurts...