I just published: The Taken Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas Documented through court records. Including worms in food, sewage water flooding into eating areas, returned to Minnesota in chains and shackles after courts order release, more.

When justice is pursued for these children it’s channeled through its means (crimes directed at & disproportionately affecting children) & its purpose (genocide). The severe form of young age discrimination it entails— the crime of persecuting children because they are young — is left out 2/

Today we're celebrating #EllenHutchins, Ireland's first female field botanist, for Intl Day of Women & Girls in Science! She began to study plants in her early 20s, gathering more than 1,100 plant specimens over several years before passing away age 29. #CrawfordArtGallery #WomenInSTEM #GirlsInSTEM

‘The room is almost all elephant. … So there’s no room to talk about…’ the specific discriminatory intent that drives international wrongful acts & crimes targeting children including migrant children.

‘I’m no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind’s hand.’

It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

I am only interested in art that keeps me wondering. For me art is not a problem to be solved. Great art is a cloud of unknowing. —Siri Hustvedt

‘If only the strutting brawn, with their big tech, bags of dollars and guns, could perceive real planetary power, its truth, they might think differently.’

Since October 7, 2023 Israel is responsible for killing more than 20,000 Palestinian children in Gaza, at least one child every hour www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-20... Since the ceasefire its armed forces have killed roughly one child every day www.unicef.org/press-releas... 1/ #speirgorm

One of my favourite facts about Iceland is that there are about 75 Eagle's nests in the country, scientists know where they are, but because the White-tailed eagle is endangered here that knowledge is guarded like a state secret. So if you ever meet a biologist that knows, he will not tell you.

Children in particular are being used as a means to ‘terrify others’.

Gorgeous art installation inside Sainte Chapelle, Chateau de Vincennes. #Photography #Sculpture #Architecture #Interior #France #Art 📷

Ingrid Jonker’s poem of the child ‘present at all assemblies & law-givings’ with a bullet through his brain & Toni Morrison’s infant Ghost killed by her mother in an act of altruistic filicide whose ‘footprints come and go’ resonate with this Ghost crime fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

At both sides of the Atlantic children, migrant and refugee children, are being used as weapons.

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another tragedy of the desperate: At least 53 migrants and refugees – including two babies – are dead or missing after a large rubber dinghy capsized off the coast of Libya. No person fleeing conflict, persecution, or hunger should have to die trying to reach safety. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Age Persecution of Children, A Ghost Crime Against Humanity Waiting To Be Seen fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Age Persecution of Children, A Ghost Crime Against Humanity Across time & space this crime has many iterations. Israel’s iteration (my example) is a Ghost of empire walking-again. Change its details & the faces of the perpetrators and targeted children change fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

3/ “I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister.” From 14-year-old Ariana V.V, whose U.S.-citizen siblings are 2 and 5 years old. Detained for 45+ days

Toni Morrison in Grendel & His Mother & Hubert Butler in The Children of Drancy* remind us there is no Grendel or captain of evil targeting children without cause or explanation.Too often however children’s young age as an intersecting driving animus is Ghosted fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

James Baldwin knew ‘children are [not] always ours’. Sometimes they are specific targets. It is not only their racial, ethnical, national and gender status that turn them into specific targets, however. It is also their young age fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

#OnThisDay 100 years ago, The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey premiered at the Abbey Theatre. At its original production in February 1926, the audience rioted. Now regarded as a masterpiece, this provocative play is an essential part of our understanding of Irish history and Irish theatre.

"What happens when democratic states adopt the methods of the regimes they once condemned? Terror is not only masked men and arbitrary detention. It also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people more compliant, more submissive. " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That's ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou. Making traveling almost impossible, because all Major Credit Cards are from the US and other banking Institutes fear sanctions as well. This should be on a major agenda for the EU, but appeasing seems the way to go. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

📢The @icjurists.bsky.social has published a new Guide on Strategic Litigation to engage lawyers and CSOs in strategic human rights litigation challenging immigration detention of children 🔍 www.icj.org/eu-icj-publi... #EndChildDetention

Figure at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/figure-at-night-guided-by-the-phosphorescent-tracks-of-snails

just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.

Free them all.

Kyiv. We were warned of a possible attack tonight. Me? Had a warcoffee, made dinner, and charged everything (we had 2.5 hours of power). Feeling nothing. We’ll survive everything. I know.

‘A friend in London talks about the mystifying phrase she keeps hearing these days: “This is not America, this is not who we are.” But this is America, this is life, and this is how human beings behave. American exceptionalism will not save us.’ Yiyun Li on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

There is no Grendel in El Fasher or Gaza City or ‘captain of evil’ in Yangon or Donetsk targeting children without cause or explanation, only a Ghost crime waiting to be seen fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-choose/the-ghost-crime-against-humanity-waiting-to-be-seen #youngagepersecution

Gaza’s photographers have been forced to capture violence no human should ever witness. What does it mean to repeatedly record a blinded boy or a father mourning his children? Huda Skaik asked eight Gazan photographers to share a photo of significance. https://bit.ly/4bBF8L6

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

‘Performative hostility’ is right & a perfect description.

Kind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.

Displacement has become the force that shapes Gaza’s geography. Reading alongside Edward Said, Alaa Alqaisi gives shape to a life now permanently marked with loss. https://bit.ly/4rtM7KD

Texas students walk out of school in protest of ICE ✊

The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.

Oh the small joys ✨

And why is this hypothesis / never discussed? Because / it is not in the story; it only creates the story. — from Louise Glück's Persephone The Wanderer fromsaltintears.com/radical-just...

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.