ICE is knowingly and intentionally traumatizing an entire city.

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

If you need a deep breath, a mental reset, a reminder of why you CARE and why you act, this is a very short read meant to give just that. (I’m there because I take no money and it’s free. The other places aren’t. And @hcrichardson.bsky.social is there.)

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

As someone who’s written about Agamemnon, I can say with 100% confidence that this post is perfect. Especially great to see it at the end of a classics conference.

Jesus H. Christ

What is the point of appropriations if the White House can just cut off spending against its enemies?

FUCK ICE. FUCK FUCK ICE. FUCK FUCK FUCK ICE. FUCk ICE. FUCK ICE Fuck ice

New: DHS is lying to you. At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

ICE is responsible for the *only* shooting and homicide in Minneapolis so far in 2026.

I watched the videos and that killer was never touched by the car and was walking around like an extremely chill dude after he shot a woman in the fucking face

We can say she was murdered, no?

Jan. 6, 2021:

Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt. This is cruel and unnecessary. If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

ICYMI: Texas A&M admin is requiring a faculty member to either remove *Plato* from their syllabus for being too woke or be reassigned to teach “Ethics for Engineers” at 8am

Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.

they're doing it for gender, imo

Hegemonic masculinity, with its inherent misogyny and homophobia, has been central to the rise of every fascist movement.

People often deem something “useless” to disguise their fear of the truths it speaks.

Viewpoint discrimination. Government action taken to punish a member of the Senate based on First Amendment-protected political speech.

Battery electric cars will overtake diesels in Great Britain by 2030, analysis suggests

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

On average across multiple polls, only 25% of Americans support military action in Venezuela substack.com/@gelliottmor...

Let’s be honest: bsky.app/profile/tilm...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target

The media doesn’t talk enough about the fact that ”Let’s Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Good example of what every elected Dem and candidate should be saying loudly right now:

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.

During one interview, the student admitted that she merely looked at the topic and then rushed together a response based on her personal feelings regarding a tangential issue that was the main thesis of the assigned article, because she was in a hurry to go see a play that evening with her friend.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

For me the final death nail in the coffin was indeed the fact that GenAI has no compunction to be accurate or truthful and *is* prone to simply make shit up about what you ask it about. At that point it might as well just be a random word generator that makes climate change worse

Got this answer from Google AI today.

so much winning

Four years after her double lung transplant, 21-year-old Hannah’s body was at war with itself. “Hurry,” she wrote, unable to speak. The generic drug she took to prevent organ rejection should have been working. She didn't know the FDA doesn’t always ensure that’s the case. 🧵

On this day in 1986, white teens brutally beat two young Black men looking for assistance in Queens, New York. One of the Black men was struck and killed by a car while attempting to flee.

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“There’s beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it.” Photo is my own, unedited.