www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/30/c... - an important read. (gift article)

Are there any birders out there who can help ID this bird from semi-helpful photos? These were taken with a cellphone through binoculars. San Diego, CA on Dec. 20. If it is what I think it is, it seems unusual for the area, and a lifer for me. Help? #birds #SanDiego

If you want to help the Brown University community, donate blood. Donations in NYC, KC, MN, Nebraska, or Delaware will supply Rhode Island and the Brown Community. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation. My latest in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)

Every journalist hit with a stinger grenade or pepper ball by law enforcement while covering a protest is a message from the government: Stop showing the truth. Journalists must speak out.

This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one.

If you don't think kids should have food, what broke you?

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!

"When we were at war with fascists in Europe, everyday people, everyone would have been an anti-fascist. Being an anti-fascist should not be a controversial thing. It should be controversial to be a fascist." Wrote this five years ago. It shouldn't hold up this well. www.hcn.org/articles/nor...

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling. We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

Fascism is about power, not consistency. You can't fight fascists with gotchas. Your gotchas are music to their ears. The only thing that works with them is interfering with their ability to exercise their power. You have to make them fail at what they're trying to do.

Last time I checked, you can't drink data.

You can now register for the 14th Amendment Center’s webinars on birthright citizenship. The sessions will be held on September 16th and 17th with a line-up of experts. REGISTER NOW: howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“The Guardian is printing the names of all the Palestinian journalists listed by the CPJ as having died as a result of Israeli military action since October 2023 as part of a day of action in condemnation of the killings and in solidarity with those journalists who remain…”

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:

This is an important thread. D.C. is a testing ground.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

A TSUNAMI WATCH is now in effect for Washington state. If you are on the coast, be prepared to take action & stay tuned for more instructions. This alert level will update once more is known. Find details here: tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/... #TsunamiWatch #WaWX

"In my mind, this is no longer a conversation about anything else. Children are starving and being murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military while they seek to feed themselves. It feels impossible to talk about anything else in this conflict when that degree of sociopathic violence is occurring."

Because this is unbearable, I just gave to the Sameer Project - recommended by @prisonculture.bsky.social. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔 Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...

How can you have a reasonable suspicion that an American citizen is in the country illegally? You can’t How can you have a probable cause that an American citizen is in the country illegally? You can’t How can you lawfully deport an American citizen for being in the country illegally? You can’t

This is the oath of office each senator takes at the start of his or her term:

While Iran and Israel continue to attack each other, Israel continues the mass murder of Palestinians.

Today is #WorldRefugeeDay. The right to health does not begin or end at a country’s border. Refugees & forcibly displaced people must have uninterrupted, affordable & equitable access to health services wherever they are, at any time. #HealthForAll 👉 bit.ly/4kQoVDu

#Seattle #NoKings march is still streaming into Seattle Center. Lots of smiles, dogs, little kids, people passing out water and masks. Creativity and care everywhere.

My father died 14 years ago today. He lived a quiet but honorable life, kind and generous. During WW2, he did his part against the Nazis by growing food for his community. He had one eye and regretted not being allowed to enlist. Today he is on my shoulder, against fascism and dictators. #NoKings

Note to self: Normalize sharing fuzzy photos of #birds because they are the only kind I take through binoculars. #BirdJoy #OwlsAreAwesome #Seattle

Trump backs arrest of California Governor Gavin Newsom, in an extraordinary threat as the two men spar over protests in Los Angeles u.afp.com/SGV3

🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨 Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs: Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate LA Jail Support / Bail Fund: account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor... Unión del Barrio: uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

A beloved member of my organizing community was taken by ICE today during an immigration check-in. Please sign this petition demanding her release.

Sahar cannot keep an account here but needs help (I added the captions) www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

“House Republicans’ draft budget bill includes a clause to give Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a supporter of terrorism.”

I need you to make calls to Congress because on Tuesday, the House Committee responsible for Medicaid is meeting to slash funding for Medicaid—the health program 80 million Americans rely on, the health program that has kept me alive. This piece is not paywalled, it is not locked—please share it.

In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

A must-read with gratitude to @policingequity @sandylocks.bsky.social @imaniperry.bsky.social and the many other contributors. time.com/collections/...

From friendsofusaid on instagram: Children cannot afford to wait any longer for @edesianutrition’s Plumpy’Nut to ship to Sudan. This MUST get sorted out immediately before any more young, innocent lives are needlessly lost. Please call your Senators and Representatives-- script to follow. 1/🧵

ABC/WASH POST/IPSOS POLL: “Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with public pushback on many of his policies and extensive economic discontent, including broad fears of a recession…”

@kalamazoocollege.bsky.social Thank you for signing.

@angryblacklady.bsky.social and I dive into the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case and the ongoing constitutional and human rights crisis that is the Trump regime in the latest episode of Boom! Lawyered. rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/04/17/w...