"The app, he said, is 'kind of like Google Maps' and shows how many individuals with an 'immigration nexus' are believed to be in a certain area. Another officer testified that a 'nexus' could mean any history of contact with immigration officials, which could include a naturalized US citizen."

Extreme economic inequality is incompatible with democracy, because extreme economic inequality creates ready targets for shit like this.

Toadies gonna toad. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

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This is what fucking crawls up my ass and chafes me raw …

With the US and Israel attacking Iran, Iran attacking a big stretch of the Mideast in response, Russia supporting Iran and Ukraine volunteering anti-drone support to the US, it feels like we sleepwalked into World War III without much comment.

“This should always have been a team effort…” Well then maybe you should have consulted with the team before making a catastrophically stupid murderous mistake

This may seem "pedantic" to some GOP complainers (who are basically ignorant of language) but I've known what "no quarter" meant since I was a kid - it's part of the shiver-up-your-spine lyrics of "Ballad of the Alamo". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Update for this woefully underfunded GoFundMe. I know from watching a family member deal with a divorce how legal fees can rack up. ($300,000 in 18 months.) Rahimi fled Iran and political persecution, is an active member of his church and community in San Antonio. www.gofundme.com/f/Keep-Shahr...

If the GOP would stop disappearing children, grandmothers and childcare workers into warehouse gulags, maybe we could have a funded government and enough TSA to tell you to throw that liter of Evan away so you can buy it again on the other side of the checkpoint. What a fucking mess.

From classrooms to libraries, politicians are banning books that tell the truth about race, gender, history, and power. Censorship isn’t about protection. It’s about control. Kentucky deserves better. Fight back. #FreedomUnderFire #LetThemRead #ACLUofKY

New Hampshire law censors teachers discussing "divisive concepts" - race, gender, civics. Who decides what qualifies as "divisive?" Women Lawyers On Guard joined @NWLC's amicus brief Local 8027 v. Edelblut challenging harmful censorship of educators womenlawyersonguard.org/2025/01/amic... #amicus

I spoke with Martin Peterson, the philosophy professor at Texas A&M University who had to remove Plato readings from a course syllabus to comply with school policies against teaching "race and gender ideology." He says he's replaced that material with media coverage of this censorship.

Cutting women’s & gender studies and limiting discussions of race & gender in the classroom is censorship. The question is why? What are the censors afraid of? It erodes students’ right to an education. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @afthighered.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

We've had enough of the censorship at Texas A&M. Sign the petition to demand that the Board of Regents end their policy of auditing syllabi & canceling courses that mention race or gender. The policy prevents faculty from teaching openly & students from learning freely. Sign & share⬇️

⭐️👏✊Please add your name to the letter below and join PEN America — and the hundreds who have already signed — in sending a strong message in defense of academic freedom to the Texas A&M Board of Regents. pen.org/dont-censor-...

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Under revised policies at Texas A&M, the women’s and gender studies program is scheduled to shutter, hundreds of courses have been altered, and even Plato has been banned. PEN America led a delegation of writers to the university to defend Aggies’ freedom to teach and learn: pen.org/keeping-acad...

#saturdayLibrarian: spring flowers edition 🪻

Perfect scrinchy face. 🥰 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Which, of course, puts our military’s people at greater risk, for a war we did not want to send them to, and for rhetoric that’s only there to puff up the speaker.

Yeah, I’ve NOTICED.

“So damaged is the department’s reputation for truth telling at this point, one judge noted despairingly, that ‘the court is left with little confidence’ that government lawyers ‘can be trusted to tell the truth about anything.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

In case you missed it, I recorded a little video about Irish music for the @startribune.com

Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game. No ICE No War No Kings No Fear.

The only major network not yet (or planned to be) owned by Trump's buddies.

The embroidery produced by Otomi (Hñähñu) women of Mexico is known as Tenango Embroidery. Created with an "Otomi Stitch", the colourful designs of animals, plants & rural life represent the stories & beliefs of the people who produce this specific form of embroidered expression #Womensart

How the hell would they cause reputational damage when we all already thought they were little shits for all the damage they did? The videos just confirm what we all already knew.

#WOMENSART blog: Elizabeth Catlett: Homage To My Black Sisters womensartblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/e... #WomensHistoryMonth

Great news for our Somali neighbors with TPS! 🎁

Our local media is doing in-depth reporting of not only the event, but also, how this has affected Jewish and Muslim communities here. This is why local media matters.

Our local news coverage of the attack on the temple in West Bloomfield is light years ahead of national coverage. Detroit, Dearborn, and SE Michigan is not utopia. However, there is a very long history of interfaith cooperation here. Many of us mourn for and with our Jewish and Muslim neighbors.

WHOA.

I’m at the Tucson book festival this weekend (March 14-15)!

In honor of Fossil Friday the 13th, we've got a weird one for you: a Xiphactinus tooth embedded in the neck vertebra of a Polycotylus. 📸 Drumheller et al., 2026

Fascinating!

Republicans in disarray www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

This was a weird story to report. It's less about being able to find a definitive answer than profiling the uncertainty people in Minneapolis are feeling, as well as their distrust of the feds after seeing their actions. It's worth reading past the headline. (6) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The federal government won’t confirm or deny using drones for surveillance in Minnesota. Local law enforcement agencies say the drones aren’t theirs. Lots of residents shared videos, photos and detailed notes of apparent drones sightings in Minneapolis. (2) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Mutual aid is second nature to this community. Their homes may be changed forever, but we will do our best to make sure they feel safe and rebuild here in Kankakee County. We’re all in this together.

What's happening to the global economy because the Strait of Hormuz is closed provides all the proof you need that there is no "decoupling" the economy from the material conditions of the planet. We're embedded in the environment, folks. There is no economy without nature.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Problem is that you expect him to understand what these words mean.

THIS is how you cover political hyperbole and propaganda and how you put commentary back into context. Well done, Texas Tribune. www.texastribune.org/2026/03/12/j...

Watching the @ricksteves.bsky.social episode about fascism and Nazi Germany. It's frightening watching it now because so many of the things talked about in this episode are happening RIGHT NOW. I HIGHLY recommend you watch and get everyone you know to watch. youtu.be/aLWWqUUm2uk?...

This is a Hollywood movie in its intensity of just how awful. Jailed for nearly 3 months, she lost her job, her house, her dog, was stranded 1200 miles away on Christmas Eve, needing charity for food, shelter and to get home. And all of it because of the AI facial recognition mistake.

Local and state police tried to balance the rights and safety of activists and ICE agents by taking part in a tense immigration raid. To critics, it looked like collaboration. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

South Burlington residents formed a human tunnel to rescue a three-year-old from an ICE raid without a warrant.

This is why Kate Manne’s work correctly defining misogyny is so crucial to understanding our current moment. Misogyny isn’t “hating women”, these guys all have exceptions to that. Misogyny describes the *policing arm* of the patriarchy; its foot soldiers are the misogynists. It’s like ICE.