D.C. stands to lose more than $40 million in homeland security funding, starving programs aimed at responding to terrorist attacks and other emergencies, after the Trump administration moved to slash federal grant funding by 90 percent.

Tsunami evacuation warning after quake strikes in waters off Davao in the Mindanao region of the Philippines.

This is enough carbon-free energy to power maybe two thirds of Vegas btw

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

"School of AI" blech

tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚 --- UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Fans React to Drake’s ‘Not Like Us’ Lawsuit Against UMG Being Dismissed

i can’t believe we got another woke pope after all

These artists revolutionized modern art in Nigeria. They’re finally getting recognition further afield | CNN

Gonna be on CNN at 6:45am est tomorrow for the early birds

Solidarity!

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

This is really fucking scary and the only thing we can do is basically show up with solidarity as much as possible. Whatever mark and their family need

This is the first phase of a 20-point plan announced by Trump last week.

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company. craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

I used to be able to keep these DAILY MEMOs to under 3 minutes, the last couple videos have been impossible to. ICE is escalating in Los Angeles, just look at the article version with every incident highlighted. This is only what we could confirm, only what we know of. @lataco.bsky.social

The only people whose opinion matters on this peace deal are the people of Gaza, many of whom are cautiously optimistic. It is hard to be genuinely hopeful as a Palestinian, but I pray that the ceasefire holds and that Israel does not renege on the agreement.

Son of missionaries accused of setting destructive Palisades fire

There’s a very good reason polls show Republicans are being blamed for the shutdown.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Portland never stops being Portland.

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

I read @oliverdarcy.bsky.social's interview with WaPo's Matt Murray and I cannot believe he uttered these words: We’ve made great progress on an ambitious plan to reinvent The Post as the most trusted, accurate news organization in the world, with riveting and relevant information for all Americans.

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies. This is dangerous and could cause serious injury. The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke. They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”. Stay strong Portland.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Southern California peeps: Looking for a spare laptop donation for a 45-year old Black woman comrade who is going back to school. Laptop just needs to work reliably and run Microsoft Office and connect to her school's Google workspace stuff. Thank u!

The president of the United States is priming the US military for his coming war against Americans on American streets, and there are folks on here squabbling over the proper definition of fascism.

My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

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"In at least one case, the lack of care has also extended to an expectant mother. This week, The San Francisco Chronicle told the story of Angie Rodriguez, a 26-year-old San Jose, California, woman who discovered she was pregnant, and then miscarried while in ICE custody."

"The Trump administration's claim that no one has died from cuts to USAID is devastatingly and disastrously untrue."

Thank you, @nicolechung.bsky.social, for this. So important. As a birth mother, I'm pained by how blithely people suggest adoption, thinking that the idea of an "open" one solves the pain I live with.

The vast majority of U.S. infant adoptions are open, w/ potential for ongoing contact between birth & adoptive families. Research points to the benefits of openness compared to closed adoptions of the past (like my own). Open adoption is, as a social worker told me, "an agreement based on promises."

Several birth mothers told me they felt reassured by the idea that they could remain available and connected to their biological child in an open adoption. "They say, You have the power; you have choice; you control how this process goes," birth mom Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard says of agencies.

But open adoption is *not* shared custody or coparenting. Adoptive parents are the child's only legal parents, with the right to make decisions about who has access to their child; as another birth mom told me, "they have all the power." She said this is why many birth mothers "live on eggshells."

From birth moms & other experts, I learned how complicated openness can be—even when it's part of the plan at the start. “We talk about open adoption as if it’s okay for everyone because there are no secrets,” a birth mom & advocate said. “In reality, the hurts of open adoption are just different.”

Open adoption, a social worker told me, is “an agreement based on promises.” But what happens if some of those promises—to regularly communicate, send updates and photos, allow visits, etc.—aren’t honored? What, if anything, can birth mothers do to protect themselves? 🎁 link:

I spoke w/ over 2 dozen birth mothers for this story. Though I could only include a fraction of their stories here, all they shared about their experiences since placement, their love & their grief, & their hopes for their children helped inform this piece & deepen my understanding of open adoption.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Launched a thousand masters theses, should academia survive.