That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

The infrastructure of authoritarian rule always comes with “temporary measures” that mysteriously never expire & they escalate from there. They’re folding the military directly into civilian law enforcement. Consolidated executive control backed by armed force is Nazi-level police state posture

Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported. I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.

NEW: The official USCIS guidance on this pause is out. Until further notice from the USCIS Director, all immigration benefits (including citizenship) are indefinitely suspended for nationals of 19 countries, as are all affirmative asylum applications from nationals of any country.

Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:

I Think Her Party Should Be Making Statements In Her Defense And The Greater Somali Community

There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.

Have to admit "asset managers discover Mollie Orshansky" was not on my 2025 bingo card.

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust. Their intentions are clear.

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

Treatment for trans kids cannot wait for adulthood. Adolescent changes in the body are permanent and irreversible. The pain of dysmorphia kills. No medical professional treats kids casually, no family seeks treatment casually. Treatment is safe, effective and is a conservative course of action.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

If trans kids can’t get hormone blockers, their bodies change permanently in ways that are profoundly disturbing to them. It isn’t a “they can decide when they’re grownups” situation. The blockers are what ALLOW them to decide later. Keeping blockers from trans kids is a cruel torture.

THAT IS THE LESSON OF HOLOCAUST EDUCATION YOU SICK FREAK

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Well that's an interesting way to cover the story, NYT.

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

They arrested a f*cking TODDLER. lataco.com/toddler-deta...

This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI

Exclusive from @npr.org: the Department of Health and Human Services plans to introduce a rule in early November eliminating Medicare & Medicaid funding of any kind for any hospital that offers care for transgender youth. This would make care nearly impossible to access. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

And children are dying from lack of access to medicine because he spent a weekend “feeding USAID into the woodchipper”

Abolish ICE

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

The Pulse Massacre was 9 years ago. Never forget the 49 people who were killed for being LGBTQ.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

(I would appreciate it if you shared this because it feels weird to write something like this and then have no one read it)

Turns out Harvard Law Review is feckless

This is in dead-red Florida. Hurricane season is starting. Veteran weatherman John Morales is rightly concerned that federal cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service means we’re flying blind into the storm — literally — and people are at mortal risk. Thank you for your courage, John.

All the people who were extremely proud of saying "I may not agree with what you're saying but I will defend your right to say it" suddenly seem to have forgotten those words

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before: cnn.it/43GWlge

Ukraine targets military assets while Russia terrorizes civilians. No moral equivalence.

Western Military Experts: Our conventional support for Ukraine is constrained due to Russia’s nuclear strike capabilities Ukraine: Ok, we’ll just eliminate that. Western Military Experts: what

This has aged well: bsky.app/profile/jenv...

64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving. Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups. Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.

Shameful and murderous www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The New Republic has kindly published what the LA Times and its RFK Jr-supporting billionaire owner Pat Soon-Shiong tried to suppress: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

"Prior to his career with the FBI, Mr. Driscoll was a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Mr. Driscoll earned a bachelor's degree in English from Villanova University and a master's degree in public policy and international relations from Pepperdine University."

Must-read story on how a private equity group cornered the fire truck market, doubling prices, causing massive delays and leaving departments across the county — including Los Angeles — without the resources needed to combat fires.