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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

I'm a U.S. Citizen, born and raised in Honolulu. I don't "look like" my last name, because I took my (Caucasian, TX-born and MI-raised) husband's name when we got married. Depending on whether you're white supremacist, you might also say I don't "look like" an American. This is not right.

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed. By Gisela Salim-Peyer

Are you an alum from one of these 9 schools? Join in defense by signing this alumni petition to support your alma mater and campus communities across America.

If you are an alum of any of these schools, we urge you to join or start your own alumni action to let their administrations know how you feel about this. This is a trial balloon and we’ve seen these sorts of tests before—if allowed, they expand. Resistance is imperative.

If you are an American evangelical, the next best time to ask yourself is now: Are you an American first and foremost? A Southerner? A Republican? A conservative? An evangelical? Or are you first and foremost a child of God and follower of Christ?

Many years ago @0ana.bsky.social gave me a copy of Haroun and the Sea of Stories (her beautiful handwriting is still there inside the front cover to delight me every time I open it), and I started reading it to our little one while we were both sick in bed last month...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

My kid wrote this list for me one afternoon last week, as I was trying to eke out a little work while sick. I’m very lucky to be his mama. 🥹

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

The National Archives under the Trump Admin illegally released unredacted, classified, full military records for a Democratic NJ Gov candidate to an ally of her opponent. Seems more and more reasonable for Americans to expect the release of the Epstein files, also unredacted and in full.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.”

This is a major theme in revolutionary texts, but it’s also literally right in front of our faces standards of decorum are only applied to the people who are harmed by the status quo and want to change it

#BOSTONSTRONG cc @crimsoncourage.bsky.social

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. -Adam Zagajewski Resharing a favorite. [trans. Clare Cavanagh, published in TheNewYorker’s Sept 2001 special issue] #everynightapoem

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A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."

Extremely helpful from @pkrugman.bsky.social about why markets' reaction to Trump's attempts to abolish the foundations of American prosperity have been so muted, even as he's gone after Fed independence: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-... It's even got a political epistemology angle.

First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out (because the message test performed at a low percentile rank compared to other messages in our testing bank for non college men who opt into online surveys through various consumer reward programs)

A, B, 💿, E, F, G, … 🎶

Something tells me that this former GOP Senate candidate from Arizona and Peter Thiel protege is NOT referring to “foreigners” like Thiel, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Melania Trump, Usha Vance’s parents, and Bernie Moreno.

Crimson Courage delivered an updated list of over 15,500 signatures in support of academic freedom to President Garber, the Board of Overseers, and the Harvard Corporation today! THANK YOU! Let's keep those numbers growing—no Harvard affiliation required to sign. bit.ly/crimson-cour...

Robert Reich says “A deal with Trump would be a surrender if Harvard agrees to even a smidgeon of government oversight over who’s hired or admitted or what’s taught. Even negotiating with Trump gives his demands a degree of legitimacy he should never have.” robertreich.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

Until the ink is dry on an agreement, we still have a chance to be heard and bigger numbers will amplify the message. Note that anyone can sign—no Harvard affiliation required—so please share widely after you sign! (link at the end) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u... Sign: bit.ly/crimson-cour...

If you think that considering socioeconomic adversity in college admissions (or other selective processes) is “just a workaround for considering race”, maybe acknowledge how this supports the concept of systemic racism…..

Please add your name to and share our new sign-on letter calling on Harvard to protect academic freedom; the rights of its students, faculty, scholars, and employees; and democracy. View and sign here: bit.ly/crimson-cour...

Wow. Sick. The Richard Spencer affirmative action comment is so telling. They are collectively the dogs that caught the car. Perpetually dissatisfied and convinced that their mediocrity is a conspiracy.

Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.

“It’s a hallmark of a nation where language diversity is embraced as a strength rather than being a barrier to be overcome.” 🇮🇳💪🏼

14/ Rodríguez told me he wants the world to know what happened in El Salvador — daily beatings, humiliation, psychological abuse. “There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.” www.propublica.org/article/vene...

Bearing fruit: our children huddled together for long hours over things that aren’t screens

Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**

Gotta get those freeloading immigrants by kidnapping them while they’re at *work* and stealing *taxpayer* data…wait, what?

The agency is closing the Office of Research and Development, which analyzes dangers posed by hazards including toxic chemicals, climate change, smog, wildfires, water pollution and more.

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.

President Trump is openly telling a celebrity and political enemy — Rosie O’Donnell — that he is “serious” about taking away her American citizenship and exiling her from the U.S. because he dislikes the views she expresses when exercising her free speech rights www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...