NYU is so embarrassing

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone except those who are committed to separating and destroying families all across the country and across the globe. To those people, your mothers should be ashamed of you. The world certainly is.

i still haven’t found my footing on here

remember a decade or so ago when demographic experts and journalists would all be like, “by 2050, the United States will be a *majority-minority* nation….” they surely aren’t leading with that one anymore.

I wish B-613 was real.

The news keeps referring to Trump’s war on DEI. I wish they’d say it more plainly. This is Trump’s war against Black people, Latino people, Asian American people, Indigenous people, trans and gay people. And like war, the intention is to kill us.

A sneak peak of what’s gonna happen in the United States

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

I can’t believe one of the most impactful sociologists of our time was taken away in an instant by some idiot driver racing through a pedestrian intersection. I hate 2025 so much. Rest in peace, Michael Burawoy. www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

Beyonce wins AOTY! 😍Finally something good that happened in 2025.

🎯 🎯 🎯

honestly these days there is more joy in checking work emails than social media

some days i hate that man so much I can’t function and just want to fucking scream

This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone. Or on a plaque in every ATC tower. Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode. Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American. Or on a stamp. Or maybe currency. Something.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

AOC has been the only democratic leader who I feel has directly communicated with me on a consistent basis since Trump won the election.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

i love how it took me 10,000 ugly words to arrive at 300 pretty words.

The United States in a nutshell

Fuck ICE

when you say you're proud to be an american, does that include the americans who... ...are ripping parents away from their children? ...are actively funding genocide? ...are literally killing women by withholding reproductive rights? ...are trying to obliterate trans people? just checking.

thinking abt the billions wasted on ICE agents & raids and imagining the multitude of ways the money couldve been used to attack homelessness, mass incarceration, transphobia, school inequality. instead billions r being spent to assault children & families in schools, hospitals, churches. fuck ICE.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

the Brazilian reaction videos to the Oscar nominations is a much needed source of joy I didn’t know I needed

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

We’re all living in his Kafkaesque world, but remember that these tactics are deployed first against the most vulnerable, including refugees, migrants, and prisoners, from domestic prisons to Guantanamo, as well as those subject to war and genocide in the name of freedom and democracy.

the past few days i’ve been like, why am I having such trouble writing, and then I was like, oh duh, of course.

the empire’s always done evil, maybe just easier to tell now

i haven’t turned on the tv or looked at online news once and the day still manages to feel stressful

Ahhh the nazi salute on national television. Right on schedule I suppose.

is today the threat to, or really, the promise of America?

16 years ago i would’ve never imagined what’s gonna happen tomorrow

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

instagram posts aren’t square anymore 😱😱 thoughts and prayers to canva

One of many tragedies. It's not just the rich and white who have suffered in the LA fires. “He probably could have gotten up and walked away, but he’s not gonna leave my brother"...So the pair huddled together awaiting a rescue that never came... www.latimes.com/california/s...

Team Greenland all the way

I wish these some of these really important articles about the fire were exempt from the paywall.

Friends, I know you might have donated to many in need, but if I may add one more. My dear friend Sylvia and her son lost their home in the Altadena fire: gofund.me/64cb082f Please share widely. 🙏🏽

that certain people can attempt to overthrow the government and become president while thousands and thousands of others of a different hue are incarcerated for years for carrying a dime sack of weed perfectly illustrates how everything this country supposedly stands for is a total lie.

with an n95 mask, being outside is manageable. without one, it’s unbreathable. please stay masked up if you’re venturing outside even for a few minutes.

the view from my parents’ house this morning

immigrant economic anxiety trauma is buying my dad, who lives in an EVACUATION ZONE, a generator and his response first being, “why do we need that? how much did that cost?”

The LA Times photo desk, which is doing incredible work covering these brutal fires, has set up a Bluesky account that is among the newest ones we have verified. They are well worth following right now. @latimesphotos.bsky.social

Resources for Angelenos in need. Please share.

the situation in LA is beyond devastating. at a total loss of words.

only that loser could make “Girl,…” sound so loser-y.

Thread of 2025 reads. Can’t wait to thumb through this on December 31, 2025 (assuming earth is still around).

it's funny how racism makes you feel stupid for believing in fairness.

i dream about this day often.