thanks for the #protip, subway

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

not anymore

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.

This is the policy of doodoo water drinkers for real for real

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

From the ACLU Washington, DC Chapter in case there are still laws:

right now, when the detention capacity for ICE is relatively small, as is the number of troops deployed domestically, the stuff trump is doing is easy to dismiss as simply aesthetics. buts it’s important to realize that the difference between it and full fascism is just scale, and scale can be built

terfs protecting women once more

I think some of the fear people have about saying fascism is here is about there being some point of no return? but this isn't a novel with a climax, and politics unfolds via complex contingent processes: there's always a moment to make different, better choices, even as the pathways get harder

What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up? I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

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“the pervert president is sending nameless government bureaucrats to repeatedly inspect you and your childrens genitals” is a true thing that democrats could be saying right now

wapo.st/3IRLZn6 No way should they have this behind a paywall, but here's a gift link. These numbers are still impossible to comprehend.

From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

2 stories I think would crush for a primary campaign against a dem incumbent: -"I was a govt worker fired by Trump/I was fired for speaking out about Trump" -"I saw something horrific happen right in front of me" both: "and looked at dems in DC and decided they weren't doing enough"

long shot but: do i have any Hawaiian/Polynesian artists with some open time for work seeing this ?

Bret Stephens (and all the editors over there for that matter) has seen the same footage from Gaza that you and I have seen—skeletal babies and grown men collapsing from hunger and gaunt corpses. And he still writes that it’s not a genocide. And the NYT still publishes it.

The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians Also, once it’s history, it’s too late

‘do the pilots who bomb children have children?’ —collected questions from Gaza’s children💔

🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances. It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

A worker was killed. Dozens detained. Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing. Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. seiuca.org/press-releas...

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

They murdered somebody during one of their raids. They actually did it.

"The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to keep the police secret."

Too few people realize that widespread knowledge of Nazi death camps came very late. Many who escaped Nazi death camps took on great risk to warn others, and were not always believed.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Just a reminder that the US has about 25% of the entire world’s prison population.

From The New York Times:

“In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone...If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked...Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.”

In a June Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani received more votes than 22 sitting US Senators received in their most recent general elections.

One in four abortions in the Midwest is conducted in Illinois. If you would like to support people seeking lifesaving care, consider contributing to the Chicago Abortion Fund: www.chicagoabortionfund.org

Aloe there 👋🏽 Here is a starter pack with Black researchers, practitioners & orgs working with plants in the broadest sense (botany, forestry, plant ecology, crop science, herbaria, botanic gardens) Hoping this will help set seed for a nurturing community! Reply 🔽 to be added go.bsky.app/7Gn2NCb

Israel saying that they only bombed military targets in Iran unlike Iran targeting civilian targets like we haven't watched them bomb hospitals and deploy snipers on churches in Gaza

the administration don’t think the budget bill or the iran bombing will be popular. they don’t really have a plan for becoming popular again. it might not be possible. this is just them doing the things they wanted to do, while they can

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

Unironically the thing I love about this point, is that it's a great basis to start talking to y'all about the fact that most of the people in jail in the US are just as innocent as Khalil. Many are Black folk that have been arrested with *absolutely no basis*, but wait *over a year* to see a judge.