ICE stormed a residence hall at Augsburg University, detained an undergrad, and aimed rifles at students and staff then admitted they had no warrant to be on campus. This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.

CoreCivic is dropping their failing lawsuit and is attempting to get their internment camp in Leavenworth via a SUP via a city council meeting tomorrow at 6PM. I am told this is an “all hands on deck” moment by locals and activists if you can make it. 100 N 5th Street Leavenworth, KS 66048

My grandma was an active and alert woman. She drove and was so involved in the lives of her friends. Then she got shingles. She was never the same. Less active and alert. Always health problems that made doing things hard. Get the vaccine.

@tinakotek.bsky.social and @danrayfield.bsky.social - Can Oregon join or replicate this?

I knew Trump chose mortgage fraud to go after his enemies with phony charges of because it's a crime he's quite familiar with. He probably thinks everyone does it. And when @propublica.org called him to ask him about it, he hung up on them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

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Breaking News: Honduras has issued an international arrest warrant for its former president who was recently pardoned by President Trump.

Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair

Nearly a year after Greyhound ended bus service, residents of northeast Oregon will again have a public transit option to reach Portland and Boise. The daily service will be operated by Northwestern Stagelines.

No community should be forced to bear the weight of a system that profits from human suffering. Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system. Period.

To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.

I used to think that originalism had some theoretical flaws that would make it hard to implement in reality. Now I realize that the flaw of originalism is that they just didn’t mean any of it and it’s all just cover for imposing their preferred partisan outcomes.

man, there's an irony in the AI discourse that will make absolutely everyone angry, which is that the people who are likeliest to use these tools effectively are not devs or programmers, they're writers and artists with good read/write communication and perception skills.

Democrat politicians are objecting to the strikes in the Caribbean—as should everyone. But Democrats have supported the Israeli government in continuously perpetrating precisely these same war crimes, including "double tap" murders in which they strike a civilian target, then hit the survivors.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Big fight at Bible group. Jeff said Jesus was a liberal and Cheryl said Jeff gave her chlamydia

The depiction of Latin America in American movies universally pisses me off.

Recreational USTA league/tournament play is all organized by skill level. And UTR ratings are genderless. People (any people) will be playing against other players at their same level. This is such a dumb transphobic and cowardly policy.

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

The Trump regime's assault on immigrants does not really target "the worst of the worst." Its aim: to make America whiter. The crackdown on colleges does not really target antisemitism. Its aim: to crush dissent. The murders of boat crews is not really about drugs. Its aim: to grab Venezuela's oil.

A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."

huge week for soup making in portland

"The Reagan years did not simply redistribute money. They redistributed security, dignity and belonging - the core goods of any humanist society." https://thehumanist.com/commentary/americas-forty-year-wealth-transfer-a-humanist-reflection-on-debt-power-and-the-vanishing-middle-class

And despite the fact that the department has large endowments and loyal alumni, and despite the fact that the department has brought in a lot of external funding. They can't change their minds in a few years and try to bring back something that took 150 years to build. It's devasting.

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

Read this twice. “Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.” www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.

Show us the fucking list.

Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.

A landmark study on the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the controversial herbicide Roundup, has been formally retracted by its publisher, raising new concerns about the chemical’s potential dangers. The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Forget strangling baby Hitler when I get a Time Machine I’m drone striking an early PayPal board meeting

Frank Sinatra almost got into a fist fight with Bing Crosby on the set of High Society to defend the dignity of Louis Armstrong, who was added to the production due to Sinatra’s advocacy. It’s not hard to find PSAs for tolerance that Sinatra filmed!

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

Chicago Public Schools has surpassed the recommended threshold for measles vaccinations, with about 96% of its student population now immunized, according to a Tribune analysis of newly released data.

Sen. Merkley is correct. Resign, Hegseth.

I am calling for Wilmer’s immediate release from NWIPC—he has NO criminal convictions, he poses no threat to the community, and he urgently needs appropriate medical care since ICE is denying him the treatment he requires. I am grateful for Wilmer’s willingness to let me share his story.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

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Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

I read this story well before I ever met @angryblacklady.blacksky.app and had the privilege of becoming her editor. It stuck with me. Every hardworking columnist deserves a week off, so we’re pulling it out of the archives and running it again today. I trust it will stick with you, too.

A great example of why you should never write off Staten Island: ICE agents’ tires were slashed while staging to disappear New Yorkers. The agent in the video isn’t fully visible but looks like Brendan Cuni. If so and this is his vehicle, he swapped license plates to avoid detection.

“When we showed up for our green card appointment, they detained him because there was a warrant issued... They had approved us for the green card interview, we paid like almost $5,000 in fees for this and we really didn’t know...” 36 days detained as of this article. 😡 #Pinks #Resist

a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me

Kavanaugh should never be allowed to live down the Kavanaugh stop

These are human lives, being murdered without any due process, and the head of our military is joke-bragging about it. These are sociopaths.