I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK

Never too late to opt out of learning management in favor of co-created learning communities and helping students and faculty stay in control of their IP. www.reclaimhosting.com/domain-of-on...

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

"...there were 121 mass shootings in the first 112 days of the year, making mass shootings of the kind attempted at the Correspondent’s Dinner a statistically daily occurrence. Public officials are appalled, then, to live in the same world the rest of us do." @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social with bars

In 1970 a kid got a lawn dart in the head and they were off the shelves the next day. Today, "AI" software will reliably tell kids how to plan their suicides and school shootings and none of the monsters who built it are held accountable. This is indefensible.

If you were around the KY/VA border  on HWY 23 last Friday, you might have heard the sounds of an Appalachian shindig in downtown Pound. Pound, usually known for having almost lost its charter because of widespread corruption, is now showing up as a leader in true community-led revitalization. 1/5

New stage of end times surrealism unlocked.

Hello war crimes my old friend

An opposition party would not be on vacation right now. They would have coordinated message to the public about the fact that a President in cognitive decline is threatening more war crimes. They would be BLASTING the message on all available platforms.

Y'all come!

"An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct." 🔥🔥🔥 from the US District Court for the Southern District of West by God Virginia.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

“The U.S. is now fully embracing the large detention camp model for those who by and large—according to its own agency reports—have committed no crime, save for crossing the border without papers.” degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...

“Around 3,500 detainees, more than half of them minors, have cycled through the center since it reopened, more than the population of the town of Dilley itself.”

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

ice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees

not the first or last to say it, but we watched some 4,000 people arrested, many brutalized, on college campuses throughout 2024 as part of an anti-war movement primarily calling for their schools and government to recognize the humanity of Palestinians, seemingly now memoryholed

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

What kind of people working for which arm of DHS would destroy water supplies in a desert? In 2011? The cruelty, violence and inhumanity of today is an escalation, but isn’t new. Abolish ICE, CBP and DHS.

Ochoa and Raymundo have been with CBP since 2014 and 2018. More training and body cams won’t help. Dismantle CPB Abolish ICE Eliminate DHS

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

"More than 170 people, many residents of Hanover or other counties in the Richmond area, signed up to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting, and hundreds more gathered outside of the meeting area to protest ICE’s proposal."

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

I think what a lot of folks miss is how profitable deportation is for the corporations involved & the politicians they're backing. Holding people, physically removing them, is cost for the taxpayer & profit into the pockets of the worst people you can imagine.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

We should mark this occasion by dissolving ICE and liberating our concentration camps.

Democrats agree to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I can remember when W announced the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. I can remember a world before DHS, and I want to see a world after DHS.

There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this? This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.

Friend chats, family chats, weather chats, organizer chats all saying the same thing: Here comes ice to make everything fucking worse.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

You get what you pay and pay and pay and pay for.

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process." organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

What if mad cow, but for the internet.

"The medical system has not failed. It has been systematically dismantled through a sustained military campaign that has willfully violated international humanitarian law. Civilians are now dying not just from the constant airstrikes, but from acute malnutrition, sepsis, exposure and despair.

International doctors and healthcare workers report they’re increasingly being blocked by Israel from entering Gaza, with specialists approved for exits but denied new entry visas in what advocates are calling an “undeclared medical siege.” www.democracynow.org/2025/5/29/he...

"It’s impossible not to worry about the cuts, especially as the grand plan is to create a southern Appalachian flood and hazard centre to better understand and prepare the entire region’s mountain communities for extreme weather and related hazards, including flash floods, landslides and tornadoes."

This is terrible and I really wish scientists had heeded the warnings from colleagues in the liberal arts

literally nothing

I did some math today about the #NEH Preservation Assistance Grants that were cancelled. The grant usually funds about 65 institutions a year and the max award is $10K. The base cost for a 2025 Cybertruck is about $70K, so the whole PAG program costs less than 10 Cybertrucks. It’s so infuriating.

If you ever wondered what kind of people saw the Abu Ghraib torture photos as aspirational rather than horrific, well it turns out several of them are now elected officials serving in the U.S. Congress.