Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

Albanian Protestors have named their movement The Flamingo Revolution. 🦩🔥 They’ve protested 10 straight days against Ivanka’s resort. This is a country of 2.7 million taking on entitled billionaires. 🤍 The EU has warned that environmental concerns might threaten Albania's application into the EU.

I’m really about to be telling folks how to sign “gay” all summer! I love this for me!

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

My husband was watching "Merrily We Roll Along" but all I could hear was

We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

The UK rivals the US in making its immigration process as obtuse, racist, and petty as possible. Thousands of pounds and months spent on paperwork, just so you can make a flight connection. Not even to leave the airport!

Have learned that my fellows do not know the tiger poem so here it is for you

Wake up babe, we are doing the Protestant Reformation but as farce

Brutal.

My Emeritus Professor Uncle is being surprisingly open about struggling with the decrease in attention he is experiencing now he is no longer teaching, speaking at global events, or generally being admired for his work on a daily basis. His rooms were removed, too (new policy). No campus for him.

Not only morally the right thing to do, regularizing the legal status of people currently paid "under the table" allows them to pay taxes. A study cited in this article estimates €4,000 in increased tax revenue per person, with no additional expenses.

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

Every time I sit down to learn about a long-standing conflict, basically the answer is: the British that started it. Every damn time...

A heads down approach will not save science. We need to speak up, live our values, and demand integrity. www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...

Critiques for the ridiculous excuses to close depts: 1) A liberal arts degree is actually more flexible on the job market than a specialized STEM degree. 2) Small classes provide better education because of the improved faculty-to-student ratio. 3) Learning about the humanity of others matters.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

“🇺🇸 agriculture is on the verge of widespread collapse… they’re asking for a rollback of virtually every policy Trump has introduced.” As Republicans try to distance Trump policies from🧑‍🌾 farmer struggles, the truth is clear: www.facebook.com/share/v/17Up...

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

tfw when you want to have fun and chant too but you can’t because you’re at work

So nice of The Times to make sure we finally get the other side of the story.

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

Current temp in Minneapolis: -12°F (-24°C), -28°F wind chill (-33°C) Thousands of people are congregating downtown for today's General Strike march against ICE. Thousands more are on their way. Of course we are going to win.

Btw, its currently -23C in Minneapolis. Kneeling outside, saying the Lord's Prayer in -23C (-10F) temperatures.

Incredible (and slightly depressing) to hear that this argument has been going on for nearly 7 decades...

Our high school students across the metro area show what they're made of and stage a walkout to protest ICE.

Greenland's Cooperation Party: Tillie Martinussen says the people of Greenland flat out say NO to MAGA's bribery & propaganda. Turns out, it doesn't work on people whose government invested in educating their own citizens. 🙌🏻💪🏼 (Which is exactly why Republicans don't do it) / Pt1

Everything about this is glorious

In just seconds, an encounter with ICE agents turned deadly. The Star Tribune examined the video evidence frame by frame.

my second grader is *obsessed* with everything dave pikey does. our house is overflowing with captain underpants and dog man and all the spin-offs www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/b...

Anti-depressants save lives. We live in a world where most people are completely unaware that depression can be a terminal illness - and not just because of suicide. This is a very good thing. The rarity of depression at that level of severity is entirely due to modern medicine.

Guys, it's not just about oil. Don't be so cynical. After all, Venezuela also has gold and rare earth elements.

Devastatingly on point editorial from Le Monde.

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

After this weekend’s antisemitic terror attack in Australia, it is more important than ever that people assemble for Hanukkah. May the Festival of Lights shine brightly in Jewish homes and communities throughout the world.

True joy recognizes and acknowledges pain, tears, sadness, and every other emotion that exists within the spectrum of human experience. It is about discovering and finding balance, equilibrium, and a sense of steadiness even in the midst of difficult, trying, and turbulent times.

When the mercury plummets to -40° (where Celsius and Fahrenheit finally agree), most sensible creatures burrow inward. But not in the Yukon. Here, in this land where exhaled breath crystallizes mid-air and exposed skin stings within seconds, I found myself moved to dance Bhangra.

Two wildly familiar issues highlighted in this article: 1) "polling showed that most French people backed the left’s ideas – investment in hospitals, fairer taxation of the very rich and multinationals – even if they didn’t vote left."

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Watch this space: I anticipate this being the next version of the the disastrously toxic myth of the 25 year old brain "mature" brain.

ICE vs the clergy

Usually the justification for denying visas based on health is the cost to the taxpayer: but US healthcare is privatized so this logic doesn't apply. Also, reciprocal retaliatory visa restrictions by other countries are quite common... given US obesity rates this could backfire quite badly...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.