“We can try to climb this mountain,” said Frog. “That should tell us if we are brave.” Frog went leaping over rocks, and Toad came puffing up behind him.

Is dad rock, like, kinda gay? Nicole Froio investigates:

Definitely this article doesn’t mention North Lake in Michigan where people incarcerated there under torturous conditions went on hunger strike April 21st www.instagram.com/p/DXZw_2BCrl...

I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

"US Navy 35mm presentation slides," slide 1 of 20 [gallery]

Corporate bookselling wants frictionless consumption. Radical booksellers offer something better: democratic governance, community space, political education and the possibility that a bookstore can help build a movement.

reason number 7,386,591 why seattle needs way more housing. truly what is the point of declaring an emergency if the trans woman fearing for her life in texas can’t afford to move to our sanctuary city and start a new life here

“Every book that survived, every shelf that was secured was a testament to life in a place the occupation is trying to swallow whole, to erase.”

Wow. 70% of the board members of transit boards in the state of Washington ride transit in the area they oversee only monthly or less frequently. 12% haven't ridden the transit they oversee at all. 32% only ride once a year or less.

This entire story is proof of how entrenched privilege relies on mass apathy and ignorance

Overambitious Man Wants To Get 2 Things Done Today https://theonion.com/overambitious-man-wants-to-get-2-things-done-today/

do people not hate altman tho......i think more people should hate sam altman iajs

NEW for @motherjones.com: the congressional push to make warehouse detention illegal www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

sorry to qrt a Take but this is such a funny thing to say when biden was going on & on about american oil production his whole presidency

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

these are the same as the bulldozer that was used to kill rachel corrie, for anyone else in WA, that might be worth mentioning when calling our senators!

Good list here of nonprofit orgs to help Palestinians. If you prefer to go the mutual aid route (more & faster money into the hands of ppl who need it) the Sameer Project is a reliable & transparent central hub for fundraising linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Exactly this. We’re not seeing the stories on this platform due to its relative lack of international reach and the obsequious nature of US reporting, but entire residential blocks are being flattened in Tehran and other cities in Iran.

In historical hindsight it will be obvious to everyone that failing to hold Israel to account for committing open genocide in Gaza functionally dissolved international rules of military conduct

I had no idea about this aspect of Hughes' life and work.

Israeli settlers have rampaged through multiple towns in the occupied West Bank for two nights in a row, unleashing a campaign of destruction and terror on Palestinian residents with the backing of the Israeli and U.S. governments.

Mass murder.

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

I am all-consumed by personal matters this week, but there is a new article from me! About the ICE ramp-up in WA, how Muslims are being treated in the NW Detention Center, and all of the detention center moratoriums in our area. The most recent one passed just yesterday!

Thurs @ the Willimantic Library, @jillianlewis.bsky.social & artist Ezra Blanchard will be hosting a community meeting about our biodiversity mural! Folks can come learn more about the project & vote on which animals to include in the mural! We'll have free postcards for attendees feat. Ezra's art!

You’d never know from reading the @nytimes.com that a blockade is an act of war. That this is a war of aggression. That suddenly depriving millions of people of safe drinking water is a war crime. That this unprecedented humanitarian disaster was deliberately engineered by Donald Trump for leverage.

today all 9 people federally charged with "materially supporting terrorism", rioting, carrying an explosive, as part of an "ANTIFA cell" were found guilty on some or all charges. the case was based in part on being in Signal organizing group chats and possessing political leftist zines. important:

In the 18th and 19th centuries, with no real U.S. standing army, asking Congress to approve a war also meant asking it to fund one. Now that presidents get the funding anyway, and there are no real consequences for not getting approval, it’s not surprising that Trump doesn’t care.

I wrote about this last week. Congress’s power of the purse is the ultimate check on executive war powers, and Congress has chosen to fund a massive standing military force that can topple countries in a matter of days.

There is already documented evidence of Israel using white phosphorus over Lebanese homes www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

The U.S. killed six more civilians in a boat strike in the Pacific Ocean yesterday. More than 150 people have been slain in these extrajudicial killings since September 2025. @theintercept.com is tracking them all here: theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

W/alt

Al Jazeera cracked this "enigma": This school had many daughters of military officers and soldiers. The idea was to attract them to the school, strike it to draw in rescuers and relatives, and then strike it again to kill them.

NEW: The Trump-Vance-Rubio administration has once again bypassed Congress to push through a $151.8 million bomb sale to Israel —>

This part right here, is very important for everyone to understand

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

Election season is kicking off, and the way local law enforcement collaborates with ICE is on the ballot. This @boltsmag.org guide outlines sheriff races across the U.S. that could reshape Trump's deportation agenda👇

When Aaron first laid this all out a couple weeks ago, my first reaction was “oh my gosh this is so much worse than I thought” and my second was “get this man out there explaining it to the public.” You truly have to read this, even if you think you’ve been following the warehouse story.

my understanding is that many of the real best use-cases for "AI" essentially rely on the same core technology but *not* on the constant repeated training w/ increasingly massive datasets which is the main cause of most of the harms

there's so much going on here but im hung up on saying bryan johnson is inspiration for ppl not drinking - doesn't he say he has like. 2 shots of hard liquor and 3 nuts for breakfast or something