Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

rise and grind, taxpayers, it's time to help our neighbors under threat of summary execution

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

Gofundme in comment sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October

Wow 👏👏👏 RIP

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

Please join me in praying for my city's only synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, which was set on fire in the early morning hours, yesterday. Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.

One of the many, many ways people are fighting ICE in Minneapolis is helping neighbors safely shelter at home during a time when abductions are genuinely rampant. People in Minneapolis are doing *so much* great work

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

If they truly think the video makes the shooting seem justified, it’s because they believe summary execution is an appropriate punishment for “being a bitch” and they feel confident that many other men believe the same thing

/4 Trump and ICE and the rest of the fascist scum can murder and lie and oppress, but they can’t kill that decency that some real Americans have. They don’t have it, they are inadequate without it, and it infuriates them. But they can’t kill it.

i graduated from a high school with what i thought was as bad a racist mascot as you could find, but this one is on a new level

When the cop murdered Philando Castile his girlfriend and her 4 year old daughter were also in the car.

"A neighbor identifying himself as a doctor asked if he could render aid to the woman who shot but was told by ICE agents to stand back.. Emergency responders’ vehicles couldn’t get past ICE vehicles, so firefighters and other first responders had to walk." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

There is no legal justification, whatsoever, to use military force against a NATO ally like Greenland. If any military member participates in this without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.

So the new paper… —finds that immigration economics is identical to other fields of empirical inquiry: researcher priors correlate with results —finds that the magnitude of this correlation is minuscule —does not mention the most prominent documented bias of this kind, from one of the authors.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Proud and grateful to be ending the year with this piece out in Quarterly Journal of Speech! 50 free downloads here - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KHIAF...

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These motherfuckers who shill AI keep saying 'the genie is out of the bottle'. You realise that stories are full of ways to trick the fucking genie back into the bottle, right? You keep using that metaphor but I do not think it means what you think it means.

I think it’s not an exaggeration to conclude that the NYT is directly responsible with denying some of the worst genocides to have happened since the Holocaust, especially when the US is complicit in them jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...

Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.

“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives.'" --Jozay Alkanj, who was having coffee with Ahmed when the shooting erupted. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Oh look. A creepy guy is also creepy about Asian women. How surprising.

Wow.

and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you

“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’” Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

"You lie on a narrow table, slide into a tube that looks like something NASA abandoned in the ’80s, and for the next 30 to 60 minutes you listen to sounds that can only be described as a robot having a nervous breakdown"

Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.

this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.

I really cannot say enough about the Prison Journalism Project. Training and publish and encourage incarcerated writers and journalists. So many of their stories have stuck with me long after I've read them. They are a lifeline to humanity for so many people. bsky.app/profile/pris...

If I had a nickel for every time fellow faculty thought I was another Asian lady prof who looked nothing like me...

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

For men who feel sad that they can't tell a female colleague that she looks sharp today, just because she looks sharp: men like Summers are reason. His opening gambit was to talk about her clothes and so a compliment is not just a compliment. Women aren't ruining the workplace. Men like Summers are.

Love this feature on lunch ladies, an underappreciated bedrock of K-12 education.

"Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name “peril” but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship" GrossRacistGrossPredatoryRacistGross

“Ale" works in the carrot harvest in CA. She earns $3.05 for every box of carrots she packs. One box has 24 bunches of 7 carrots each. To earn $100 she has to pack 34 boxes or 816 bunches which represents over 5000 carrots picked in a day. #WeFeedYou

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

I think all Democratic eight senators who caved to the GOP should have to read this to truly understand who they've hurt.

Case in point: has the NYT ever done an interview with Black voters at the local breakfast spot after church lets out on a Sunday? I can think of hundreds of articles about rural Trump voters.

Protected cycle tracks are not just for cyclists, they allow more freedom for those with mobility issues

Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō. A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.

I don't know what word to use for this except evil