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.

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.

What we get wrong about good vs. evil:

One of the questions I'm most frequently asked goes along the lines of, "I'm just one person, what can I possibly do?" If that struggle is also familiar to you, here are some thoughts that might help you: substack.com/home/post/p-...

How to cope in this hellscape:

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Some publishing folks are running an auction to raise money for MN! I donated: 1) a review of your nonfiction proposal and 2) help with your book launch strategy & platform. But there are so many other amazing items available, I encourage you to check it out! www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

How to guard against fatalism:

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Would you? vs Did you?

Let the pain in—so the pain can move you to action—and so that action can change you—so that you can change others—so you and me and others can come together to build a world where this never, ever happens.

Your voice and your example matter more than you will ever know. The belief you voice or the action you take might be the very catalyst that someone else needs to take their next step. Be the evidence of goodness!

It’s okay to be scared. And we can feel our fear and turn it into action.

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

The surprisingly simple secret to motivation:

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s not complicated: 1. Espousing hateful ideologies leads to a climate of increased violence 2. Standing up to those hateful ideologies is an attempt to push back and protect the vulnerable 3. Equating the two as “opposing viewpoints” legitimizes the hateful ideology as normal and acceptable...

As I and others have been saying for some time now. Please read this. It might make you be more cautious. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

You, yes YOU, need to listen to this episode or Rare Earth from @helenczerski.bsky.social, about skyrocketing power demand from data centres. Particularly now that the UK govt is asking residents to use less water so it can cool the Slop Generator.

Not only is everything horrific right now, but we're also having to unlearn our ways of being (what I call Old Happy, or the ways that individualism/capitalism/domination have shaped us) and evolve into humans who are capable of making the new world we want. It's hard. Let's be kind to each other.

this, and some of y'all used this as your blank justification to abandon masking and the common good, and refuse to see how that behavior led to where we are today

I hope this piece helps you to understand more of the psychology behind the genocide and equips you with the language and tools to be able to address it stephanieharrison.substack.com/p/moral-enti...

Have you heard about the moral get-out-of-jail-free card?

When you feel helpless, help more.

Please consider donating to the PCRF here: www.pcrf.net Send your receipt to [email protected] and I will mail you a free signed copy of my book. You'll also be entered into a raffle to win a free Zoom call with me—use it for a team talk, consulting, a book club, 1-1 coaching, etc.

In 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it. www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance. By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba

“The study found that 14% of infected infants and toddlers and 15% of infected preschoolers had probable long COVID, similar to rates in teens and school-aged children.” Apparently toddlers aren’t 🦄. Who knew?

The establishment is never unbeatable; only unchallenged. Take 'em on. @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net

Zohran!!!!!! Hope lives!!! 🗽

AND on top of all these excellent reasons, OpenAI is collaborating with the fascists and AI is a tool of authoritarianism. Stop using Empire’s tool to do what humans should be doing—making art—to fight against it!!!!

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

Imagine being so craven that 5.4 million people show up to your anti-birthday party

It’s only hopeless if we give up, because we are the hope.

Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler." Finally, someone says it to their faces.

no kings dot org

On malignant normality:

For everyone asking, “How do they live with themselves?” 👇🏻

It’s almost like empathy is required to sustain a relationship

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

The world feels like it's falling apart. You feel like you're falling apart. What are we supposed to do? I'm so excited to be joining my friends for this talk to show you how to be happy even now, and make our world a happier place too. Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is [email protected].

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.

Happy Earth Day! Our pursuit of “happiness” is destroying our planet.