13,300 confined children in the U.S. are detained pretrial – aka, they’re legally innocent Locking kids up in deplorable conditions is traumatizing and counterproductive to public safety in the short & long term

What an absolutely dark day for journalism.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

Abusers do this thing where they'll announce impending punishment or unleash their wrath as a way to destabilize the target via anticipation. I think of this every time the Trump regime declares a destructive initiative

Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

In American journalism, one football field is an official standard of measure. Also Olympic size pool 😅🤓 Do other countries do this with their respective cultural objects?

I'd like to see articles about what it means if Mamdani is successful? Esp for establishment Dems

Has anyone ever considered the right to peace? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But what about peace? Maybe too much to ask a nation that has denied food as a right.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

More attention here, please.

People keep calling for revolution... could we try evolution instead. Don't want to end up back where we started going in circles every generation

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

🚨Our new paper led by Dr. @zialyle.bsky.social looked at how climate change poses risks to US drinking water utilities & if their bonds disclose these risks to investors. Utilities serving 67 million people have high risks, but 36% of their bonds don't mention climate: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Abusive people are very predictable

climate change is already making things far more perilous around the world. we could be heading towards another world war. that means scarcity, disaster, and austerity. these circumstances can either be managed with compassion and solidarity or the same utter cruelty the nazis unleashed 90 years ago

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

Make sure you're following Jules, who literally wrote the book(s) on how brutal the Olympics are on marginalized people.

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Wondering the ratio of hours of Grand Theft Auto played to hours of border enforcement training

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This administration’s strategy is to divide working people and distract us from the rising cost of food and housing, medical debt, stagnant wages, and the daily struggle to survive with dignity. Our union’s strategy is to unite to win a better future for ALL.

Among the hundreds of thousands of Haitians at risk of being deported because of the end of Temporary Protected Status are homeowners and long-time Florida residents. Some even are raising U.S.-born children.

This is an extremely serious matter but... "LEMON peppered him" 🤭🤭🤭🤭

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Marc Lamont Hill says that these folks want the moral high ground. It's the one thing they can't have. Puts a different POV on the commandeering of civil rights, its enforcement and erasing history

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

Trump erased entire Departments... Dropping bombs around the world... he knocked down half the White House. People are being murdered. The official Dem counter position:

For the 40th anniversary, I interviewed six Black journalists who covered it in some capacity. BTW, the PPD dropped the bømb from a PA state helicopter. www.phillytrib.com/news/local_n...

Should typos now be excused because they verify you are not a robot? (I turned off my google gemini so now I don't get premium services like spell check)

The first movie in history with no ticket sales?

cover of The Economist this week

When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?

Mamdani makes being kind cool, an outlier in a society run by bullies

When I think about measles I think about the number 1,000. Thats the number that epidemiologists use to explain harm from measles in children. With 1,000 cases, about 200 children will require hospitalization, 50 will develop pneumonia, and one to three will die. South Carolina is at 789.

But this organic and grassroots response doesn't come out of nowhere - networks of mutual aid, defense, and community solidarity have been growing in cities and regions across the country, as outlets like @truthout.org have been documenting for months. truthout.org/articles/whe...

Here, in three posts, are the written remarks by Bari Weiss at today's CBS News town hall meeting. Part one of three:

What do we need instead of ICE? What do we need instead of Border Patrol? What do we need instead of police? What do we need instead of jails, prisons and detention centers? All of those institutions divert funding away from life enhancing institutions. What do you want to see in their place?

The word that comes to mind is untethered. These folks have no moral floor and will justify anything

As Utah's lawmakers move to ban gender-affirming care for transgender kids, they've avoided discussing a report they commissioned on the issue that says care helps kids.

not the main point, but when did Somalis become Somalians in MAGA-speak? It’s like refusing to pronounce Kamala correctly.

Public school districts need to do everything in their power to bring back highly trained school media specialist or school librarian positions they've cut over the past decade plus. Media literacy is not a luxury. It needs to be in all levels of our schools.

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She is saying it loud but this is what they mean when they say oh this is not the country I am used to

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."