I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

What a sad admission. One of my favorite places I ever lived was in Brooklyn in an area that was basically Little Bangladesh. I loved that neighborhood and would move back in a heartbeat. I never felt unsafe, I had good relations with my neighbors, and the food was great.

Trump administration, aggressively targeting anonymous Reddit posts, sends out 100s of subpoenas demanding that Reddit doxx its users--and is now hauling the firm before a secret grand jury to ID a user who posted publicly available info about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good.

First thing I saw when I walked into the locker room yesterday

Apparently the Spirit have a new good luck charm: Jose the decoy coyote! (There were fake coyotes on the training field they used at SJSU before the Bay game. It became a trophy for small-sided games and per a TikTok from Hal Hershfelt, @hccarter.bsky.social got one for the training facility.)

The media arm of the party that is running cover for a pedophilia sex trafficking ring that implicates their president thinks the *real* problem is that not enough teenagers are getting pregnant these days.

🌸NEW POD🌸 Annie, Ella & André dive into a much too early season review. We look at what we've learned over the first five games, and give our assessments on a strange set of results to start the season. 🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/23o4... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... #nwsl #woso

Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge. Literally the only evidence Columbia submitted came from sealed records of dismissed arrests—records that Columbia shouldn't have even had.

San Antonio Current reported in February: “Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids’ letters and drawings detailing conditions inside.” www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

“‘They threw away all my drawings,’ said 15-year-old Cariexis Quintero on a video chat w/Terrazas … Her mother, displaying a pile of colorful paper scraps, detailed how the guards ‘stormed into her room looking for drawings and letters’ and then ‘destroyed what they found,’ Terrazas reports.”

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

We're on the brink of global nuclear war and these are the topics of choice of America's "top" papers of record: •NY Times: Did Wokeness Leave Us Worse Off? •WSJ: Pope Leo Goes to War Rather than holding power accountable, they're demonizing marginalized communities and decidedly anti-war Pope. smh

The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon

The scale of the killing in Israeli strikes on Lebanon Wednesday is "horrific", the UN rights chief said, urging the international community to help end the unfolding "nightmare." u.afp.com/Sbth

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

They literally have a task force to investigate anti-Christian beliefs in the federal government, while simultaneously threatening the most visible Christian leader in the world.

I guess it wasn't enough for him to ruin the Men's World Cup happening during his term, he has to ruin the Women's World Cup happening after his presidency too. I'm so tired of soccer being interfered w/ by people who don't actually care about it. And they certainly don't care about women in sport.

"... much-hyped personnel changes that included the firing of now-former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem were nothing more than a PR stunt" Stephen Miller is still driving the anti-immigrant agenda, and Trump’s mass deportation machine is escalating. More from @tusk81.bsky.social + @yunao08.bsky.social.

And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

extremely bad time for an astronaut to find out he's a werewolf

"This government, that claims to be a defender of religious freedom,” said Rev. Susie Hayward, “has been violating the religious freedom rights of so many of us to be able to respond to the call of Jesus to care for the captives.”

Make it make sense! Adopted from Iran at age 2 by a US vet, a 50 year old woman in the US just received notice from DHS she is being deported, back to a war zone. She has no criminal record, just a paperwork oversight when she came as a toddler. #DemsAbroad www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

ICE has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project. Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

“Families have reported children in mental distress: a two-year-old who hit himself, potty-trained children who began wetting themselves, and a 13-year-old who was put into isolation after attempting suicide.”

Was feeling melancholy, but then I dug up Theoden with an undercut from my vault of memes

The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be the new 1936 Summer Olympics.

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

Pope Leo at the Stations of the Cross: "Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power." Jesus says. "Whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me. And it is to me that you will one day give an account."

The decision to overfund a military to “defend” a people who are far more likely die of preventable causes because we refuse to ensure that they have healthcare is maddening

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

Kaleth and his mom were released and are home now! He did not eat for 12 days and is getting medical care now. Grateful to everyone working to help these families! This cruelty must be stopped! #freethem-all #humanrights

At my immigration hearing, Marion Donovan-Kaloust detailed her experience working with unaccompanied children and the horrors they’ve seen under Trump. No child should have to go through this cruelty. It must end now.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

A few years ago I would have said we need to do everything possible to be sure that they own "you can't have healthcare because we're fighting wars" forever but at this rate the RNC's 2028 platform is going to be BOMBS NOT BREAD www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

Columbia Heights is the suburb where Liam Ramos lives, a small working-class highly diverse community just savaged by ICE during its occupation. There's a mutual aid fund and benefit this Saturday. 1) Please come if you're local. My band is playing a set and we're not bad! 2) Please share & donate.

‘The child of a banker could be a citizen by the age of eleven, while his classmate who is the daughter of a cleaner at the bank would have a fifteen-year wait – and would not be eligible for home student fees.’ Racialised nature of the stratified approach also risks new Windrush scandal.

Third Way has promoted the idea that Democrats should get cozy with Joe Rogan. Just in the past month, Rogan has said more vile, bigoted stuff than Hasan Piker has said in his entire career. That's just a fact.

I joined Amanpour & Company to talk about why "working homeless"—a term that should be a scandal—has become an ordinary fact of American life. 40% of officially-counted homeless people have jobs. And that's before we get to the millions who are rendered invisible, who are never counted at all.

reminder LA was found guilty in court recently for forging documents lying about why they tossed an unhoused woman's work supplies repeatedly during sweeps

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

A new analysis of federal records reveals ICE detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children in just the first 7 months of Trump's second term. 🧵

I actually love this so much!

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

"Kordia said the daily “humiliation” and “stripping people of their dignity” she had known in Palestine was an experience anyone in immigration detention could understand. “They don’t call you by name, they call you ‘subject’, or by number,” she said of ICE guards and Israeli soldiers alike."

Never mind that I died inside when I heard Gorsuch say in Trump v Barbara arguments that there weren't any immigration laws in the 1860s. Taps new book 👇 in which I document the over a century of first colonial then state-level international and domestic migration laws before federalization.