it rules that the dumb, venal idiots in charge of the country also can't stop themselves from gloating about all their dumb, venal schemes directly to reporters

💥New from Drop Site: “We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed” Gaza journalist Mohamed Suleiman reports farmers are missing their third olive harvest as Israel’s war devastates the industry. www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-olive...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

Books with unlikable characters are more fun.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

Nobody, and that's the point. The point isn't to convince us that Israel isn't committing genocide. The point is to create enough doubt that people don't know what to believe. Doubt is - after hopelessness - the best agent of demobilisation.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

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Last month, I was wrongfully dismissed from my job as a children's librarian in Burlington, MA after I put up a Pride display. The director personally tore most of it down, then fired me. Now he's lying to the public about removing it. If this upsets you, please email [email protected]. 1/12

Or, maybe, Israel could go 10 minutes without murdering civilians.

Everything I read in September. ❤️ #Booksky #StoryGraph

Since they’ve cut food inspections at the FDA, the burden is now more on consumers to protect ourselves from contaminated food: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

"A common thread through so many of these violent ICE confrontations is how the agents so often appear on the verge of a nervous breakdown or actively in the throes of one. Emotionally unstable people carrying a badge and a gun and threatening people with impunity is a recipe for [...] disaster."

For @motherjones.com, I wrote about the political pressure & coercion faced by teachers & staff at Success Academy. "They explicitly started with naming Mamdani and how he is the villain in our story," one teacher told me. "It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate."

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

The right’s “cancel culture” panic was always a convenient grift. But let’s be real: plenty of elites on the left also acted like speech was more threatened by annoying undergrads than by powerful elites. And truth be told, Obama’s not off the hook here either.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

ICE badly injure 80-year-old U.S. citizen who owns the car wash—leave him with broken ribs & dislocated elbow. "They told me: ‘You don’t F with ICE! We are here!’ and then threw me on the floor." "I told them I'm an old man and need my heart medication, but they said ‘No!’" Van Nuys, California

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

love for and kinship with the immigrant and the refugee is central to my faith and it's nice to see that even within the retrograde USCCB there is a deep and righteous outrage at what this administration is doing

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

I am not seeing this news spread on Bluesky yet, so just wanted to share. Truly fantastic that this is happening.

JD Vance said the government had to deport undocumented immigrants because they increase demand for and thus prices of housing for citizens. What they’ve actually accomplished is to decimate construction of new supply, which will definitely increase prices for everyone

Really hope this wonderful anthology of essays makes the rounds, as I can see it helping so many young people with disabilities. Particularly recommend the audio version. 💚 #booksky

George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, was driving to work when he encountered an ICE checkpoint, where agents broke his car window, pepper-sprayed him and dragged him out of his vehicle for arrest. He was detained for three days and three nights without explanation.

The Hours. Got so into Woolf that I referenced her in a theatre piece, after which my professor asked if I wanted to collaborate on an original play based on Woolf, which led to me traveling alone for the first time for research in London. Never would have kept traveling alone without that trip!

#15MoviesIDislikeToGetToKnowMe Don’t Look Up Vanilla Sky Tenet Annie Hall Hocus Pocus Sixteen Candles Maestro The Jerk Saltburn Queen & Slim Emilia Perez Malcolm & Marie A Simple Favor Avatar You’ve Got Mail

One of the most tremendous LIS thinkers needs our help. If you've ever uttered "vocational awe" in relation to libraries, it's because of Fobazi.

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

Aseel has lost her account her but she wanted to share this picture of her with her cat a Lisa few weeks ago and this week. She is just looking to have enough money to be able to eat. Her family has a PayPal which is quicker ( tiny.cc/hbcuzz ) and a GoFundMe (gofund.me/54db81e4 )

cory booker constantly grandstanding and then repeatedly voting the exact opposite of his grandstanding is really a special kind of despicable and vile depravity

Votes are not done, and more than half the Senate Democratic caucus has voted to block weapons sales to Israel. Such an idea was nearly unimaginable before. The politics of Israel-Palestine are changing in the US.

Zionists going fully mask-off and then whining about how everyone is anti-Israel now.

All of these people need to be sent to the hague.

The war on Gaza is genocidal now, it was genocidal in October 2023, it will be genocidal tomorrow. There was no time when it was a just war with noble aims

bari weiss may be a cancer on the ass of journalism, but without this attempted smear campaign i might never have learned about mamdani's based take on sex work

Sure looks like you accept it, @amyklobuchar.com.

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:

Just read this paragraph. And look at this picture. www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Bishop of San Bernardino has indefinitely dispensed Catholics in his Diocese that fear immigration enforcement from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass (this is, like, one of the biggest things a bishop can do - the Mass is the center of catholic life and not attending is otherwise a grave sin)

This is getting lost. When Stephen Miller shrieks orders for 3000 daily arrests, they HAVE TO go after noncriminals. It's the only way to juice the numbers. So Miller is shifting resources away from serious crimes toward that. @vermontgmg.bsky.social and me on this: newrepublic.com/article/1976...