One day I hope someone believes in you the way Alice Cooper’s first manager believed in them.

NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

This is what I have verified about Taylor Farms and this administration: 1. Bruce Taylor met with Trump on 07/16/26. 3. The FDA reversed its previous warning about Taylor Farms on 07/19/26. 4. Taylor Farms gave $1 million to Trump's PAC. I don't know when, but that's what got Taylor the meeting.

I was a dyed-in-the-wool believer in best practices in writing about suicide. In better times I'd gladly return to those best practices. But in 2026 trans people's suicides are actively sought by poltical leaders who are only too happy for trans people to mince our words.

I guess this is how one becomes someone who haunts estate sales for old Pyrex

In an hour! Go if you're in NYC! Support workers at New York Immigration Coalition (@NYICUnited) as they fight to unionize in the faces of their bosses' disgusting attacks.

Just when you think you hate AI sufficiently.

i'm not crying you're crying

HAPPENING NOW: NYC is in the streets joining 70+ cities nationwide in an emergency day of action against ICE's campaign of terror against immigrant communities.

thedaviddesk2.blogspot.com/2026/07/off-... My review of Dad Don’t Read This is now on the David Desk blog.

This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read:

In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free.

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

BREAKING: Workers are ON STRIKE at Carl’s Jr.’s locations across Los Angeles. The owner of this franchise filed for bankruptcy. We’re doing whatever we can to ensure the bankruptcy judge doesn’t let the company off the hook for over $112,000 in wages and penalties!

I wouldn’t take a carpenter seriously who used a laptop to hammer in nails. I wouldn’t take a dentist seriously who used firecrackers instead of drills. Seriously, why would I trust a editor/writer who uses a chatbot as a search engine?

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Yes. Please.

At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)

“A Chinese human rights lawyer has been arrested by ICE, raising concerns he could be deported to China where he would face persecution. Wu Shaoping fled China at the end of 2019 amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers.”

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

I do kind of wish that more people realized that the reason why other countries are better at holding their dictators accountable than the US is because their recent histories are full of the kinds of horrors Americans only read about in books

1/2 Me looking at reviews as I try to find an ophthalmologist...

"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

Sure, there are countless parenting books, but nobody ever warns you that your kid will one day turn you into a chibi 😭😭😭

My husband and I were thinking of seeing a play this summer, but can't pay hundreds so I searched up off-broadway options. Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? Heck yeah! Oh, $200+ a ticket, dang. Dad Don't Read This? Amazing! Oh, sold out *as I was paying for the last two tickets*, crap. Alas! Alack!

I don't know if I can handle reading this right now, but I do know that if you are not aware of this ongoing, horrific practice of Israel's, you should be reading this.

It still pisses me off that EVERY. SINGLE. DEMOCRAT. IN. THE. SENATE. voted to confirm Marco Rubio. Yes, Warren. Yes, Sanders. Yes, Van Hollen. Yes, Whitehouse. Yes, Hirono. Yes, Booker. ALL. OF. THEM. The vote was 99-0.

Raffi… thank you

i would kill for raffi

I never think it's possible to love this human any more than I do, but then he just keeps making it happen. Ring, ring, ring...

1/2 What has been so defeating and deflating to me as a teacher, parent, and human is reading all of the books, listening to all of the podcasts, developing all of the pedagogic (&parental) beliefs...and then not living, breathing these beautiful, vital ideas because of my own personal limitations.

1/2 Rather than spending even more time and energy composing a long post about my recent, ongoing experience trying to get a ct scan my cardiologist ordered and my health insurance already approved twice, I will just take a second in between the wasted hours and tears and rage to say

Lindsey Graham on Gaza: "Just flatten it, like we flattened Tokyo and Berlin." Lindsey Graham on the Iran War: "We are going to make tons of money." Lindsey Graham on Renée Nicole Good: "She deserved what happened. She provoked ICE." As grandma used to say: GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.

I mean. We keep getting stories like this.

Who here is surprised ICE just flat-out lied about the murder of Lorenzo Salgado? The new video footage didn't come from ICE body cams either, because they weren't wearing any.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Always a good reminder that those books were right-leaning political from the start: www.history.com/articles/lit...

Oh wow you don’t say? giving ICE more funding to better check themselves doesn’t work?

Read this thread ⤵️

Research find: Tracy Chapman playing an anti-apartheid rally on the Boston Common in 1986. (Photo by Mark Lurie)

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Mourners marched across the Mississippi to the federal building carrying coffins for every migrant that has died in DHS custody.

Just finished reading Rex Ogle's heartbreaking memoir, Free Lunch, to prepare a unit for 8th grade ELA next year. Will be sure to include for students this post, and a discussion of the millions of familial stories of abject terror hidden in these lists and numbers.

not sure why Patriot Front today are ditching the UHauls for public transit (heat wave? maximizing terror opportunities?) but this is grotesque. maybe they feel like they fit in better now with the other masked men who’ve been patrolling DC for a year.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social NYT Victoria Cruz, a matriarchal figure who was at the Stonewall in 1969 and worked 17 years at NYC Anti-Violence Project after her own issues with violence dead at 79. Said colleagues “She really had the trust of the community. People would just ask for Miss Vicky."

ICE finds a new way to dodge Congress about a secret protester database www.motherjones.com/politics/202...