my ms ended up with anxiety press; they're great. www.amazon.com/Gnarly-Thumb...

I did not have a good experience with this press, fwiw. I'd be very wary of submitting there.

This is why European journalism, which might I add in this case seems to have been subsidized by a public grant, is actually quite important. It is a shame there is very little equivalent US journalism, and almost no funding whatsoever.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

OREGON SUPREME COURT: Oregon Constitution, as applied to public defense crisis, entitles defendants to dismissals without prejudice if, after arraignment, state fails to appoint counsel for >60 consecutive days (misdemeanors) or >90 consecutive days (felonies). ojd.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/cust...

Please don't register for in person events as placeholders. It really really has a terrible impact on organizers.

it seems many people expect oppression to be more cinematic. it’s not. It’s boring and dull and exhausting.

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

"These experiences have taught me that exploitation is often not violent or visible. It is digital and financial, and it’s usually hidden inside everyday systems. Migrant workers lives are no longer shaped only by borders, visas, or airports; they are managed by platforms, contracts, data systems"

A broken lifeline: Fixing humanitarian aid’s missing link

Reminds me of how the Nazis would place a black dot on an urban map with each dot representing 10 Jews. The dot density on the map determined which neighborhoods were to be sealed off and raided first.

A 12 años de la matanza de #Tarajal nos sumamos al reclamo de Verdad, justicia, reparación y garantías de no repetición.  #tarajalnuncamas #tarajalnoolvidamos  #fronterasur Y dejamos algunas lecturas que consideramos son imprescindibles a la hora de entender las fronteras.

Watching an influencer-style guide to Notion organizing and she's explaining the "12 Week Year" goal setting method and all I can think is my gal you are just applying business quarters to personal life... 😂

If Minnesota soccer moms in signal chats can figure out compartmentalization and redundancy so can fucking IoT vendors

Your computers should be secure even if people know how they work. Your former employees know how they work. Your contractors know how they work. People building them on the factory floor know how they work. Your security mechanism shouldn't be "only a few tenthousands people know this one trick".

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe - choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!! Two reasons: morality & pragmatism. 🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Private feeds? This is hella cool.

It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

Isaac Asimov was a founder of modern science fiction. His work and ideas inform almost everything. He was also a serial sexual harasser, something confirmed by multiple first-person accountings from members of East Coast fandom.

Read this whole thread:

in the cities where ICE Is surging their invasion, people are terrorized and cannot leave their homes for risk of being disappeared, then tortured, raped, and killed. we do not have enough mutual aid $ to pay all their bills while this continues. so people will get shut off, then evicted, and worse.

College Loans Healthcare Debt School Lunch Debt Utility Debt Cash Bail America itself is a carceral system. The only difference is how big your cell is.

all of us consistently pointing out the deep and urgent need to end the cruel and violent practice of utility shutoffs have been proven right since 2020 and i'm feeling like i'm grieving in advance about the needless deaths we will see this hot, fashy summer.

👑 Queen Shit 👑

Times article has an incredible illustration

A new bill in the NY state legislature would require news orgs to label any content “substantially composed, authored, or created" with generative AI. It would also require that humans review that content before publication. More details @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-ne...

The Democrats can abolish borders in as little as two weeks! Call your rep and tell them to hold the line! 😂

It's also banning trans people for no reason so you know it's going to be boring as hell. 2 great reasons to not even bother with it.

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

the biden border bill and choosing to run on a “border patrol endorsed” piece of legislation should go down as not only cowardly and backward thinking but one of the worst strategic political decisions by democrats in recent memory, everyone involved should be out of politics forever

In 1517 riots broke out in London due to an influx of immigrant workers. Later, the play "Sir Thomas More" wasn't published or performed at the time. This speech is delivered to a crowd by Thomas More. He asks the rioters to imagine themselves as one of the immigrants they attack.

People are going to have to drag the democrats to the right place on immigration and ICE just like they had to drag them to the right place on opposing the Iraq war and impeaching Trump. It’s fucking exhausting to have a party that refuses to do the right thing right away,

The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it. So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.

The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

"Human beings are not machines" is not just a statement of care, it's a reality one ignores at considerable peril.

Worth remembering that one reason the fash lost WWII was that the allies enforced more r and r rotations and when someone was really, ridiculously good at something they'd take them off the line to train others rather than just feeding them more amphetamines until they got killed.

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

UK homes installing a small-scale renewable energy system every 90 seconds www.renewableenergymagazine.com/pv_solar/uk-...

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The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

Jumping in to keep up with all the whistlemakers! Protopasta is ready to donate filament to keep the momentum going! Reach out to our support team at [email protected] to find how you can be involved, too!

Children are the ones stopping child trafficking. Every adult involved in this was either complicit or failed. God damn.

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!