Well, that was a good rehearsal I guess.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Stunning! A Timelapse of an Oxalis plant blooming.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Stephens wants to see a final solution situation before he’s willing to confirm genocide

Your wordle/games subscription doesn’t go in some magical separate pile. It goes to the New York Times, and it pays for things like Bret Stephens, Maggie Haberman, and both sides coverage of ICE and all the rest. Wake up.

Beto O'Rourke went on PBS and said the US has to stop being complicit in the bombing of Palestine It's really that simple, folks

Just an occasional reminder that there was no good reason for Obama, Harris, Clinton or Biden to go to Trump’s inauguration after he attacked the Capitol and they all went anyway. Cause the Democrats are chumps.

“This is the new EC...it’s no longer an EC but a branch of the BJP.” In an interview, #MahuaMoitra speaks about the voter roll revision process, argues it is a way to disenfranchise voters “by design,” and more. #Watch ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkHt...

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One of the wildest color gradients I’ve ever seen in the aurora!

Read every word. ICE is an abomination and injustice. They have no place in our society, and everyone who works for them or their for-profit network ought to be held accountable for their actions. I look forward to that day. #AbolishICE www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

For The Dial, I blurbed The Lucky Ones, by Zara Chowdhary. Check out all of The Dial's Best Books of Summer 2025: www.thedial.world/summer-readi... @thedialmag.bsky.social @awarazara.bsky.social ‬

It’s very meaningful, this coming out of india at a time like this. 🌷

I am hearing people on our side describing Brad Lander, Mayor Baraka & Senator Padilla's arrests as "stunts" designed to boost their electoral prospects. First of all, I know that Brad Lander has been quietly accompanying migrants to their appointments for YEARS now, long before he ran for mayor.

SHUT DOWN PALANTIR June 26th. 12pm. 100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto. From ICE abductions to the genocide in Palestine, Palantir makes billions off surveillance, deportation, and war. actionnetwork.org/events/palan... @bayresistance.bsky.social @indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social @planetoverprofit.org

We’re going to need a bigger demonstration I guess.

Weather fluctuations over three years have disrupted rose and jasmine harvests in Kannauj, India's perfume capital. In this week's #EcoIndia, we discuss how Kannauj's famous perfume industry can survive the effects of climate change. #Watch⤵ scroll.in/video/108329...

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

We should be hearing more about these but we aren’t. The sunlight has been eerie and red where I live in the upper Midwest for two days, and we’re all just walking around like it’s a normal early summer weekend.

We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.

For four long years I was told not to call what’s coming our way fascism but here we are:

the modern information environment

On Monday, Maharashtra recorded the second-highest number of active cases at 210 – up by 154 since May 19 – followed by Delhi with 104 active cases, a rise of 99 since that date. scroll.in/latest/10828...

This article describes it in more depth, but I want to focus on a few things. First, when you build infrastructure like this and create new jobs/pensions for right-wing unions, it's hard to ever remove them. This new gestapo could become a permanent feature of our lives. www.wola.org/analysis/160...

NEWS | Gaza Media Office: 80 Days of Blockade Caused Hundreds of Preventable Deaths Video: Gaza Civil Defense Chief

Essential reading from @nehadixit123: Operation Sindoor reveals how calls for peace are being drowned out by bloodlust and performative patriotism. What happens when pacifism becomes unpopular? www.thehindu.com/society/oper...

"I'm realizing I'm being vague here. That's intentional." (via @literaryhub.bsky.social)

this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination. Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France. Sheesh.

My statement on the charges filed against me:

Waking up every morning with an ongoing holocaust should be its own public emergency. We should be gathering in streets n town squares holding each other in solace like people do in the wake of “terror” attacks/disasters. It is cruel to expect bodies to process this scale of horror alone. #gaza

If we had the ability to feel the pain of a fraction of Gaza’s oppressed, our bones would splinter inside us with the force of it. Enough is enough.

🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 7-2 ruling Friday said the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants in its rushed effort to remove them from the U.S. last month using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), a 1798 wartime law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It's no wonder huge wildfires are surging from northern Minnesota into southern Manitoba. Temps there pushed close to the century mark this week, accompanied by "tropical nights" (getting no cooler than 68F). yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/05/summ...

He’s never visited a mosque in the country where he’s president but he’s happy to do it in a country where he can make money

The abolitionist questions — “when do you actually feel safe? What, exactly, is security? What is justice?” — have to be asked all the time, esp. in this crisis. Otherwise you get the same forces which brought us here doing this all over again.

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

"Do You Even Own Socks?"

NEW: Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earlier failed launch littered beaches and roads. By @heathervogell.bsky.social

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NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

Horace Peterson has been freed after 52 years of maintaining his innocence

orn in 1888, Inge Lehmann was the brilliant Danish seismologist who discovered Earth’s solid inner core in 1936—redefining our understanding of the planet. A pioneer in geophysics and a trailblazer for women in science. 🌍💡 #EarthScience #WomenInSTEM #Seismology