Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise. I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.

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to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

JUST IN: A federal judge has thrown out DOJ’s lawsuit to compel NY to aid in immigration arrests at state courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

THREAD- 🛡️ COMMUNITY PROTECTION TOOLKIT 🛡️ 🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)

Avelo Airlines has a big contract with ICE to do charter deportation flights, but according to public statements, flight data, and internal messages, a number of serious safety lapses are making ICE air a dangerous fiasco. From @gbrockell.bsky.social: trib.al/hM1tnJ8

Dont cross the pickett line: Starbucks employees are on strike. Dont shop at Target: they are under Boycott for being fascist collaborators. Let em fucking taste a new red flavor.

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont... Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.

just added more glass wreaths to nora.jewelry

This is the dystopian bullshit so many of us feared. It's not coming, it's here.

The ICAO is who you need to lobby if you want to remove gender from all passports altogether, which is why American trans activists have largely focused on the ability to update/change your gender marker

In somewhat good news, today the state department website has changed the answer to this question to defer to ICAO policy. Sources still tell me that there is some appetite for invalidation/reversion of passports issued under the injunction, but this message will be welcome to many trans people.

fingers crossed that "wax seal replacement" is the fix for our leak as it will NOT involve going into the ceiling 🤞

academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t... My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.

[Black & white illustration based on the book Charlotte's Web with a pig looking at a spider's web that says "fuck ICE" with the spider hanging off the bottom]

Charlotte, NC is a city in the grips of fascism as businesses scramble to keep their community safe. Some waiving delivery fees for groceries to let people shop safe from home, some closing their doors for the first time in decades. Locals suffering the same as LA, DC and Chicago. /

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.

Guillotine fans!

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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With 🧊 in Charlotte, we will be posting as many resources as we can find to help anyone in Charlotte as well as what we need to know across the state. Carolina Migrant Network has a hotline that you can call especially if you are in Charlotte. They will verify that it is 🧊 and will notify.

Charlotte arrests rising, protesters detained in Border Patrol Day 2. Department of Homeland Security said it’s “surging resources” for “Operation Charlotte’s Web.” Border Patrol says 81 people arrested Saturday. (Via Desiree Mathurin & Mary Ramsey) www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a... #ncpol

Also, the mayor of Charlotte is a Black woman: Vi Lyles. It’s interesting that the majority—if not all—the US cities subjected to these horrific ICE invasions have Black mayors. 🤔 www.charlottenc.gov/City-Governm... #AbolishICE #NorthCaolina

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

People taken by federal agents in Charlotte include: "Workers putting up Christmas decorations in a homeowner's front yard. Picking up construction materials from hardware stores. Doing yard work at an east Charlotte church.”

for the record, i don’t believe that all men want is to assault teenagers without suffering consequences for it. i do however believe that if you’re a man who does NOT want that, this would be a GREAT time to get VERY FUCKING LOUD about it

@queencitynerve.com is more active on X right now, but if you're looking for indie and paywall free coverage of the CBP invasion of Charlotte, they're one to follow for sure:

as a former 17 year old who dated men who were in their 20s I'm here to tell you that they were dating me precisely because they themselves were stalled at 17 and anyone their actual age would not (rightfully!) give them the time of day. Why was I dating them?

I can attest this practice was common, and let me disabuse anyone who thinks practice went away because people realized the obvious unsafe working environment issues—it was Zoom that ended the conference hotel room interview.

This was part of the standard interview advice from recent grads! They would actively give you tips and strategies...

I was interviewing in 2007 and I remember my mentor telling me to make sure my suit skirt was a little long so it wouldn’t hike up when I had to sit on a bed

And invite candidates to parties in said hotel rooms, sometimes not even suites, that you felt obligated to attend even though it was so uncomfortable and you would inevitably get waylaid when trying to leave by an emeritus hanging in the doorway who wanted to talk about Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Remember that study where kids and teachers both felt like calling on girls 30% of the time was gender parity and ~48% was only girls ever getting to talk?

Oh wow this is Shut Up and Write style: Shut Up and Do Your Admin

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

Yes, the answer is YES, all of it

and literally every woman in astronomy is having flashbacks to www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...

Aka why "information commons" or "hub" is not it

BU student newspaper article on this dailyfreepress.com/11/15/19/216...

Sending love & solidarity from DC to Charlotte. And LA. And Chicago. And whoever they try to come for next. We’re stronger together & we will win.

A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and made an arrest in front of children. They cried “a lot,” he said. “We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.” #borderpatrol #charlotte #nc

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

OMG COELACANTHS

oops stain on the kitchen ceiling right under an upstairs bathroom this should be great.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

Oh no I just heard we lost Alice. This is terribly sad. She was an incredible, talented, powerful voice of the disability community. She stood strong for herself and for all of us. She will be missed immensely.

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.