Happy basement spider cricket jump scare season to all who celebrate
Chelsea Stieber
@chelseastieber.bsky.social
Author, Haiti's Paper War, NYU Press 2020 Co-Editor, Haiti for the Haitians, LUP 2023 NOLA <—> DC
“in the context of far-right movements, remigration is a method of ethnic cleansing. For white ethnonationalists, remigration is a process through which all non-white people are forcibly removed from traditionally white countries.“ www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
What is remigration, the far-right fringe idea going mainstream?
From the US to Europe, the idea of forcibly expelling non-white immigrants is gaining steam. Where does it come from?
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Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
Abortion bans make exceptions for ectopic pregnancies, but some people still don’t get care. One doctor told a woman intervening in her pregnancy could land him jail time, according to a lawsuit. “I felt like my life was a risk he couldn’t afford.”
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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got an cheap CD player/alarm clock combo and gave free reign of our old CD collections to our 11 yr old. he reported that his favorite one so far was “the one with the scary monster on the cover“ 😈🤘
The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo ago16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year.
“We’re one of the last bastions of Good Brain Thinking today—wokeness, esotericism, and nitpickiness included.“ Good Brain Thinking for life defector.com/humanists-ha...
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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If you didn’t get to watch this live I beg you to spend some time watching the ways that Louisiana’s public officials bend for Meta. Today’s ruling means that the PSC does not have the public’s best interest in mind. It means they are a willing accomplice to our corporate capture.
KD@kadeeja.blacksky.app · 2mo agoWelcome to the August LPSC B&E. Up first we find out if the commission will give us the numbers for the jobs + electricity the Meta data center will need! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSWy...
Mayor Michelle Wu has joined more than 100 mayors and local government leaders nationwide in signing a letter calling for Congress to extend protected status for Haitians until early 2029 after the Trump administration terminated it.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, more than 100 city leaders urge Congress to extend TPS for Haitians - The Boston Globe
Massachusetts had the third-highest population of Haitian nationals of any state in 2024.
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Please make the call and urge your Senators to Vote Yes: 202-224-3121 350,000 lives are at risk. Support the Haitian Bridge Alliance so our team can keep fighting to make sure no one is left behind: bit.ly/hbadonate
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Choosing to interpret this storm and our flooded basement as a reflection of scale of the cleansing rains needed after the Lindsey Graham funeral
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The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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Rome is burning but will anyone join me in the petition to standardize “bons mots” in English? I can’t take any more of these “bon mots” in English-language culture journalism
Bringing academic rigor to bear on the present with Nineteenth-Century French Studies or, how Victor Hugo and Louis-Napoléon can help us understand the temporality of Donald Trump and the slow motion coup Please read and share! www.ncfs-journal.org/chronique-ea...
11 yr old got thrown a Hot Ones gauntlet by his aunt and uncle for his birthday, complete with pre-prepared interview questions (kid has been into hot sauces for a while now). They sauced an extra set of wings so I could participate behind the scenes. It was glorious!
good start (extra mayo, fleur de sel)— can do better
Chelsea Stieber@chelseastieber.bsky.social · 2mo agoThese will be tomato sandwiches tomorrow. Watch this space.
These will be tomato sandwiches tomorrow. Watch this space.
Pisses me off to no end that they’ll consume our art while denigrating our humanity. You should be trapped in the digital hell of the politics you choose.
France’s reflecting pool game remains unparalleled. American flag blue what?
AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.
AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself
The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...
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"Haiti at the World Cup is more than an underdog tale – it is the story of global migration" great piece by @soccerpolitics.bsky.social for @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/haiti-at-the...
Haiti at the World Cup is more than an underdog tale – it is the story of global migration
For the first time since 1974, the Haitian men’s team has qualified for the World Cup. This is their story.
theconversation.com
Sean Jacobs on the life and music of Abdullah Ibrahim
Songs of Liberation | Sean Jacobs
In 1960 the writer Bessie Head—yet to publish the novels that would make her a leading figure in South African and Batswana literature—interviewed a young
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Spent an evening watching Andrew Bird whistle with an orchestra and it was lovely. And I feel old AF
