🔥1/2 “Two guards would hold my feet; two hold my hands; one hold my head – & they would shove tubes in my nose...& you just take it. You have 60cm of tube going through you & you just feel every cm of it.” — indy filmmaker & asylum-seeker Gabar Choli on ICE force-feeding him in TX. 🧾 t2m.co/G1q5f4j4

‘Shoved the tube so hard it tore my nose’: Kurdish film-maker recounts ‘inhumane’ ICE force-feeding

Gabar Choli tells of how, for months, he was shackled, pinned and forcibly fed – and the physical and emotional scars the ordeal has left

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Raw Story@rawstory.com · 6d ago

Speaking with The Guardian, Kurdish asylum seeker Gabar Choli detailed Monday the torture he says he endured while held at an ICE detention center in Texas, the latest account of brutal conditions migrants face amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

I even managed to sneak “leave the leaves” in there, please applaud www.marthastewart.com/old-fashione...

7 Old-Fashioned Gardening Tips Experts Still Swear By

Some tried-and-true gardening tricks are classics for a reason. We asked three experts which of these methods they swear by, and that they still use today.

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What a great match!

Thrilling!

New York is magical

It’s official! Summer is here

My father died a year and a half ago, but I only found out last October. I had not talked to him in 35 years. This is for all the people with shit dads, we are multitudes! When I found out, I was sad not to be sad, i’d already done all my grieving. 1/6

A PSA: if you love fireflies (and who doesn’t?), you need to leave the leaves, from November to June.

Sometimes I feel the algorithm truly gets me

I love New York today, half the people are walking with their Knicks fan apparel, the other half in their best clothes, balloons or flowers in one hand, their kid’s hand in the other. 100% on parade

I rescued a cat, and I’m getting my just desserts #juneberries

Super jealous of their napping abilities. I touched something that had poison ivy oil and transferred it on half my body before I realized. I’ve been itchy 24/7 since last weekend, I can barely sleep. #caturday

She showed up on the wettest Memorial Day weekend, we started feeding her, I took her to the vet, just like the Little Prince, a modern love story

I made myself a little posy, to deal with the intense stress of living through the breakdown of 90% of our institutions #bloomscroll

I see a lot of flowers everyday, it’s my job, but look at this one

It looks like the cat distribution system has delivered a cute girl with a plumy tail, but I can see she used to wear a collar. What’s the best way to see if someone has lost her?

It’s that time of year, where after 340 days of waiting, the peonies bloom and we have a violent thunderstorm the next day.

This is completely crazy, and also seems normal. The lack of accountability leads to outlandish corruption.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3mo ago

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

My girl and her bestie, playing #horses

Our taxes at work

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 4mo ago

‘Last week, the reporter Amal Khalil and photojournalist Zeinab Faraj were on assignment in south Lebanon when Israeli drones struck the car in front of them. The women sought shelter in a building that was then destroyed by a direct hit.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Mood #crow

Today is the International Day of Unicorns, isn’t it wonderful?

Beaux Arts Magazine@beauxartsmagazine.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On (re)découvre cette créature myhtique à l'occasion de la journée mondiale de la licorne !

… the kakistocrats!

My Daydream tulips are popping up. I’m going to try showing you why they are my favorite over the next week, a thread 1/5

Cleaning up the hydrangea now that the leaves are unfurling, with my assistant #caturday #gardening

The ephemeral flowers of the star magnolia #bloomscroll

If you need an entremet in your 12-course meal of crazy news www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... Burn after reading meets Hot Fuzz, with actual murdering French free masons.

Murder trial opens over alleged masonic lodge crime network in Paris

Twenty-two defendants, including intelligence agents and police, accused of committing crimes on behalf of Freemason mafia

theguardian.com

Off to the March, y’all Arts and crafts can be very dangerous, I spend weeks staying busy, and then all the anger and bile bubble up when I stop to think about this disgusting government