Anyone know a lawyer practicing immigration law in Kentucky? A friend has an emergency situation with an ICE abduction
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · last mo.Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with an estimated 800,000 people in Paris on Saturday, after spending the morning with migrants, the poor, and adults newly entering the Catholic Church. “For Christians,” he added, “the poor are not a sociological category, but the very ‘flesh’ of Christ.”
"It is at this moment in the report that the pin makes contact with the balloon, and the reader is reminded that all Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers are guilty of is refusing to abide by some bullshit."
Defector@defector.com · 2mo agoThe funniest emails from the Kawhi Leonard investigation are also the most clarifying defector.com/the-funniest...
This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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I am coming to believe we need a better quality of AI booster www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.
theverge.com
How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Could AI be conscious?
Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications
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All right guys, I would love your assistance. I've posted a 10-minute video recapping the extent to which Jeff Pearlman's Ruben Rivera video plagiarizes the visuals from my own video on him from 2021. There are 23 instances in which his editor lifted from me, and you can see them all in this.
Jeff Pearlman's Ruben Rivera video sure is familiar...
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I realize this is really basic, but I just love how flms & TV shows documentary records of people and places that existed, on top of other aspects of interest, even if it's a work of fiction. Jimmy Cagney, among other people, is still alive to me, because of this.
🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
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This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)
At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.
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"It is remarkably unimaginative to hold film to the standard that it must directly reflect our reality to speak any worthwhile truth."
Angelica Jade Bastién@angelicabastien.bsky.social · 4mo agoI got personal and fiery in my latest newsletter piece about Disclosure Day. I discuss why I loved the film, my own sensitive nature, having hope for humanity, the troubling misreadings of the film, and why cynicism is not wisdom. angelicabastien.substack.com/p/disclosure...
It doesn’t have to be that complicated. We could just let trans kids play sports.
Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.
Because I'm an insane person, I know Reid Wiseman from getting name-dropped in an episode from the Yahoo! season of Dan Harmon's COMMUNITY about 11 years ago. In simpler times. #JeffWritesToAstronauts #They'reNationalHeroes
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7mo agoI didn't know anything about the Artemis II astronauts a week ago and now I would fight my way into Hell for any of them.
“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”
The Verge@theverge.com · 7mo agoThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
We’ve lost all concept of this, but government services are not supposed to be profit making enterprises. government services are not publicly traded corporations. They are, and I can’t stress this enough, government services
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 8mo ago"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
Very few pieces of television are as perfectly crafted — and have given me as much enjoyment — as the Behind the Music two-parter about the Blue Jean Committee.
Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9mo agoBig news for DOCUMENTARY NOW! fans: There's a coffee table book coming out in May, and I wrote the introduction! You can order signed (by me!) copies at the link below. Written by Seth Meyers + cast and crew. It runs 600 pages and includes the complete score to CO-OP. mzs.press/PRE-ORDER-SI...
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
Karlin Lillington@klillington.bsky.social · 9mo agoAnd here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Absolute truth here. Bezos and his hatchet men are full-on wearing hot-dog costumes, "trying to find who did this," after driving away both new and longtime Post readers since they pivoted to "anti-woke." But of course, it's never *their* fault.
Ben Mullin@benmullin.bsky.social · 9mo agoA staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?
When the veil of dreams has lifted/And the fairy tales have all been told/There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow/More precious than a pot of gold 🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...
Mitch & Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow
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I wouldn't say that Bari Weiss is a dumb person's idea of a smart person, but her "innovations" are basically a non-journalist's idea of genius. Everyone at CBS News already knows everything she is presenting here as revolutionary.
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 9mo agoWeiss' full remarks to CBS News staff (1/4)