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@pharmasean.bsky.social

Started from the bottom, now discovering even deeper bottoms that were heretofore unimagined

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Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

Trying to work up the courage to ask my friend group if they’re ready to take the next step and become a survivalist cult

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

Wild on

🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · last yr.

I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · last yr.

great thread. Modern times have brought even greater clarity to the rights of all people

Four panel drawing shown a person at work, a person at rest, a person at idle pleasure, and the Philadelphia sports mascot Gritty, friend to all workers and scourge of the ruling class. Text: “8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will, 8 hours for Gritty”

Isaac Rowlett@isaacrowlett.bsky.social · last yr.

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

“Maybe you only get 2 anime for Christmas instead of 30 anime” should go over really well with his base

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

The Kentucky Derby should be more like pro wrestling. Like the horses should be made up in skeleton makeup, and have names like the Equine Reaper

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

Decided that I finally need to watch some of the cultural touchstones of film

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · last yr.

not everyone capable of thinking deeply is funny, but I've found that the marked inability to be funny (while trying to be!) really underscores that person's lack of ability to think deeply

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · last yr.

i think about this a lot

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · last yr.

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow, our authoritarian overlords are so kind, that when they throw us in prison for ten years with no due process, we can cut our sentence down to 5 years if we just sew t-shirts every single day

björk 182@readsettle.rs · last yr.

one of the tasks of the American left is to explain to retail and service workers that this is the future that America has planned for them

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · last yr.

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Tricia McLaughlin &
@TriciaOhio
0...
The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.
This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had
it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document.
Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained
"at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error.
Hermosillo said he was detained with about
15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because
"they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · last yr.

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

New wife guy just dropped: “The state secret wife texter”

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

“Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was mistakenly included, the newly revealed one was created by Mr. Hegseth. It included his wife and about a dozen other people from his personal and professional inner circle…”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · last yr.

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · last yr.

Pro-natalists: you need to have at least 10 kids Normal people: why, are you expecting half of them to die before puberty due to lack of modern health and sanitation? Pro-natalists: you're never gonna believe what we also advocate

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

New — The court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of Mohsen Mahdawi from the US or Vermont. The Trump-Vance administration ignored such an order previously, when it moved Rumeysa Ozturk out of Massachusetts to Louisiana.

ORDER
In order to preserve this Court’s jurisdiction, and pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C.
§ 1651, it is ordered that the Petitioner, Mohsen Madawi, not be removed from the United States
or moved out of the territory of the District of Vermont pending further order of this Court.
DATED at Burlington, in the District of Vermont, this 14th day of April, 2025.
/s/ Hon. William K. Sessions III
Hon. William K. Sessions III
U.S. District Judge

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio
Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights
and due process rights.
PARTIES
8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee
camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for
the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date
of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of
International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

SCOTUS: you can’t imprison people without trial White House: how about if we put them in a foreign prison SCOTUS: you cant put them in a foreign prison White House: how dare you meddle in foreign affairs!!!

Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · last yr.

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

Why aren’t people producing more babies to fuel our nations baby-grinding machines??

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · last yr.

does anyone have a cannon pointed at the sun I can borrow? need to shoot myself into the sun with a cannon

Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · last yr.

How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

Conservatives will spend $100billion on a weaponized police state if it means saving $100million on feeding poor people

Universal basic bitch @pharmasean.bsky.social · last yr.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service will be shifting its public communication exclusively to Letterboxd

WIRED@wired.com · last yr.

SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

David Noll @david.noll.org · last yr.

Many thanks to @annabower.bsky.social for this thread. As it makes clear, government's strategy for dealing with the order to facilitate the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia is to send Drew Ensign into court without telling him what's going on. A few questions this raises:

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last yr.

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · last yr.

“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window

Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.

thebaltimorebanner.com

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · last yr.

nightmare country. I’m compelled by conscience to add that prisoners in the us are already treated like this and worse, daily; there’s escalation here but it’s from an already intolerable state of carceral excess.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

In just four days, Dr. Khan Suri was transferred among five different ICE facilities across three states, despite the fact that ICE records indicate there were beds in Virginia facilities. Dr. Khan Suri was fasting in religious observance of Ramadan, but multiple ICE facilities refused him food or water to break his fast.

For almost two weeks, he was housed in a room without a bed and with a television blaring 21 hours a day. Dr. Khan Suri was issued used underwear, and a bright red uniform that is usually reserved for detained individuals who have been classified as ‘high security’ based on their criminal history or alleged affiliation with criminal organizations. He is not permitted to work or spend more than two hours per week outside of his dorm.