fuck ICE
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storyteller. trans hellterror. shipwreck enthusiast. bookstore cat @weirdpvd.bsky.social. member of @transjournalists.org. Read my stuff @ whiteroseri.beehiiv.com & oracleofthemaritimes.beehiiv.com.
I often recommend Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching novels to kids in the 6-12 range &/or their families--they're fun to read aloud. Tiffany is a witch, & one key skill for a witch is First Sight, which means perceiving what is there, & not pretending you don't know about it. I think about this a lot
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 7mo agoThe way that you get another Fetterman is simply by ignoring everything right in front of your face and once you got him... he's yours once he's in power... he's empowered take seriously the character of your elected leaders
The Social Security Administration hemorrhaged jobs in 2025, creating what advocates have described as a crisis of customer service. Since, it’s been taking weeks or months before some people can even get an appointment to receive their benefits. https://bit.ly/4rCLvBZ
Widows are waiting months for the benefits meant to help them after loss
Cuts to thousands of Social Security jobs led by Elon Musk’s DOGE have created a backlog that leaves grieving families struggling to access survivor benefits.
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In most Arab countries, Mother’s Day is celebrated on March 21. But since Oct. 7, 2023, Mother’s Day in Gaza has been stripped of its meaning. How can these children celebrate when there are no mothers to embrace them, hold them, receive their gifts, or smile at their small gestures of love?
Arab Mother’s Day opens fresh wounds in Gaza amid the genocide
Celebrating the typically joyful holiday feels impossible when countless children have lost their mothers, and many mothers are left without their children or families
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Philadelphia, geographically located as far as it is possible to be from the remote vicinity of fucking around.
The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7mo agoWelp.
Libraries are spaces where people can gather without spending money, learn together, and build the kind of shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to destroy.
Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.
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This story by @sheinvestigates.bsky.social is so so good and so so upsetting. Get ready to have your head explode www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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COMMENTARY: "In almost every state, Democrats and Republicans have advantages over other parties or independents. But in the Northeast it is easier for independents and candidates from other parties to get on the ballot." Via @theconversation.com rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/03/19/w...
Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast • Rhode Island Current
Can the Northeastern United States teach us lessons about broadening the choices available to voters? A political science professor at Middlebury College thinks so.
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NEW: North Oaks, Minnesota is the only city in the US that is not on Google Maps Street View. "“It’s known by Minnesotans as a place where executives and CEOs live,” Parr told 404 Media. “Famously Walter Mondale is from North Oaks, but also like United Healthcare executives and Target executives.”
Mapping Google's Unmappable City
How filmmaker Chris Parr put North Oaks, Minnesota on the map.
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New favorite line I've gotten to write: The members of Congress looked considerably less glamorous than the Housewives.
Americans are losing HIV care. The Real Housewives want you to know about it.
Stars from the shows took to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to advocate for HIV prevention as thousands of people are set to lose access to vital medication.
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following updates about the iran war is trump lying about everything and then real war updates side by side
Let's catch up on the hilarious Afroman defamation trial: defector.com/lets-catch-u...
Let's Catch Up On The Hilarious Afroman Defamation Trial | Defector
Afroman, once world famous for his song about being high (though I always preferred “Crazy Rap” myself), has emerged as a new kind of internet folk hero in the aftermath of an incident in 2022 with…
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People are asking a lot of questions about my Bloomberg headline already answered by my Bloomberg headline
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just a thought: no movement should ever depend so completely on the reputation of its chosen figurehead that one of its founders is forced to make a calculation like this on behalf of its survival
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7mo agoDolores Huerta issued a statement following the New York Times’ investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez medium.com/@dolores_hue...
🚨 New from me @therealnews.com I speak w/ Diane Wilson—a fourth-generation fisherwoman who became a global folk hero for taking on a multibillion $ corporation polluting the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. Diane is now on a hunger strike against Dow Chemical therealnews.com/fisherwoman-...
Fisherwoman Diane Wilson is on hunger strike to stop Dow’s pollution of Texas Gulf Coast
“We're saying, ‘Oh, pretty please, will you save the bays? Will you not pollute us today?’... I think we're way too polite and way too well-behaved. And that's why I advocate being an unreasonable wom...
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Since last April, at least 4,700 immigrants already charged with entering the country illegally have faced additional charges for trespassing on military property. In about 60% of the resolved cases, the trespass charges were dropped or dismissed.
The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law
One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land. The Justice Department keeps p...
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"Direct action, insurrection, and communal land use were already core principles in Irish culture. In the meantime, remember: if we wanted to celebrate Ireland properly, we’d fly Palestinian flags today, not wear green."
A screaming guilliotine@endlessblockades.bsky.social · 8mo ago@margaret.bsky.social musings on Irish Americanism doing it for me today margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/fenian-bas...
Ordinarily, I would not put them into your feed. But I think it's valuable to see who is defending Chavez right now and to realize that many of your spaces might not be safe. Because men.
Really glad this is coming out. Unfortunately seems to have whiffs of Jimmy Savile to it. There were people who knew, who saw what Chavez was doing and tried to shut anyone else up from revealing the truth.
Sarah Weinman@sarahweinman.com · 7mo agoJust devastating. Absolutely devastating. And historical investigations matter, because what's hidden today -- or in plain sight but willfully ignored -- will be reckoned with in the future.
One, movements don't need monsters. They succeed in spite of them because the principles are just and good. Two, no one should have to "wait their turn" for justice. Justice for everyone. Now. Today. Three, the New York Times is still a compromised outlet that capitulates to fascists.
The NYT presents this as an either-or situation and it is not. We can protect women and girls from predators and have justice for the common worker. We can protect women and girls while providing the civil rights to ALL. Rights that many shed blood and lost their lives for us to have.
Protests planned in #Utah against ICE mega-prison. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Utahns to rally against ICE detention center in Salt Lake City
Utahns are preparing to protest after the Department of Homeland Security purchased a warehouse in Salt Lake City for $145 million, with ICE confirming its plans for a facility.
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Has a lot of stuff about the hideous cult shit he was doing and also how his people ran their own border patrol that would attack immigrants on the border Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
I guess my last thought is how much of the world could we already have won if every man wasn't deputized as a sheriff of patriarchy with all of the capacity for violence being a cop entails? Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
ICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴@miawong.bsky.social · 7mo agoI don't really have anything to add but horror and tears to the atrocities coming out about Cesar Chavez but if you want a good critical account of his work the book Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers is really good Moreover, ICE must be destroyed