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Houston Erased Texas’ First-Ever Gay Pride Crosswalk in the Middle of the Night Houston tore up the Montrose rainbow crosswalk last night, arresting three protestors who gathered at the intersection.

Across the country, as rainbow crosswalks are painted over, hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community have continued to rise. And queer Texans have voiced disappointment that local leaders aren’t stepping up in their defense — at least outside of San Antonio.

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3 photos 1. joe wright reading review by kylie (5 stars) "why does it zoom on on the pig like that" 2. a frame from the movie of a giant pig. joe wright voiceover:"because this pig turned up on the day" 3. joe wright looking down the barrel of the camera, saying "and it had the biggest balls i'd ever seen in my life"

joe wright, director of pride & prejudice (2005) reading letterboxd reviews

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver. Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park. Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

The New Work Times Cooking The Athletic Today Lifestyle Great Read Many Cities Say Yes to Federal Police Help, but No to 'Occupation' Some officials said they would welcome more traditional law enforcement cooperation with federal agents, but see the National Guard as a step too far. 5 MIN READ

If I were involved in this manufacturing consent ass story I’d feel pretty dumb right now

We need everyone back in the office because we want the serendipitous magic that only happens when you let humans get creative together and also we're replacing all of you with an AI machine that can only do things that it's seen done before

Every time my dad recalls the time he and his family were rounded up and taken out to a New Economic Zone, he always noted how young the guys with guns were—just kids, so eager to prove themselves in their little units, they were always the cruelest.

the funniest thing that happened during the pandemic were all the rich people who flounced out of california for texas, got to texas, discovered it sucked, moved back, and then wrote blog posts about their "learnings"

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Sotomayor: "The majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent."

‘He didn't break the law,’ said friend of 25-year-old Colombian now in ICE detention Jafet Santiago Diaz came to the United States because he feared for his life back home. After his first asylum hearing, ICE detained him.

Jafet Santiago Diaz, a 25-year-old man from Colombia, was detained Tuesday after his first asylum hearing in San Francisco.

"He didn't break the law," said a friend. "He showed up."

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It is imperative to recognize and call out this regime's bigoted identity politics. Their treatment of nonwhite electeds amounts to Taneyism.

To them, these officials hold no authority they are bound to respect. Padilla, McIver, Baraka are merely the latest. They are doing this to POC on purpose.

Video: ICE agents arrest people outside S.F. courthouse ICE agents arrested at least two people outside San Francisco court on Tuesday, part of deportation actions sweeping the country.

BREAKING: ICE agents arrested at least two people outside a San Francisco courthouse on Tuesday morning.

Protesters attempted to stop ICE, banging on their mini-van & opening its doors.

“This is an ICE abduction!” one yelled.

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Very wild to release this the day after Los Angeles was occupied by the Federal government and used “one of those groups” as an excuse.

Stay safe, Los Angeles.

Legislature repeals MinnesotaCare for undocumented adults • Minnesota Reformer Despite Democratic-Farmer-Labor control of the state Senate, the governor’s office, and half of the House, Republicans forced Democrats to roll back one of their signature accomplishments from the 202...

A bill passed with bipartisan support in Minnesota today to strip health insurance from undocumented people, and Governor Walz has agreed to sign it, via: minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/09/l...

“The role of the church – the role of people of faith – is to care for our neighbors. Yes,” said Rep. Isaac Schultz, R-Elmdale Township, during the House floor debate. “But not in this instance, specifically.”

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Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.

The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws

“ITS TORTURE,” says her family

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Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming

Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress:

"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

Screenshot of a CBS News article headline that reads: "Most Americans don’t earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds." The article was written by Megan Cerullo

A new report finds the bottom 60% of U.S. households—or *two-thirds* of the population—can't afford a “minimal quality of life": housing, health care, and other necessities.

"Indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving. But they don’t reflect the reality of most Americans."

“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

One thing I learned studying complex adaptive systems was the idea that the opposite of efficiency is not inefficiency. The opposite of efficiency is robustness. We don't value robustness. We think that we are fighting inefficiency, but really we're undermining the entire system.

I thought Charlotte's boss - A VILLAIN - was a little on the nose but now that I have this context yeah it all checks out.

BOO THIS MAN

aND more boos for his rich donor-funded crusade against public schools

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

Yale just stripped SJP of its status as an official student org after students protested the appearance of Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on campus. Ben-Gvir has been convicted in Israel on charges of supporting a terrorist organization

His passing is one less advocate for us wretched of the earth.

I find myself nodding along to fond remembrances of Pope Francis as if he were a problematic elder uncle. His death hits particularly hard because we are in the 12th circle of hell, and as JP shares, the Pope represented a Jesuit kindness that's become scarce.