Elizabeth Holdsworth

Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison

TIME TO REMEMBER WHERE THE PINK TRIANGLE CAME FROM

NEW: In response to DOJ's request for a stay pending appeal of her Haiti TPS order, Judge Reyes questions the "suspect" nature of DOJ's "irreparable harm" arguments, orders DOJ to file a declaration about what actions DHS has taken "in expectation" Haiti TPS would end, and sets a hearing for 2/12.

The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week. n.pr/3Mq3Y6i

Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.

Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

When AI Imagines Neanderthals, It Dreams of the 1960s A computational analysis reveals that generative AI produces representations of our extinct relatives that are decades out of date—and systematically biased.

New study finds that when AI imagines Neanderthals, it produces images from the 1980s and text from the 1960s. The gap between generative models and current scholarship is wider than you’d think. #Neanderthals #AI #Archaeology www.anthropology.net/p/when-ai-im...

A Rural S.C. County Quietly Approved a $2B Data Center During the Winter Storm Data centers are the nation's fastest-growing energy demand driver, but developers are using nondisclosure agreements to keep projects hidden.

NEW: Developers are using NDAs to keep data centers hidden while systematically choosing communities — often majority-Black rural counties — with less organized political and economic power.

In rural SC, a $2B project got pushed through during the ice storm: capitalbnews.org/secret-data-...

Marissa J. Lang @Marissa Jae X.com I was laid off today by The Washington Post. I'm proud of the work I have done at this place — not just the award-winning work, but the stories that spurred change, that were steeped in this beautiful local community. Job tips welcome. DMs open. Or: marissalang(@)gmail(dot)com 9:15 AM • 2/4/26 • 76K Views

The Washington Post Sign in Marissa J. Lang Washington, D.C. Enterprise reporter Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post focused on high-impact stories in the D.C.region. She previously covered housing and gentrification, zeroing in on the affordable housing crisis, homelessness and the transformation of cities. She joined The Post in 2018 as its lead protest reporter. Her coverage of domestic extremism and the violence that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol culminated in her on-the-ground reporting of the insurrection and its aftermath. Marissa was part of the team of journalists recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Iowa folks! HF 2171 is moving quickly through your legislature and targets immunization requirements for school. Send a message to your legislator that you oppose it; can also use this form. Please share!

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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In Portland, federal agents launch tear gas at nonviolent anti-ICE protesters—Including Children Portland, Oregon Mayor Keith Wilson said that it was a “peaceful daytime protest” that “posed no danger to federal forces.”

Federal agents launch tear gas at nonviolent anti-ICE protesters in Portland—including children

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

This is an excellent piece 👇 its discussion of the “tyranny of the quantifiable” reminded me of the recent article about the tech guys whose miserable vision is for dating to be determined entirely by algorithm

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."

Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Israel’s Military Now Accepts 70,000 Killed in Gaza – But Why Did Our Media Let Them Get Away With Denying It for So Long? I have spent the past two years debating the credibility of the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers with supporters of Israel. It turns out the Israeli military agrees with me, not them.

“What verdict will history render on those many moments of cowardice and silence from journalists who fell into line with the genocidaires? What will it mean to look in the mirror and realize that, when it mattered most, they chose career safety and complicity in genocide denial?”

“.. It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about,” said one of the nurses .. “There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.”

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WRITING JOB: Editor/Writer for Impact Magazine at the University of Minnesota's Institute on Community Integration (our University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities). Good gig, excellent benefits and pay, I am not affiliated in any way but will buy you lunch if you get it.

Whenever you give people impunity and tell them any resistance is a crime, you're going to get imposters trying to take advantage of a "do crimes for free" loophole.

It happens online too. We often see people impersonate police in order to get unquestioned access to people's private online data.

when @ariberman.bsky.social writes these words, it's a big fucking deal:

"In the past week, the different tactics the administration could use to interfere in the midterms have come into sharp focus."

Yikes. The Latino-owned businesses in Mercado Central in Minneapolis report a 90% dip in business since the major influx of federal agents into Minnesota. This is where I’d go to get my Mexican groceries and my pozole fix when I lived in the Twin Cities

Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. Understanding the Links Between Pronatalism and Voluntary Childlessness Many European societies follow pronatalist family policies; nevertheless, in all countries, the total fertility rate is below replacement level and the rate of childless people is growing. Meanwhil...

"there's a strong association between acceptance of immigrants & voluntary childlessness at the individual level. At the country level, female childlessness rate is associated with attitudes to immigration: higher female childlessness is associated with more favorable attitudes toward immigration"

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

This is why I'm nervous about the push to put all data into accessible repositories. If NIH can't adequately monitor how the data is being used, I doubt any institution or individual researchers can.

Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

These Patches Are Clues to Identifying Immigration Agents We built a guide to patches worn by ICE and CBP to help the public determine which federal agents are in their communities.

EXCLUSIVE: These Patches Are Clues to Identifying Immigration Agents

We built a guide to patches worn by ICE and CBP to help the public determine which federal agents are in their communities

theintercept.com/2026/01/28/i...

Right-wing plot to set up ‘intellectual freedom centers’ at public universities UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Florida are part of the effort to push conservative ideology on college students in the guise of civics education

What's behind the right-wing plot to set up taxpayer-funded ‘intellectual freedom centers’ at public universities?

UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Civic Life & Leadership & the University of Florida’s Hamilton School are part of the effort to push conservative ideology, @shayssen.bsky.social reports.

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This excerpt from @adamserwer.bsky.social's latest points to something that Alex Pretti's vocation as a nurse brought to mind: What we're seeing in Minneapolis is resistance, but resistance based on care.

I've said before that what we need is a care economy. What we're getting is a care resistance.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.