Iroise Tracy

once again please call your reps about this and YELL

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Not a doctor. Not a scientist. A conspiracy theory spouting ghoul.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

“The memo lays out the need to persuade top Pentagon officials to get much more serious about using the military to combat illegal immigration […] DHS is anticipating many more uses of the military in urban centers, noting that L.A.-style operations may be needed ‘for years to come.’”

Don't wait for the Perseids in August — look for meteors this week A bright moon will make it hard to see the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, but one night this week offers a decent chance of seeing some shooting stars.

www.npr.org/2025/07/28/n...

i don’t know if rowlf singing “what a wonderful world” to a sleeping puppy is soothing or lie-on-the-floor-and-sob heartbreaking. maybe it’s both. i think I needed both.

Timothy Snyder’s first rule for fighting fascism: "DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE"

Brown and Harvard and Columbia and Paramount and countless law firms (among others) are all fascist supporting institutions. Fuck them all.

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So after much procrastinating, I finally made the transfer over to Ellipsus.

It literally took a group of writer friends to get over the inertia of porting all my files (1 by 1 and converting into markdown each time ;~;) but I did it!

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Just a repost from you will give us everything ❤️‍🩹

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems

Share this thread and educate some Americans today 🙂

Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both be...

Bonus: US citizens, did you know that documented *and* undocumented immigrants pay USA property, income, and federal taxes? 5/end

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US citizens, do you know what goes into the full legal process to immigrate to the USA? 4/?

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Breaking Down the Immigration Figures - FactCheck.org Encounters on the southern border of those trying to enter the U.S. without authorization have gone up significantly under President Joe Biden. Government statistics show that in the initial processin...

US citizens, do you know what goes into the full legal process to immigrate to the USA? (This one outlines immigration processes further down in the article.) 3/?

www.factcheck.org/2024/02/brea...

US citizens, do you know what goes into the full legal process to immigrate to the USA? 2/?

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'Get In Line:' What It Takes To Legally Immigrate To The United States : 1A "Over the past few years, [USCIS] has gotten far more difficult to navigate, it is much more difficult to speak to a human being, to make an appointment...so if there is a snafu, it's very difficult t...

US citizens, do you know what goes into the full legal process to immigrate to the USA? 1/?

www.npr.org/2020/01/24/7...

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Meme that reads at the top: “Me shitposting Anti-Fascist propaganda on billionaire owned social media platforms [sic]” with and screenshot of Luthen Rael from the Andor TV series below and closed captions on the screenshot that read “I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them.”

"The US long decried famine as a tool of war. Now it is implementing it."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Content creators, please get off Substack. Please.

a digital drawing of a crying tiger jumping through a flaming hoop. The border is chains, with some links broken. An eye in each corner watches the tiger. Text above says “I don’t want to do this anymore” and the same text below is heavily distorted.

I Don’t Want To Do This Anymore
#art

'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

For those who asked. The link tree for the Sameer Project is here: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

If anyone has gotten a Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction contract from after its acquisition by Must Read, Writer Beware would like to see it (anything shared with us is confidential). Contact us at beware@sfwa.org

John Oliver doesn’t get enough credit for having a show with a strong viewpoint who will oftentimes devote 20-25 minutes to a topic, sometimes one that you can’t hear about on American television anywhere else, and manage to be pretty consistently funny while doing it. It’s a hell of a balancing act

Also so odd that Jeff Bezos suddenly wants to buy Condé Nast, the parent company of (among other inconvenient publications) Wired.

I'm stunned. ICE attorneys not identifying themselves in COURT?

For those still using TikTok, please read through all the slides in the Instagram post linked below.

www.instagram.com/p/DL_DudrRhR7/

Delete the TikTok app ASAP, or at least before September. Do not install the M2 app once it launches.