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Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

OMFG! 🔥🔥🔥🔥Rep. Jasmine Crockett:

"We are going to be in your faces, we're gonna be on your ass, we're going to make sure you understand that this is what democracy looks like!"

It hurts to hear this.

May her memory be a blessing and strength for the fight.

Once we've collected enough data, we'll start sharing it with you, and we'll see if the folks who voted for cheaper eggs get what they wanted while the world burns down around us.

Arelis R. Hernández post on X: "Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1 pm CBP1 parole appointments learned 20 minutes ago that the app has shut down & those appointments are no longer valid." There is a screenshot of video. A woman lays her head in her hands, leaning against a pole, and cries. As the video playes, multiple cameras are pointed at her and there is the sound of a DSLR or film camera shutter going off.

The first visual of the Trump presidency at the border; a sobbing woman in Ciudad Juárez stands outside the Paso Del Norte port of entry, clutching a pole as she weeps having learned that her 1:00PM appointment for a chance to seek asylum in the US has been cancelled. x.com/arelisrhdz/s...

Stay tuned...

Laws only exist so long as people believe in them, which is why it is important that you not preemptively accept the idea that you don't.

husband wrapped. you were in the top .01% of admirers of your husband. you spent 2,632 minutes watching your husband sleep

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing a single person that the Republican Party cares about working people.

if you kill a disfavored person in the street the leaders of the republican party will try to make you a national hero. absolutely not an ominous sign for the future.

The looks of boredom on everyone's faces explain so much about this moment in history.

Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

Taking to someone the other day and they didn't know about the Dutch tulip craze. So, if you didn't know there was a tulip speculation bubble in the 1600s, now you do.

A still from THE SIMPSONS, in which a cigarette-smoking Donkey Kong sits on an outdoor platform, surrounded by barrels, with a banner advertising "FRIDAY: Meet Donkey Kong in person"

it's friday

A W Train heading north from 59th Street along the local tracks during morning rish hour.

Why Does Your R Train Commute Suck? (Part 3)

Did you know the W train doesn't have easy access to a rail yard? Even though it ends at South Ferry, trains need to arrive from Coney. That means W trains replace R trains during rush hours along 4th Ave in Brooklyn, reducing the number of Rs from 95th.

Dangerous Bill Could Lead to Nonprofits Critical of Government Being Shut Down, With No Real Due Process - PEN America PEN America is deeply alarmed over passage by the House of Representatives today of a bill that would allow the Treasury Secretary to make a unilateral determination to revoke the tax-exempt status of...

This bill, which just passed the House and is headed for the Senate, will allow the Treasury Dept to shut down civil society organizations deemed to be enemies. This is no bueno.

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The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and eat.

Very fun! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/t...

me all in my echo chamber

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

Londoners! Come to a screening of The Guilty Feminist podcast about abortion!! Featuring me but also @dfdubz.bsky.social Grace Petrie Bonnie Greer Aja Barber and MORE.

Sunday 1 pm, at the Kings Head Theatre, Tickets here: guiltyfeminist.com/live-shows/

this is what happened to that Jorts Peterson fella when he drank the apple cider

PEN America Condemns University of North Texas System's Extreme Overcompliance in Implementing A DEI Ban - PEN America Overcompliance of DEI law at University of North Texas cause for alarm.

NEW: The University of North Texas administration "has gone totally rogue," I write for @penamerica.bsky.social, censoring syllabi and research grants even though the state's DEI ban explicitly exempts them. One of the worst cases of overcompliance I've ever seen. pen.org/press-releas...

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing.

Most Texas school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections A majority of pro-book ban school board candidates lost in Texas, but education advocates are worried about other election results.

Most Texas school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections

I switched to BlueSky a few days ago and you are the best new thing I've discovered! I'm pro all of these things, and pro- books & storytelling as ways to build empathy. So psyched to follow you!

I’m getting a lot of questions about how I decide to buy books (or decide not to) for my library system so instead of responding to each one individually I’m going to make a thread here!

I was born in the middle of the Reagan administration. Some days I cannot fucking believe I'm still waking up in a world where you can tell people "every problem in your life is because the government controls you!" and that's enough to convince millions that you should be the one controlling them.

Bull doge! Dogecoin soars as Trump announces a government efficiency group nicknamed DOGE Dogecoin is surging in value since Donald Trump won the presidential election. The cryptocurrency, whose mascot is a super-cute dog that muses things like “much wow,” has more than doubled since Elect...

Indeed.

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