Rachel Dellon

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

Amid what detainees say is a clampdown in Dilley, TX, including seizures of kids' drawings and crayons, Christian Hinojosa stuffed letters in her jacket to hide them from guards. She told @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me her story. We published the letters today.

www.propublica.org/article/dill...

I knew I’d like this without even clicking, but I didn’t expect it to also provide a compelling theory for why I have a hard time getting into contemporary literary fiction so much of the time.

If you can, donate to queer/trans rights groups in red states!! There are so many queer people in red states who need our supoort, and who can't leave.

I left Texas for a blue state last year, but still donate monthly to Equality Texas: they fight tirelessly for queer Texans.

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

I think the “66% of voters don’t know that much about Garrity yet” deserves at least some credit for the gap.

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

NEW: Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers.

a 4 by 4 grid of insects that has a metallic grreen tiger beetle, a teal and black speckled sharpshooter with a yellow underbelly, a reddish brown stag beetle, and handsome meadow katydid, with the following words superimposed "Call for mural walls! we're making 3 10x10ft murals about philly's bugs. submit your walls at bit.ly/bugwalls

Hey Philly!

I need your help finding 3 walls for 10x10ft murals this fall all about the most charismatic bugs in the city.

Each mural must be in a different neighborhood, so we have to cast this net as wide as possible.

Please help us spread the word!

Submit your wall at bit.ly/bugwalls

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots.

This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline.

An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION.

Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

The stupid thing about social media arguments about social media is that everyone who has them is a 40 year old arguing about which site frequented by 7% of the population is more relevant, meanwhile everyone under 25 is on something called Blooble inventing new words to scare us with

Many confabulations on your thatched-roof cottage.

This guy was the most Philly guy ever. Local hero. Icon. I used to live on Rodman by the Magic Gardens. This is terrible news.

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

Someone make this version, though. I could not be more serious.

““They threw my dad out like an animal, and now I have no dad.”

Today in Important Housecat Milestones, Tabitha has figured out she can escape the playpen while the top is open. Also that if she kicks all the litter out of her litterbox, the humans will have to open the playpen to clean it up.

But were the bridal party in inflatable T-Rex costumes?

Well, you like them so much, you eat them!

The Ed Balls Day celebrations just get earlier and earlier every year.

If Wars and Trek fans agree on anything, it’s not letting J.J. Abrams touch our stuff again.

The Matrix: Revolutions was probably the most immediate “I paid money for this?!” reaction when the credits rolled, but Star Trek: Into Darkness has festered the longest.

In case anyone was taking bets on how long it took her to escape the Cone of Shame, the answer is about 3.5 hours. (She’s now making sad betrayal squeaks at me for putting it back on.)

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

I cannot say it surprises me Tabitha is the kind of cat who comes home from the vet determined to catch up on all the playtime she missed, but it will make the next week…interesting.

I feel like the octopuses might do a better job of it.

i have unpostable thoughts.

Today in Extremely Important Housecat Milestones, Tabitha has been spayed and chipped. She comes home tomorrow.

Anyone have suggestions for minimizing jumping in an apartment where there’s really nowhere we can keep her that doesn’t have high surfaces?

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless