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Dara Lind

@daralind.bsky.social

Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer. You have a right and a duty to know what the government is doing in your name. Signal: daralind.18

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Panel 3 deserves to be the inspiration for a Matties Through Time series, with the Mattie leaning out of windows of various countries and eras, in the costume of various countries and eras, shouting the appropriate equivalent of "get bent asshole" in the argot of various countries and eras

02.03.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Pope's Reply Guys would actually be a decent concept for a bookstore-cash-register-stand impulse-buy humor book

02.03.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re allowed to take that position. I can’t stop you. I think that analogy is fatally flawed for other reasons, namely the difference between β€œproducing a lot of good and also harm” and β€œproducing a lot of harm,” and also the frankly hegemonic role the NYT plays as an employer of writers.

02.03.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hurtado was a top-down decision from Bondi’s DOJ stripping immigration judges of authority to bond out detainees who had entered without inspection. So it’s not evidence that the problem is IJs; it’s evidence that this DOJ is successfully transforming imm courts via policy and structure.

02.03.2026 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The idea that journalists are somehow exempt from labor/management dynamics will genuinely kill me.

02.03.2026 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is correct but actually misses the category error here: the REASON they’re doing β€œThe New York Times supports” IS THE SAME REASON that Jamelle becomes conflated with the NYT. WRITERS ARE NOT THE PUBLICATION. PERIOD FULL STOP. Opinion pages aren’t news pages but WRITERS AREN’T THE PUBLICATION.

02.03.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Here for it, you have a connection who’ll pay travel?

02.03.2026 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wasn’t even being called out! It was just, you know the smirk someone gives when you’re confirming their stereotype of you?

02.03.2026 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.

01.03.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1403    πŸ” 324    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 12

There was a point last year when the following dialogue happened:

Me: β€œAs I say all the time, commitment to the bit is the highest virtue.”
My interlocutor, a warm acquaintance: β€œI have heard you say that. All the time.”

I had a few moments of self-criticism. But you know what? TAPS THE SIGN.

02.03.2026 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m CCing @davekasten.bsky.social on this thread because a) he needs a laugh and b) I actually think the two of you might have a very productive thought partnership

02.03.2026 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fact that J Street is being used as an AIPAC proxy by efforts like this, while being tagged as β€œanti-Israel” by the Israeli government, is why we (the Jews) can’t have nice things but also why we (the Americans) can’t have nice things (like the Jews).

02.03.2026 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI have lost this competition and found my husband.”

02.03.2026 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance The producers, choreographers, and dancers behind the "Umbrella" and "Singin' in the Rain" mashup explain how it came to be.

OH I HAVE GREAT NEWS FOR YOU: THERE’S AN ORAL HISTORY web.archive.org/web/20240227...

02.03.2026 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow I’m so glad you got to show this to someone for the first time. How did he react

02.03.2026 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why haven’t we gotten our Tom Holland Hedwig yet, I ASK YOU

02.03.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

GREAT joke.

02.03.2026 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

02.03.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1449    πŸ” 391    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 61

Trying this is SQUARELY in I Wish They Would territory.

02.03.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not concerned about him I’m concerned about the rest of us

02.03.2026 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He’s Spanish, there’s certainly a long tradition of it!

02.03.2026 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Alex Palou needs to go full antifa if Indycar isn’t gonna get outflanked to the left by NASCAR

02.03.2026 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

THANK YOU. I’m shocked only one person tagged me here but I’m very glad you did!

02.03.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Death. Taxes. Alex Palou.

(I'm still really glad Indycar's back.)

01.03.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Womp β€” and I cannot emphasize this enough β€” womp. :(

01.03.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whoops

01.03.2026 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately he is a huge disappointment to the name

01.03.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Medium Dave

01.03.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia β€” and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

01.03.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8671    πŸ” 2555    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 119

Gross.

01.03.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0