Amy Franco

The Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, employs over a quarter of a million.

The Department of Defense is the largest employer in the world.

Part of the work, then, is demanding an economy whose jobs, as June Jordan called for, transfers “aggregate resources from death to life."

Work to become the ancestor that you respect today. Don't be an embarrassment or disappointment to those who come after you.

Terrorizing Maya Mam speakers and threatening Delia Ramirez after training school of the americas grads to conduct a genocide in Guatemala.
This is the USA.

Abdur-Rahman is a 20 yo from Guinea, whose immigration court hearing I attended on Thursday. He left safely and is on path to gaining status—and already becoming a New Yorker.

Unfortunately, four other people whose hearings I attended were not so lucky. They were lawlessly abducted.

📸 Dean Moses

Ireland offered scholarships but does not assist with evacuations. Germany makes people apply for visas in Cairo. Italy has a scholarship program but unclear if they will assist with evacuations. France offered hope.

TEMOIGNAGES. "Ne laissez pas notre espoir mourir" : après l'affaire Nour Attaalah, des Gazaouis dénoncent la "punition collective" du gel des évacuations vers la France Dans la foulée de la polémique concernant l'étudiante Nour Attaalah, le Quai d'Orsay a décidé de bloquer l'accueil de nouveaux Gazaouis. Ceux qui espéraient venir voient une porte se refermer. Ceux dé...

France froze Palestinian visa review and evacuations 1 week ago. 💔

www.franceinfo.fr/monde/proche...

CPD Data Shows Steep Drop in Shootings, Homicides in Neighborhoods Where ShotSpotter Was Removed: Analysis Police beats that had ShotSpotter sensors saw an approximately 17.8% decrease in violent crime and a 37.5% decrease in homicides during the first six months of 2025, as compared with the first six mon...

NEW: Nearly a year after Chicago officials turned off the city's gunshot detection system, a new analysis of Chicago crime data shows a steep drop in violent crime & homicides in the 12 South and West side neighborhoods that had ShotSpotter sensors. @wttw.bsky.social

North: Banff, Canada
East: Prague, Czech Republic
South: Arica, Chile
West: Chiang Mai, Thailand

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing.

“I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

The fact that he brought it from home ?? Immediate grounds for dismissal

TO THIS DAY, I remain outraged that HBO didn’t just cancel “Legendary,” they deleted it too.

Ewww I've been lucky to never see it irl and had hoped they'd given up using it !

The beauty of women's solidarity: a balm

The rage: excellent for scrubbing

The Network: Saint-o-tec : Embedded Part 1: In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at his hospital were dying from abortion complications. It wasn't a coincidence. Brazilian women had made a discovery...

This 3-part series featuring superstars such as Women on Waves & the marea verde has been my favorite thing to clean the house to over the last month 💚💚
www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...

A vivid image of the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) in deep space, surrounded by swirling clouds of red, pink, and purple interstellar gas against a dark starry background. The nebula appears as a bright, glowing, shell-like structure near the center-right, with filamentary textures and intricate patterns of light.

The Crescent Nebula and some of the surrounding nebulosity.

Capture details: Celestron AVX mount, Apertura 60mm FPL-53 doublet with flattener, Optolong L-enhance filter, ZWO ASI2600mc pro, and ZWO ASI120mm mini guide camera.
#astrophotography

RHONY season 8

An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival We, the undersigned writers & literary organizations, many of whom have been a part of the Literary Arts ecosystem in some way—whether the Portland Book Festival, as finalists or winners of the…

Hey if you are or have been a participant/attendee/admirer of the Portland Book Festival or other Literary Arts programming please consider signing on to this divestment ask!! lithub.com/an-open-lett...

This is just so screwed up.

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody.

Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

Water of the Sky In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their...

"Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions: when it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence."

Tumblr normal-horoscopes Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture The whale looks delightfully round and seems to be smiling.

We have always made delightful little guys.

Frango mint cravings intensify

Screenshot of article that reads: When looking beyond just Harvard and Columbia, one thing becomes clear, said Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, the president is inciting an “outright attack” on higher education, and he has no plans of slowing down. From the political ousting of University of Virginia president James Ryan to the legislative termination of countless academic programs in Indiana with little to no faculty input, Baker identified one defining thread: curtailing the power of democratic institutions. “We are in a very dangerous time, both for U.S. higher education, but more importantly for our country,” she explained. “These types of outright attacks on colleges and universities are typically the moves of autocrats and dictators, often seen as signs of authoritarian takeovers.” She later added, “if one wanted to overthrow our constitutional republic, these are the types of moves you would make.”

Reporter: How do you feel about the Columbia settlement?

Dominique: Let me tell you about public universities in Republican-led states...

I appreciate that I get the kicker on a lot of these stories because I'm the most grim

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Donate to Help the Safi family survive the war, organized by Hashem Zeyad This is the second campaign created for the Safi family. We have created this new c… Hashem Zeyad needs your support for Help the Safi family survive the war

All we have is each other.
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But no matter what, I love the maíz, I love spending time with them, I love learning with them every year.

This growing season, like the year, has been one of unexpected change, starting over. There was a late season replanting, early heat wave, and now some struggles with tassel and silk timing.

Sunlight through bright green leaves of corn against a bright blue sky.

Queer kin 🖤🌽

CECOT should not exist and Salvis have been telling us of the dire conditions there for many years.

Free them all.