Leslie Phelps

happy bday Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, b.1939.

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones....

🧵 1/2 Charlotte is saying NO!Not my city!

Learning from L.A., Chicago & Siembra North Carolina, they’re ready to melt ICE!

I wonder at all the male reporters there who heard this insulting disrespect. Did they want to say something to her, to Trump?
Did the reporter herself want to?

How hideous this man is, how pathogenic.

A little boy with short blonde hair lies on a bed leaning against a pillow (the rungs are visible in the background). In his left hand he holds a toy - a lifebelt.

18 November 1935 | Dutch Jewish boy, Frits Herman van Son, was born in The Hague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

I see we’re having an unnecessarily flowery writing competition in public

How lazy to use a plain plastic water bottle to claim you have holy water, instead of shelling out for a labeled plastic water bottle meant for holy water

Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S. Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

YouTube video by WCNC "I'm a U.S. citizen!" | Video shows Border Patrol agent grab, handcuff woman in Charlotte

Kavanaugh stop in Charlotte

youtu.be/oJsWm5ZAEJE?...

Unidentified personnel, reportedly associated with ICE/CBP and wearing American flag masks, are allegedly engaging in random street stops across Charlotte, NC, as of November 16, 2025.

We cannot expect 'the walls' to ever just close in on Trump Don't be a Mitch.

www.thefarce.org/we-cannot-ex...

omg this his so gross. He is teaching two large undergrad classes and one grad class at Harvard currently. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A vintage black and white photograph of a young boy standing outdoors next to a large potted plant, wearing a buttoned shirt, shorts, and knee-high socks.

17 November 1934 | A German Jewish boy, Gert Loewenstein, was born in Aken. He emigrated to the Netherlands.

He was deported from Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto in January 1944 and on 16 May 1944 deported to #Auschwitz. He was murdered after the selection in a gas chamber.

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.

F that!

They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.”
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.

"But are there not many fascists in your country?"
"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”

- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.

👇🇨🇦"Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine"
#CBSA #RichardFalk #UnitedNations

How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent

I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.

The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

ICE/CBP kidnapping a teenager in Pineville, NC (11/15/25)

The Modern American Conservative Movement is Bankrupt and Anti-American The modern American conservative movement claims the mantle of the Founders while systematically rejecting everything the Founders built.

The modern conservative movement keeps wrapping itself in the Constitution while cheering the demolition of constitutional limits. You don’t get to preach “personal responsibility” while excusing authoritarian abuse.

Remember what’s real.

STANDING WITH FELLOW CITIZENS! We are here at the approach to the Dunedin Causeway, part of another “Signs of Fascism”, standing up to Trump’s assault on our democracy, but also educating others. In solidarity. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is,quite frankly,a hero,even though she’d never accept that title. She has stood up for science and the American people & spoken out with incredible bravery,while still scared. She refuses to back down. She is also an incrdible,incredible leader & example for us all.

In Northfield, Minnesota, masked ICE GOONS violently abducted a father. The Goons smashed a car window, beat and dragged the man at gunpoint, while his teenage son filmed the incident and begged them to stop. The father has not been seen since. (November 11, 2025)

"Accidentally" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

"What's happening here is evil."

In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, female volunteers from the Maskuvalni Fei (Camouflage Fairies) center weave camouflage nets for Ukrainian Defenders every day.

They weave up to 6,000 square meters (100-150 units) of nets each month.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Elimination by Other Means What lengths men will go in order to carry out, to their extreme limit, the rites of a collective self-worship which fills them with a sense of

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What lengths men will go in order to carry out, to their extreme limit, the rites of a collective self-worship which fills them with a sense of righteousness & complacent satisfaction in the midst of the most shocking injustices and crimes-Thomas Merton, Love and Living