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If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.

You know what's NOT normal US behavior?

This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.

I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there generations. When I moved to the states I didn’t know I was Black or have any idea of the American binary concept of race until someone called me the n word.

Great thread. I grew up in (what I didn’t know was) an unusually diasporically-integrated South Asian-American community, where refugees of South Asian descent from Uganda were anchors of our community alongside immigrants from India, Pakistan & elsewhere. This context is key to understand.

I’m going to make a thread about how the feds have changed their tactics here in Los Angeles because the community has forced them to adapt.

Timeline cleanse boop 💙

Don’t worry we take the Marine Mammal Protection Act sealiously. Boop filmed in accordance with the law. Always respect wildlife 🦭🌊🥹

god bless this tiktoker who ran towards the shooting

Donate to C's Father Detained: Family Needs Support, organized by Amy Wilson Hi everyone, My name is Amy and I have been a college professor at the School… Amy Wilson needs your support for C's Father Detained: Family Needs Support

Hello Bluesky:

Yesterday I got the news that the father of a student I had in class last year is being detained by ICE. As the primary wage earner for the family, who abruptly can’t support them anymore, they’re now in a position where she may have to drop out of college.

gofund.me/e66a90da

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

A thoughtful thread on the nature of the Guard. I don't have much to add save for what I have already said about the importance of the Commander's intent on DOMOPS.

Just FYI - This is not the city of Los Angeles, so Mayor Bass and the LAPD cannot be involved.

Like a lot of smaller cities in LA County, Paramount contracts w the LA Sheriff's Dept for their police services. LASD is prob more right wing than LAPD - so unclear if they're assisting ICE or no.

If you are pissed off about what you are reading on here today, here is something tangible and important that you can do to resist, RIGHT NOW.

The deadline is midnight eastern time, TONIGHT.

Rose bushes orange/red roses in front pink roses behind them

#bloomscrolling

The ‘wild’ writer who told the truth about work in China How a Beijing courier’s story struck a chord and escaped the censors

“For more than two decades Hu was one of the 300 million internal migrant workers who are the lifeblood of the world’s second-biggest economy. After leaving school he worked 19 different jobs in six different cities.”

Moving Day (New York City) - Wikipedia

"On May 1, all leases in the city expired simultaneously at 9:00 am, causing thousands of people to change their residences, all at the same time."

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I’ll just leave this here:

i feel like all public gathering spaces from theaters to churches to grocery stores need to have at least a couple people on hand at all times who can tell these apart quickly and aren’t afraid to say “get the fuck out” because every day the odds increase of it happening right next to you increase

ok fine there will be a McMansion Hell post about the Trump White House appliqués tomorrow but fyi it will be on patreon because I owe my subscribers a bonus post and this is perfect

Guys Being Dudes

I keep thinking about how women are most at risk of being murdered by abusive men after they've decided to leave the relationship and it's not exactly a subtle comparison to what's being done to the USA at the moment

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

I looked into the losses of 30 billionaires and Top 200 art collectors from the recent stock market selloff in response to the new tariffs. LVMH owner Bernard Arnault's net worth fell $19B between April 3 and April 7, but 20 others also lost $1B or more: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

I burst into tears when I got the call, which tells you my mental state rn. The world is a rough place, but I can take care of these joyful ducklings, yanno?

The chicks should be here Thurs (they will go on other half of pen, which we separated for now since they eat different food to start)

BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:

I mean, true, but not by changing statutory rates...

We all see it don't we?

Trump Proposes Import Tariff: Real estate developer and airline owner Donald J. Trump proposed placing a tariff on imports, saying the United States is being "ripped off" on the global market. "Japan has truly taken advantage of the United States," Trump told about 700 people gathered at a monthly meeting of the Wings Club, a 1,500-member aviation group, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. "West Germany, and now we get a double dose, is truly ripping us off," he said, in an apparent reference to the opening of the Berlin Wall to East Germany. "It's frightening, it's scary." The solution would be a 20% tax on imports from those nations, he said. --The Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov 1989

1989

Chocolate ice cream

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Good idea. I just donated $25.05 to:

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