Cora Carmack

Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.

The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Brand new data:

Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).

These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.

Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

I’ve cut way back on social media, and I feel so out of the loop on everything, but also my brain doesn’t feel like scrambled eggs. Soooo 🤷🏻‍♀️.

But added to my wishlist and will be filling my next open borrow! ❤️

Survivors of Epstein’s abuse want lawmakers to release information about others involved in the convicted sex offender’s crimes. They said if Congress wouldn’t release a client list, the survivors would make their own

How have I missed this until now?! It sounds delightful!

Author Penn Cole writes: “Excited to hear that Amazon just changed its terms to allow KU ebooks to be placed in libraries too! Just got confirmation from my KDP rep that the rumors are true.”

Can confirm that this is TRUE! The KDP rep in question is one of my dearest friends! 👀 I happen to know that she did A LOT of work over the course of MONTHS behind the scenes to get them to agree to this.

She’s a legend. Someday she’ll be able to tell the full story, and it is GLORIOUS.

Trying to explain that Chinese people do not want to buy Ford F-150s, but do want to pay a huge premium to consume higher education in the US. We are mostly a service economy, and Trump is trashing those services.

This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule.

Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.

Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church

Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.

He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.

THIS. It was sickening. They essentially argued that any book representing LGBTQ+ people in a positive light (eg. getting married, having a nice day, being people who, you know, exist in the world) was coercing or indoctrinating children.

ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February.

If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.

Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.

Hey chat, is this a violation of international humanitarian law?

WHY THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT NOT SENDING OUT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS?!!!!

Skeet reads: Can I ask people something? Before I post over there? Atthis Arts is struggling hard. I promised no more GFM and I won't do another. We have an empty account and almost no sales. Our Patreon keeps dropping. I can't pay AJ. We'll have to personally borrow (somehow?) to pay due royalties.

I’m going to be very blunt and say: do not send Atthis Arts any money or manuscripts. The four-alarm red-flag phrase here is “borrow … to pay due royalties.”

Let me explain for those who don’t already know roughly how money works in small presses.

Who is ready for the Murderbot adaptation?!

Did you see how they were handling it for ppl around you who didn’t have passports?

So you have to go to settings > moderation in the WEB version, not the app. They’ll let you modify most moderation settings in the app, but not sexual content for some reason.

Ah fixed it! ❤️

I can’t see it! Boooo bluesky.

This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.

This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.

Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations."

Astonishing betrayal of an ally.

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“ in four years you wont have to vote again”

they might play sports in philadelphia but they dont play games

they really thought they could stop theater kids by threatening them with negative attention

stitch from disney 's lilo and stitch is making a funny face in a cartoon . ALT: stitch from disney 's lilo and stitch is making a funny face in a cartoon .

I didn’t even NOTICE until someone pointed it out.