Rebecca Pierce

I bought a labubu and it attached me to its purse and I don’t know where I am

“I remember a woman crying and screaming — her daughter’s body was burned. She was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter.”

Investigation by Yuval Abraham

www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...

"Seven of the Venezuelans arrived days after the rest, deported from Guantánamo, where a hunger strike had broken out. They suggested doing the same at CECOT. Flores, Ramos, and others I spoke with said every inmate they knew joined the hunger strike, which lasted for several days."”

7 Jewish women from history that you should know about

Seven women between the 12th-17th c., from Iraq to Germany,

Torah teachers, scribes, mystics, most or all of whom you've never heard of --

and I bet some of the details you've never gotten --

come and learn ♥️

We are starving My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

"I collapsed. I tried to stay strong for my mother [...] Around me, I saw people fainting everywhere."

"We can no longer do the most basic things that people around the world do every day. Hunger has stripped us of everything." www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...

Rain garden can go a long way to preventing the worst of the kind of flash flooding—from rain right there, not coming downstream—that just hit NYC.

They're a cheap and often beautiful way to prevent enormous damages.

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.

"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.

"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

Everyone should read this and clearly a lot of you still haven't.
(Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )

Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.

Despite having several of the worst gun massacres in recent memory, Texas just banned a law that helps keep guns away from unhinged people. My latest reporting on mass shootings in America www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com Photo by Pete Luna, Uvalde Leader-News

The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants A musician’s anti-IDF slogan isn’t what is making British Jews less safe. Repressing Palestine solidarity as ‘antisemitic’ is.

The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants - www.972mag.com/uk-idf-music...

If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.

And yet:

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

This guy was indicted for bribery lmao

Ordinary Republicans hate Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill"—once they know what it does Solid support turns to strong opposition, a new Yale study shows.

When ordinary Republicans understand how Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would affect the after-tax incomes of American families, it turns out they don’t find it beautiful at all.

“I was really shocked."

Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients Protests against Medicaid cuts continued on June 25, which led to the arrests of 60 activists at the Senate.

Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients

Please read the article. Closing of hospitals and kicking people off of healthcare and SNAP will lead to 100s of 1000s of deaths. Spread the message & don’t let the GOP get away with murder.
truthout.org/articles/my-...

It should go without saying but historically people who propose denaturalization are not, as my grandfather would say, good for the Jews

I invited @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to this event, and so proud of it!

I originally invited him (as part of the organizing team) hoping he would speak. I wanted more people to hear him, hoping more people would support him.

We decided not to have politicians speak, but Zohran came anyway.

New York’s next mayor, America’s next boyfriend

Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

When was the last time a socialist politician campaign in NYC in Yiddish? Meyer London?

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

We are deep in the middle of something that will later be viewed as being on par with McCarthyism

Some much needed news of freedom going into this Juneteenth weekend