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‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

Thank you, Melissa! And you should totally know @jordanharper.bsky.social. You’re both very good people.

My Savage Year | Jordan Harper From the Magazine

Read this perfect story today. Thrilled to teach it to my students next semester. Thanks @stephcha.bsky.social and @blacktopkid.bsky.social for your excellent selections in BAMS southwestreview.com/volume-108-n...

Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

Every blue-haired they/them liberal arts grad living in NYC is tougher than this sad little bitch.

Awdah Hathaleen in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem

Zichro L'MAAPACHA
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥

The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,

was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945-2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.

Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals

NEW: Border patrol made false claims about Los Angeles protesters it jailed, misrepresenting basic facts of events that were filmed. I obtained records of officers acknowledging + "apologizing" for errors

The DOJ is now dismissing cases, an embarrassment for Trump-appointed US attorney Bill Essayli

Exclusive: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid The internal U.S. government analysis challenges the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

Reuters: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid — challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It’s a scream. It is written like this: “I checked out with K19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through the crummalite hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Brylls ran swiftly on five legs using their other two to send out crylon vibrations. The pressure was almost unbearable, but I caught the range on my wrist computer through the transparent cysicites. I pressed the trigger. The thin violet glow was icecold against the rust-colored mountains. The Brylls shrank to half an inch long and I worked fast stepping on them with the poltex. But it wasn’t enough. The sudden brightness swung me around and the Fourth Moon had already risen. I had exactly four seconds to hot up the disintegrator and Google⁵ had told me it wasn’t enough. He was right.” They pay brisk money for this crap?

Happy birthday to Raymond Chandler, inventor of Google

(Legitimately love this attempted mockery of science fiction. I'd easily read a novel or series in this style.)

L.A. had a small but growing network of city-run daycare centers that offered 12-hours of care with three full meals - all at $160 a week. A godsend when my son needed care given two working parents.

Now that system is being dismantled due to budget cuts created by bloated LAPD salaries & lawsuits.

The 25 Best Mystery Novels of the Past 25 Years Our mystery columnist weighs in on his list of favorites. Do they match yours?

Congrats @linwoodbarclay.bsky.social, @atticalocke.bsky.social @michaelconnelly.bsky.social,Tana French,Gary Phillips,S.A. Cosby, @lauralippman.bsky.social, @meganabbott.bsky.social & @stephcha.bsky.social on being among @wsj.com 's best crime novels of the last 25 yrs.
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listen kid, u ever been so hungry u put on rollerskates and strap a rocket to yr ass?

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles

BUTTERFLY incoming. Check out the trailer, then tune in August 13 to watch born action hero DDK tear shit up across South Korea.

He was never a big factor in terms of life

Oh grow up. There’s more to politics than your survival. For instance, my comfort

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Suspicious number of aliases

For the first time, asylum seekers must now pay a $100 application fee & an annual $100 fee for each year their case is pending — costs that are due regardless of financial hardship.

Now's the time to open your wallets and contribute to funds that support refugees.

Your country depends on it.

The Trump admin's new talking point on the Big Beautiful Bill: we're going to deport all the farm laborers and make people on Medicaid work in the fields to earn their health insurance.

You can kind of see how Germany went fascist, since it had little history of democracy and had just experienced the mass slaughter and humiliation of World War I. By contrast, America is going fascist because they let women be Ghostbusters.

I'm sure glad they're taking an axe to Medicaid which keeps me & 70 million+ other ppl alive in order to instead use the money to stand on top of a truck & aim weapons of war at a park where little kids were playing & will now be traumatized for life.

YouTube video by Lionsgate Movies She Rides Shotgun (2025) Official Trailer - Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger

Here's the trailer to SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, the movie based on my first novel. Polly and Nate are out there in these streets.

Check it out. Buy the book; get hep in advance.

youtu.be/U9OkHjOnQPg?...

Sounds like it could be July!

I thought Bluesky might have had me in a particular bubble, but it does feel like Cuomo was dead in the water.

These are like boomer historic preservation dorks with inside dope on the new Nancy Silverton/Phil Rosenthal restaurant. The crew is so white that my mom is one of the only Koreans (most of the Koreans hang out at the Sam’s Bagels).

My mom is part of a gang of senior citizens who hang out at the Peet’s Coffee on Larchmont, in one of the wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods in central L.A. This morning, they were all abuzz with excitement over Zohran Mamdani.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below

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Protests big: defector.com/protests-big