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A Reporter in Nashville, Detained by ICE Estefany Rodríguez, a journalist for a Spanish-language outlet, was covering immigration raids. The next day, agents arrested her without a warrant.

Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for a Spanish-language outlet in Nashville, was covering immigration raids. The next day, ICE agents arrested her without a warrant. Read Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.cjr.org/analysis/est...

A warship they knew was unarmed because they were taking part in an event organized by India where participating ships had to be unarmed. The US was invited and therefore knew this. It is murder.

Greg the more I read these stories of ICE camp deaths every day for my Lent thing the more terrified I am about what’s going on behind closed doors. these are just the deaths they report, usually because someone on the outside was asking questions, but so many are still officially “cause unknown”

Wall graffiti depicting a cartoon African American fist holding a lightning bolt with the caption, "Brown Boy Down For the Revolution!!"

Baltimore art does it different.

Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

Chalamet is a good actor but a jerk for his sneering comments about ballet and opera. This is a perfect response to his eyeroll-worthy, ignorant statement. Grow up soon, dude.

This resolution does nothing to advance their freedom and instead, puts Congress on record as giving the Administration further pretext for a war that should not have been started in the first place.

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

Yeah it's somehow still underrated but Biden (and Harris by extension because she was operating under the thesis of no daylight) essentially did everything possible to avoid clamping down on Israel against the trendline of their own party's base and the response from the pro-Israel lobby was scorn.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

close up of a torso with a loaf of sliced bread laid out looking like a fin.

Sliced Bread
Brian Griffin, 1985

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.

They also didn’t pay cover 🖕

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

multiple posters advertising shows or acts

Todd Webb, 1949

lol youngsters

So no matter how “good” your state government is, if ICE or CBP grabs you, the feds can just hoik you off to a place where you currently have no right to due process.

208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected

They can snatch you from anywhere and send you the gulag in LA or TX before your family even knows you‘re gone, and before you can file a habeas petition. Then you’re in the collaboration zone.

www.stevevladeck.com/p/208-the-fi...

This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime

In case you were wondering where it was.

Pete Hegseth on Monday: "If you kill Americans.. anywhere on earth we will hunt you down without apology & without hesitation and we will kill you"

Guardian yesterday: "Senators demand investigation after ninth American killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers in West Bank"

YouTube video by SingerSoundSystem VERIDIS QUO - Sewing-Gurdy Cover

Also on YouTube youtube.com/shorts/RUlcH...

💿Veridis Quo//Daft Punk🤖 This melody is so nostalgic🥹🎶. And it's great fun to filter the sound of my Sewing-Gurdy with my mini Theremin! (Talk-Wha Filter this time 👌😎) #hurdygurdy #sewinggurdy #bardco... TikTok video by Gabriel / SingerSoundSystem

There's a chap on TikTok who has built a custom instrument out of a hurdy-gurdy and a Singer sewing machine (plus an attached theremin) which he uses for Daft Punk covers and they are genuine bangers www.tiktok.com/@singersound...

CSPAN @cspan . @SpeakerJohnson after House blocked War Powers Resolution: "We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the Department of Defense have made it very clear, this is a limited operation."

Darkly funny he had enough self-awareness to revert to "Department of Defense" here.

Trans Porn Is Booming. Trans Rights Are Fading We asked trans adult creators about the complicated link between desire and politics, as trans porn is booming while rights fade.

Interesting interview in Playboy with transgender adult content creators. People often point to Pornhub stats showing trans content is more popular than ever as a contradiction, as if political and sexual objectification were ever mutually exclusive

A starter pack of news outlets that have stated they will not be using AI slop at all: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Amen.

Epstein files with claims against Trump released by US Justice Department Files summarise a woman's accusations against Trump over alleged sexual encounter when she was aged between 13 and 15.

Files summarise a woman’s accusations against Trump over alleged sexual encounter when she was aged between 13 and 15.

A gas station near me went up a whopping 40 cents per gallon over 2 days: $2.89 Monday,$3.09 Tuesday, $3.29 Wednesday. No way the supply chain had been impacted that fast; it's a pure gouge at this point.

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

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