Angela WG

Historian Kevin Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) got irked about Musk banging on about how our multicultural society is a Bad Thing, and consequently wrote this screamingly fantastic little gem. Provides badly needed perspective especially for folks who don't know much about the US decades ago.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Oh hey.

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.

The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.

Happy Black History Month.

'Everyone Deserves A Second Chance!' - Gabrielle Angelique Perry, MPH, Founder & Executive Director The mission of The Perry 'Second Chances' Scholarship is to annually provide fiscal resources to formerly incarcerated women and the daughters of anyone who has been impacted by incarceration. women who are currently enrolled or recently accepted into an accredited 2-to-4-year educational institution will be given a one-time, $10,000 scholarship, paid directly to their institutions, to support their education & needs in order to thrive in their educational endeavors. Applications open 11.15.2025 and close 2.27.2026, at www.theperryscholarship.org Learn more at thurmanperryfoundation.org

Hey y’all! REMINDER:

I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

Lotta heat on publishers for obvious reasons but the article makes a good point about wholesalers 👀

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S. n.pr/47wcmYo

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I did an audio story on the history of bikes basically and how in some use cases they were better than cars - you can't parachute into a war zone with an automobile. As part of that research I learned that the original Curious George manuscript was smuggled out of Vichy France by bike /1

Brooks: Minnesota’s greatest honor for a family’s great loss Former President Joe Biden paid his respects in person, and mourners waited in long lines to honor Melissa and Mark Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, as they lay in state at the Capitol.

This broke me from the first paragraph

"For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved."

Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social

Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care

What a legacy and what a tragedy 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.

The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws

“ITS TORTURE,” says her family

www.11alive.com/article/news...

Looks delightful and full of fun style choices too!

Video games. Powwows. Frybread. Family ❤️🎮

Pow! is cartoon short about a young Native kid trying to charge their video game console at a powwow. It's one of the first times a powwow has ever been animated!

We put our whole hearts into this and we hope you enjoy our trailer.

Protestors Bash Avelo Airlines Over Deportations In a demonstration outside of Hollywood Burbank Airport on Friday, local protesters took aim at Avelo Airlines over its decision to assist federal immigration officials in trafficking and deporting im...

@maddow.msnbc.com has been reporting on a small airline, Avelo Airlines, flying out of Hew Haven, CT, contracted by the U.S. government to fly deportation flights, domestically and internationally.

Avelo Airlines has a substantial hub at Burbank, CA airport.

outlooknewspapers.com/burbankleade...

I know folks don't like giving out donations but PBS is a public good, often providing programming many companies are too frightened to.

A subscription costs less than your average streaming service and in some cases less you barely watch.

Keep em alive.

ICE wants to deport a BYU PhD student for the crime of organizing a church fishing trip 6 years ago, where he himself did not fish but the other attendees caught too many.

How is this reality???

I'm buying a ticket to the closest NZ Taco Bell right now.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

NEW @npr.org EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data from the NLRB and hid its tracks.

It's possible that the data included sensitive info on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets.

A must-read from @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social:

CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.

The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks

That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars

www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Today is the LAST DAY TO COMMENT.
This is vitally important (see the thread in the qrt for more info), but the short version is:
Comment we need to keep DACA ppl on the ACA, trans healthcare should be covered, and making the ACA less accessible to people is a no-go for you.

Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.

“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”

Harper Collins did not sign.

So weird how being owned by Rupert Murdoch means they can't even advocate for their own survival. Libraries are a HUGE part of all publishers' bottom lines.

If you can't speak out bc it's right, speak out bc otherwise this destroys your bottom line ffs

So they’re cutting funding to programs meant to help autistic folks access accommodations and banning efforts to make spaces more inclusive but pouring money into debunked Andrew Wakefieldism that frames autism as a bad outcome that’s worth not preventing diseases that used to kill millions of kids