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#Syria: there were demonstrations today in #Suwayda prov., amid accusations by some the Gov' blockades the area.

Authorities replied humanitarian corridors are fully operational w/ regular arrival of supplies & that pro-Hijri monopolize the aid.

176K displaced & a solution remains a long way off.

"Nearly 25 million naturalized citizens live in the U.S., and we are accustomed to extra scrutiny...But I had never doubted that my U.S. citizenship was permanent, and that I was guaranteed the same rights of speech, assembly, and due process as natural-born Americans. Now I’m not so sure."

He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared. Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.

NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador:
• Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided
• More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings

These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.

The right wing bullshit machine is going to try to find ways to divert blame from their toxic policies onto others. The left can’t assume that people who supported Trump/GOP, who are now impacted by these policies, will see through the BS, esp. when they are motivated by partisan identity not to.

When asked which country is the most important ally to their own, many people around the world name the United States. This is the most common response in 12 of the 24 non-U.S. countries included in a new Pew Research Center survey. It is tied for the top response in three additional countries. But others say the U.S. is their nation’s greatest threat. This is the most common response in six countries and tied for top in two others. In neighboring Canada and Mexico, as well as in Argentina, Brazil and Kenya, the U.S. is the top response on both the ally and threat questions.

Most people in Mexico and Canada say the United States is their country's greatest threat
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

Americans: Thom Tillis, of all people, came out as against the bill because of calls. this might be your last chance to convince your Senator - call today. I know it's a Saturday!

Given that this entire thing is being done illegally via an executive memo with no legislation or enforcement mechanisms, it would be nice if Democrats started making it clear right now that they will never respect or acknowledge this assertion once in power.

🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸

Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online
🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

Research is clear

Right-wing politics (and their adherents) are subject to greater misinformation, a fact that is not only true in the US but worldwide, and leads to people having sincerely held beliefs and convictions that are based in untruth.

(ht @katestarbird.bsky.social) 👇👇👇

More than 10,000 migrants died in 2024 trying to reach Spain by sea, aid group says The migration route that connects West African nations with the Spanish Canary Islands remains the deadliest in the world, according to a Spanish aid organization.

The migration route that connects West African nations with the Spanish Canary Islands remains the deadliest in the world, according to a Spanish aid organization.

At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out

Syrians can finally tell their stories about Assad's chemical attacks With Bashar al-Assad gone, survivors of his regime's chemical attacks share their stories. NPR met a father who was forced for years to stay silent about how his children were killed.

With Bashar al-Assad gone, survivors of his regime's chemical attacks share their stories. NPR met a father who was forced for years to stay silent about how his children were killed.

File under "Palestine Is Freeing Us"

“Obey the Law”: Palestinians Sue State Dept. Over Arms Sales to Israel A new lawsuit accuses the State Department of failing to ever sanction Israeli military units under the Leahy Law, which was passed in 1997 to prevent the United States from funding foreign military units...

"Obey the Law": Palestinians Sue State Dept., Saying Arms Sales to Israel Violate U.S. Human Rights Law

Skeksis from The Dark Crystal.

You might think that someone today recommending a piece of media made in the 90s is the same as someone in the 90s recommending a piece of media made in the 60s, but here’s why it isn’t: i can still be young please let me still be young

Saydnaya, Inside a Syrian Torture Prison For the first time ever you can see inside Saydnaya, one of the world’s most terrifying prisons.

@amnesty.org's & @forensicarchi.bsky.social's painstakingly assembled interactive feature on the prison, based on the testimony of people who survived it.

Associated report: "Human Slaughterhouse" www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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Oh hi, Bluesky! I'll be leading 4 Sacred Writes public scholarship trainings for scholars of religion, gender, and sexuality, online in 2025, apply now for the January intensive!

This whole drone thing is giving clown panic of 2016 vibes.

“No recorded event has occurred in the world but Damascus was in existence to receive news of it. Go back as far as you will into the vague past, there was always Damascus. She measures time, not by days & months & years, but by the empires she has seen rise & prosper & crumble to ruin.” -Mark Twain

Report exposes systematic torture in Syrian detention facilities The UN General Assembly-mandated team investigating serious crimes in Syria released a new report on Friday, documenting systematic torture and abuse across over 100 Government detention facilities.

‘The Syrian Government Detention System as a Tool of Violent Repression,’ report from UN “lays bare the harrowing reality. The interviews w former detainees & forensic medical evidence.reveal the severity of mental & physical harm intentionally inflicted"

news.un.org/en/story/202...

"We're not looking to prosecute fellow law enforcement officers" said Eric Harden, former special agent

on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Breaking: Amnesty International officially accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza (finally)

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Our recent paper, in ASR: While many sociologists assume that people turn to their “strong ties” when they need a confidant, people are actually as likely to avoid as to talk to their closest friends and family.
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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You can track it all here.
translegislation.com
#times250O #translivesmatter