Upbeat-Penguin (Shinja)

Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers. As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?

1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇

Trump is a Russian asset and traitor to the United States."

I can't put into the words the visceral hatred I feel towards the administration in the US. The pain their behaviour is causing to Ukrainians is unforgivable.

Ukrainians have russians terrorising them with missiles & drones. Now the US is terrorising them with russian demands for capitulation.

He sure is

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

Why is ICE only focusing on poor immigrants? Can we get rid of some of the Russian oligarchs that live here?

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Heat Has Essentially Wiped Out 2 Key Coral Species on Florida Reefs

“The planet is currently in its fourth global bleaching event, which is the most widespread on record. This month, a group of 160 scientists asserted that extensive coral reef die-offs meant that the planet had crossed its first climate-related tipping point”

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Statistical analysis used SPSS"

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

I think at minimum the prologue to And the Band Played On should be required reading for everyone, especially since the COVID pandemic. It truly is haunting.

(Teaching this book in the spring.)

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

By coincidence I am teaching Civil War grand strategy today and I have never heard even the most callow disengaged undergraduate say something as fucking stupid as that below

If only we’d known in 2015 that we could just turn off the escalator.

This is tangential to the argument presented in the article but I came across my mentors name and I burst into tears. That’s probably why my Russian historical training was very much about its Imperial project. I’m glad that Mark von Hagen is mentioned because he was an amazing teacher and scholar.

A picture of Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, which provides that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”

When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own.

Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.

If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.

That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.

And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.

Norwegian home invasion.

Fuck Trump and Fuck Putin.

Any questions? 🤨

It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.

Karl: The transformation has been gradual and unmistakable.

By February, some golden urns on the mantle.

April, gold adornments appear on the walls.

By July, it's gold everywhere.

Just this week more scaffolding popped up, even more new gold trim appeared.

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released…

Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison.

He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.

PBS was for everyone

they can only take what's pure from us if we let them

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While you were told Congress was leaving until September, Republicans quietly rammed through a bill HR 1319 that could wreck your health care, wages, and retirement.
No debate. No headlines. Just sabotage in the dark.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

Do you know how rare it is for a woman to be a child sexual predator? Ghislaine is exceptionally evil, groomed young vulnerable girls and got them to trust her all to provide Epstein with sexually deviant opportunities. 20 years isn’t enough time. She should rot in prison #EpsteinFiles

On the other app I was exposed, for the first time, to the poet Andrea Gibson. They passed away and people are posting their poems. I am sobbing as I am reading their poems for the first time. We all just suffered a loss, a loss of a life I didn’t know existed.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 173-175 July 11-13, 2025

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Getting paged in a store when I wandered away from my mother. At the time I was so embarrassed. Now you just text “where are you?”