Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Nahir, there is an entire section of AO3 devoted to Gilgamesh/Enkidu. You should tell them. 🤣

This is a fantastic essay on parasocial relationships, creativity, social media, and ethics, all rolled into one. For those people seeing certain unwelcome names in the news again.

I cited one of your Teen Vogue articles on ship wars in a chapter I wrote on ASOIAF fandom last year. If you're interested, let me know in DMs and I can email it to you.

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

“Education is for the student’s benefit, not for the benefit of their future employer…students go to school not merely to acquire skills but to develop an entire social and intellectual life: to have something good and to have it forever”
@thepointmag.bsky.social

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Everyone should be putting up NO ICE NO CPB NO FEDERAL AGENTS GET A JUDICIAL WARRANT OR STAY OUT signs everywhere.

Maine Solidarity Fund When Our Neighbors are Under Attack, We Stand TogetherRight now, immigrant and Trans Mainers are facing unprecedented threats to their safety, dignity, and basic rights. Families are afraid to leave t...

Hey y'all! While the fight in Minnesota is FAR from over, I have been keeping an eye on Maine as well. I connected with the awesome folks over at No ICE for ME and got some links to share!

The biggest one is the Maine Solidarity Fund. They are doing EVERYTHING right now. We just sent them $1000.

Dear Adobe,

No, I don't need the AI to summarize. No, I don't need the AI to help me search. No, I don't need the AI to help me resize the margins. No, I don't need the AI to do anything.

What I need is to hit the print icon without your product crashing from all of the AI popups.

Can confirm, @casablancacomics.bsky.social is a lovely place to visit! Especially recommend their used graphic novel section, but that might just be my little niche.

Speaking as someone who cannot tell them apart, there was INTENSE debate over which Minions had hair and which did not.

a minion is holding a banana in front of a keyboard Alt: A minion (from Despicable Me) is standing behind a conveyor belt, worshipfully staring at a banana. Text reads "Banana."

As a result of introducing a class of fourth graders to Michelangelo, there now exists a cartoon for a proposed fresco of the Minions.

Sesame Street Instagram: Big Bird snuggling a smaller bird. Offering comfort in Scary Times: After a violent event, children of different ages will have different needs. These age based strategies can help them feel safer and more secure.

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Of course, I'd totally forgotten he was in Bend It Like Beckham! Match Point, on the other hand, is a film I know I watched but I remember absolutely nothing about it.

I have a perverse fondness for his take on Steerpike in Gormenghast, and he's correctly unhinged in Titus. But in general I see the point.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

And donate.

Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.

Abolish/defund ICE to fund health care might be a good electoral and policy position. But that is currently the stance of only a few elected Dems. The mainstream stance is saying ICE under Trump is bad and offering vague reform ideas while allowing bills to pass that keep ICE operating as is.

If any Democrat in the Senate votes to fund ICE, they are voting for the summary execution of American citizens. It’s really that simple.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Good morning to everyone but especially our friends in Minnesota bravely organizing a general strike & protest in -20F weather.

In their honor, no wishlist posting today. Please check out standwithminnesota.com for ways to help them! 💕

’Tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.

Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.

Finland-Swedish political cartoon from 1938, by Tove Jansson the creator of Moomin.

Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.

That is an AMAZING ad. Standing ovation.

The books are honestly a lot of fun. Very Knights Tale, only set in that universe.

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.

SAY HER NAME | AAPF Learn about the #SayHerName Campaign which uplifts the Black women, girls, and femmes lost to police violence.

"#SayHerName is grounded in the sad reality that Black women and girls who are targeted, brutalized, and killed by police are all too often excluded from mainstream narratives around police violence."
www.aapf.org/sayhername

A refresher that may be necessary.

250 years ago today, Thomas Paine published his greatly influential Common Sense, which helped catalyze the American Revolution.

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

once again we are all tapping the sign