McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
“The situation is becoming catastrophic for millions of children across the region,” UNICEF said in a statement, noting that at least 200 children are reportedly dead in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel, and one in Kuwait. “These numbers will likely climb...”
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A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
"Let me tell you one Black thing. When I consider the future, I do not land on my untimely death or resignation. I doubt they did either. I do not even cast my eyes toward my job. I cast my eyes toward a joyful horizon full of color..."
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This nation will always choose profit over people, classism over community. Shame on @fortlauderdale.bsky.social and everyone involved in this disgusting project. Wishing yall bad knees, broken paddles, and sand that never washes out of your sheets.
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When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
a few of my favorite poems for the (word) lovers
Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record.
And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.
The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Very much recommend reading this new piece from Roxane Gay.
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Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
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Despite months of warnings that Trump has been “lawless,” “destructive, and ”authoritarian,“ 149 Democratic members of the House joined with 192 Republicans to pass a sweeping military spending bill — a vote that progressive critics say exposes the hypocrisy of what claims to be an opposition party.
"We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...
Another example of why school corporal punishment is state-sanctioned and administered abuse.
"...investigators determined they would have enough evidence establish probable cause of child abuse if the incidents hadn’t occurred on school property & by a staff member."
www.wcjb.com/2026/01/22/d...
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted
One of my fave political stories ever: when Maine’s GOP then-Gov LePage thought that not signing bills by deadline meant they’d die.
So he ignored all these Dem bills, thinking it’d kill them.
But in Maine, if Gov just does nothing (rather than veto), a bill becomes law.
So they all became law.
Was gifted this incredible set of jumbo postcards (thanks @mingome.bsky.social). Planning to post one each day as we need some words steeped in justice and peace in what feels like increasingly messed up times.
like listen karma babe, i don't have 9 months, i need a job
we're 18 days into 2026 and I just submitted my 3rd review of the year... when I go to submit my next manuscript the editorial gods better act right and not give me another 9 month wait to get reviews back ok
I will not be taking questions on what I have spent on “non-essentials” bc obviously every toy, outfit, bed, blanket, and bowl is in fact essential. If you don’t believe me ask her emotional support lobster and pickle
when they tell you to be financially stable before getting a dog, they are not playing bc why has my girl cost me over $700 in medical expenses this week and there was not an emergency in sight??
(obvi would pay it many times over for my ride or die)
For Black students, the effects of racial discrimination are so substantial that the added stigma of parental incarceration has a limited effect on the already low referral rate to college track programs for Black students. Sound familiar? This finding is mirrors those in Pager's (2003) audit study.
In Career Track or College Bound? Parental incarceration, race, & teachers’ career or college program referrals (@socprobsjournal.bsky.social), another experiment, McCauley finds that parental incarceration drops the referral rate to college track programs by over 50% for white students. BUT! (+)
