Katherine Ward

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Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

Incredible to call purchases of food and drink "splurging"

Have to stay healthy bc they sure can’t afford health insurance. Suppose the WSJ thinks health insurance is also a “splurge”?

God forbid they want to be fed and healthy. How dare they

The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.

Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.

And yesterday brought me a slime mould, the tiny pinheads of Comatricha nigra in vast profusion in our local Kent woodland. #slimemould #slimemold #fungifriends #naturephotography #myxomycetes #mycology

An expressive watercolour painting of a male cardinal bird

Continuing with the American birds theme, one bird I really like to paint is the cardinal. This is the 3rd cardinal painting I've done and my favourite of the three.

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.

I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

People. That's what they plan to "store" in those warehouses. People.

Two federal immigration agents standing by a car, one is masked while the other wears a cap and sunglasses.

Although the court had found that federal agents can do their jobs without wearing masks, the law, as is, does not apply equally to law enforcement officers across the state, the judge cited as cause for her ruling.

The full story: lataco.com/masked-law-e...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le

Tomorrow morning I’ll be going to review the unredacted Epstein Files.

What we have seen so far reeks of a cover-up. It’s time for the truth.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

I covered these from Los Angeles. Great stuff until cops went ham on protesters and journalists on May Day 2007 and kettled everyone into Macarthur Park and beat the living fuck out of everybody

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ICE’s pending $30 billion budget exceeds the military spending of nearly every country, including Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Iran.

ICE + CBP funding for 2026 would total $66 billion, higher than all but 7 militaries worldwide.

Yes, all of these. I'm planning to re-read 2140 soon.

So many. I've got some TBR for sure but also from my TBRe-read pile: Parable of the Sower and KSR's New York 2140.

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

"Suspected political message" = in Spanish so the mouth noises scared me