Dr. Cara Berg Powers

The purple ones are our guest room pillows now. Didn't hold up to my husband's constant quest for the Goldilocks pillow.

I am going to become a luddite. Like I am going to start smashing looms with hammers

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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Guys, if you find yourself being like "well I hate to say it, but this Nazi has a good point..." Maybe sit with it for a minute before publicly aligning yourself with said Nazi? Journal? Leave it in drafts? You absolutely don't have to hand it to them.

Why is it so awful and so wonderful??

Bananas can help and possibly Gatorade. How much stretching are you doing after a workout? It took me a while to get stretching in there for reals. Now I also try to stretch before bed too though that is definitely a work in progress. Do a recovery/stretch day and hydrate like woah.

just hard to overstate how much "everyone should be forced to watch television about how great I am all day long and no other kind of television should exist" is a load-bearing component of both his personality as a human (or thereabouts) and his political ideology, such as it is

Some 18 or so years ago I was with a group doing a "day on" racial and economic justice training for MLK day at an elite private school and one kid said "my dad works in Dubai and they pretty much just ignore poor people and that's working out ok." He was perplexed by the obvious follow up question.

The ever increasing essentialism is so horrifying.

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Today is the special election for the First Middlesex district, including Lowell, Dracut, Dunstable, Pepperell and Tyngsborough.

If you live there, make sure to make a plan to vote for Vanna Howard!

#mapoli

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

Outfoxed and War Made Easy are both important watches, especially for folks who did not live through the early 2000s

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war

That's it, all right there:

The last point is critical. The media LOVES war, like you love your kids, your spouse, your parents, but more.

So many of them have dreamed of being war correspondents sending dispatches from the front line. It genuinely confuses them and hurts their feelings when people think it's not a good idea.

more and more of these in real life

When drop off groceries, we don't knock because it just causes stress (could that be ICE?)

At weekend outdoor block parties, we know people are excluded even though volunteers are patrolling with whistles.

Children aren't just staying home from school. They're trapped inside. bit.ly/pauseevictions

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

No reaon lot less likely to ratchet up antisemitic conspiracy theories...

Trump does the bidding of strong men authoritarian leaders because he wants them to treat him like he's a strong man authoritarian leader. I promise you don't need antisemitic conspiracy theories to explain Trump's daddy issues war fetish. This was entirely predictable based on all past data.

How Antisemitism Is Linked to Anti-Trans Conspiracy Theories At its core, transphobia is a conspiracy theory—and so is antisemitism.

I wrote about how antisemitism and transphobia are linked for @rewirenewsgroup.com a while ago
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This is so much more common than many people like to admit. Every time that police or policing supporters say "well I hope you don't ever need to call them," they are illustrating 2 things (1) they believe protection should be conditional on fealty and (2) we can't trust this system to protect us.

woow

Yeah, I was always like this. I had a cringey "eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" print out on my dorm room door on September 12. I marched against Iraq. I've been teaching about manufacturing consent and agenda setting theory for 20 years. I will not be lied to right now.

Every progressive over ~30 is dealing with massive, MASSIVE Iraq and Afghanistan (imperialistic) (invasions) War gaslighting and fatigue right now... along with the horror of yet more blood on our hands.

Some of us were always against this shit. Some of us protested it. And... here we go again. 🤬

Let the Fire Burn | Philadelphia Police Clash with MOVE Group | Independent Lens | PBS Let the Fire Burn brings to life the longtime feud between Philadelphia police and the controversial urban group MOVE that came to a tragic climax in 1985.

Everyone in this country MUST watch Let the Fire Burn. Period.

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Misogyny Is Rising in U.S. Classrooms. Where Is the National Response? As Europe rolls out national programs to confront misogyny and harassment in schools, the United States still lacks a coordinated response.

Dr. Pasha Dashtgard warns that boys searching for belonging online are being pulled into ideologies that reinforce grievance and control over women — and U.S. schools have no coordinated response. Read the full piece here: bit.ly/4aKVm28