good story from the sun-time about the consequences of criminal charges—even if those charges are later dropped.
wish they would apply the same logic more generally to people facing things like gun charges, which get dropped all the time bc they’re bogus/illegal.
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
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NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
25.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 18306 🔁 6184 💬 196 📌 170One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day
24.02.2026 14:09 — 👍 6785 🔁 1799 💬 40 📌 34Until this country reckons with police and policing, nothing will improve.
24.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 1539 🔁 353 💬 14 📌 0“I was raised in Detroit, baptized in Black history. Entering a Texas prison was a cultural collision. The ignorance wasn’t accidental. It was manufactured, systemic, deliberate... Writing became my resistance.“ @kwanetaharris.bsky.social
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“I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long,” wrote 9-year-old Susej, who said she had been held at Dilley detention center for more than 50 days.
25.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 559 🔁 249 💬 11 📌 16When I see someone do something truly extraordinary and beautiful it helps me think about what humanity is capable of, in a society based on supporting everyone’s flourishing and brilliance
23.02.2026 13:19 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Came on here for a minute to look for something and immediately got waylaid, LOL. Before I log off, I did want to share this excellent toolkit by @detentionwatchnetwork.org with all of you who want to take action re: Federal warehouses: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.”
“I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call.
"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology"
No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.
Protesters –– clergy, workers, students, teachers –– chose Mondays because that’s the day the legislature began its work.
North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement offers a roadmap for organizers looking to fight back.
A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
(Published June 2025)
Hey people watch the live recording of the rock opera The Transfused (2000) written by Nomy Lamm and The Need (Rachel Carns & Radio Sloan). www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgJ-... It was a small miracle that happened in the post-WTO protest era before the War on Terror and is very much relevant now as ever.
19.02.2026 05:17 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Knowing who to be mad at really is praxis.
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I reported on the past, present, and future of North Carolina's Moral Mondays, for @exposedbycmd.bsky.social in conjunction with @inthesetimes.com.
17.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition wasn’t just a campaign—it was a blueprint for beating the authoritarian Right: multiracial, working-class unity, organized locally + nationally, built to outlast one election.
17.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 100 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 3
Behind police tech's slick marketing is a sprawling, under-scrutinized industry that relies on manufacturing the appearance of effectiveness, not measuring it. EFF partnered with CJJ and IPVM on a new report to help you see through the spin: www.eff.org/document/se...
17.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 118 🔁 53 💬 0 📌 4
Rev Jesse Jackson passionately speaking at a podium with raised hands, wearing a colorful dashiki and medallion. Microphones in front, conveying energy and enthusiasm.
Before Bernie Sanders, there was Rev. Jesse Jackson: the National Rainbow Coalition, 7 million votes in 1988, and a real multiracial working-class coalition that shook the Democratic Party—laying groundwork that even shaped Barack Obama.
inthesetimes.com/article/jess...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
… If you want to be the kind of person who irons, then you have to iron. That’s it. There’s no trick to it, and there’s no personality/constitutional factor. Either you do it or you don’t.
This feels broadly applicable to many things I want to be in my life.
The last time I wore a Zuri linen dress shirt to work, I spent a long time bashing myself, wondering why am I not the kind of person who irons her good clothes? Today, after laundry, I decided to get over it and iron the few pieces I have that aren’t ready-to-wear. Turns out the answer is simple…
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12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
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I'll never forget Surya Bonaly's name.
10.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 519 🔁 36 💬 28 📌 2A diversion can draw attention away from something and ALSO be important, tactical, and devastating. A distraction creates a binary of meaning — it’s something to be ignored so you can retrain your attention back on the original subject. Diversions deliberately construct the illusion of reality.
10.02.2026 09:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I ask you to consider whether the word you’re looking for is “distraction” or “diversion.”
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Most people have heard about how datacenter development is flooding into North Carolina. But did you know that we, North Carolina residents and taxpayers, are subsidizing them?
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