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Ultimate frisbee, education, public interest advocacy/policy, dad, games, books, cryptic writer Writers I like: LeGuin, Butler, Novik, Marlon James, Karen Russell, Arkady Martine, Maile Meloy, Katherine Addison, Maggie Nelson, Rothfuss, Lydia Davis, N.K.
This makes me think of a fun captcha game I played once called I’m not a robot -
neal.fun/not-a-robot/
It's felt like Zion has been involved in a ton of turnovers / unsuccessful possessions this quarter. A lot of head down action with like 3 defenders focused on him.
The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today
The options that the US and Israel have engineered for Iranians are increased repression from the Iranian state or full state collapse. Anyone who thinks liberation is on the other side of these bombs, I don’t know what to tell you.
This is a policy of genocide.
Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home.
14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.
Totally forgot about this song and now I’m stoked to play it for my toddler on the way home from school today!
Monsters. It just doesn't stop
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
ICE abducted a father of a six-year-old who is undergoing cancer treatment in a suburb outside Pittsburgh on Sunday and took him to a detention center in West Virginia.
The cruelty is boundless.
The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
🇺🇸 Men and Women 🏒🥇
Woooooo!
2 full periods of non-stop edge-of-my-seat anxiety watching this game
🎯🎯🎯 "The court held that charter schools are different from public schools despite “their ‘many similarities’...” One way is that charter schools could buy buildings with tax dollars, but the building would not be an asset of a public school district or the Kentucky Department of Education."
"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America
or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
Leqaa Kordia is the last Columbia protester still being held prisoner by ICE—all because she dared to speak out against genocide and in support of Palestine.
We must demand her freedom and safety, and condemn this affront to freedom of speech.
FREE LEQAA NOW!
That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.
THEY DID IT
TO THE GOLD MEDAL MATCH
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO
The Pelicans lack of winning is directly correlated with the loss of locker favorites and dawgs such as JV, Larry Nance, Dyson Daniels, Naji Marshall, and now Jose Alvarado. Not only were they good basketball players and people, they showed up every night and outworked everyone.
This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/
Very impressed by all the families and kids toughing it out in the cold! It was freezing!
Hundreds of Atlantans have gathered in Kirkwood to hold a vigil for Alex Pretti, the nurse who was killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis Saturday.
I don't know the right answer of how to teach in this moment. But I do know that - above all else - we have to do all we can to keep the kids safe.
UPDATE: TIKTOK IS COOKED. Our videos went from tens of thousands to 0.
(seemingly a direct result of Trump & Bibi’s friends taking over)
The Yves and Zion dunks down the stretch were sick
NBA star Tyrese Halliburton speaks out
activated against who
Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.