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BREAKING: Third grader & family abducted by ICE will return home The people of Sackets Harbor remind us that resistance can work.

“Sackets Harbor, NY has shown us what can happen when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pushes its luck in a small town—even when Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan is a resident,” @marisakabas.bsky.social writes: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

08.04.2025 16:33 — 👍 422    🔁 116    💬 7    📌 5

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…

LE MONDE asked me to write an article about American literature in the age of Trump, but then decided it didn't like what I wrote. Oh well. Here it is in LitHub: "Most American literature is the literature of empire."

12.04.2025 18:08 — 👍 186    🔁 64    💬 5    📌 7

If you were outraged by the crimes against civilians on Oct 7th but not by the many more crimes against civilians *since* Oct 7th - just this week: kids being burned from head to toe; having their limbs amputated without anesthetic - then you don’t actually care about crimes against civilians.

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Screenshot of a TikTok: Hand with black nails holding a white electronic toothbrush with a screen depicting a sad emoji

we’re so fucked bc some billionaires are wasting our resources and labor in order to produce and then sell back to us TOOTHBRUSHES WITH SCREENS

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It was a town’s only Black-owned bookstore. It is now a refuge for those displaced by the California fires Nikki High’s Octavia’s Bookshelf in Pasadena was spared by the fire, but touched by change, it became a hub of relief

I love us, for real.

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