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I've been told that this 2019 fundraiser for Miss Major started after her stroke is where anyone who might want to contribute to the expenses of her family in the immediate future should contribute: fundly.com/missmajor - It will stay open for the time being.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Rest in Power Miss Major.

I was so fortunate to profile Miss Major for SF Weekly.

From her political education from the leaders of the Attica prison uprising and getting knocked out by a cop at Stonewall to performing in the Jewel Box Revue and founding TGIJP, she led an extraordinary life.

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Was lucky enough to meet and talk to her a couple of times.

RIP to a pioneer and a legend and a warrior

ANOTHER FAMILY SEPARATED BY OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

Immigration Laws Drive North Carolina Father Out of Country, Separating Him from U.S. Citizen Wife and Two Daughters

We outnumber them. And we will win.

People don't need more evidence to conclude he's a white supremacist. Evidence isn't the issue here. The problem is convincing people that white supremacy is a threat rather than something they can elide and quietly benefit from without actually saying they like it.

Machiavelli

I sneezed next to the ashtray and it went up like a Looney Tunes reel. Face and desk covered in soot.

I almost always know what I’m talking about and despite my often-aggressive tone I give solid advice.

I am debating using the English loanword “schlep” to translate the German verb “schleppen” in Nietzsche.

. “Our first advice to people is to don't do this alone,” he said. “The feds seem to be more cautious when we are in groups, which makes perfect sense because they're bullies.”

Israeli forces detained 14 Palestinians in the West Bank town of Deir Istiya early this morning, the day of the Israel-Hamas hostage-detainee swap.

I mean academics do have a “comms challenge” in that most people don’t like you or care about what you do and most of you are equally terrible at writing and at being normal people

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So much of what this country is... is contained in this story.

Read it, be angry, and donate.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

I will sit on pier in Piraeus and dream of the old country (Manhattan)

If I have to leave I’m buying a bouzouki and learning to play rembetika

You’re a clown and a fascist bootlicker like everyone else at the Atlantic. You’re a hideous group of sad, desperate mediocrities

I suspect the travel power of a US passport will continue to sink rapidly

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene

When it comes to music production, my way of fighting AI is to put something very weird, random, and annoying in every track

Also a lot of actions ACT UP undertook, like trespassing on government property, were misdemeanors in 1985 and are now felonies that can come with terrorism charges.

ACT UP and its history are at the core of my political consciousness but I also think very often about the fact that many ACT UP actions were rooted in the premise “Cops won’t beat white men on camera” and I don’t think political action can assume that anymore.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

Grown men who neg people they like because they can’t give a compliment are boring and frankly pitiful.