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Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley 'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...

‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.

RIP Tom Noonan, a friend for 18 years. Often typecast as villains, he was an actor's actor, a unique playwright & filmmaker, a gifted composer, and a pianist with a sweet voice. My kids & I used to go to his tiny apartment for dinner (pizza). We'd have a few drinks & he'd start to play. Magic.

#lawlibrarians assemble!

#blacksky This needs your attention.

Law librarians qualify?

What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least) - CAIROS Blog The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley

1/ Finally wrote up “The Story of Mendeley”! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention 🧵

This is what happens when workers and students stand up for their universities and do what UC and the regents were unwilling to do.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

Why is Elsie sometimes clothed and sometimes not? Why does she carry a coat? What's with the gloves? Is Elmo unclothed all the time?

7 L.A. County Public Health clinics to close after $50M funding cut Seven Los Angeles County public health clinics will stop providing services later this month after the county lost more than $50 million in federal, state and local funding, officials announced. Th…

7 L.A. County Public Health clinics to close after $50M funding cut

Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.

Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.

“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”

culver city, crime haven! lmaooo

How the NAACP signed up to abolish ICE Trump's war on civil rights has pushed the group—117 year old today—into a new era of confrontation.

The NAACP's 117th birthday wishlist: defund ICE, prosecute Kristi Noem, and shutter Elon's data centers.

Ida B. Wells starts to tell the story of her life. From It’s Her Story: Ida B. Wells, written by Anastasia Magloire Williams, illustrated by Alleanna Harris, and published by Sunbird Books.

Ida B. Wells says, “We'll start at the beginning, in 1862. I was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The Civil War was raging, but change was coming for millions of Black Americans in Confederate states like mine. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation!”

Ida B. Wells says, “Over the decades, I would write and publish hundreds of articles and many books on lynching, segregation, and law. I even helped push an anti-lynching bill before Congress in 1922!”

Ida B. Wells smiles and sits at her typewriter. From It’s Her Story: Ida B. Wells, written by Anastasia Magloire Williams, illustrated by Alleanna Harris, and published by Sunbird Books.

I thought it was the perfect time to share some illustrations of the legendary Ida B. Wells! Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was a prolific African-American investigative journalist, civil rights activist, and women’s suffragist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. #bhm

Attorney Discipline A small newsletter on legatech

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: an AI toy leaks info, attorneys get disciplined for AI errors, new vulnerabilities in Notepad++, how the Ring Search Party ad gives some people the ick, and more #law #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids

Most political performances don't accomplish anything this concrete btw. I applaud the people who've pulled this off.

Warner Bros Studio Tour adds ‘Sinners’ exhibit to lineup Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood is celebrating Black History Month with a new exhibit at Stage 48 dedicated to the blockbuster hit “Sinners.” The installation features screen‑worn costumes, set …

Warner Bros Studio Tour adds 'Sinners' exhibit to lineup

I see it, I play it, I pass it on.

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Imagine the mid-credits banter:
Miles: You are OBSESSED with that song. You hum it while you swing.
Gwen: It's an awesome song! Have you heard the whole thing? <hands Miles an earbud and brings up the song>
<Miles nods along, Gwen lipsyncs with her eyes closed>
Miles: It's good. But Soda Pop rules.

Since all of the "The GOAT" posters keep reminding me that the same animators worked on the Spider-Verse movies & K-Pop Demon Hunters, what would make me really happy is to see Gwen have a HUNTR/X poster on her bedroom wall. Ecstatic if "Golden" was her ringtone for her devices. Do it, Sony.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

My GenX heart leaped at the sight of Ricky Martin.

So that's what "Die with a Smile" needed for heat: remove Bruno Mars, add salsa. Hey, don't take it up with me, take it up with Bad Bunny. (And yes, Gaga has chemistry with him)