Patrick Collier

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Disgraceful.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Not only not weird: a productive exercise with a long history in therapy.

Why Israel’s Chaotic New Food Program in Gaza Has Turned So Deadly A visit to one distribution site shows how a system designed to squeeze out the U.N. and Hamas continues to draw hungry Palestinians into deadly encounters.

Just to be clear, this ain't the liberal media reporting:
www.wsj.com/world/middle...

awesome, Matt: congrats!!

Also, feel free to smash that preorder button.

cover art for Oprah magazine honoring Breonna Taylor, a young woman, 26 years old, with beautiful, expressive brown eyes - she was shot and killed in 2020 when police forced entry into her home

Portrait of
Breonna Taylor🕯

Alexis Franklin
artist

The Trump regime is arresting protesters now. This was the plan all along | Will Bunch Federal felony charges against nine ICE protesters in Spokane reveal how Trump's secret police are expanding their web.

Free the Spokane 9

Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent

This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

At our Everyday Life in Middletown archive, volunteer writers post one-day diaries of specified days, recording their activities, thoughts, and feelings. A new diary set is up on the archive, along with this blog post offering an overview.
bsudsl.org/edlmiddletow...

This was a nice distraction this week. My top 10.

so sorry to hear that and glad H. is ok. That title is too good not to make it into fiction.

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

Melissa Hortman was Majority Leader during the DFL trifecta and had a key role in getting free lunches for school kids in Minnesota.

as a former copy-editor, I know this is about 'bruin' fitting in a narrow column, and not wanting to repeat 'bear.'

gimme the days when you'd get "bruin" in a headline.

Glad to hear, because we're going in July! thank you.

Definitely one of my favorite World War I songs, in the sense of "the only World War I song I know." And if you're 130, where does that leave me?

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2466: Writing takes resilience. You will sometimes be afraid. You will sometimes be rejected, criticized, disappointed. Don’t try to avoid those things. Feel them. Learn from them. Use them. Tell yourself that you have already done the hardest part. You have begun.

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

That shit ain't right

That shit ain't right.

All of these can be true:
1. A small contingent of Gaza protestors have antisemitic views.

2. The protests overall are driven by opposition to mass murder, not antisemitism.

3. Conservatives are using "campus antisemitism" as a cudgel to imprison protestors & delegitimize universities

Senate Republicans abdicate responsibility | Letters Many of their public statements consist of meaningless platitudes coupled with misleading half-truths and crucial omissions.

The link below is to my letter to the editor of the IndyStar, published today.

Senate Republicans abdicate responsibility.

www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

REPOST if you stand with AOC!

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

"In terms of the suffering and frustration they spread about them there is probably no comparison. There is very possibly ... a great degree of mental warping. Yet they are entrusted with positions of great influence and importance."

Thus: "In our own generation extreme forms of ego-gratification are culturally supported in a similar fashion. Arrogant and unbridled egoists as family men, as officers of the law and in business....

Anthropologist Ruth Benedict notes, in 1934, that while cultures punish or isolate those who don't pursue the cultures' central values, they reward those who practice them to an extreme.

I'm on vacation!

There’s a lot of art that captures modern Americas whole deal but since we are a cynical and insensitive nation most of it is cynical and insensitive. Lynch managed to capture something real about this place while remaining almost beatifically loving and empathic about it