Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

Pentagon DEI Purge Targets Images of War Heroes, Military Firsts Over 26,000 references flagged after Pete Hegseth orders the removal of content highlighting diversity efforts in the Defense Department.

One more step deeper into fascism.

time.com/7265496/pent...

Cover of LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK OF PRIDE, two parents kissing their child on the cheek while she holds a rainbow flag

MY LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK ABOUT PRIDE comes out today and I'm feeling extremely Ralph Wiggum "I'm in danger" about it. It's beautiful though and I love it no matter what they say

- ECONOMIC BLACKOUT 2/28!
- Protest with your wallet & time!
- Dont spend $/time on Bezos: Amazon/Prime, Whole Foods, WaPo. Musk: Tesla, X, Starlink. Zuck: Meta - FB, Instagram, Threads (Bluesky just launched an IG-ish app named Flashes, btw)
- Buy from small, local businesses in general

That sounds like a whole generation of parenting/grandparenting!

When the world gets complicated, I simplify.

Amazon was the hardest because of the convenience. But there’s the plus side— I really must want/need it to go to the store.

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Black people have never needed a government to recognize our traditions and beliefs. #BlackHistoryMonth will proceed as planned.

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you're operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you're willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

learning to enjoy bad writing on websites because that means that at least a person wrote it, somebody who cared about what they were writing about enough to try. totally non-dystopic state of affairs

Remember, she lifts her lamp above a door, not a wall . . .

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Emma Lazarus

just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.

TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky
#StateMediaCensorship

Yes, it can happen again. 👀

Opinion | How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality Us and them is all the rage.

How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...

When evil is good and good is evil, we tear our country apart.

"School Choice Week" is coming to Kansas and the rest of the country the last week of January. &#ksleg #ksed #vouchers #SchoolVouchers