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911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center — NBC News EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

Jesus Christ

apple.news/AjFex7iOqSPS...

02.03.2026 06:05 — 👍 1131    🔁 693    💬 51    📌 55

Xanadu? I saw a local high school do this and it was a lot of fun

02.03.2026 06:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A truly beautiful bird that is a light to medium muted pink color who's feathers cover it like a dress or skirt it has black legs and a very long light pink beak

A truly beautiful bird that is a light to medium muted pink color who's feathers cover it like a dress or skirt it has black legs and a very long light pink beak

Roseate Spoonbill bird in flight

01.03.2026 22:42 — 👍 8620    🔁 1718    💬 129    📌 255
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#nowwatching Duel (1971)
Yeah, early Spielberg rules. 'Jaws' with a truck is thrown around a lot (deservedly so) but this film is a lot more than that.
And to have the truck and its dricer be such a brutal force... Love it.
A film on masculinity, on violence inherit in vehicles. Machete's up. 🔪🔪🔪

02.03.2026 00:53 — 👍 1085    🔁 85    💬 137    📌 10

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

01.03.2026 21:54 — 👍 3368    🔁 661    💬 94    📌 21

Assigning meds to muppets seems like a great idea. I’m gonna go with my SSRI is Rowlf.

28.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 86    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

This PROFOUND, actually.

01.03.2026 17:10 — 👍 186    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 0
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‘I Just Stood Up’: The Stunning Arrest Of Aliya Rahman At The State Of The Union Rahman, who was Rep. Ilhan Omar’s guest, suspects she was targeted after testifying to Congress about her brutal ICE detention in Minneapolis.

NEW, from me: I talked to Aliya Rahman, who was dragged out of Tuesday's State of the Union + arrested for... standing up.

Really.

Rahman, who is autistic and has disabilities, was a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar + was previously brutally detained by ICE in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

01.03.2026 13:33 — 👍 1656    🔁 764    💬 35    📌 36
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Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

01.03.2026 05:23 — 👍 8397    🔁 2861    💬 116    📌 353
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A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

01.03.2026 02:56 — 👍 13312    🔁 2903    💬 218    📌 270

😍

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Here’s Delroy himself addressing the BAFTA incident at the Image Awards. I’m so glad he and Sinners team feel celebrated and properly centered 🥹

#NAACPImageAwards

01.03.2026 04:19 — 👍 117    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 0
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Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The war was Bibi and MBS' idea.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Seems to be the pattern…

28.02.2026 23:19 — 👍 16563    🔁 5022    💬 444    📌 188

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

28.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 3611    🔁 979    💬 43    📌 15

I got offline to go to a children's theater production and I'm not sure I want to catch up with the news.

28.02.2026 22:19 — 👍 48    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 0

Whenever you think that all of this is some well thought out plot by a group of ghoulish masterminds, remember that Ayatollah KhOmeIni died in 1989.

They are evil AND stupid.

28.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 20    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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This aged well. Note the author.

28.02.2026 13:27 — 👍 15999    🔁 6197    💬 547    📌 358
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Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

27.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 8113    🔁 3435    💬 160    📌 220

this is an absolute bald-faced lie, these were the exact consequences of the OBBB, there was a whole, separate side negotiation for an insufficient bail out for rural hospitals in order to get the bill passed and it is not to much to ask the press corpse to remember basic details

26.02.2026 21:40 — 👍 1430    🔁 350    💬 46    📌 8
Photo 1/4 of Autonomy News merchandise with a Victorian postcard printed on it. It shows a woman about to hit a stork with a parasol because it's trying to bring her a baby. Red text below the photo says "And the villain still pursues her," plus our logo is underneath in the right corner in white text.
This item is a short sleeve shirt in forest green

Photo 1/4 of Autonomy News merchandise with a Victorian postcard printed on it. It shows a woman about to hit a stork with a parasol because it's trying to bring her a baby. Red text below the photo says "And the villain still pursues her," plus our logo is underneath in the right corner in white text. This item is a short sleeve shirt in forest green

Photo 2/4 of Autonomy News merchandise with a Victorian postcard printed on it. This item is a crewneck sweatshirt in maroon
The design shows a woman about to hit a stork with a parasol because it's trying to bring her a baby. Red text below the photo says "And the villain still pursues her," plus our logo is underneath in the right corner in white text.

Photo 2/4 of Autonomy News merchandise with a Victorian postcard printed on it. This item is a crewneck sweatshirt in maroon The design shows a woman about to hit a stork with a parasol because it's trying to bring her a baby. Red text below the photo says "And the villain still pursues her," plus our logo is underneath in the right corner in white text.

Photo 3/4 of Autonomy News merchandise with a Victorian postcard printed on it. This item is a muscle tank in navy.
The design shows a woman about to hit a stork with a parasol because it's trying to bring her a baby. Red text below the photo says "And the villain still pursues her," plus our logo is underneath in the right corner in white text.

Photo 3/4 of Autonomy News merchandise with a Victorian postcard printed on it. This item is a muscle tank in navy. The design shows a woman about to hit a stork with a parasol because it's trying to bring her a baby. Red text below the photo says "And the villain still pursues her," plus our logo is underneath in the right corner in white text.

Photo 4/4 of Autonomy News merchandise with a Victorian postcard printed on it. This item is a black cotton tote bag.
The design shows a woman about to hit a stork with a parasol because it's trying to bring her a baby. Red text below the photo says "And the villain still pursues her," plus our logo is underneath in the right corner in white text.

Photo 4/4 of Autonomy News merchandise with a Victorian postcard printed on it. This item is a black cotton tote bag. The design shows a woman about to hit a stork with a parasol because it's trying to bring her a baby. Red text below the photo says "And the villain still pursues her," plus our logo is underneath in the right corner in white text.

We just updated our best-selling Bad Stork design to pop on darker colors like black, navy, maroon, and forest green. Check out new shirts and black totes:
www.bonfire.com/bad-stork-sh...
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22.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 4
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The REAL Reason Trump Has an Issue with Obama.

25.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 1858    🔁 578    💬 156    📌 54

“Preventing childhood illness through scientifically and historically proven methodologies is boring and rote. Keeping kids alive is ready for disruption!”

26.02.2026 13:43 — 👍 1362    🔁 310    💬 70    📌 7

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

26.02.2026 04:17 — 👍 7719    🔁 8418    💬 1    📌 107
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

This is bigotry, pure and simple.

open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

26.02.2026 01:22 — 👍 3949    🔁 1161    💬 145    📌 147
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Great stat from my colleague Cory Reppenhagen: 37 statewide Fire Weather Warnings this year is (by far) the highest year-to-date on record.

Lack of snow + consistent wind events = far more fire danger than usual this season.

#COwx

25.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 43    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1
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First NM measles case for 2026 detected in Lordsburg jail New Mexico health officials on Tuesday confirmed the first measles case of the year, a federal inmate held in the Hidalgo County Detention Center with an unknown vaccination status.State health…

New Mexico health officials on Tuesday confirmed the first measles case of the year, a federal inmate held in the Hidalgo County Detention Center with an unknown vaccination status.

via @sourcenm.com

25.02.2026 23:00 — 👍 25    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

We do NOT have an autism crisis. We have a society sucks crisis.

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If you made it with ai, it is not art. You are not an artist. You are a typist.

25.02.2026 14:16 — 👍 45    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

Let’s get back to the fact that the man who was given 2 hours of prime time raped children.

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