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The story of our current political moment will be written in retrospect as one of elites creating alternative information environments for themselves and then freaking out because of them. It’s like telling exaggerated ghost stories at a sleepover and then everyone not sleeping.

Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

NASA has removed “women in leadership” and “indigenous people” from its website. It also removed a website profile of Rose Ferreria, a student intern who became a full time employee. Ferreria is an immigrant who survived cancer and homelessness before becoming a student at Arizona State University. It is a savvy bit of marketing by NASA to broaden the pool of potential applicants: women of color playing a leading role in NASA is the stuff of movies (Hidden Figures) and TV shows (For All Mankind) precisely because it challenges us to rethink what the agency is. While in hospital Ferreria posted about the removal of the page telling her story. After adverse publicity, NASA restored the page. Then it fired her.

Updated this piece about how the Trump admin removed images of women and persons of color from websites.

The good news is that the webpage about a NASA employee overcoming adversity was restored after she posted about it.

The bad news? NASA then fired her.
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NYT headline: Amid Cease-Fire Talks, Israel Says It Has Expanded Ground Operations in Gaza This new stage of the war is aimed at pressuring Hamas into releasing hostages and ultimately destroying the group or forcing it to surrender.

Nineteen months in and they're still letting the IDF write their copy:

Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: The Experience of Struggle Inside the Prisons by Wael Jaghoub The following article, by Wael Jaghoub, liberated Palestinian prisoner freed in the Toufan al-Ahrar prisoner exchange, was originally published in Arabic in Al-Akhbar on Palestinian Prisoners&#8217…

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Faceless Feds at War With America Why law enforcement are suddenly blurring their own faces in press releases

Why federal law enforcement started blurring out officer's faces in press releases
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the trump administration crack down on thought crimes and being against genocide has been one of the greatest authoritarian pushes i’ve seen in america in a long time

ICE wants to boot NJ woman even though she's the star witness in her own stabbing • The Jersey Vindicator Cesy Ramos, a 51-year-old mom of two originally from Honduras, suffered four stab wounds during a brutal Jan. 31, 2024, assault at the hands of her ex-boyfriend.

jerseyvindicator.org/2025/04/18/i...

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The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

brutal biomimicry the project directors of genocide and deprivation maim and murder administratively in the imperial core.

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clan 2 dog angels premieres tonight at 9:30 est
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i just wanna go to the major with my friends

kofie fired from sb? we are truly in the fumble dimension…

amorim is getting left to the wolves. how many seasons do we gotta write off?

nothing like some hockey and a nice nap

lets gooooooo!

The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire.

Video: @stuartpalley.bsky.social

buh!

nice. b0nk

detail from hobonichi planner page spread reading: The secret to getting myself to play an instrument well on my very first try, you ask? Well, it makes a sound, right? That's all I need. Liking the sound, that's the secret. That gets me wanting to practice a little. And then pretty soon I find myself coming up with a tune. –Haruomi Hosono musician "Can't Praise Haruomi Hosono Enough"

today's hobonichi blurb is a very strong start

boutta eat this year like a burder

soundcloud.com/seitop/quarks finally feelin' it

i don't believe in blocking people with different views. i think that everybody should listen to everybody else all of the time. i believe that everyone should quit their jobs and stop sleeping so that they can read all of the posts and consider all of the perspectives

music is being made

Welcome to Bluesky soldier, get ready to start saying "trans" with an asterisk again.

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