Marta Evans

Eight months in, and Trump/Vought have already accomplished implementing 47% of Project 2025, per this tracker:

www.project2025.observer/en

In the United States, there are religious colleges who teach that homosexuality is wrong and students who become pregnant can be run off campus. Those schools get federal funds. This is somehow protected from regulation, but secular private institutions can’t treat trans students like human beings.

asking every white person in congress if they condemn the KKK would produce some incredible interviews

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

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thank you!! ☺️

I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I’ve finally decided: yikes

Cumbia dancing breaks out downtown at ICE protest

#austin #atx #ICE

May these possums shouting in Werner Herzog's voice bring comfort to your day.

“they are *withheld* from us because we’re trans” is unfortunately succinct and correct.

Baby bird *finishes hatching* Sorry… am I in a bowl of sticks? Am I in a fucking bowl of sticks a thousand feet off the ground right now, yes or no

the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person

If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB.

DMs are open, email is adam@thefrontlist.org.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY School of Law barred 31 pro-Palestine law school students from campus facilities and demanded that they sign away their right to protest in exchange for being allowed to return. If the students — deemed “personae non grata,” or PNG — don’t renounce their right to protest on campus, they will be unable to sit for final exams. “You may not participate in any protest activity or disruptive activity on Law School property,” says the so-called “Use of Space Agreement” sent to the students, which explicitly lays out conditions for being allowed to return to key campus buildings during the school’s “exam period.”

NYU School of Law has told 31 pro-Palestine students they must sign away their right to protest if they want to return to campus and sit exams.

theintercept.com/2025/05/03/n...

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

Color illustration of a calico shorthaired kitten with her mouth open, meowing. Text at the top of the page says “I say meow; that means hello, I like you.”

Hello! I like you! From I am a Kitten by Ole Risom, illustrated by Jan Pfloog. 1970.

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

Man they made us read that "First they came" poem so many times in school and people are still like "woah wait the first guys they came for appear to not be the only guys they're coming for"

Bissau 10% Palau 10% Avalon (UK) 10% Fiji 32% Tyree (UK) 10% Isles of Ebony (UK) 10% Peru 10% Cebu (Philippines) 17% Babylon (Iraq) 39% Bali (Indonesia) 32% Cali (Colombia) 10% Beneath the Coral Sea (Australia) 10% Ebudæ (UK) 10% Khartoum (Sudan) 10% Deep Sea of Clouds 10% Island of the Moon (Madagascar) 47% The Ross Dependency (Antarctica) 10% Tripoli (Libya) 31%

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

i feel like all the angst some ppl feel about having to wear a mask during covid is just them displacing the actual traumatic experience (global pandemic causing mass death) onto something you can get your arms around to be angry at

Thought-canceling headphones

Justice for Mahmoud Khalil—Urgent Support Needed Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

Here is a legal defense and support fund for Mahmoud Khalil. Their baby is coming soon. Please let's help. chuffed.org/project/just...

"Not Exactly Consequential": NYT Dismisses Trump's War on Trans Americans After years of trans panic coverage, the paper now claims attacks on trans rights barely matter.

Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...

hey everyone. i was thinking about complying in advance. should i y/n

Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

It’s Taylors all the way down

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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

“so I say tit” is incredible work

Mapping my route from desk to chip cabinet