Leila Stegemoeller

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

I miss you like the deserts miss the rain bro

Part of a page from 'The Cycling World Illustrated', 26 August 1896. It includes photos of a tricycle for collecting cats (complete with uniformed driver) and the Cats' Infirmary, Hampstead (a pen of cats of varying sizes in someone's house, one of the cats is being cuddled by what appears to be the tricycle driver). The accompanying text reads: "A philanthropic lady in the North of London has established an infirmary for cats. On receipt of a postcard she will send for the ailing animal, the tricycle which collects them being provided with a box resting on springs to avoid all jarring and jolting. The cats are carefully tended at the infirmary, where their quarters and most comfortable, and when cured are returned to their owners, no charge being made."

🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨

Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary

More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” (From Mme. Bovary)

A still from the film clueless where Cher’s father says “everywhere in LA takes 20 minutes”

They saw clueless and thought it was a documentary

I personally have been trying to be specific - kinetic impact projectile or chemical weapon - though with tear gas canisters we see the police often breaking their OWN rules and using them as kinetic weapons…

This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌

“I’ve got one hand in my pocket and the other…has blurred and disarticulated fingers”

“their findings were unequivocal: ‘The conventional wisdom among non-experts has long been that there are limited data on the use of GAHT in pediatric patients with GD. However, results from our exhaustive literature searches have led us to the opposite conclusion.’”

“Oh mother, I can feel, the soil filling the planting beds” from the hauntingly beautiful “I sow the clover”🍀

There should be a country band that parodies Smiths songs, with titles like:
This Farming Man
Girlfriend in Oklahoma
Some Grills are Bigger Than Others
There is a Light that Never Goes Out (in my truck)

Appeals Court Reverses Texas First Amendment Ruling The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on May 23 reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction and dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano County, a Texas case challenging the re...

“Seven of the 10 judges in the majority also joined the opinion that “a library’s collection decisions are government speech and therefore not subject to Free Speech challenge.” This is bad. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Well, I’ve done it: tomorrow the queen will give me her firstborn! I spun a bunch of straw into gold for her. The king was gonna off her if she didn’t (seems a messed up marital situation, but who am I to judge). Now to celebrate imp-style, hopping around my cottage and giving props unto my own name

Part of the UC picture, at least at UCSB, is also physical capacity for growth. We have reached and exceeded our covenant with Goleta re: enrollment maximums and with Munger Hall cancelled (thank god), need somewhere for students to live!

RFK’s ideas about “wellness farms” for young people are eugenic and unconstitutional Before he became Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted an idea about sending young people with substance abuse and other mental health issues to “we…

Proud to have this new article out as part of the @nursingclio.bsky.social response to RFKs policies. This is the first piece from a much larger project I’m just starting but more importantly, wellness camps are bad.

nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...

Based on the Gams-uel Butt-ler novel

A heading reading "What is the use of a brain?" with the subheading "A reply to my critics"

A very relatable 1906 Westminster Review headline / subheading combo as I try and make use of *my* brain this afternoon (though you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to its author, "'scientific' phrenologist" Bernard Hollander. Source: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md... )

The Woman Who Made a Device to Help Disabled Veterans Feed Themselves—and Gave It Away for Free World War II nurse Bessie Blount went on to become an inventor and forensic handwriting expert

Researching feeding machines & came across this extraordinary woman: Bessie Blount gave her invention free to French WWII veterans; when asked later, said: "Forget me. It’s what we have contributed to humanity—that as a black female we can do more than nurse their babies and clean their toilets.”

Valerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian island Rescuers on Kangaroo Island say they are ‘overjoyed’ after the dog walked into one of their traps * Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast After 529 days on the run, Australia’s favourite fugitive has been caught at last. Valerie the miniature dachshund, who went missing on Kangaroo Island way back in 2023, has been rescued by conservationists. Continue reading...

Valerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian island

Boar's Head plant linked to deadly outbreak broke food safety rules dozens of times, records show Records show that a Boar's Head deli meat plant in Virginia tied to a deadly food poisoning outbreak repeatedly violated federal regulations.

Boar’s Head trying ANYTHING to change the conversation from their lysteria settlement apnews.com/article/boar...

To clarify this a little. In conversations with a lot of professors across disciplines, the amount of time and energy professors are dedicating to restructuring around cheating or detecting cheating has increased exponentially in the last 3 years. This is a completely uncompensated additional labor.

Persuasion Nation would like a word

Farm workers harvesting carrots

#Easter is an important day for many and sharing a meal is a traditional part of this celebration. People like Betty who harvests carrots in CA’s Central Coast, make these sacred meals possible. #WeFeedYou

The “that’s the Assumption anyway” button 😂

Meetings/calls that could’ve been emails and emails that should’ve been meetings/calls — it feels like there is no third option sometimes

the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful

“Some researchers now say that as many as 1 person in 100 has some form of DSD [difference in sexual development]”

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

This is my family last hope! 🚨

I won't say anything about our situation because you all already know what we're going through!!

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