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We do not comply: how do we disrupt the momentum of Trump’s cruelty? | V (formerly Eve Ensler) Every day brings more devastation. But daily forms of rebellion can restore our sense of purpose

“We’ve gotta block and build at the same time. That means confronting both elected officials and the corporations that are lifting them up." - @ashdashlee.bsky.social #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.” The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

aaron parsley’s incredible, horrifying, somehow beautiful essay about what happened to him and his family last weekend on the guadalupe river is one of the best and most moving things you will read this year (content note: child loss) www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.

It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

A purple clematis colonizes the rib cage of a plastic Halloween skeleton, a permanent resident in the yard, whose arms are thrown up as though in horror. VanderMeer vibes, big time.

Today in the garden.

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

A screen shot of an email reading: Dear Dr. Gill, Jacquelyn, I am writing to let you know that given the current budgetary projections and recent adjustment of NSF’s over-arching priorities, NSF/BIO will not be making any new awards through the Biology Integration Institutes Program. Therefore, the solicitation has been archived, and NSF has returned your proposal without review so you can re-submit it, or portions of it, to appropriate BIO programs that currently are receiving new proposals, if you wish. Sincerely, Jim Deshler Division Director (Acting) Division of Biological Infrastructure

Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed.

With a form email.

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him out with a steel chair. The only others watching were either fascists themselves or the people trying to fight fascism with the power of love and kindness and they weren’t having a great go of it either. I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts. None of it helped. I was on my knees now bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. It spilled out of me onto the snow in a pattern that if you sort of squinted at it just so from the right vantage looked like a heart. See that I pointed. Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn’t think we were allowed do that.

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. flaminghydra.com/issue-243/

One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Chatbots are presented as way to do more with less—fewer workers, funding cuts, less time. As though the tech doesn’t come at a massive cost to our society and our world. As though systematically depriving ourselves in the first place isn’t a choice.

Juvenile finch with wild white eyebrows puts their whole body into screeching at a parent

The universal hanger

Obstreperous, oversized, rumpled child makes ruckus.

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."

Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time

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Judge orders Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained during his April 14 naturalization interview in Vermont.

“‘I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you,’ Mahdawi said outside the Vermont courtroom.”

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thread of fundraisers for victims and families impacted by the Lapu Lapu Day tragedy in Vancouver:

I also got a replacement rosemary, today. The plan is lots of sourdough foccacia.

“manual labor” comes close but isn’t exactly the same. Your point is fully correct.

what process is due. WHAT PROCESS IS DUE

Now I have a word for my obsession with mayo derivatives ever since I learned mayo from scratch. Shrimp + crab + pasta shells (“fisher’s kettle”) is my unbeatable

The fix for that isn't to pivot once again, desperately chasing what's popular.

It's to have values, have a core, and align policies with that.

There's already a party that doesn't care about science and will privilege Christianity and white patriarchal supremacy over truth. That niche is full.

It’s good to practice the unhinged version of your work presentation on your husband, first.

I found a stream that was using the sound as a gentle background for co-working and it got me through the afternoon

My D&D group at the time (a lot of first-time players and an experienced DM, after a couple years together) went to the theatre in our matching group T-shirts

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

A beautiful peace of writing.

They were adorable yesterday.

Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders A former Hawaii resident, and longtime green card holder, is among those being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Lewelyn Dixon immigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii 50 years ago. She worked as a lab technician at the University of Washington. But on a trip returning from the Phillipines, ICE detained her. Her family hasn't been told where she is being held. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/i...

My backyard birding update of the month is that Josh Grabbin fed Cardi B. I didn’t think he had it in him!