Amber J Martin, Ph.D.

very curious if Schumer did anything

So, consider how this goes:

They deploy ICE to remove people who are “illegal”

Kavanaugh says US citizens will be fine, once they show their IDs (sure, buddy)

Kansas just showed us they can & will invalidate the LEGALLY ISSUED IDs of CITIZENS immediately & without warning

Because they want to

40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in Europe - bears i...

'A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in Europe - bears intriguing sequences of notches and dots.'

There are currently 711 bills under consideration that target trans people.

This is an all out assault that has not abated since the moment Republicans understood they could target trans people with little pushback and much support from moderates and liberals.

The media should cover this as murder because it is.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Musk at World Economic Forum

This guy's smiling photograph is appearing today, in normal news coverage of an elite gathering.

He has killed 215,000 adults and 445,000 children with USAID cuts, as of the most recent estimates. 14 million deaths are expected by 2030.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
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Cream book cover with green squiggly lines running across it. Mother Tongue, Sara Novic and A Memoir of Family, Deafness and Identity in large text, with the Blurb A book I want to press into everyone's hands from Esme Weijun Wang across the top.

Mother Tongue also has an extremely cool cover in the UK (which I feel ok bragging about since I have no hand in it at all 😆), featuring kind words from the great @esmewang.com.
It's out 11 June there and is available for preorder now. geni.us/MotherTongue

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This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Jesse Jackson, longtime civil rights leader and presidential candidate, has died The civil rights leader died "peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family."

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, has died. He was 84.

“I am God’s child!”

Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇

Incredible commentary from this Swiss announcer, who accurately characterizes the Israeli team as "Self-defined zionist to the core...who posted several messages in favour of the genocide in Gaza...calling it ‘the most morally just war in history.’”

Solidarity to a real one.

And by “be funny” I mean produce humor.

Serious question. Can LLMs be funny?

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Video: Translating Falasteen (Palestine) via X (@translatingpal)

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Social Sciences

7/11

I had a pregnant client who was experiencing abdominal cramping for three days and was deprived of medical care. When we interceded, she was punished.

A first grader snatched two days after surgery denied wound care.

A client who developed a large painful cyst but was ignored.

25/

OSU appears to have been a major conduit for Epstein activities, especially those linked o Les Wexner.

Photo of Jonathan Ross, who killed Renee Nicole Good. WANTED FOR MURDER ICE GESTAPO JONATHAN ROSS CALL HENNEPIN COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE: 612-348-5550

Keep CALLING!

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Goddamnit.

God fucking damnit.

A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few cases until Trump’s second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart.

www.propublica.org/article/habe...