Heidi Kitrosser

We spent approx. $9B to murder those Iranian schoolgirls so now we can declare victory.

Technology Researchers Challenge Trump Policy Threatening Deportation for Work on Social Media Platforms and Online Harms

🚨NEWS: @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org just filed a lawsuit on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social challenging the Trump administration's policy targeting social media researchers and trust & safety workers for visa revocation and deportation. More: knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

Department of high irony:
Trump on Supreme Court —

“I think the Supreme Court ought to be ashamed of itself…I got to live with these people. And they’ll only vote bad, and I couldn’t care less at this point. They have hurt this country so badly because they haven’t had the guts to do what’s right.”

Have Vance and Trump said thank you?

Please read this discussion of how ordinary Germans became Nazis.

Generally speaking, I don’t like this comparison (US now and Nazis). It’s lazy button-pushing that simplifies the present.

But the dynamics here…

Read.

Along with being fascist criminals:

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

Sure “create supply.” And reward Russia, at a time when it not only continues its war against Ukraine but also reportedly provides Iran with intel to harm Americans. The Trump Russia First policy continues.

Photo of two frenemies - an orange cat who looks angry, and a rust-colored chiweenie in a pink harness who looks intrigued.

If there’s a pet hall of fame, these two late, great ones belong in it for sure. (The photo’s from several years ago - I dug it up because something reminded me of these wonderful weirdos).

I’m so sorry. Your wife’s beautiful essay makes clear that he was loved and that his memory will always be a blessing.

Yes, one silver lining as I was reading this -- I do recall looking at that portrait in Room 127 whenever I had a class in there in the mid 90s. It was the only portrait of a woman in the room at the time, and I can't recall another in the building back then.

100% And those big institutions that had the $ and power to resist and chose to comply in advance ... they should never live it down.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

This sucks. I’ve been reading @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social for 20 years, since he championed Malick’s The New World. He’s one of the great enthusiasts in film criticism, who will go to the wall for what moves him regardless of what others think. I don’t always agree but I always enjoy reading him.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

Easy to lose sight of it with everything else going on, but the Education Department in this administration has been an absolute disgrace.

www.propublica.org/article/educ...

Not to repeat myself but: DHS lies brazenly because lying brazenly works

It's what police depts around the country do on a regular basis when they have unfavorable facts. Honed to perfection, amplified by media stenographers.

Recall, this is how they initially described George Floyd's murder:

Dear Russia,

Iran's fire is making oil prices spike.

Spiking oil prices makes economic problems for us, so we're making it easier for you to sell more oil.

In sum, Iranian military success against us reduces economic pressure on you.

Just, you know, FYI.

Sincerely,
The geniuses leading America

This makes no sense and it is disgraceful and incomprehensible that this is the president of the United States, with lethal force at his disposal, communicating in wartime.

It’s hackneyed now but it should never be: don’t normalize this.

kyrie eleison

may we all serve better in the face of this evil

may our works better glorify the good

Next week's cover of The New Yorker. "War-a-Lago" by Barry Blitt.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

Feel better! It's wonderful that you have your trusty companion to watch movies with you!

so many horrible examples to choose from, and they keep coming ...

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

I am constantly struck by how worthless other people's lives are to Trump and his minions.