Charlotte Canning

7) Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry: Février (1412-16)

Former ICE Facility Worker 'saw people laying in feces' at Baltimore Detention Center Whistleblower provides internal documents alleging severe overcrowding, mistreatment months before viral video sparked national outrage

Concentration camps:

"I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."

Our entire lives, our families, our children and grandchildren, are basically poker chips to these warped assholes. All they can do with them is stack them up and compare them to other billionaires' stacks. While kids die.

Organizers hand out more than 25,000 “ICE OUT” towels at Super Bowl for halftime protest A group of activists handed out more than 25,000 towels with the words “ICE OUT” to Super Bowl attendees on Sunday, hoping they will display throughout the game.

“A group of activists handed out more than 25,000 towels emblazoned with the words ‘ICE OUT’ to Super Bowl attendees on Sunday, hoping they will raise them throughout the game, and especially during Bad Bunny’s halftime performance, to protest the Trump admin’s immigration enforcement operations.”

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

“from March to September, OCR resolved more than 7,000 discrimination complaints, but about 90% were resolved by the department dismissing the complaint, meaning staff received information from complainants but did not proceed to investigate.”

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.”

Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today.

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The very concept of acknowledging racism was kind of bad and they were wrong to do it pissed them off so much they started a culture war and broke the world so they wouldn't have to "apologize for being white." There's no way in hell they could survive what marginalized folks go through.

This is why I moved off Substack to Ghost. The Nazis will migrate to any big platform but when a platform actively promotes them, that is a choice

Like dont tell me saying “Fuck Bush” was meaningless when Natalie from Dixie Chicks was literally being threatened with sniper executions at her concerts for saying it

And then this: do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. And there too a great deal has to be gone through, as gradually you struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. The range tends to narrow down, but it gets much more real. In the end, as you yourself mention in passing, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything.

Thomas Merton's letter to a young activist:

'Do not depend on the hope of results... concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself.'

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What *about* that 5-year-old US citizen? Finish the sentence, Congressman. What does that hypothetical child have to do with Liam Ramos? Spell it out. Don’t just say “but what about our kids” and stop there. Explain your logic.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Opinion | Maybe It’s Time to Close the Kennedy Center for Good Washington isn’t a cultural hub, the building is ugly, and its leaders don’t much care about the arts.

Tell me you know f*ck all and about the performing arts and their history without telling me you know f*ck all about the performing arts in their history.

We absolutely can afford a UBI, and we do need it, regardless of any impacts AI ends up having.

The cost of UBI is its net cost, not its gross cost. If you get $15k and pay $7k higher taxes as part of the deal, that cost is $8k not $15k.

Try calculating the costs of not doing UBI. Include fascism.

Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil.

W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went.

Abolish.

How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States Republicans and Democrats alike decry the lack of oversight for America’s famous antipoverty experiment.

Good report here on how very little TANF funds actually go to supporting low income families. It has become a slush fund for states to spend on things that have little to do with program’s mission.

“How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States”

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NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

The cowardice and censorship continues apace!

This Is Why It’s So Hard to Find a Job Right Now A ‘deep freeze’ has enveloped the U.S. labor market. A whole bunch of factors are at play.

The pace of hiring in the U.S. has dropped off precipitously for a number of reasons, ranging from tariff uncertainties that mean companies have a tough time planning to workers staying in their jobs.

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.

To *Italy*.

This guy too. These two skiers make me proud to be American, I hope they both win

Props to this guy. That took guts. Good for #Oregon

How the Presidency is Making Trump Richer : Up First from NPR Before President Donald Trump’s first term, he was in a “tight spot” financially, according to New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick. At the start of his second term, Kirkpatrick says, Trump was in an “...

The current president has made almost 4 billion dollars since he was voted in office 🙃 This episode breaks down how he made that money and how it compares to other presidents.

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Post publisher's role in hacking response comes into sharper focus 1 year ago Scotland Yard considering request to examine alleged phone-hacking coverup 1 year ago

Post publisher draws more scrutiny after newsroom shake-up 1 year ago Washington Post publisher retains ties to past business ventures 1 year ago

This is exceedingly weird. No mention of the Lewis departure on the Post’s home page, hours after it was announced.

It was only a year or two ago that Post editors were willing to cover their own institution

Yes.

Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

New version of GOP suppression bill would impose nationwide proof of citizenship, photo ID requirements The bill would undermine the right to vote in the U.S. ahead of the 2026 midterms.

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Bad Bunny was born a US citizen. How does that “illustrate“ anything about immigration?