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ICE abandons plan to build detention facility in Chester, assemblyman says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will allegedly scrap a controversial plan to bring an immigration detention facility to the village of Chester.

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Marigold Santos Takes Root She uses epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants without harming them — as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form.

Marigold Santos uses epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants without harming them — as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form.

Joanne Bland, lifelong Civil Rights activist and founder of Selma's Foot Soldiers Park, dies Bland grew up in Selma and became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a child foot soldier in the 1960s, participating in the historic Selma voting rights marches, including Bloody Sunday.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72.

"By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

Ghana: Reject The Anti-Lgbt+ Bill! The anti-LGBT+ bill is back in Ghana, and this time, it has stronger political backing. We stopped it before, and together we can stop it again. Sign now to protect LGBT+ rights.

The dangerous anti-LGBTQIA+ bill is back in Ghana, with stronger political support. We stopped it once. Let’s stop it again. Please sign to defend equality: a.allout.org/s/P3wrb/

Read everything Julie K. Brown publishes on Epstein and Maxwell. Because the mainstream press sanitizes their elite sadistic pedophile network

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

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How extremists reconquered Idaho in the age of Trump—and how some locals are fighting back “Who the fuck are these men?”

In March 2024, the University of Utah women’s basketball team, which was staying in Coeur d’Alene during the NCAA tournament, said they’d been subjected to racial harassment so frightening that they fled town.

LAST DAY to send in your proposals!

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Lee Smolin pauses working relationship with Perimeter Institute after being named in Epstein files Lee Smolin has been asked to “pause” his work by the Perimeter Institute as they review ties to Jeffrey Epstein

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had

It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

this is another absolutely brutal read. but a critical one, particularly for academics.

It's that time of year. Jane's Walk is accepting submissions for walking tours for its festival in early May. If you live in NYC, I really encourage you to submit a tour and to participate. It's really fun. www.mas.org/janes-walk-n...

Sign the Petition Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

You can sign the petition to release Rodney below!

He’s being denied disability accommodations.

He’s been placed in solitary confinement.

His health is deteriorating.

He’s been locked up for a year.

It’s beyond cruel and unusual punishment.

It’s eugenics.

www.change.org/p/demand-the...

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.

Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

This month isn't even over yet. Jesus Christ.

MacArthur Awards $10 Million to Strengthen the Humanities

"MacArthur Awards $10 Million to Strengthen the Humanities" www.macfound.org/press/press-...

Why Are We Paying for the Privilege of Rejection? Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of class stratification in the arts.

"Fees are a paywall on opportunity, and paywalls do not measure merit. They measure means. When a field built on ideals of access and expression charges for the act of showing up, the rhetoric of equity collapses into the economics of endurance."

A new theory explains why Trump keeps threatening global takeovers Neo-royalism challenges us to look beyond a century-old paradigm and see the hierarchical lens through which Trump justifies domination.

The world order as we’ve known for the last century is disappearing.

And in its place, a new order shaped by the private interests of individual men and their fiercest allies, not the interests, private or public, fair or foul, good or bad, of a nation.

I want to highlight the Black voter number here because I’ve lived through decades of efforts to engineer and/or assert an antagonistic relationship, when, for the most part, Black people are more supportive of immigration than others.

If adults are missing work due to long COVID, don’t we think children are missing school from it too?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Yes, Ds should offer a resolute unified front - Congress, Govs, Mayors - against the European tariffs, the threats to the Western alliance, and Trump's plan to seize Greenland. Every person in America should know where we stand on this. Today. It's the right thing to do and good politics too. 3/

‘Arms Locked in Solidarity,’ Markey and Millions Stand Up for What’s Right — Assigned Senator Ed Markey spoke powerfully in Boston, reflecting the deep support for transgender rights at the No Kings protests across the U. S.

In October, we sent four trans journalists to five different No Kings rallies to report on trans representation at No Kings.

One of our reporters was in attendance when senator @edmarkey.bsky.social addressed the crowd wrapped in a trans pride flag.

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Jawdropping reporting here from @juddlegum.bsky.social......

This is outrageous. Did you find snow or ice in your office? I wonder who would have done this & if they did it to classrooms as well.

Photo from inside my office, with one of the windows standing open.

Came in from winter break on this snowy 18F morning to discover someone opened the windows while we were gone. Lord knows how many days or weeks.

NYC: this Sunday is your chance to come hear me and bestie Jarrett talk about the new book! Hope to see you there.
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Into the abyss The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.

I went ahead and published this tonight, because it feels urgent.

thinking back to how Ta-Nehisi Coates anticipated this moment in 2017

The real upside-down world....

I think about this exchange a lot and figure others might find it interesting too. Happy MLK Day.