Jessica

Really wonder how I can be the same species as the people that do this to children, cheer for it, let it happen, allow it

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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Oh I know. And I feel offended on their behalf!!

Have you ever heard of Brazilian pizza, because they are doing some WILD stuff over there

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

“Wanna hear a fact about baby tarantulas that’s sad?” - kid, in the shower

Why yes I do have a large Hedonismbot tattoo WHY DO YOU ASK

He’s a real-life version of 80s Business Guy but sadly without the acute boneitis

Yeah let's see AI take my job. Let's see chat gpt crack the perfectly timed joke in the zoom meeting. Let's see it brighten everyone's Monday. Get outta here

Describing my job to my 8-year-old and he puts his hands up exasperatedly: “so then your company is just MADE UP then?? This is your problem!!”

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Add to that the challenge of raising a kid and protecting his childhood during this time while trying to keep him informed enough but not burdened??

Mostly functioning but at least once a week I or my husband will say, “JESUS,” drop the phone and stare into the middle distance and the other will ask if everything‘s okay. It’s not!

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I should clarify, PDFs of guides for sleep training your baby

You guys want sleep training PDFs?

Smashing one of these with rocks outside city hall every day until they let me ride the firetruck

Whenever someone alludes to a city being bad because of the homeless population I try to turn it around a little, like “yeah it’s so awful that the city isn’t doing more for these people and that they don’t have basic needs met” so it sounds almost like I’m agreeing with them but gently correcting

Apparently it says PAID FOR BY AMERICANS CELEBRATING OCTOGENARIANS

Billboard with a not-so-flattering picture of congressman John Garamendi and text saying “Happy 81st Birthday Congressman Garamendi - Elected 52 years ago.”

Absolutely incredible, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Biathletes don’t exist, like pick an event and don’t be greedy

Come get your lights fixed today!

There is no hell hot enough or no woodchipper slow enough for these ghouls

We're traumatizing thousands of kids for life. The people behind this are monsters.

I Want To Believe

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

This reminds me of the saddest cookbook I used to own, Vegan Microwave Cooking For One

It’s beautiful

Second time in a month I’ve lost my voice from being sick and yapping too much. When I cough I sound like I swallowed a squeaky toy. So unjust

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign