“There is a certain amount of hubris required to throw oneself at an unsolved problem. But elsewhere, that hubris is a liability.“

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC.

Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

“Odder” by Katherine Applegate is really sweet!

Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account Prosecutors did not watch video of the nonfatal shooting until weeks after charging the wounded man, an official said.

Remember that time when ICE shot a man as he fled into his home and then claimed he beat an agent with a snowshovel? And we were all like "you're lying"?

They were lying

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

The LaGuardia Crash Will Be Blamed on One Controller. That's Not the Whole Story. 3,000 controllers short. WWII-era radar still in use. And a lone controller managing two emergencies at midnight. This was preventable.

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system.
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Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Cool, now reunite him with his first language, peers, home, belongings and education.

ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Kansas Trans Drivers License Revocations, Bathroom Bounty Hunter Law The lawsuit was filed in state court on Friday.

1. Yesterday, we broke the story that Kansas drivers licenses for transgender people were being immediately revoked by the state.

This morning, the ACLU filed suit in state court to block that process.

Thousands of trans Kansans watch with horror and hope.

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People don't want data centers polluting their cities.

They don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors.

They don't want warehouses being turned into ICE prisons.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home.

They want their basic needs met.

New law puts Kansas at vanguard of denying trans identities on drivers licenses, birth certificates Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver's licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many of their birth certificates.

Roughly 1,700 trans people in Kansas are going to have their driver's licenses and birth certificates revoked this week.

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I know I’m wrong, but green apples

We have until March 6 to comment on whether there should be one million more satellites in orbit or thousands of mirrors that reflect light back at Earth Jesus Fucking H Christ on a Pogostick

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.

LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”

In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted

DOJ keeps lying and losing:

In Europe, solidarity with Cuba grows : Peoples Dispatch Labor unions, youth groups, and left movements in Europe continue rallying in solidarity with Cuba, calling for an end to US imperialism.

"Labor unions, youth groups, and left movements in Europe continue rallying in solidarity with Cuba, calling for an end to US imperialism."

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin's Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files Jeffrey Epstein managed money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, among other powerful world leaders, one confidential source claimed in FBI testimony

People broke this story? The magazine that regularly features Miss Piggy on the cover? GET READY TO ACCEPT YOUR PULITZER, PEOPLE MAGAZINE!!! people.com/jeffrey-epst...

'As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.'

A book titled: “Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism” by Amanda Montell. The cover of the book is white, with blue, purple, red, green, and pink in a dripping pattern, with a black and white UFO in the center

Some light reading this week #cultish

Time for Mayor Mamdani to live up to his campaign promises and ensure care is kept safe for New York trans kids.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!

'My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies Marimar Martinez said she believes that she survived her encounter with Border Patrol agents so she could share her story.

Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs

1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--"

The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."

Looks like the deaf student protester in LA arrested by DHS has broken into the mainstream news circuit. (Good.) Here are some more stories about the intersection of disability and ICE, aka, eugenics.

I definitely read Fight Club in 07/08 after learning panic!’s whole first album was based on different novels and stories
I’m also pretty sure I read Ellen Hopkin’s”Impulse” and “Crank” that year too

If you're feeling helpless and don't know what to do: Look for people out there who are already helping. I promise they're out there. And then ask how you can help and do it.

You're not alone. Community is out there and it's the way forward. ❤️👊

Lots of good book news from everyone I know today and it’s very inspiring 💕