‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (White Cloud Over Purple), 1957
Oil on canvas
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts."

there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable
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Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget

𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐁𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥

More than 3000 Washingtonians were emancipated. Congress compensated their former owners, leaving behind an extraordinary paper trail documenting slavery and emancipation in the District of Columbia. Here's an example from the Georgetown Slavery Archive.
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Cool.

Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Light Over Deep, 1956
in the San Francisco apartment of private collectors in 2007.
Interior design by Sandy Walker
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© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.”

Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

Pee-Wes’s Big Adventure is a very good movie

A map showing streets and rail lines of Washington City with street pavement types. Includes legend of street pavement types and mileage table. Map is in the Annual Report of the D.C. Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1882. From the People's Archive of the DC Public Library.

Look at this incredible 1883 color-coded map of Washington showing the varieties of street pavement. From the People's Archive of the DC Public Library.
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try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded meaning here.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.

And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.

And then the DEI office was killed.

And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

"Very young girls who have survived significant trauma do not represent a gray area in medicine."

Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine

"I want to remind you that the future is yours, and it is not known — not by you, not by Georgetown, not by Sam Altman or Elon Musk, not by the chatbot, not by me. And that is a beautiful thing."

ok remembering how miles caton's first song in sinners was like THEE most electrifying introduction to a new actor last year

A moment years in the making. Thank you to the Academy for honoring “Sinners” Actor Michael B. Jordan with the Academy Award® for BEST ACTOR at the 98th Academy Awards!

Has a moment to reflect. OBAA was fine as a movie if you ignore how underwritten and underused the Black women were. PTA is a good director so sure whatever. But Sinners was masterful. Vibrant. Layered. What an accomplishment from the entire cast and crew. I’m glad it exists.

Never had a movie with such a dramatic divide between all the men in my life telling me to see it and that it’s the best thing ever and the women saying not to lmao

At least all the white men in my life will be happy lol

Slip the Yoke and Change the Joke: How Abolitionists Used Runaway Slave Advertisements to Ridicule Slavery Speaking to an abolitionist audience in New York City in May 1856, William Wells Brown read an advertisement sliced from the New Orleans Daily Picayune:

Hot off the press! I wrote an article that got published in the Journal of American History. It explores how abolitionists used runaway slave advertisements to ridicule slaveowners and slaveowners' northern allies. 🗃
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