my lovely new Hungarian friend/translator at the Tisza rally informs me that the people here keep chanting "we're not afraid! we're not afraid!" and ❣️

oh god oh fuck I took the metro to the Tisza rally and all these kids POURED OUT of the train at the stop and started running up the escalators chanting, and briefly held hands with the older people leaving the rally and going down on the escalator, and I think I may actually just cry

WHY White South Africans Are Returning Despite Trump WHY some white South Africans are moving back home as returnees cite family, affordability and lifestyle over Trump’s persecution claims.

Quite a number have left or returned.

www.xtrafrica.com/news/why-whi...

For more context, in the last full fiscal year of the Biden administration, the U.S. on average admitted over 8,300 refugees per month.

Now, not including white South Africans, the U.S. has admitted three-fifths of a refugee per month this fiscal year.

bsky.app/profile/alex...

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.

www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow."

legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

Everyone has a dumbass conspiracy theory and mine is that Meta's virtual reality stuff contained a money laundering scheme. You'll never make me believe they lost $80 billion dollars in 5 years for real on developing stuff that looks & works like that. Nah, someone was squirreling away something man

Perfect

Corey Lewandowski ran 'pay-to-play' scheme at DHS — and White House knew: report Corey Lewandowski allegedly demanded kickbacks from companies looking to do business with the Department of Homeland Security.The close ally of President Donald Trump served as de facto chief of staff...

Corey Lewandowski ran 'pay-to-play' scheme at DHS — and White House knew: report

www.rawstory.com/corey-lewand...

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16):

🇫🇷 France: REJECTED
🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED
🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED
🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED
🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED
🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED
🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED
🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED
🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED
🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE
🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE
🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

Utter incompetence

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.

Please share.

tcpipeline.org

German Jews' Passports Declared Invalid | Holocaust Encyclopedia October 5, 1938. On this date, the Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidated all German Jews' passports and required them to have a "J" stamped on them.

Relevant.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

ICE Arrests Beloved Fighting Game Community Member Ludovic His family has been working non-stop, even in the face of the grief of losing a family member, to bring him home before the government can deport him

aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-...

I am once again needing Jungle, I'm afraid.

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

Market-driven open access often reinforces commercialism & private control.

On the Future Knowledge #podcast, @SamuelMoore.org & @HJoseph.bsky.social discuss how PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET envisions ethical, commons-based publishing.

🎧 ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pub...

Congrats "HOW’S THE PLAY GOING?" by Noel David Taylor, an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅

An absurd comedy with a confused main character in disjointed settings.

Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/hows...

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.

This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

Good morning. Here is a thread of canonical Janeway/Paris slashfic.

youtu.be/v81b0XllvgI

www.aao.org/eye-health/t...

25th Amendment explained: How Trump could be removed without impeachment Some Democrats have questioned Trump’s fitness for office, and issued calls to invoke the 25th Amendment.

www.newsweek.com/25th-amendme...

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

this is hard to follow & is also really important