“…agents at the airport drove Batra to ICE’s field office in Harlingen in an unmarked van. She had been there many times… Office staff recognized her as she was being processed. Agents posed for photos with her handcuffed, which they said was for ‘social media,’ according to the habeas filing.”

Still reeling over how the MAGA talking point is "the pope is wrong, there's a rich Christian just-war tradition," like buddy where do you think Thomas Aquinas and Hugo Grotius would stand on "a whole civilization will die tonight"

what do you even fucking do with this, man? the president is beefing with the pope while posting AI sop pictures of himself as jesus and the catholic vice-president is telling the pope he is doing theology wrong. i am not and have never been religious and this shit shocks and bothers me.

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Eric Bana in between takes while filming a Merrie Monarch sequence for season 2 of Untamed. These scenes were shot immediately after the parade on Keawe Street in downtown Hilo. #Hawaii #Filming #BehindTheScenes #Untamed

Mystery Trip It was last Thursday when Skylar suddenly asked me a very puzzling question. "Can you take me?" I looked at this man and waited for context on his question, for I had no earthly clue what he was ref...

A quick story on marital miscommunication.

www.itjustgetsstranger.com/mystery-trip/

Buried under the lede: after shutting down the Towson, Maryland location, there will only be one unionized Apple store remaining in all of the United States (out of 272 total stores), in Oklahoma City of all places.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

AP AP • Follow 11h ••• X For some evangelical Christians, faith is about having a personal relationship with Jesus. At $1.99 per minute, the tech company Just Like Me is taking that concept to a new level, allowing users to video chat with a personalized Al Jesus. It's part of a larger boom of faith-based Al tools. Credit: Just Like Me AI-GENERATED CHARACTER shepherd. I shall not want."

Now that’s what they call a deus ex machina.

Practically every academic department I have ever been in has had *at least* one professor widely known to be a huge creep, and whisper networks operating to keep young women like myself from finding ourselves in potentially dangerous positions with them.

as a 30 yo straight white cisman i can attest to the fact that huge portions of our culture essentially groom us to be rapists and enforcers of patriarchy

i have been in the proverbial male locker room and it really is that bad

a weird belief that is held across basically all sectors of American life is that boy dollars and boy votes are better than girl dollars and girl votes and so if you have a lot of the latter you need to be constantly trying to exchange them for the former

In a seamless blend of culture and climate, this afternoon’s Merrie Monarch Parade dazzled—graced by the ever-cooperative Hilo skies. #Hawaii #MerrieMonarch

Sunset! It’s been raining forever! #Hawaii

I filed, the DA decided to drop the charges. "It's he said/she said & he can afford a great lawyer." He (late 30s) did it to another 19-year-old 5 years after me & got lesser charges because she was off her bipolar meds/"unreliable."
20 years later, he's probably still raping, & I still have scars.

Imagine having to tell yourself that males are biologically incapable of basic human decency.

Meanwhile, the best care workers I've worked with and the worst alike have had representatives of all genders.

They cannot fathom us being individuals, all on the same cosmic team of life.

YUM!

If you recognize which unnamed woman is talking because you're asked for comment and the comment makes it clear which of the woman's rape stories match your memory of events, and you text that specific woman and say "stop telling people I raped you," that is.... sure an admission of something.

Screenshot of a Mother Jones article, with this section highlighted: Instead, they brandish a terrifying weapon—the threat of taking their children away. Only 16 percent of children enter foster care because they were physically or sexually abused. The other 84 percent? They’re mostly just poor. The relationship between poverty and foster care becomes painfully clear with state and federal budget cuts. In Kansas, for example, beginning in 2011, a number of cuts to monetary assistance coincided with a substantial increase in the number of children entering foster care. By 2016, nearly 11,000 Kansas children were spending time in foster care, while less than 3,000 parents were receiving temporary assistance. By 2016, foster kids exceeded the number of children being cared for at home with the support of TANF benefits in at least seven states, reported Shawn Fremstad, a senior fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. In 21 states, for every two children receiving TANF while living with their families, one or more were living in foster care. Moreover, states can and do redirect federal TANF funds to pay for CPS activities, including foster care costs and adoption payments.

Tell me again how CPS only removes children in the most dire of situations; that there are no issues of structural racism or classism within the system.

www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor).

You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

If a major event by the literal company owned by Dana White and mascoted by Joe Rogan is booing you, you're cooked

blessed to live in a country where the AG is in charge of stock market announcements, the son in law is in charge of peace negotiations, the secretary of state is in charge of getting wasted at fights, the FBI director is in charge of getting wasted at hockey , and the VP is in charge of tweets

How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations

the firings came the day after we published this extensive look at how the Trump administration is shaping the immigration court

People hear "judge" and they assume judicial independence. But the Trump administration has hacked away at immigration judges independence to the point that they can expect to be fired if they don't do the Trump administration's bidding. And the Supreme Court has blessed this loss of autonomy.

How the Equal Credit Opportunity Act Transformed Women's Economic Power Learn about Emily Card, Jeanne Hubbard, Stephanie Lipscomb, and Rosemary Reed—four women whose stories about financial independence demonstrate the importance of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 19...

And it is living history, too! The Smithsonian has a great oral history with the aptronymicly named Emily Card, who played a key role in ECOA, among others who helped push forward genuine banking for women

www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smiths...

whenever you see something like this you need to remember that some people are so naturally dull that anything that isn't boredom feels terrifying to them

I had to look this up. It's TRUE. 😮 Before 1974, banks typically required a father's or husband's signature in order for a woman to open a credit card account. HOLEEEE SHIT. In my lifetime?!! The patriarchy really sucks. #ArtemisII

Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading.

Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes