Choctaw Nation Buys Former Big Lots Warehouse, Closing Off Oklahoma ICE Detention Site The sale is the second time in months that a large Oklahoma warehouse pursued by ICE for detention use has instead gone to another buyer.

👏🏼The Choctaw Nation has purchased a warehouse in Oklahoma that ICE was trying to buy and use as a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Has anyone compiled a good, well-cited one stop website with a detailed list of why genAI sucks? I would love something that I could share that simultaneously speaks to the points about stolen art/writing, habitat loss, resource waste, funding/economic issues, misinformation/propaganda, etc.

Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

Omaha: Film Streams in Dundee, Benson First Fridays, lots of great used bookstores, coffeeshops, bars. Interesting WWII and Cold War history. Flavorful beef and popcorn, invented butter brickle ice cream. Home to Saddle Creek Records, Warren Buffett, and Malcolm X. I spent a year there and loved it.

Googling museum open hours and scrolling Twitter on my phone when a group of first graders got on with their teacher. Each student was carrying a book. The one sitting nearest turned to me and said, “Are you reading?” I realized I’d forgotten how miraculous it is to be able to read. “Yes,” I said.

Thoughts on the state’s Cold War history?

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

That is the real source of my speechlessness in this unreal period: a feeling of near violent rupture between the world of words and the world beyond them. In recent years, left social movements have won huge victories in transforming the way we talk about all kinds of issues-billionaires and oligarchic rule, climate breakdown, white supremacy, prison abolition, gender identity, Palestinian rights, sexual violence-and I have to believe that those changes represent real victories, that they matter. And yet, on almost every front, tangible ground is being lost. Changing the discourse did not prevent the world's ten richest men from doubling their collective fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion in the first two years of the pandemic; it did not stop police forces from increasing their budgets while teachers have to pay for basic supplies out of pocket; it did not prevent fossil fuel companies from collecting more billions in subsidies and new permits; it did not prevent…

Well this hits like a ton of bricks.

From Naomi Klein’s ‘Doppelganger.”