bush senior about to lose his prized status as the only president congratulated for his erection

America Is Turning Away People Fleeing for Their Lives — and Breaking the Law to Do It Former senior officials explain why the Trump administration's argument in Noem v. Al Otro Lado is morally troubling and legally wrong.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court hears Noem v. @alotrolado-org.bsky.social—a pivotal case for the right to seek #asylum.

We urge the Court to reject the unlawful turnback policy that exposed families to violence and denied access to protection. We must protect the right to seek asylum.

One year ago, 280 men illegally disappeared by the US government to El Salvador’s CECOT prison.

Today, there is still no accountability from the administration. We continue to stand with immigrant communities across the country to seek justice. 

To read our full statement, visit our link in bio.

In 1453, the Ottomans besieging Constantinople built a ramp so they could slide boats overland into the Golden Horn (bypass a chain blocking access to its mouth). The obviously facetious premise is that tankers could be rolled overland across the UAE and Oman into the Arabian Sea.

make 2026 1453 again

Seasons 4, 5, & 9 of Revolutions cover Haiti, the Bolivarian revolutions, and the Mexican revolution, & are all solid. I'm always trying to up my non-English podcasting game so I'm looking forward to the replies here!

Those who possess more than one brain cell will be able to recognise that the Iranian regime is appalling, that Israel and the US are also appalling, and that this aggression is likely to make Iranians less, not more, free.

a high school gf in ited me to 28 days later on the premise it was arthouse

that relationship was ending anyway... but the ending of it was sped up dramatically that evening lol

Also, stop using these services. They are bad all the way down for everyone.

and probably the OG!

Jordanian forces (overseen by British officers) had made a commitment to take only the central area apportioned to Palestinians in the 1948 Partition Plan (a bit beyond the eventual Green Line). They never intended to seize the Galilee or Naqab.

(see Mark Tessler & Ilan Pappe, prolly others too)

instant follow

The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinia… For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palest…

Ilan Pappe's The Forgotten Palestinians is also excellent on the '48 community.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

...and not episode 9 of season 6 of the west wing! 😅

"But just as this latest immigration ban has precedent… so too does the resistance to it. We can learn from the civil rights movement, from the Black led multiracial coalition that insisted that the rights of all people of color were… connected, that they needed to be treated equally under the law."

who needs therapy when you can just watch this video on loop

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries

"But sometimes the money came & went while the immigrants were still… in… detention… in the US. Other payment information was given to the wrong person. And some immigrants were told to expect the $1,000 when they arrived home, though in fact they were never eligible."

via @delaneynolan.bsky.social

stephen miller thinks it's terrible that he can vote lol

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Ove… The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants…

thank you! no need to dig around if it's really buried, if you remember any titles off the top of your head that's plenty!

(the book i've link below is a more recent publication & a solid historical overview -- but i would love to dig deeper)

any chance i could trouble you for a reading list?

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

if money's tight (when is it not?) biblio.com & thriftbooks.com are great online nonprofit secondhand bookstores (biblio is kind of like bookshop -- a platform for secondhand booksellers)

amazon is the worst!!!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How. It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate.

"But the #AI overlords tell us with a straight face that their products, which cannot draw an accurate map of the United States, will somehow solve this crisis, if only we let them make it worse first."

Always better late than never when it comes to @delaneynolan.bsky.social's print #climatechange

Had such a fun NYC launch of HAPPY BAD at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social last night with Julia Phillips!

Snag a copy here:
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/happ...

They found 38 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at Immaculate Conception Mission in South Dakota and it didn't make the news outside of Indian Country.

1. borders/migration too!
2. barcelona (the city or the club)
3. how to navigate obtaining & maintaining unemployment benefits (thanks doge!)