Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism.

Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere “It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Here’s Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE – The Markup Partnerships more than doubled during the first months of Trump's current term under a program known as 287(g)

Inspired by @inaljnaomi.bsky.social
themarkup.org/tools/2025/0...

In light of Pride month I'm fundraising for Point of Pride, an incredible trans-led nonprofit that provides direct gender affirming care & things like HRT to trans ppl in need.

Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! secure.givelively.org/donate/point...

CBP Detains Hasan Piker: When Border Control Becomes Thought Police The progressive streamer's two-hour interrogation about his political views is a chilling signal of what happens when criticizing the government becomes a border security issue.

Today's newsletter is about CBP interrogating Hasan Piker. www.readtpa.com/p/cbp-detain...

*walks into auto body shop* yes one automatic body please

Cockatoo removes anti-nesting spikes and throws them away

Again, birds have a lot to teach us.

#birds

when bigots say "I lost friends" because of their transphobia they just mean that their friends don't like them because they're bigots

when I say I have lost friends because of those same bigot's transphobia it means they're dead. they're fucking gone. they are not coming back and I could lose more

Here’s “Basket Case” except it’s about why you shouldn’t use Face ID or a thumbprint to unlock your phone

Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI.

FLOOD THE PORTAL

Spam the hell out of it.

Pass it on! It works!

enddei.ed.gov

(b) The Secretary shall promptly issue directives for DoD to end invented and identification-based pronoun usage to best achieve the policy outlined in section 2 of this order.

"Every single pronoun in the history of mankind has been invented." - Reyes's response to this part of the EO:

If Charlie XCX is fire, Oklou is water; together, I imagine they would form a truly elemental force and I want to see them collab

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Song titles from Geotic’s “Mend” album in Spotify listed in the following order: (1) Unwind; (2) Beaming Husband; (3) Find Your Peace; (4) Time Passes in a Slow Sundown; (5) Disrobe and Come to Bed; (6) Get Held; (7) Sleep and We’ll Transition

Song titles from Geotic’s “Mend” album in Spotify listed in the following order: (8) Into Some Spirit World; (9) Our Awe; (10) The Sprawling, Glorious Newness; (11) I’ll Have Come and Gone with You; (12) Through the Lush and Undiscovered; (13) And Upon Awakening; (14) We’ve Mended

Album cover of Geotic’s “Mend”—the moon shines behind bare tree branches. There is darkness all around the edges, and a film of green and pink distorts the image, making the scene appear almost like the iris of a human eye

Important rediscovery of the day: the song titles in Geotic’s 2010 album “Mend” form a poem

good morning to everyone but especially to library science students struggling with EAAIA (Endless Acronym And Initialism Anxiety) 📚

I will always end a sentence with a preposition if it makes it more clear. This is the hill I die on

Taking health care away from trans youth is an act of violence

The University of California Increased Diversity. Now It’s Being Sued. The state’s elite campuses, prohibited from using race-based admissions for decades, are now admitting more Black and Hispanic students. A new group is suing, arguing the university system is cheating...

The almost explicit position of these groups is that anything more than a token number of black and Hispanic students in an elite institution is de facto evidence of anti-white racial discrimination.

Spitfire News A newsletter from Kat Tenbarge about internet culture, politics, and media.

Almost two weeks ago, I found out I was one of 40 people getting laid off from NBC News.

Those who know me know I’ve wanted to go independent for a long time. Later this month, I’m launching @spitfirenews.com. We need journalism that is louder than ever.
spitfirenews.com/p/an-introdu...

I think I’m gonna begin some freak thing like referring to my body as “this vessel” until someone asks me what’s going on

Here's a thread about how trans people can approach remaining informed of the news in a way that prioritizes pragmatism, self-care, and building resistance.

It's based on what I'm doing personally. So, fyi, I'm more anxious than usual, but holding up substantially.

probably Musk's greatest asset at this time is the total refusal at almost all levels of media and society to face squarely what is happening. it's just bouncing right off everyone

Snake protecting a blue, white and pink flower from a shoe trying to crush it, with the text PROTECT TRANS KIDS

Oh hey it’s the year of the snake! Here’s a drawing of a snake I made.

Families and doctors sue over Trump's order to halt funding for gender-affirming care President Donald Trump's effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for young people is facing a legal challenge.

Breaking news: Lambda Legal and ACLU are suing on behalf of PFLAG and GLMA to end Trump's illegal executive order banning trans care under 19 years old.

The suit has been brought in Maryland.

A similar suit was brought on behalf of PFLAG to end child abuse investigations in TX 3 years ago.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.