As much as I love the mercenary librarians series I totally understand this. 😩

They aren’t even hiding that their next step is pro slavery and segregation

The group chats that changed America A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics

www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

Marco Rubio And Trump's Border Czar Defend Deportation Of U.S. Citizen Children Both men said the children weren't deported... they just went with their mothers.

Every Senate Democrat voted to confirm Marco Rubio.

Every single one. They should never live that down. Yes, that includes Warren and Sanders and Booker.

www.huffpost.com/entry/marco-...

I really really want to stress that novovax is the covid vaccine preferred by a lot of people in the disability advocacy space. Disability advocates have pushed hard to maintain access for this vaccine that's not as well known as Moderna or Pfizer, but is better tolerated by a lot of people

Review | Slavery broke apart families. After Emancipation, how did they reunite? In ”Last Seen,” historian Judith Giesberg explores how formerly enslaved people tried to reunite with their lost loved ones through advertisements.

A painful wound in our nation’s history - a history all should be taught and know. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Mel Brooks is so great. Even Mel Brooks bits that don’t work are still enjoyable because it’s done in such a pure spirit of loving goofs. When Patrick Stewart shows up in Men in Tights and says John is now slang for toilet you can tell he loved saying that more than any Shakespeare he’s ever done

this is right up there with the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit on the list of pop culture jokes where all the important context was omitted. there’s dangerous equipment on an arena stage! the M&Ms are a test of HOW MUCH ATTENTION YOU PAID TO THE DETAILS OF A CONTRACT FULL OF ARTIST SAFETY INFORMATION

Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders.

Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.

This being why I regret nothing about shouting down the head of Tow ( who promised a meeting and never delivered) , as well as a bunch of journalists about their access to immigrants

If you are taken and removed from a country you’re a a citizen of, it’s an illegal kidnapping

People genuinely do not understand this and we just have to keep telling them. Over and over and over!

Underwater photography in 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1916).

Underwater scenes had been popular since the 1890s but had been achieved via sets, props and even shooting through a water tank. This film was properly in the ocean.

Andry José Hernández Romero

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 43 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. - Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965)

Elon Musk’s DOGE team is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say | CNN Politics Staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are building a master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations, by combining sensitive data from across the federal g...

This is disturbing, and I’m glad to see @cnn.com covering it. But a passing credit to @wired.com 16 graphs in - when the entire story is a retread of our reporting - is journalistic malpractice.

I’m sick of it. Be better. Treat covering the admin as a team effort.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
📍 Switzerland

#landscape #photography #witchsky #pagan

Long text www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

"History ended in a sealed file, history ended in a silent scream, history ended with the last man warning you that if you tell anyone, you'd end too."

-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

RIP Virginia Giuffre

'Unacceptable': Calif. woman detained at SFO by Customs and Border Protection A Santa Cruz resident was detained at San Francisco International Airport over a conviction that their relative said was expunged 20 years ago.

Dear white people:
HE’S DOING IT TO YOU TOO

Cliona Ward, 54, a green-card holder who’s lived in the US since college, was returning from Ireland after escorting her stepmother to reunite with her father, who has dementia, when she was detained by ICE for deportation for a decades old expunged crime

When we call for politicians to "do something," this is what we mean. Not speeches or op-eds or campaign rallies, but using every tool available to disrupt the advance of fascism.

Transgender mourners to greet Pope’s coffin Transgender women will greet the Pope’s coffin at the church where he will be buried.

At his invitation, a group of transgender women formed an honor guard and greeted the coffin of Pope Francis when it arrived for internment at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica today

uk.news.yahoo.com/transgender-...

Hear ye! Hear ye! Please stop disrespecting Courtney Milan’s legal expertise. Romancelandia is running out of places to bury the bodies. Thx. The Mgmt.

this is really astute

Carnivorous ‘Bone Collector’ Caterpillars Wear Corpses as Camouflage Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by covering itself with dead insect body parts

This caterpillar is metal as hell 🤘

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If y'all don't know, Dr. Yvonne Chireau is THE person you talk to about this topic.

A moose trek across Sweden pulls in millions of viewers looking for 'Slow TV' Last year, more than 9 million people watched across the world, and executive producer Johan Erhag said he expects viewership will be even higher this year.

Last year, more than 9 million people watched across the world, and executive producer Johan Erhag said he expects viewership will be even higher this year.

By the way this isn't an obscure act; it was the one used to justify the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, the one never overturned by the Supreme Court or US District Court, even when Fred Korematsu's case was appealed in the 1980s.

A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.