Me to Zac Brown at the #Survivor Sanctuary:

Harvard fired a librarian for taking down a poster of Israeli hostages.

it is the greatest and stupidest show airing now

A recent report showed that the destruction of just one USAID program, the anti-AIDS PEPFAR initiative, would lead to the deaths of one million people *every year* www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Erik Baker @erikmbaker • 8h All of 21st century American history has been leading towards this moment, the War on Terror as the beginning of the end of constitutional government in the United States Marco Rubio @marcorubio • 11h We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported apnews.com/article/columb... @ 49 セ 2K © 15K Ill 421K 贝 Erik Baker @erikmbaker Everything the Trump administration is doing right now depends on three key innovations of the Bush administration - the unitary executive, a shadow criminal legal system, the "terrorism" exception to the Constitution - that Obama could have but chose not to roll back.

Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.

The U.S. vs. John Lennon (Trailer HD) YouTube video by Movieshop Thrauma.it

It's worth pointing out that the Nixon administration aggressively tried to deport John Lennon (who was here on a visa, not a green card) because of his political speech -- namely, opposing the Vietnam War. The FBI also surveilled him closely at the time.

There's a great documentary about it:

30 years ago, we did. They were called "local newspapers."

Then the Telecom Act of 1996 allowed essentially unlimited corporate consolidation of media outlets and they killed off local news in the space of a single generation.

Dude was visiting his fiancé, who lives in Vegas. His English isn’t good so he misunderstood the border goons when they asked where he lives, he said Vegas, they took him away for questioning without a translator and now he’s been in a jail for two weeks.

Trump Rips Up the Government’s Agreement With Its Workers Airport security screeners had a contract, signed just last year. On Friday, Trump trashed it.

"The move by Trump’s Homeland Security Department is the single most anti-worker and anti-union presidential action since Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981." prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

elon musk is probably the current largest threat to the climate, as he dismantles every climate program and defunds all climate science research

supporting his downfall, even if it takes tesla with him, is a great pro-climate action. people can buy other evs that don’t enrich tyrannical nazis

You'd have to be completely ignorant to think that mass layoffs of federal workers in agencies such as the Veterans Administration, the Social Security Administration, the IRS, the FAA, the FDA (food/drug safety), eliminating USAID and the Dept of Education is "theatrical."

ICYM this about the legislation that would leave EPA unable to use its collection of 500+ chemical assessments for rules, regs, permits or enforcement. Or to map out the nationwide cancer risk!

The Queens state assemblyman, 33, said his plans for his socialist utopia involve subsidizing free transit and childcare with higher taxes on corporations and establishing city-run food stores, freezing rent for millions of New Yorkers and creating a new safety plan for the city.

The New York Post attempted one of their infinite hit pieces on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, and the result is quite funny.

This is not a thing that happens if children had real human rights.

I think the more horrifying thing to sit with is this: the every-day operations of the jail, prison, and immigration detention systems are and have been dehumanizing, and we built them, and they lend themselves seamlessly to the fascist business of stealing and caging even more people

The DIY pandemic continues apace.

No more free COVID tests through USPS, no more reduced cost or free COVID vaccines for un(der)insured people, and the last effective anti-virals are now $$$$/dose.

The larger picture, as others have pointed out, is that the Biden administration and now the Trump administration have cast anyone who defends Palestine as "pro-Hamas" and anyone who defends the rights of the people saying it as "Hamas sympathizers" which makes it much easier to justify persecution.

This is the dark heart & power of the war on terror discourse: its capacity to magically transform political expression into terrorism, and therefore deny an entire class of speakers the right to speak. We are seeing it play out aggressively in real time right now and it is terrifying.

“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with car A student eyewitness tells The Handbasket what he saw.

A reminder that a pro-Israel agitator drove his car into a line of Columbia student protesters last May and hit one of the people there to protect them.

The charges against him were dropped.

and what might be typical is no less terrifying for anyone who has been moved through this system, taken to far-off and isolated detention centers with very limited access to family and to community support, and near-zero access to the press

The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters For some members of the “Columbia Alumni for Israel” WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine and criticizing Israel are tantamount to supporting Hamas.

theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...

"[T]he strike has been linked to the deaths of at least seven incarcerated people ... Someone dies inside a New York state prison every three days, and in most of these cases the general public never hears about it."

Recently, I’ve been really pushing back on the framing that all of this is “backlash” to #MeToo.

Because the misogyny came first. When we call it backlash, we’re starting the story in the middle, which allows the perpetrators to cast themselves as victims.

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant—is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump. He must be released now.

In a note to colleagues, WaPo’s Ruth Marcus says she resigned from the paper after CEO Will Lewis killed a column she wrote expressing concern about the direction of the paper’s opinion section

Columbia's Provost evidently sent this message to faculty forbidding them from moving classes offline or canceling them amid ICE activity on campus.