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Mai まい
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Illustrator. Designer. Liberal Lurker. (She/Her)
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This is personal. My maternal grandparents and great grandparents were all sent to internment camps. My great grandfather didn't make it out of the camps alive while my other relatives, having lost their homes in California, were forced to start over in Hawaii.
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.
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for those of you who don’t know, the French team is made up of an emotional abuser and a woman who actively defends her rapist boyfriend

they are dreadful and nobody should celebrate this medal
France’s extremely talented and extremely controversial ice dancers, explained
The duo is favored to win Olympic gold on Wednesday, amid increasingly dark allegations.
www.vox.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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History rhymes. At the beginning of the Japanese American incarceration- I’ll never call it an “internment” again because fuck euphemisms - the WRA camps weren’t prepared to feed/house not just the sheer # of people, but whole families. Many prisoners had to plant illicit gardens for sustenance. 1/x
And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment.

1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.

21/
February 12, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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After conservative attacks, Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu won gold in Team Figure Skating for the US at the Olympics.

They're outspoken supporters of LGBTQ+ people and trans athletes. Both are queer.

Now, Glenn is taking to social media to mock haters.

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US Gold Medal Olympian Amber Glenn: "They Hate To See Two Woke B****es Win"
Amber Glenn, referring to herself and Alysa Liu, shot back at critics on social media while holding her gold medal and wearing a progress pride pin.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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The emails in my inbox emphasize: nothing, absolutely nothing, has changed. All eyes should still be on Minnesota.
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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I really feel like: Donald Trump is building a prison camp system on the scale of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao … would be a good and true headline to run every day. Advertisements across media. Speeches on the Senate. Everywhere.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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Everyone else: AAAGGHHH TEETH FALLING OUT!! SNAKE!!

France: I should call her

Greece: ooh hat
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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February 9, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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English speakers like "that was less political than I thought" lol they had ricky martin singing "dont do us like you did hawaii"
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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USA figure skating brings home the team gold!

3 of 7 are children of immigrants. 3 out of 7 are Asian Americans—gold staying gold.

www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Team USA wins gold in figure skating at Olympics: Reactions, highlights
The Americans enter Day 3 of the figure skating team event at the Winter Olympics atop the leaderboard, but need clutch performances to secure gold.
www.usatoday.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"
February 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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JD Vance could go to space and he would be booed by any life out there
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.

It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
February 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Times article has an incredible illustration
February 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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General note to any campaign asking for $ via text.
Even if I believe in your campaign, I'm sending all your messages to #spam. I've had it.
#actBlue #DNC

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
February 5, 2026 at 2:00 AM