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An L.A. high school senior was walking his dog. Then immigration agents grabbed him
An L.A. high school senior was walking his dog. Then immigration agents grabbed him
A high school senior was walking his dog in Van Nuys when he was stopped and detained by federal immigration agents who said he overstayed his visa.
www.latimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
An L.A. high school senior was walking his dog. Then immigration agents grabbed him
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As we head into the school year, I’m as grateful as ever for our nation’s hard-working educators. If you agree, please let the teachers & homeschoolers in your life know about Rick Steves Classroom Europe—a free & ad-free library of 600 video clips covering history, art, music, culture & geography.
Rick Steves Classroom Europe
Rick Steves Classroom Europe® is a free resource allowing teachers to share the best of European art, history, and culture with their students and fellow educators.
classroom.ricksteves.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As we head into the school year, I’m as grateful as ever for our nation’s hard-working educators. If you agree, please let the teachers & homeschoolers in your life know about Rick Steves Classroom Europe—a free & ad-free library of 600 video clips covering history, art, music, culture & geography.
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New: I spent the week looking into the cancelled mRNA contracts. Interviews with HHS officials and MAGA and MAHA influencers reveal an HHS agency plagued by dysfunction as Kennedy chips away at the nation’s public health.
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
How RFK Jr. alienated MAGA, MAHA and the White House in a single week
The botched announcement about mRNA vaccines reveals a health department full of dysfunction and infighting.
www.msnbc.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
New: I spent the week looking into the cancelled mRNA contracts. Interviews with HHS officials and MAGA and MAHA influencers reveal an HHS agency plagued by dysfunction as Kennedy chips away at the nation’s public health.
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
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It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.
Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
www.nbcnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.
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bath & body works? good for you my flexing pal. one for two on a good day over here
August 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
bath & body works? good for you my flexing pal. one for two on a good day over here
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BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
August 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
August 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
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it’s basically trite to note at this point but if this were any other president, and certainly a democrat, spending a ton of money to gild the white house would be a legit scandal
August 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
it’s basically trite to note at this point but if this were any other president, and certainly a democrat, spending a ton of money to gild the white house would be a legit scandal
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On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.
August 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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personally I do find it helpful to be occasionally reminded that basically everything I love in modern genre is the equivalent of the strange life that flourishes around a particular set of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor
July 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
personally I do find it helpful to be occasionally reminded that basically everything I love in modern genre is the equivalent of the strange life that flourishes around a particular set of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor
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I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.
"I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," a retired US special forces officer told the BBC when asked he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution centres. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
www.bbc.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.
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On July 8 masked ICE agents entered a surgical facility in Ontario, CA. Two medical personnel demanded warrants. ICE attacked & then arrested *them,* for assault. I’ve been watching bystander vids of masked ICE, making screenshots, editing them a la Caravaggio. I don’t know why.
July 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
On July 8 masked ICE agents entered a surgical facility in Ontario, CA. Two medical personnel demanded warrants. ICE attacked & then arrested *them,* for assault. I’ve been watching bystander vids of masked ICE, making screenshots, editing them a la Caravaggio. I don’t know why.
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"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
arablit.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social
Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
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The era of institutionalization was rife with horror, and deinstitutionalization + the rise of community care has allowed millions to live more independently with dignity over decades
I hate these eugenicist fascists with every drop of blood in me
I hate these eugenicist fascists with every drop of blood in me
July 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The era of institutionalization was rife with horror, and deinstitutionalization + the rise of community care has allowed millions to live more independently with dignity over decades
I hate these eugenicist fascists with every drop of blood in me
I hate these eugenicist fascists with every drop of blood in me
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Hirsch, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, is now thinking of leaving the classroom:
“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic & threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry … I just don’t see how I can teach about genocide in that environment.”
“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic & threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry … I just don’t see how I can teach about genocide in that environment.”
Marianne Hirsch is one of the greatest scholars of memory studies working today, and I have learned so much from her work. Last semester, I assigned her to my students and they learned from her. If she feels she cannot stay at Columbia, that speaks badly of Columbia now. apnews.com/article/colu...
A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university's new definition of antisemitism
Academics around the country are raising alarm about growing efforts to define antisemitism on terms pushed by the Trump administration.
apnews.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Hirsch, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, is now thinking of leaving the classroom:
“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic & threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry … I just don’t see how I can teach about genocide in that environment.”
“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic & threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry … I just don’t see how I can teach about genocide in that environment.”
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to disable the fucking AI chatbot in Firefox:
* go to about:config
* set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false
* go to about:config
* set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false
July 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
to disable the fucking AI chatbot in Firefox:
* go to about:config
* set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false
* go to about:config
* set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false
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Israel is starving an entire generation of Palestinian children in Gaza, pushing children to the imminent brink of death. Many have already starved to death. No one can be silent right now. All the public pressure in the world needs to be applied to demand that Israel allow aid into Gaza immediately
Child starvation surges in Gaza as Israel escalates campaign of genocide
Palestinian children are starving to death on a daily basis as Israel escalates its campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
www.dci-palestine.org
July 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Israel is starving an entire generation of Palestinian children in Gaza, pushing children to the imminent brink of death. Many have already starved to death. No one can be silent right now. All the public pressure in the world needs to be applied to demand that Israel allow aid into Gaza immediately
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In the United States people are treated like animals. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
“You Feel Like Your Life is Over”
The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...
www.hrw.org
July 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
In the United States people are treated like animals. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
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The incident Thursday morning in the store’s parking lot was the first high-profile enforcement raid in Sacramento County.
Several people taken away by masked federal agents at Sacramento Home Depot
The incident Thursday morning in the store’s parking lot was the first high-profile enforcement raid in Sacramento County.
bit.ly
July 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The incident Thursday morning in the store’s parking lot was the first high-profile enforcement raid in Sacramento County.
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64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.
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We, the federal government, have money to occupy your state militarily. We cannot afford - just don’t have the cash - to help with natural disasters. Just can’t do both. I’m sorry kids.
Kristi Noem: "We as a federal government don't manage these disasters. The state does."
July 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We, the federal government, have money to occupy your state militarily. We cannot afford - just don’t have the cash - to help with natural disasters. Just can’t do both. I’m sorry kids.
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Here’s an article about Kenyan moderators who had to wade through a cesspit of the worst stuff in the world to give us our chatbot, for upwards of $1.46 an hour.
‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models
Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Here’s an article about Kenyan moderators who had to wade through a cesspit of the worst stuff in the world to give us our chatbot, for upwards of $1.46 an hour.