@lilyoyster.bsky.social
housing advocate, architect, fan of material culture, textiles, poems, sunlight.
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Sucks that feminism became politically verboten at exactly the moment when the right calcified into a masculinity death cult
August 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Sucks that feminism became politically verboten at exactly the moment when the right calcified into a masculinity death cult
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And Housing for All is an impressively comprehensive examination of homelessness in America by Maria Foscarinis, who has worked in homelessness advocacy for decades.
Making the case for housing as a human right
And Housing for All is an impressively comprehensive examination of homelessness in America by Maria Foscarinis, who has worked in homelessness advocacy for decades.
n.pr
June 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
And Housing for All is an impressively comprehensive examination of homelessness in America by Maria Foscarinis, who has worked in homelessness advocacy for decades.
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In a widely expected move, the Trump administration has rescinded the Biden admin's guidance on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), which reminded hospitals they were required to provide abortion care to protect the health of pregnant people, even in abortion ban states.
www.cms.gov
June 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
In a widely expected move, the Trump administration has rescinded the Biden admin's guidance on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), which reminded hospitals they were required to provide abortion care to protect the health of pregnant people, even in abortion ban states.
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“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time
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JUST IN:
Federal judge orders the “immediate” release of Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, from detention.
“The main evidence against her appears to be an essay critical of Israel that she helped to write in a Tufts student newspaper last year.”
An essay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Federal judge orders the “immediate” release of Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, from detention.
“The main evidence against her appears to be an essay critical of Israel that she helped to write in a Tufts student newspaper last year.”
An essay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Judge Orders Release of Tufts Student Detained by ICE
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
JUST IN:
Federal judge orders the “immediate” release of Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, from detention.
“The main evidence against her appears to be an essay critical of Israel that she helped to write in a Tufts student newspaper last year.”
An essay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Federal judge orders the “immediate” release of Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, from detention.
“The main evidence against her appears to be an essay critical of Israel that she helped to write in a Tufts student newspaper last year.”
An essay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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A video that says everything about this regime.
A Newark Mayor attempting to visit a detention facility opened in his city without permits is handcuffed and detained by agents.
Apparently Ras Baraka is now being held at the local ICE field office.
Authoritarianism.
(🎥 News 12 New Jersey)
A Newark Mayor attempting to visit a detention facility opened in his city without permits is handcuffed and detained by agents.
Apparently Ras Baraka is now being held at the local ICE field office.
Authoritarianism.
(🎥 News 12 New Jersey)
May 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A video that says everything about this regime.
A Newark Mayor attempting to visit a detention facility opened in his city without permits is handcuffed and detained by agents.
Apparently Ras Baraka is now being held at the local ICE field office.
Authoritarianism.
(🎥 News 12 New Jersey)
A Newark Mayor attempting to visit a detention facility opened in his city without permits is handcuffed and detained by agents.
Apparently Ras Baraka is now being held at the local ICE field office.
Authoritarianism.
(🎥 News 12 New Jersey)
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Heartbreaking piece by @alexsammon.bsky.social from inside the ICE facility where Mahmoud Khalil remains illegally imprisoned for his free speech—on the day when Khalil first saw a photo his newborn son. slate.com/news-and-pol...
What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
slate.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Heartbreaking piece by @alexsammon.bsky.social from inside the ICE facility where Mahmoud Khalil remains illegally imprisoned for his free speech—on the day when Khalil first saw a photo his newborn son. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
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‘Fatima Hassouna, a 25-year-old photojournalist, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 16 April, a few days before she was due to be married. “If I must die, I want a resonant death,” the young woman said.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on who Israel is killing in Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on who Israel is killing in Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
Selma Dabbagh | ‘You can read the writing on them’
I asked Raji Sourani of the Palestine Centre for Human Rights if it was true that Gazans can hear the difference between...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
‘Fatima Hassouna, a 25-year-old photojournalist, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 16 April, a few days before she was due to be married. “If I must die, I want a resonant death,” the young woman said.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on who Israel is killing in Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on who Israel is killing in Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
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Our updated list of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes now includes video evidence. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Our updated list of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes now includes video evidence. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...
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Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
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Senate Republicans have voted to overturn a $5 cap on bank overdraft fees, leaving working-class people vulnerable to exploitation from financial institutions.
Republicans Just Made It Easier for Banks to Screw People Over
The Senate has voted to roll back a key consumer protection.
newrepublic.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Senate Republicans have voted to overturn a $5 cap on bank overdraft fees, leaving working-class people vulnerable to exploitation from financial institutions.
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This is utterly horrifying
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is utterly horrifying
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ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues
According to ICE records, Iranian national Alireza Doroudi is currently being held in a "detention facility" after he was recently detained.
www.nbcnews.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag *was so they could produce fascist content*.
March 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag *was so they could produce fascist content*.
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The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
propub.li
March 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
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It’s not even in dispute & very clear in data. Racist federal housing finance policies in the 1930s+ [redlining] combined with continued disinvestment, made communities of color disproportionately have more concrete & less green infrastructure, which make them hotter. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
It’s not even in dispute & very clear in data. Racist federal housing finance policies in the 1930s+ [redlining] combined with continued disinvestment, made communities of color disproportionately have more concrete & less green infrastructure, which make them hotter. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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A U.S. House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has called the chief executives of the nation's two largest public broadcasters to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday, with an eye to wiping out the federal funding their institutions receive.
Republican lawmakers seek to put PBS and NPR in the hot seat
A House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and named after Elon Musk's government-efficiency team has set its sights on the public broadcasters.
www.npr.org
March 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A U.S. House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has called the chief executives of the nation's two largest public broadcasters to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday, with an eye to wiping out the federal funding their institutions receive.
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Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.
Hooooo boy: "The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court’s March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.
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Architecture is free speech. So if someone supports this then good for them. But sadly, as is often the case, the architect was forced to design it this way based on zoning and design guidelines put in place by a city planning department. Blame them
March 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Architecture is free speech. So if someone supports this then good for them. But sadly, as is often the case, the architect was forced to design it this way based on zoning and design guidelines put in place by a city planning department. Blame them
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What do you see when you see the cybertruck? For my friends @themorningsnows.bsky.social & @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social it's the Casspir, the armored personnel carrier of apartheid South Africa. slate.com/news-and-pol...
We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.
Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.
slate.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
What do you see when you see the cybertruck? For my friends @themorningsnows.bsky.social & @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social it's the Casspir, the armored personnel carrier of apartheid South Africa. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Despite what President Trump said tonight, social security is not, in fact, rife with fraud. @wired.com’s
@davidgilbert.bsky.social broke it down last month.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
@davidgilbert.bsky.social broke it down last month.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.
www.wired.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Despite what President Trump said tonight, social security is not, in fact, rife with fraud. @wired.com’s
@davidgilbert.bsky.social broke it down last month.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
@davidgilbert.bsky.social broke it down last month.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated.
The USAID programs were cut anyway.
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
The USAID programs were cut anyway.
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...
propub.li
March 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated.
The USAID programs were cut anyway.
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
The USAID programs were cut anyway.
By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social
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March 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM