L.A. Protests Prompt Calls for Police Restraint After Journalist Injuries

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

Double.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Solidarity with every NEH employee who is part of the Reduction in Force, and whose separation from the agency is being enacted today.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Please listen to the UN General Secretary.

Calling on my representatives to do more.
This could happen to anyone.
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @mikethompson.house.gov
Where are our protections, due process, and transparency? People violently kidnapping us off the streets and off work sites without accountability is unacceptable!

Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

eliminating birthright citizenship is a recipe for creating an immutable class of stateless people

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress:

"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

This is bleak reading

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

Make it make sense

Imagine failing 5th grade geography... in Congress.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

This is terrible news! I have served on NSF panels, gone to excellent NSF funded conferences, and been the grateful recipient of NSF grants. Seeinf the destruction of the infrastructure of science support is heartbreaking !

www.science.org/content/arti...

So excited for this, even though my ancestor is a key character and…does not come across well.

The path for Trump targeting college students was paved by the Democratic Party & their leaders making enemies out of these young people.

If you want to talk about fascism, they deployed a police state on campuses all across California. Don’t ever forget this.

You are now required to have a cellphone to citizen.

That should not be allowed.

You should not be required to have a cellphone to work.

But many employers make a cellphone a de facto requirement.

It’s anti-poor. But it’s also anti-democratic.

Greyhound Will Pay $2.2 Million To End A Lawsuit Over Warrantless Immigration Sweeps The company failed to warn customers of the searches and subjected passengers to discrimination based on skin color or national origin, the Washington state attorney general said Monday.

Before you congratulate them too much, this was a response to this lawsuit

www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1...

Greyhound Agrees to Pay $2.2 Million Over Immigration Sweeps on Buses (Published 2021) The settlement will provide restitution to passengers who were detained, arrested or deported after immigration agents conducted warrantless searches on buses, Washington State’s attorney general said...

Greyhound moved to this policy in 2020 bc the AP proved there was not in fact a fed policy requiring them to let ICE on board as they had been claiming. And they had to pay like $2.2MM in restitution. Don't get me wrong, I’m glad the policy changed but they’re not, like, leading the resistance.

If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.

Reading a romance book and a professor says they're skipping the mandatory dept meeting because they're tenured so no one can make them go, which set off an epic rant as I imagined how shitty this fictional professor must be at service.

Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia Wikipedia is facing another threat.

Looking forward to the full-throated condemnation of this letter by those who accused the Biden administration of pressuring social media firms to moderate COVID-19 and election fraud misinfo! Any second now...

www.theverge.com/news/656720/...

I've acquired volumes of records about unaccompanied pregnant minors giving birth to US citizens born into custody. The infants are assigned Alien Numbers; the disposition of their release matches the mother. In dozens of cases across Obama, Trump, and Biden, infants were deported* with the mother.

Every state needs to do this ASAP

The variable nature of sex An anthropologist shows why we should think beyond the binary

Deeply thankful for the excellent review of "Sex is a spectrum" by @malinahking.bsky.social in @science.org It's a great overview and a thoughtful critique. Have a read: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...