Advocates to end forced prison labor say prisons should incentivize work with privileges and freedoms, instead of isolating those who refuse. “There are ways they could be encouraging people to work without holding this over their heads like a cudgel.”
"What happened to CAMPUS PROTESTS?!?!?"
They’ve been beyond accountability for so long that you can *hear* the smarm at the audacity of a reporter asking an elected a question.
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Stylised image of the Earth with a bright blue glow around its daytime side.
For 9 days, the whole of our planet rang like a bell.
BONG BONG BONG.
We are all connected by bongs! (No, I don't mean....ok, I might try to disable the replies on this bit.)
And when the paper on all this was published a year later...
9/
I think he looks like he's about to announce that the Bajoran workers have taken control of Ore Processing and have three minutes to surrender before neurozine gas is vented into the compartment.
Normally when someone is this deluded, you'd ask them to name the president to see how far they're really gone
“I think [Governor] Murphy had the power to protect immigrants on his last day, and he chose not to use it, and it’s a failure of leadership when we need it the most,” says a New Jersey immigrant rights advocate.
Defund ICE.
"The conversion that ICE is attempting, from warehouse to human storage, is not a renovation so much as a statement about what this administration believes immigrants are."
open.substack.com/pub/austinko...
We’ve kind of known that for a while ……
At some point we will have to say it was just racism and misogyny and transphobia
And it cut across party lines
To the point we lost five years in retreat and mostly are just looking for white faces to say what Black people have been saying for years
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
Jesus.
The gutting of NASA Goddard has had a devastating effect on high energy astrophysics. The AXIS probe mission proposal was rejected without review. (The Goddard X-ray mirror lab was significantly impacted by shutdowns and pressured retirements, against the congress approved budget for NASA.)
Just remembered the time I got into an argument with a waitress because I ordered a chai latte and she brought me a dirty chai because, as she insisted to me, "latte means coffee."
(Latte means milk)
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
Abu Ghraib never ended
Met a lovely waitress / mother while hanging with the fam last night in Deer park Ohio and I just asked her and said she didn’t have to answer if she didn’t want to: is Trump’s “no taxes on tips” thing helping you
She said she didn’t know but then immediately pivoted unprompted to tariffs…
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
Mississippi lawmakers are considering a bill that would exempt certain roadway safety records from the state’s Public Records Act, including inspection reports used to evaluate potentially hazardous bridges and road conditions.
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Re-upping my Epstein essay from August as new information emerges today.
Caution: disturbing descriptions of my and others’ sexual assaults.
Release all the damn files. This is the ultimate test of this nation’s useless partisanship.
This really should be on every front page in America.
The fucking President, an adjudicated rapist and Epstein BFF, almost certainly assaulted a 13 year old child
The anti-trans moral panic is also why those of us combating book bans keep telling people that this current movement isn't like bans of old. This is part of the same playback as eradicating queer and trans lives, and implementing Christian nationalism and white supremacy.
Then they point to *other* Black writers who can attend, and say see, no exclusion.
Well ok why did the anthology stop, where's that Black publisher, and why can't the Black editor get continuing royalties from a book that was ceremonially beheaded.
There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)
Really important piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social here, laying out the cascading series of failures that are driving the Trump administration to disaster
The president, breathing heavily and caked with makeup, is incoherently blaming Iran for the October 7 attacks by Hamas
When we say that Democrats can still make a difference in the minority, this is what we're talking about. Garcia has been a model for his colleagues here.
