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Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."

total midwestern cultural dominance

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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

representation is good. it also cannot be the limit of anti-racist policies, and in the corporate world was often little more than marketing. also true that some number of people who’ve argued that dems need to move away from representation believed that because they themselves are racist

Race isn’t a ‘biological reality,’ contrary to recent political claims − here’s how scientific consensus on race developed in the 20th century An executive order critiques the idea that race is a human invention. But that’s exactly what modern science supports.

“Scientists reject the idea that race is biologically real. The claim that race is a “biological reality” cuts against modern scientific knowledge”

theconversation.com/race-isnt-a-...

screenshot of the following text - Highlights: Patients with BIPOC

online journal's pre-submission manuscript editing tool has suggested the most cursed manifestation of person-first language i have ever laid eyes on

as a fellow US-born Latine this is, Concerning (despite the fact that I am like Very low on the list of people who should be concerned right now)

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all good simply Damp

bonkers

i am certain this happens in a lot of other (especially tropical/subtropical) places as well and i love this about those places too

my favorite thing about florida has always been that every plant is all the way up in every other plant’s business at all times

Emily’s first baby picture. a shoulders up photo of a florid baby with dark brown hair and eyes; the baby has a weary and confused look on her face

birthed onto yet another social media platform, feeling much like I did when birthed into the world: