It's not just them. I knew a Syrian woman in college who wore a headscarf every day. One day I asked her about it and she told me that she wears it more for modesty and culturally than anything else.
She even took it off right there and said "see? Not a big deal".
It's not a monolith.
Iran made and released this video.
Kind of thinking they’re not just going to roll over.
Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be.
The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.
North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
Ppl get mad at me when I say this but I will keep saying it: in the long run, right wing Dems are more dangerous than Republicans. Because they make it way harder for us to show that good government is possible, which makes it easier for Republicans to win.
NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities
McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Are we culturally normal yet?
Idk what happens then. I read somewhere that revolutions don't happen when people's QoL is low; otherwise, we would have revolutions all over the place. It is when they feel their QoL is increasing, and then it stops or decreases.
The American political system, since WW2, has worked under the assumption that QoL can only increase. This is why they opposed anything that would imply you had to decrease your QoL (eg, Env stuff).
Now they're just coming out and saying, "lower your QoL." Except it isn't even for a noble goal.
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
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“The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm to reach the university in Providence, Rhode Island, by 9 o’clock the next morning, according to the whistleblower’s account.” — www.ms.now/news/senator...
Are we "culturally normal" now?
This guy gets it.
Chaotic-good Gersh is good.
Why is Lyft covering up useful way-finding maps with ads? Find out in Gersh Kuntzman's latest episode of "Old Man Vertical."
It's a combination of opponents trying hard to find something to attack him on, along with the fact that Mamdani has become a civic teacher for everyone now. A lot of people are all of a sudden finding out stuff about how the city works.
With blizzard conditions expected in NYC, Mayor Mamdani announces a travel ban in the city between 9 p.m. tonight and 9 a.m. tomorrow, shuttering all bridges and roads to non-essential traffic.
He also says all public schools will be closed tomorrow for an "old school show day."
Great write up on why exactly rents are so high in NYC.
I used to think the lack of supply was the issue but this guy makes it clear the issue is debt-based ownership.
Only real path forward is govt take over.
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The first project to make use of an accelerated review process—one of several ballot measures passed by NYC voters last year to speed up housing production—will turn a parking lot in the Bronx into 84 affordable apartments. via @patrickspauster.com: citylimits.org/move-over-ul...
We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Attaching healthcare to work is an abomination.
As someone who has used LLMs for some years now, I'm shocked that people will just copy-paste whatever those things produce.
Even the other bullet points are pointless.
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
It's so funny how we can read that sentence and not bat an eye nowadays.
Wait these mini lecterns at Mayor Mamdani’s press conference are so cute.
(Video via Josie Stratman)
The blond boy with the super long tie is sending me 😂
If you've noticed how disgusting the city is right now, you're mad at cars.
I love how NYC-centric they are. They're about to fuck over a bunch of small towns and college towns cuz they think NYC will be the first city with a free bus.
