A farm worker in a lemon orchard where you could see the buckets of lemons she's harvesting
"Alicia" shared this pic from Kern County. "The lemon orchard is in bad shape, with no lemons on the trees. They still only pay us $35 per 900 lb box for juice lemons. It takes us 3-4 hours to pick that box. It's wrong. We should at least be guaranteed minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
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the Congressman's horrendous statement, Politico downplaying that statement, the Congressman then doubling down like no no I said what I said
fuckin yikes all around
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
Prepare for liftoff... Next Tuesday we launch SOLARI, our brand new campaign GM’d by Aabria Iyengar!
Here’s a sneak peek at our PCs. Check out Nikolas Draper-Ivey’s process as he brings them to life, set to a preview of Will Savino’s original score.
Stay tuned for official character posters!
yes, there's a big difference doing this from ahead and when things have already started
What a remarkable story and find !!
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No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.
When Republicans talk about and implement total partisan media takeover, their plans for “internet safety” also factor in. They want to concentrate online power into platforms they can control, but they’re disguising it as bipartisan efforts to keep kids safe online.
Richmond PD has paid over a million bucks to Flock, a controversial Atlanta-based surveillance-tech firm backed by right-wing billionaires. My investigation for the @richmonder.bsky.social compares RPD's claims about the system to independent scholarship, national reporting, and city payment data.
Congressman Keith Self • • Follow X 1d• The Sharia-Free America Caucus has grown to 48 members spanning 22 states-and we're j... See more DEFEND SHARIA-FREE AMERICA CAUCUS Co-Chairs: Keith Self (TX-03) & Chip Roy (TX-21) Whip Tom Emmer (MN-06) Andrew Clyde (GA-09) Pat Fallon (TX-04) Russ Fulcher (ID-01) August Pfluger (TX-11) Mary Miller (IL-15) Craig Goldman (TX-12) Tracey Mann (KS-01) Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) Andy Harris (MD-01) Pete Sessions (TX-17) Eric Burlison (MO-07) Brandon Gill (TX-26) Mike Ezell (MS-04) Michael Cloud (TX-27) Addison McDowell (NC-06) Brian Babin (TX-36) Mark Harris (NC-08) Wesley Hunt (TX-38) Pat Harrigan (NC-10) Eli Crane (AZ-02) Michael Rulli (OH-06) Andy Biggs (AZ-05) Josh Brecheen (OK-02) Paul Gosar (AZ-09) Scott Perry (PA-10) Nick Begich (AK-at-large) Mike Kelly (PA-16) Barry Moore (AL-01) Sheri Biggs (SC-03) Aaron Bean (FL-04) Ralph Norman (SC-05) John Rutherford (L-05) Andy Ogles (TN-05) Randy Fine (FL-06) John Rose (TN-06) Cory Mills (FL-07) Mike Kennedy (UT-03) Mike Haridopolos (FL-08) John McGuire (VA-05) Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) Ben Cline (VA-06) Byron Donalds (FL-19) Morgan Griffith (VA-09) Buddy Carter (GA-01) Riley Moore (WV-02)
In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.
This for comics too please
On today’s episode of Cartoonishly Overt Sign We’re the Baddies: they’re taking the olive branch off the dime because it presents peace
THENEW REPUBLIC Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of "highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat" while increasing the power of working-class men. "This technology disrupts humanities-trained -largely Democratic-voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters," Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. "And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we're going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs."
Sorry ladies Palantir has a message for you and it’s that Rosie the Riveter also had to eat it and go back to her husband’s kitchen
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BREAKING: The Florida Senate passed a version of the SAVE America Act requiring proof of citizenship to register and remain on the state's voter rolls.
The amended bill, which would go into effect in 2027, now returns to the House for a vote before heading to Gov. Ron DeSantis for a signature.
I was sent home early to WFH for "a few weeks... maybe a month tops." Stopped at the store on my way home and still I have the pic I took of the half empty shelves of toilet paper.
NEW: A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill requiring warrants for FBI searches of Americans' communications under FISA, aligning federal law w/ a 2025 ruling that found the practice unconstitutional.
It would also ban the government from buying Americans' private data from data brokers.
In March 2020, PPE was scarce. What began as a 3-week stopgap became hundreds of Aunties across the U.S., sending thousands of masks to those who needed them most.
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We've seen another morning of increased ICE activity with DHS helicopter out and about in Chicagoland.
Feds have taken people from Humboldt Park and Ravenswood. Vehicles also seen in Rogers Park. ICE watchers are asking north side neighbors to get outside and keep an eye on landscapers & laborers.
WAVY reporting live at the link
Too often I think we view misogyny through the lens of women’s responsibility—do women cause misogyny, how can women avoid misogyny, how can we blame women, always—instead of recognizing that there is literally no way to opt out of or avoid misogyny entirely, because our whole society is built on it
I get that this has been almost entirely theater but I actually think it's quite bad if the people of DC become habituated to the presence of military personnel in the streets, for a whole host of reasons
Astrophoto of the stars and gas surrounding the black hole at the center of the Milky Way (unseen). The gas clouds are shown in red and wrap about two thirds of the way around the center of the image, from upper left to the middle of the right side.
#PPOD: This stunning snapshot, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), reveals the stars and gas surrounding an invisible giant — a supermassive black hole, located some 27,000 light-years away, at the heart of our Milky Way. 🧪 🔭
Close-up of white and pale pink cherry blossoms on an ornamental tree
Cherry blossoms have appeared, although with today's forecast, they may not last long
The fact that I have heard almost identical stories from Native students from probably every single ivy league college is so damning. Often the same claim—“we can’t find someone to assess your knowledge” what they mean is they can’t find someone w a PhD and fluency in the Indigenous language
Daily Memo: While ICE Lays Low, They’re Still Active While Building Up Its Fleet, Offices, and Detention Centers
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What a shocking story, great local news coverage, and inspiring work all around. This is what it looks like when people (and lawyers) fight back for a more just society. lataco.com/ice-rams-veh...
Superb framing. Had to laugh that it's an Evergreen ship... at least it wasn't stuck. 😅
Going for the long lost deep cuts there 🤘(and that pic is like a postcard)
Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."
Nekima on the Target boycott.
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
