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Journalist, audio documentarian, writer. English professor at Dartmouth, working on a doc about the end of civil rights. Previously: NPR race and identity correspondent, “alarmingly divisive" signal: sandhya_.96 Podcasts: On Our Watch, American Suburb.
Explainer: UK government has announced a suspension on student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. Details here www.gov.uk/guidance/vis...
what does that lack of freedom sound a lot like ? I can’t quite put my finger on it …
There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts.
There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.
Groypers on James Fishback’s insane campaign are now so misogynistic that they’re saying gay sex is straighter than heterosexual sex. www.thebulwark.com/p/james-fish...
I wrote about the Christian nationalist stars of the New Apostolic Reformation who are cheerleading the war on Iran:
For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.
“Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.
Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.”
The “leftist allies” consistent of one person, in a poorly worded and later deleted tweet… from seven years ago.
Calling this line from McCarthy a "clunky" "mistake" based on "aversion to punctuation" ayfk, did an AI write this (probably)
A screenshot of the result when you prefer human writing in the quiz: You preferred human writing. You're either sharply attuned to the qualities that make for great writing, or a lucky guesser. Maybe you also noticed that human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian," caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: "As well ask men what they think of stone." A.I. used to make mistakes like these. But today's systems are much more fluid than their predecessors - so fluid, in fact, that finding grammatical errors or nonstandard syntax is often a hint that you're looking at a human's prose, not a machine's.
This part's insane as well.
Kim Clement was a member of the "Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders" (ACPE). A South African "singing prophet" who "prophesied" that Trump would become president. thejesusgenerationrevolution.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/h...
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
Then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem doubled down, denouncing the incident as an act of “attempted murder” on law enforcement. Her agency published mugshots of all three men arrested in connection with the alleged assault, casting them as “violent criminals.”
None of it was true.
This is an escalation by DHS.
Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines.
Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.
the poll literally says it only included jews "actively engaged with israel" — so the headline should probably be "nearly a third of u.s. jews 'actively engaged with israel' think this is a terrible idea"
NEW: A conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court announced she will not seek reelection when her term ends next year.
Her departure will create an open seat that could allow liberals to deepen their majority on a court that’s increasingly shaping the state’s voting rights.
OSU pressured its incredibly successful first woman president, Kristina Johnson, OUT and ENTHUSIASTICALLY ELEVATED this guy. Ain’t that typical? So typical it seems to be The American Way. UGH.
As always, I genuinely wonder if the best way to handle Rep Ongles (R-Racistburg) is to pretend he doesn’t exist.
I won’t repost what vile statement of his triggered this post. Bc that’s the point.
He WANTS us to be angry, and he WANTS us to hate-repost his hate … which SPREADS THE HATE.
What are we even doing here? The bulk of this is like four trillion dollar regressive tax cut that doesn’t help the poorest families at all and helps the richest the most.
To make it less regressive, he adds like another two trillion in progressive tax cuts that targets families with kids.
Teaching Windsor & Obergefell tmw & it's nausea-inducing to read Scalia/Alito/Roberts/Thomas's overwrought handwringing about judicial despotism when it's stunningly obvious they have & happily do wield the iron scepter of judicial supremacy when they have the votes. Just hypocrisy all the way down.
oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism
One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.
Kristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE Jails
I've covered deaths in immigration prisons for years, but I've never seen so many people die of what appears to be preventable conditions in such a brief period of time.
This will come back to haunt them. It must.
Everything depends on which party he will caucus with, but wow.
UNC spent $1.2 million, over 6 months, to investigate its School of Civic Life. It won’t release findings. 🤔
@ncaaup.bsky.social
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
"In eight incidents since 2019 where cops wound up either shooting or tasing the subject of a 911 mental health call, the officers involved were trained in crisis intervention, a review of NYPD records found. That included six encounters where the subject was killed."
www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/09/c...
Democrats still get grief for a decade-old “deplorable” comment whereas Republicans acting like the Klan barely hits the news. Bigotry is a career strategy for them.
Nashville reporter's detention by federal immigration officials poses grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know. A thread on Estefany Rodriguez: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...
It is not an exaggeration to say so. The Lemkin Institute states we're in the early stages of a genocide against transgender people.
www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...
