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Estefany Rodríguez, a Reporter Detained by ICE in Nashville, Remains in Limbo Last week, a reporter in Nashville was detained by ICE. Officials claimed to have paperwork for her arrest, but her lawyers say it was warrantless—and retaliation for her reporting.

It has been common practice for DHS to communicate directly with the public online, though the blurring of legal and social media arguments has seemingly distorted the reality of Estefany Rodríguez’s case. Read Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

a fluffy light yellow bee popping out of a hole in the sand

Today out in the pine barrens I saw a bunch of cellophane bees!

I'm not sure if they were emerging for the first time today or just hanging in holes, I honestly don't know a ton about these bees. I saw around 20 of them sprinkled throughout the trails in little clusters of 5-10 burrows.

tzaziki!

very few things in life are not improved with tzaziki

Journal of Fandom Studies Journal of Fandom Studies; Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated, peer-reviewed publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across...

Special Issue Call for Papers: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’
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Please send a 500–700-word abstract and a 100–200 word biography in one document to yvonne.gonzales@usc.edu by 13 April 2026.

Final articles will be 6,000- 9,000 words.

Mangoes are one of my favoritest foods.

I am so glad my pets dislike mangoes.

Cha-cha is a mango thief and now we need one of those silly confessional signs next to a giant mango seed.

Astrophysicists trace the origin of valuable metals in space, from colliding stars to merging galaxies Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars—the ultradense remnants of dead stars—collided. The catastrophic cosmic event sent light and particles, including a sud...

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#AstroPhysics

My spidey sense has been antagonistic towards private industry in space for quite some time. We need a whole lot of regulation because space is not a playground and too many billionaires do not value the lives they put at risk.

Journal of Fandom Studies Journal of Fandom Studies; Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated, peer-reviewed publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across...

CFP: Journal of Fandom Studies

Special Issue: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’

Guest Editors:

Yvonne Gonzales, University of Southern California

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Skills I need and want.

THE TURTLE MOVES!

Hubby and I have been listening to Small Gods by Pratchett. The BBC version is the best, but Andy Serkis is pretty good too.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

Recognizing Arbitrariness, Gov. Commutes Charles Burton's Death Sentence Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted Mr. Burton's death sentence to life without parole.

Recognizing that “a government’s most consequential action must be administered fairly and proportionately,” today Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted Mr. Burton’s death sentence to life without parole.

The process of an octopus laying its eggs is so awe-inspiring.#wildlife #animals #shorts #video YouTube video by Animal Wonders

Parents of small children: if your 4 year old asks to watch a video of an octopus 🐙 laying eggs, be aware that the octopus reproductive process is quite tragic.

I’m not 100% sure he understood. He was too focused on babies to ask questions about what happened to mama.

But still.

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

Image of a law school library with the words "law reviews are opening!" and #LRSubmissions overlaid

Southwest Journal of Law and Equality is now open and accepting submissions on Scholastica!

Submit your article here: https://swjle.scholasticahq.com/for-authors #LRSubmissions

Image of a law school library with the words "law reviews are opening!" and #LRSubmissions overlaid

Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review is now open and accepting submissions on Scholastica!

Submit your article here: https://acrcl.scholasticahq.com/for-authors #LRSubmissions

Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare, looted amid a yearslong conflict consuming the country.

Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict

Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare, looted amid a yearslong conflict consuming the country.

www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Yellow Painting by Vasily Kandinsky, 1938
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Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

Really good read on the difficulty of republishing and archiving classic hip hop writing, and the people working on it: defector.com/lost-recipes...

Feds violated immigration court order, wrongly deported hundreds, court filing alleges Attorneys say hundreds, if not thousands, of people arrested in the Chicago area could have ultimately been found eligible for release.

Feds violated immigration court order, wrongly deported hundreds, court filing alleges
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/09/c...

Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention? Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson explores what that could tell us about physics and ourselves

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson explores what that could tell us about physics and ourselves

Report Offers New Evidence of Starvation Crimes in Darfur Two leading international law scholars analyze a report from the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab on evidence of starvation crimes in Darfur.

A report out today from Yale Humanitarian Research Lab offers new evidence of starvation crimes in #Darfur.

#InternationalLaw professors Tom Dannenbaum and Oona Hathaway provide their legal analysis of the new data.

#Sudan

Good morning and welcome to tuna Tuesday

Let your kindness remind people that beautiful souls, gentle hearts, and good energy still exist in this world.

Never stop being a good person

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Signage for "Excel Church"

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

SHOOBY DOO! SHOOP SHOOBY DOO!

Probably the white hat from Super Mario 3D World because it is almost impossible to die. And the giant mushroom where you turn into a giant,
stomping character!

A fake FileZilla site hosts a malicious download A tampered copy of FileZilla quietly contacts attacker-controlled servers using encrypted DNS traffic that can slip past traditional monitoring.

A fake FileZilla site hosts a malicious download
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