Matt Vega

A large group of people, mostly men, standing in the rubble of a collapsed building. A headline reads: "Strike on Girls’ School Kills 115, Iranian State Media Says" Photo by Mehr News Agency

At least 115 people, most of them likely children, were killed in a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran on Saturday, health officials and state media said. It was not immediately clear which country hit the school. Our reporters are trying to confirm details of the attack. trib.al/HxXybV9

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend.

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

Split-image with the text “TO BEE or NOT TO BEE.” The left side shows a vibrant wildflower meadow with a bee on a daisy, symbolising biodiversity and a healthy ecosystem. The right side shows a dry, barren landscape with dead trees and no visible wildlife, representing environmental degradation. An EU flag appears in the bottom right corner.

Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝

Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.

Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.

My statement on the charges filed against me:

Are there NON “right-wing” Republicans?

I completed my first year of teaching on the tenure track. What a year.

This is my new favorite image because it perfectly encapsulates the concern trolling and crybullying from the right when you give them even a fraction of what they spew out on a consistent basis.

Self-identifying as a centrist is perhaps the most cynical and amoral political identity you can have because you're just openly admitting your beliefs aren't really beliefs they're just strategic positions that only exist relative to others in the room you happen to be in

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority

If they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.

They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

let's fucking go

Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.

Giannis speaks on heated moment with Tyrese Haliburton's Dad after the game YouTube video by Chaz NBA

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Sending gratitude for @micahh.bsky.social ‘s existence in this world, and for sharing some of their existence and vision to my “Liberation Theology” students. One of the best classes.

This whole clip is truly unbelievably great. I am genuinely astounded by how good this is.

A Ticking Clock on American Freedom It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.

"When an authoritarian tells you he’s going to do something, believe him. Each outlandish statement is a trial balloon, one step closer to action. And when people don’t push back...the boundaries...permanently shift."

Vital piece:

Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Democratic Governor Moves To Boycott El Salvador For Aiding Trump Illinois Gov. J.B. Prtizker is ordering the state's pension funds and procurement agencies to review any investments in the Latin American country.

The US Constitution guarantees due process.

Donald Trump is eroding it in real time – we must fight back to restore the balance of power.

Today, I’m announcing a series of measures against El Salvador for aiding his unconstitutional deportation scheme.

Faculty Spotlight: Q&A with Matthew Vega, PhD The USD College of Arts and Sciences (the college) hired 14 new faculty members in three distinctive themes – Borders and Social Justice, Technology and the Human Experience and Climate Change and Env...

Check out this spotlight from the University of San Diego on what I do, why I do it, and what keeps me curious and driven.

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

There we go.

Trump admin terminates ‘illegal DEI’ settlement over raw sewage in poor, majority-Black Alabama communities The agreement, reached under the Biden Administration, required the state’s Department of Public Health to improve sanitation efforts in Alabama’s Black Belt.

The Trump admin is terminating a settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Black Alabama communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy”

Continue to fight, even when you are weary The first months of the Trump administration have been an assault on everything that those who work for justice hold dear. Yet, it is in times like these that our movements have brought down mighty systems,...

The first months of the Trump administration have been an assault on everything that those who work for justice hold dear. Yet, it is in times like these that our movements have brought down mighty systems, freed people, and changed history.

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Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.

Absolutely terrifying. “Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.”

Mississippi orders deletion of race and gender databases in state libraries Library commission says state ‘in dire shape’ and has ‘had a reconsideration of everything with regard to’ Doge

Mississippi orders deletion of race and gender databases in state libraries