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“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
It’s nice to know that in the new fragmented digital media landscape some editors will still make room for the “truly unhinged community voices” op-eds that local papers used to run regularly
Many are calling it Idiot-mania.
Many such cases. Thanks for sharing
This article is framed as “got em…hypocritical hayseeds!” but (as you probably know already) Reeves and MS Republicans are pioneering the methods for state capital takeovers!
MS’s Republican-dominated state government is already (undemocratically) taking over the state capital!
Also, D. Henrique’s school is more or less a nationalist myth?
A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
This is my favorite Beach House album.
The best part about the AHA Guidelines for AI pile-on is that if you scroll through the quote skeets, a hapless AHA employee teases that a *second* report (addressing research and scholarship) is due to drop!
I like the part where you sing “who let the dogs out” …great tune!
Yeah but what about ice cream gloves? youtu.be/48TR0vUPQCs?...
Doesn’t look good! Incidentally, I remember recently reading a piece by the MS state treasurer for @mississippifreepress.org saying that, in fact, everything is fine, in fact never been better.
It’s rich reading David prattle on about manufacturing and jobs since, like Trump, he’s never worked an honest day in his life. If you actually ever did any reporting on him or his scant “accomplishments” as Treasurer…well that would actually be a service to your readership.
Making #icecream #summer
Hey look on the bright side, he has a bright future as a death squad captain 😐
Sharing a talk I recently came across that might be of interest…it is hard to cut through the uncritical boosterism out there, I think the promises and peril discussed here are reasonable though: foundhistory.org/2025/07/gene...
Who’s going to unionize them
E.P. Thompson maybe similar…not major per se but influential as a nuclear disarmament activist
Theodore Roosevelt was president of the AHA at one point!
My first cousin, unfortunately. Can confirm: an extremely stupid person.
The only “rationalist” I can endorse is Tim Maia (era racional)
🚨Alert🚨 In the recent weeks, Park Police has been posting up at local parks, like Malcolm X, arresting people for minor things like smoking weed, and then transferring them to ICE. REMEMBER: Most parks in DC are actually federal land. 1/
It’s fun to try to guess though! Great work btw
A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is. grist.org/food-and-agr... #App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate
Two Mississippians were arrested for illegal dumping in Jackson on June 16. One, Christy Parker, was quickly released. Kerlin Moreno-Orellana was not. His arrest triggered an alert in a vast federal network of immigration enforcement. Now, it's unclear when and if he will see his family again.
Related is Alberto Vieira’s chapter in Schwartz’s edited volume Tropical Babylons (also about Madeira and Atlantic sugar)
Jason Moore on Madeira: jasonwmoore.com/wp-content/u...
just like witches at black masses
“This new type of meat? It was us!”
Two Cats — Walter Inglis Anderson, c. 1940
Alex Hochuli has written about this exact phenomenon “the Brazilianization of the world.” I’d say in terms of evangelical right there’s been some cross pollination between US and LatAm
Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The @housedemocrats.bsky.social betrayed DC today: - 30 of them voted to take away the local DC government's ability to discipline DC police officers - 56 of them voted to strip non citizens in DC of their right to vote in local elections Don't ever let them tell you they are a pro-democracy party.
This was confirmed as ICE activity in DC. Park Police and DHS agents working together to arbitrarily stop and detain immigrants in our communities. Mayor Bowser wants to repeal sanctuary protections for immigrants in DC. Tell the DC Council to stand with immigrants: freedcproject.org/sanctuary
What about a ship, but for the fellas?
“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”
Finally found this after years of searching
#humbled to announce that I’ve been “promoted”…I’ve apparently aged out of postdocs!
That feels like closing the Tidal Basin during peak bloom
Awww. Nice work 👍 Nice ax too
ICE operations at immigration courts intensified today. Brief 🧵on what's happening: - A person facing removal shows up for a hearing. - At the hearing, ICE unexpectedly asks the immigration judge to dismiss the case without prejudice. - If the judge says yes, the hearing ends, court is over. 1/4
One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...
First day of water quality monitoring in Rock Creek Park along the newly renovated Soapstone Valley trail 💦 #RecreateResponsibly @doee-dc.bsky.social @anacostiariverkpr.bsky.social
Great game
youtu.be/5vbLOEzgr4Y?...
Tomorrow: #HATM “Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated w/ all this American bicentennial 4th of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, & that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes.” - Ms. Stroud
BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Öztürk 😭😭🥰
On this day 11 years ago, I heard Pepe Mujica speak at AU! QEPD
As a volunteer Water Quality Monitor (see my pfp), I feel obligated to say that no one should swim or really come into contact with water from Rock Creek. Doesn't mean you can't have fun near it, or that it's irreparably polluted (we *can* clean it up!) but for now: recreate responsibly!
Augustine! I Can Hear You Calling My Name! (Song for Robert Prevost)
This week, fears of ICE raids at schools and businesses sparked anxiety, fear, and rumors, leaving residents on edge. 51st.news/its-terrifyi...
Congratulations to Pope Leo XIV, our first aprista pope.
Worth looking at TV news reporting, featuring a short clip of judge: very gullible, clearly has no idea what he’s looking at. Bleak. www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona...
Read my latest:
In light of the DC raids we want to reshare our ICE watch 101 graphics. Reminder to verify, document, and then report to our hotline.
This is a good week to follow DC Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid (MSMA) as ICE targets our community this week. Follow for updates as well as tip hotline to report ICE activity—already happening this morning.
Superfine is a reference to Equiano, right?
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Great list! Others to add: Even the Rain (2010) and Bacurau (2019)…the latter one of several Brazilian films with water themes
ChatGPT keeps telling me about a land in Asia Minor called Uqbar, yet I can’t seem to find any mention of it in any of my atlases and encyclopedias…
Very well said.
Remembering the time Pope Francis (QEPD) drove by me in downtown DC and shot a ray of light at me. Take that JD.
Catless Man Children?? (No joke, this was the juxtaposition on my TL)
Would be nice if all those loud voices calling to “unsuck [sic] Metro” would now take a stand for DC’s premier public transportation system. Because this budget hole will (re)suck it!
Literal goblin 👹
Instructive to read the English and Spanish Tren de Aragua Wikipedia pages. The former focuses overwhelmingly on its alleged presence in the US and the Trump admin’s efforts to put it front and center. OTOH, the shorter Spanish page states plainly that TdA presence in the US is highly exaggerated.
The fact that it’s Little Marco reveling in authoritarian surveillance makes me think of Louis Pérez Jr’s response when Amy Goodman asked him about US media characterizations of Fidel Castro as an authoritarian dictator. Worth revisiting: www.democracynow.org/2016/11/28/a...
And a fact conspicuously absent from Ainda estou aqui. The funds that trained the police and military to round up and torture? From USAID!
Congress broke DC's budget and now won't fix it.
John Polk jump scare on my TL
It hurts to read this--so much important, interesting and innovative work happening at RRCHNM brought to a halt. I feel privileged to have worked alongside the scholars who animated and invested time in these projects.
< Like the Amazon, but with Homan being fed to piranhas
Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org
Very cool, congrats!
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Great article. Many astounding aspects...but amazing that Till stayed six months in Omaha and then walked over 100 miles back to the farm, perhaps simply because he could.
Check out and support this awesome game we’ve been playing non-stop at home! Cool game dynamics, great illustrations, and a great way to learn about Nahua/Aztec folklore. More people should know about Nawalli!
Russ Latino’s blog?
I can’t believe it’s not better?
DC is facing a recession because of the illegal & destructive actions of DOGE. It's good to collaborate with the fed. gov't where we can, but DC needs to have lines we won’t cross, and collaborating with DOGE to illegally dismantle a private organization crosses that line mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-...
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Paul Westerberg voice: How do you say “no on cloture” ..,to an answering machiiiine? 🎸 🎶
Counterpoint: it doesn’t.
I was interviewed in front of Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Senate office about the unconscionable CR that will gut education and public services in DC, and how parents are getting family/friends to speak out on behalf of loved ones in DC. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
I was interviewed in front of Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Senate office about the unconscionable CR that will gut education and public services in DC, and how parents are getting family/friends to speak out on behalf of loved ones in DC. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
Hey WA voters, Cantwell is 'undecided' on cloture and the CR. Or she's lonely and wants a lot of phone calls :) Help her out! www.cantwell.senate.gov/contact/loca...
22 Senators have told us they are either undecided on cloture or planning to vote yes. We want them to VOTE NO ON CLOTURE. Call Senators today and make it clear you want them to stop this power grab over DC: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
youtu.be/LvDl3kL42uU?...
The issue is NOT fixed! Senate Dems need to vote NO on cloture! We need a clean CR that restores DC's budget. It's not enough to file amendments. The time to ask "pretty please" to Senate Republicans is past! Call your Senators and urge them to vote NO on cloture for the CR!
we are so back