Rana Emerson

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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.

An investigation by @josephinelee.bsky.social found that 92% of private schools already enrolled in Texas’ voucher programs serving kids beyond kindergarten are religious. Many of these exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.

At this point, all I want from George RR Martin when it comes to the last book in The Song of Ice and Fire is justice for Arianne Martell after she was left COMPLETELY out of the TV series.

In their words: Greenlanders talk about Trump's desire to own their Arctic island U.S. President Donald Trump has turned Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it. The island is a semiautonomous region of Denmark.

U.S. President Donald Trump has turned Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it. Here's a look at what Greenlanders think.

So working as designed then.

Reporter: Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE Agent.

Leavitt: Why was she killed?

Reporter: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably

Leavitt: You’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter.

The late Shafiqah Hudson, aka @sassycrass.bsky.social, and @sotreu.blacksky.app were the ones who started #YourSlipIsShowing. I ask that you remember Shafiqah and Ra’il as the originators.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

The Shot-in-the-Eye Squad As Black Lives Matter protests swept the nation, the rubber bullets and tear gas canisters started to fly. This epidemic of “blinding by police” inspired our unlikely network of survivors.

Incredible piece about protesters from different US cities who all have one thing in common: they lost an eye during a George Floyd protests in when police shot them with "less lethal" crowd-control weapons
www.narratively.com/p/the-shot-i...

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.

The cackle I just released

The GOP has a decentralized outrage machine (from YouTubers like Nick Shirley to the federal government) that moves at light speed. Dems have no comparable influencer ecosystem to counter these narratives in real-time.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

If anything, Trump’s election has forced real confrontation about the mythology about immigrants in this country.

The mythology has been a useful tool in building collective power, but the mythology isn’t the truth.

I look forward to more ppl communicating honestly about immigration.

And when people love to use the argument that America was built my immigrants - which is not the real truth of this country - I like to remind them that nearly every nation in this hemisphere has its own migration histories that helped build those nations.

Latin America and the Caribbean are politically volatile right now in large part due to backlash against leftist and progressive politics, and strong anti-migration sentiment.

People love to act like xenophobia is some uniquely American phenomenon but it’s not.

Yes.
Not enough conversation about this.

I can agree that this might be true, and also that this isn’t the end of the world. But people don’t just use it for this, but also for wedding vows and eulogies and apologies. And I read this story in that context, and maybe I shouldn’t have, but honestly the point, in that context, still stands.

Back in the aughts, comparing the actions of the bush administration to nazis was considered to be career destroying antisemitism

I always wanted to be in Mother Jones one day. And for my debut it now says “Epidemiologist Gabrielle Perry says FUCK JON STEWART” 😂

Walking out of Costco and just randomly thought about how Beverly Cleary’s Ramona named her doll Chevrolet and Junie B. Jones named her doll Absorbine Jr.
Made me smile.

This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

Oh snap! A baby Kingsley Ben-Adir and Pippa Warner on Marple!

www.pbs.org/video/a-cari...

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` isn 't that interesting '' written below him . Alt: a close up of Mrs Marple 's face with the words `` isn 't that interesting '' written below him .

Merry Christmas y’all!
Wishing you and yours peace and love as I spend the day with family and British Cozy Crime.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Following CBS/60 Minutes banning an episode that investigated the orange felon’s criminal actions, Canadians have leaked that episode in direct defiance of CBS and their fascist censorship.

I love Canada. 💙🇨🇦

ALISINVENTING ACADEMIC PAPERS THAT DON'T EXIST-AND THEY'RE BEING CITED IN REAL JOURNALS The proliteration of reterences to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board

When I was writing my book, my editor suggested I use ChatGPT to fact check each chapter & convert my links to MLA format. I tried it & it literally made up fake links & fake authors.

This scared me so bad and it’s why I hired a criminology graduate student to fact check for me