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Afzul said her sister and her five coworkers were returning from Turkey after a work trip to India was canceled. She traveled to Bulgaria and Austria before flying back to Chicago on Thursday

CBP detained her for "irregular travel history," Afzul said.

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon

At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

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good lord

Another terrible monthly jobs report for the Trump Administration and they don’t have a pandemic to blame it on.

92,000 jobs lost in February. One has to wonder how much worse it really is?

Do it for Steve, a true poster and Bsky elder ❤️

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

the great @lalehkhalili.bsky.social once pointed out the weirdness of Bari's hand gestures, which look like they were designed by an AI, and now I can't unsee this in everything she does

The two quotes from the front matter of C.S. Lewis's "The Screwtape Letters" altered to read: "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and own him, for he cannot bear scorn." -Luther. "The devill... the prowde spirite... cannot endure to be corncobbed." -Thomas More.

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

I’m certainly not a Christian but Dolly has said, “There's a scripture in the Bible that says, 'To whom much is given, much is required,' so that's kind of how I feel” and in private deed and public policy, that should be our normal ethos instead of the horror show Trump represents 👍🏼

Yes, Dolly Parton is the model here. When we say “billionaires shouldn’t exist,” it doesn't mean we want to line them up at a guillotine (well, a girl can dream, anyway) but rather that they should be encouraged to *keep money flowing* like Dolly does, not hoarding it. She’s rich *and* does good ⭐

A Year of War Without End Senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the horror of the past year, and hopelessness as we confront endless war.

The brilliant @warghetti.bsky.social wrote an essay about the endless exhaustion of constantly having to try to prove to people that you're human. Read it and follow her

themarkaz.org/a-year-of-wa...

Yes!!!

Only a total surrender of a concrete protected, bi-directional, two-abreast demotoristed zone on every road with a speed limit over 20 mph will be accepted.

Motorists will need to get out of their cars to press beg buttons to lower bollards in crosswalk zones.

I am engaging in a kinetic action against cars. A surgical assault targeting stroads. A decapitation strike on motornormativity.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Nothing more hurtful than discovering what you thought was a deep friendship is fake

Totally normal thing for Senior Counsel at DOJ to tweet out at 2am

When I was crossing the Bekaa valley last month, a shopkeeper proudly told me that “half the restaurants in New York serve wine from the Bekaa” (he wouldn’t be far wrong).

Yes! I try not to overemphasize the winery thing because I feel like sometimes there’s this implication of “oh these are the good ones, they drink wine.” But at the same time you can’t not mention that this is the home of Bacchus! We have angered him and he will have his due

picture of a generous tray of stuffed grape leaves, rice, radishes, pickled wild cucumbers, and frisee, surrounded by adults and children

The farmers shared their lunch with us (but even if they didn't it would still be wrong to bomb them)

hand holding a jar of pink jam with a label that says "ROSE JAM FROM SALEM'S ORGANIC FARM" and a picture of children throwing rose petals into the air

Rose petal jam from the Bekaa Valley

Here's Buzuruna Juzuruna, an organic farm run by Syrian refugees in the so-called "Hezbollah bastion" of the Bekaa Valley (but even if they drenched their farm in chemicals & swore undying loyalty to America's enemies we still wouldn't have the right to bomb them fyi)

The Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social make a very strong case here

Yeah it's somehow still underrated but Biden (and Harris by extension because she was operating under the thesis of no daylight) essentially did everything possible to avoid clamping down on Israel against the trendline of their own party's base and the response from the pro-Israel lobby was scorn.

but even if it was ugly as hell and everything in it was stupid & mean it *still* wouldn't be right to refer to an entire geographic area where all kinds of people (and animals and plants and trees) live and work as a "bastion." Especially when you have zero clue where or what tf it even is

Organic farm in the Bekaa Valley

The Bekaa Valley is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It is the breadbasket of Lebanon going back to the Romans. It is home to farms & fields & rivers so ancient they show up in the Bible (named after Byblos, just down the road). Wineries & Roman ruins & Syrian refugees & bedouin families

The @nytimes.com is really outdoing itself here.

"the Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah bastion in the south"

Aside from the racist "bastion" language, does this look like the goddamn south to you?

With all respect: if you can't get the basic facts straight, maybe don't weigh in at all?

There is really nothing legitimate in this war (even the second Gulf war had a much better case) and other nations should really keep their distance to the US on this point.

Alex Jones is the blueprint for a whole generation of right-wingers