We've seen another morning of increased ICE activity with DHS helicopter out and about in Chicagoland.
Feds have taken people from Humboldt Park and Ravenswood. Vehicles also seen in Rogers Park. ICE watchers are asking north side neighbors to get outside and keep an eye on landscapers & laborers.
WAVY reporting live at the link
Too often I think we view misogyny through the lens of women’s responsibility—do women cause misogyny, how can women avoid misogyny, how can we blame women, always—instead of recognizing that there is literally no way to opt out of or avoid misogyny entirely, because our whole society is built on it
I get that this has been almost entirely theater but I actually think it's quite bad if the people of DC become habituated to the presence of military personnel in the streets, for a whole host of reasons
Astrophoto of the stars and gas surrounding the black hole at the center of the Milky Way (unseen). The gas clouds are shown in red and wrap about two thirds of the way around the center of the image, from upper left to the middle of the right side.
#PPOD: This stunning snapshot, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), reveals the stars and gas surrounding an invisible giant — a supermassive black hole, located some 27,000 light-years away, at the heart of our Milky Way. 🧪 🔭
Close-up of white and pale pink cherry blossoms on an ornamental tree
Cherry blossoms have appeared, although with today's forecast, they may not last long
The fact that I have heard almost identical stories from Native students from probably every single ivy league college is so damning. Often the same claim—“we can’t find someone to assess your knowledge” what they mean is they can’t find someone w a PhD and fluency in the Indigenous language
Daily Memo: While ICE Lays Low, They’re Still Active While Building Up Its Fleet, Offices, and Detention Centers
@eltragon.bsky.social
What a shocking story, great local news coverage, and inspiring work all around. This is what it looks like when people (and lawyers) fight back for a more just society. lataco.com/ice-rams-veh...
Superb framing. Had to laugh that it's an Evergreen ship... at least it wasn't stuck. 😅
Going for the long lost deep cuts there 🤘(and that pic is like a postcard)
Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."
Nekima on the Target boycott.
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
For anyone who needs the warning... the damn Bradford Pear trees are in bloom.
Gird your sinuses as appropriate.
Another view of the selfie captured by Perseverance earlier today.
#Mars 🧪🔭
The admin is also stepping back from changes to covid vaccine policy out of fear it will hurt them in the midterms. Which we should read as they plan to ramp all of their unpopular policies back up AFTER the midterms. No matter the outcome. archive.today/knNkZ
Orange and pink tinted wispy clouds across a light blue sky
A hazy moon in its Waning Crescent phase
A couple of morning pics - Sunday clouds, and a Wednesday lingering moon
#LaLuna
“What people who study this have shown over and over again is that it's only certain books that [...] get challenged,” Cohen says. “And it's often books by or about people of color or LGBTQ+ people. So it's a very selective use of obscenity.”
www.voxmagazine.com/arts/banned-...
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.
“The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for UWPD to end their contract with Flock Safety and publish all other contracts with surveillance technology companies, like Motorola Safeties and Rhombus.”
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
NEW: DOD employees are being pressured to volunteer to help with DHS's immigration crackdown. The work includes things like: “developing concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Border”
www.wired.com/story/pete-h...
Based on books 1-3, I think you've succeeded.
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
[Junk] fees, [ai] slop, enshittification... really hoping that we get to a garbage-light state of things sooner than later. Bring on the new wave of waste management & public works in our tech and functional activities.
The Navajo Nation commission's report detailed harsh discipline, language barriers, discriminatory hiring practices and more.
“It’s our kids, our students, who are suffering the consequences of entrenched racism,” the commission chair said.
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we keep operating like trump flipped some kind of switch to make the gop more misogynistic and racist but this path has been clear since the 50s. you dont get here without goldwater, reagan, nixon, the bushes and mccain/romney. trump didnt come out of nowhere. the monster was always there.
I'm not sure if this qualifies as it's not rules-based and quirky in its construction, but Midst is a solid series - interesting characters, great sound/score. midst.co - it starts with Midst, then expands to Moonward and Unend.
