Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

most people don't know this but you can actually care about people who live in other countries

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

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Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
So we've come to this. Anne Frank hiding in the basement. Underground Railroad. Brave people having to do the right thing under cover as though it's wrong. This regime has no ethics, morals, or compassion, but they should feel deeply ashamed of themselves.

A billion dollars a day to commit wholesale slaughter, not a single fucking penny for health care. America, 2026.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.

Whoever created this needs to get their ass haunted by every dead academic

GW sold Virginia campus for $427 million to Amazon for data center development The deal transfers all of GW’s roughly 122 acres of property in Loudoun County, Virginia, to ADS for $427,299,350 — roughly $3.5 million an acre — according to real estate records.

Why does this seem like a metaphor and not just your average capitalist catastrophe?

Pay to play foreign policy.

DEAR TRANS KIDS, THIS WORLD IS BETTER WITH YOu IN IT AND YOU AR E WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

Just wanted to make sure this wasn't lost.

The connection between Epstein, the Dubins, and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Vile stuff.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Text from my son.

"It's bad Dad"

Fuck all y'all who led us here. That's all he could say.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

Appalling. One doctor “sent Mr. Epstein’s sexual partners elsewhere for gonorrhea treatment so that when their cases were reported to public health authorities, they wouldn’t be tied to Mr. Epstein. Some doctors also shared patients’ private health information with him”

At least 80 children dead as missile reportedly hits school in southern Iran The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

This is not a headline at ABC or 9Papers or Newscorp papers online. Shame on you all for giving cover AGAIN to Israel’s merciless disdain for human life.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

So did the $1 Billion Board of Peace membership fee come with a money-back guarantee?

Asking for several Gulf monarchies.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Still have power at the moment but I don’t know how long our luck will hold.

Dog outside in a tunnel being shoveled through the snow.

It’s piling up in Boston. Shoveling just enough so the dog has a place to pee!

The BBC removed part of Akinola Davies Jr.’s winning speech at last night’s #BAFTAs:

“Archive your loved ones. Archive your stories yesterday, today, and forever. For Nigeria, for London, the Congo, Sudan, free Palestine.”

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Congrats! This looks amazing!

“Financiers” = the Epstein class

No one would ever call boys who were trafficked and raped "underage men."

“I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food, with children and...

A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside.

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds" - Joan Scott www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities Is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the last best hope for American arts and letters—or is it killing them?

This week, we have 2 critiques of the Mellon Foundation's politics, one from the most effective journalist of the anti-DEI hysteria

Pretty easy to see where this goes next--establish the narrative, then write the legislation:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Bad Bunny in the Sugar Cane and ICE on the Streets From Santa Clara to Puerto Rico to Minneapolis

“The air-brushed AI commercials spun out creepy fantasies of imitation life, decontextualized knowledge, robotic efficiency. Bad Bunny…—in contrast—gave life to the realities of work, history, struggle, community& joy that make us all human” @emdillon.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...