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Librarian, adjunct history guy, likes medieval stuff. Keep it spooky.

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Haitian man dies in US immigration custody with untreated toothache, brother says A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months after the denial of his asylum application has died in the hospital

Emmanuel Damas, another individual killed in ICE custody.

He had a toothache. They ignored it. He died of spesis. Read that again.

Why do we need to fund this murderous agency?

www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

05.03.2026 05:27 πŸ‘ 4284 πŸ” 1922 πŸ’¬ 138 πŸ“Œ 96

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

04.03.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 1815 πŸ” 724 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 35

Spanish PM Pedro SΓ‘nchez on Iran: β€œSpain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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04.03.2026 08:21 πŸ‘ 6280 πŸ” 1902 πŸ’¬ 124 πŸ“Œ 242
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Measuring the economic damage of Minnesota’s ICE surge is hard β€’ Minnesota Reformer Emerging statistics on the economic impact of Operation Metro Surge to Minnesota β€” $203.1 million in damage in Minneapolis, $106 million in lost wages in the Twin Cities β€” are based on limited data an...

So.

You want to convince your city, town, and county to proactively REJECT working with ICE/CBP?

Send them this link about the staggering financial cost to the Twin Cities.

Make your conservative mayor start to sweat about her budget.

minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/02/m...

02.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 146 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

02.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 3439 πŸ” 813 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 13

This was Ike as President (his first major speech, in fact), but just gonna say: Eisenhower not beating the allegations of being the United States' greatest general on this one.

Fitting that we got one verifiable Military Genius and he was the Divine Spirit of Logistics and Diplomacy guy.

02.03.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 604 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 4

okay so sounds like some of what's happening here is that he's deliberately letting the word "oysterman" do an ENORMOUS volume of misleading rhetorical work here, when in fact he's something more akin to a high-end specialty restaurant supplier??? lmao oh my god what a transparent grift

02.03.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 766 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
2025 California Condor Population Status Report

39 years ago, there were only 27 California condors in the world. As of 2025, we now have 607, including 392 that are living free in the wild.

"Put that in your doom and smoke it" -Ursula Vernon

www.fws.gov/media/2025-c...

01.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 834 πŸ” 232 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 17

I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress.

There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.

01.03.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 2318 πŸ” 394 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 13

I hate my fascist president and would also not enjoy the JFK building getting blown up downtown because it has federal offices in it.

I hate my fascist government and don’t want my local elementary school obliterated.

This is not hard to understand if you view Iranians as actual people.

01.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote:

"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same."

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

28.02.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 4703 πŸ” 1650 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 29

we have invented Regime Change Via Air Superiority from the hit book, "You Cannot Force Regime Change Via Air Superiority"

28.02.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 409 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

We had a deal with Iran to ensure limits on its nuclear capacities. Trump ended that deal. Now he says that sending our young people off to fight and potentially lose their lives for this country is just a β€˜cost of war.’ This is the cost of his broken promises. No war with Iran.

28.02.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 1534 πŸ” 497 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 20

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

28.02.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 6543 πŸ” 2770 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 73
Get Your War On by David Rees

Get Your War On by David Rees

Time is a flat circle

28.02.2026 06:25 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

19.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 11157 πŸ” 2753 πŸ’¬ 178 πŸ“Œ 57

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

28.02.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 8077 πŸ” 2836 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 99

treeosaur.com

27.02.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This is the stupidest bullshit imaginable and I can think of hundreds of better ways to spend this money.

27.02.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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First-of-its-kind law revokes IDs and enacts bathroom rules The law retroactively invalidates driver's licenses with updated gender markers that were legally obtained.

Trans people are 1% of the population.
23% of adults live with mental illness.
11% live in poverty.
60% live paycheck to paycheck.
13% face food insecurity.

And lawmakers fixate on harming trans people. Not to solve anything. Not to help anyone. Just to feed their cult's fear of anything different.

27.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 440 πŸ” 268 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 8

The corruption in this administration is really off the charts in so many ways.

27.02.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My bar for Democratic nominees for 2028 is to establish independent tribunals so that law enforcement at all levels can be held to account for crimes against humanity, something that we seem incapable of doing for ourselves.

25.02.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really love how they boiled it down at the end. How was the life of one guy worth this? One immigrant puppeteer? And the answer is because everyone actually matters, not just the rich and powerful.
Also nice getting the course correction that the people of Westeros generally hate the Targaryens.

25.02.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's amazing how people are surprised that you can find tons of movies at the library on DVD that aren't available for streaming anywhere, whether because they're new or older. Just in the last month we've gotten Death of Stalin, Contact, Anora, Black Phone 2, The Count of Monte Cristo...

25.02.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yes Josh they had to redact thousands of files for that reason

25.02.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 2301 πŸ” 385 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 0

Second edition expansion allows for:
Chicken
Robot
Pumpkin Monstrosity
Moose Couch

25.02.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Scarecrow
Tin Man
Lion
Farmgirl with Dog

25.02.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.

This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

24.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 5025 πŸ” 2445 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 147

Either that or portals were involved.

24.02.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from Twin Peaks, caption reads "Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

Screenshot from Twin Peaks, caption reads "Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

It's a national holiday

24.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 518 πŸ” 226 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 10