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Owl, carved from a Tridacna shell; Phoenician, ca. 8th century B.C.E. [Pinterest] #OwlishMonday 🤍🐚🤍

Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

The responses are also so often such vacuous social clutter — chirpy affability that mimics conversation framed in narrowly delineated neurotypical terms.

The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.

Celtic chieftain’s bird helmet! An astounding military helmet from some 2,200 years ago! The bird’s wings are hinged so that they flapped when the wearer moved! From Ciumești, Satu Mare County, Romania 📷 by me #Archaeology

This is my favorite thread of today

Timeline cleanse

Do. Not. Use. Fucking. Sticker. Mule.

🏺As promised, I've finally written up a little blog post looking at the archaeology of all of those 'little guys' we all seem to love so much online. 📜 animalarchaeology.com/2026/06/08/a...

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

Israel kills more than 300 in Beirut. Unclear what the targets were. 1/3 of victims women, children and elderly. Israel said it hit Hezbollah command and control centers, but the only Hezbollah official reported killed was a top aide to the group's secretary general. apnews.com/article/leba...

Friends, have you called your Senators and Reps yet? If not, please do so. Numbers matter to these people, and they need to know that we are numerous.

Trump would 100% claim he died for a few minutes just so he could claim he rose from the dead on Easter even better than Jesus did

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Listen: If you are an expert in protests and why they matter, you can probably pitch on Monday and publish on Tuesday. If you need help, email me lollardfish at gmail and I'll walk you through it. It's especially vital (always) to pitch LOCAL outlets. More context /1

“Proceeds Will Go To…: A Brief Guide to Selling Art and Merch to Raise Money for Direct Support and Mutual Aid, which is available to download for free…” Great resource at www.birchwoodpalace.com/pdfs

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

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We could really use your help to make No Kings Day as big and powerful as possible. Your support will power the thousands of massive and peaceful events planned across the US and the world. Please pitch in if you can to make March 28 a day of nonviolent protest that will echo across the planet.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Morally indefensible and unacceptable.

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Arkansas is considering the strictest book ban in the country, which would forbid all outside books, magazine and newspapers from being sent directly to people in prison. To understand what’s at stake, we spoke with formerly incarcerated Arkansans about how books reshaped their lives.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

This is it. Way past time for everyone in this country - literally everyone - to find practical ways to support trans people and immigrants, this regime's primary targets. Starting right now, find something practical to do to actually help people.

Here’s more about MISSSEY, who have been working for local community for 15+ years. www.misssey.org/about-us/

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"Kiln you believe it? Medieval industry at Finchingfield" cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/finchingfield/

This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.

Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage. If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to hello@flamingydra.com

Just opened a trial with the @pimsleur app and the first lesson is an older sounding guy trying to get the attention of (to be clear, these are the directions provided) “a young woman.” WTAF do not recommend.

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