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U.S. citizen Ricardo Gonzalez was brutally detained by ICE in Long Beach while he yelled for help and said his arm was broken. This is a pattern of abuse and violence from ICE. No one is safe and our communities are being terrorized. We need ICE out.

More than 200 complaints regarding sexual violence at schools have been filed with the Education Department since the start of Trump’s second term. The department has investigated only 29 of these, finding fault with a school district only once.

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

We cannot solve gun violence without addressing domestic violence. And survivors of domestic violence will never be safe if we don’t confront this country’s toxic relationship with guns. The work is completely intertwined. abcnews.com/Politics/per...

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

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“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Police say they are still working to determine why a 34-year-old woman allegedly drove her truck through a crowd of people Saturday. (@kmuw.bsky.social)

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

To be Young, Black and Gifted yall… Shout out to the students at North Carolina A&T University. They were stripped of their polling station on campus so they all marched together the nearest one to vote early. They are the future that gives me hope. 👏🏾🤩✨🇺🇸

North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board.

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If you want to know the big picture of why programs are cut & schools are closing in your Kansas school district, read this thread. Then make sure you have a plan to vote for Democrats up and down your ballot so that we can change course. Sample ballot: myvoteinfo.voteks.org/VoterView

Must-read 🧵. The Dept of Ed aims to dismantle public schooling entirely; state-level voucher programs are key to the plan. As my forthcoming book shows, the “school choice” models described below put religious liberty and consumer choice claims to segregationist ends, enshittifying ed for all.

I think I've told this story here before, but I'll keep telling it until it's no longer relevant. A friend was sent to China for a couple months for a work assignment. After about a month, his Chinese colleagues decided they trusted him enough to start asking questions about American life.

#SC 1000+measles cases this year. South Carolina is the epicenter. Lindsey Graham voted to put RFK Jr. in charge of public health-now his sister Darlene (with no experience) is running to perpetuate this nightmare for families. Your kids are paying the price for incompetence. Vote for Dr. Andrews!

When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it

literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!

Can't recall ever seeing anything quite like this during a Congressional hearing. And I've been in and around politics for 50 years.

37 more wounded troops. Added quietly. No explanation. Here's the No B.S. truth: when anyone (a vendor, a CEO, a government) revises the numbers without telling you why, the silence IS the message. 861 wounded. Their families deserve the full story.

You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:

"[Trump's] comments came a week after reports about the U.S. military nearly starting a war with China after relying on false information from AI, and after the world experienced its hottest month on record in August. ... AI data centers will also worsen the climate crisis."

The reality is that there are no evidence-based educational interventions for sexual violence. Zero. And schools who use these “educational interventions” are making a mockery of their own missions as educational institutions.

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

In Texas, sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%! #MomSky

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...

I had the luck & honor to go on a tour w/ Cecil B. Moore Freedom Fighters, a group of activists who met as *young* teenagers at the 1965 Girard College desegregation protests. All put their lives on the line, countless times. They’re in their 70’s now. Several explicitly made this connection.

Research links secure firearm storage to lower risks of suicide and unintentional shootings. It’s a way to put a barrier between a gun and someone who should not have access, whether a curious toddler, a young person considering suicide, or a thief trying to steal a gun.

AI tech bro doomers are inventing a story to cause panic instead of deliberating at the polls, in Congress and community meetings. "The threat is from destructive misuse of A.I. by humans rather than from autonomous A.I. agents themselves.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...