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A woman of many powers. Full professor, cultural critic, political analyst and tarot reader. One of my books has a 2 second cameo in an Oscar winning film.日本語を勉強します. I’m my ancestors’ wildest dreams and/or worst nightmare. I have a lot of ancestors.
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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

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As we approach the #TeachTruth Day of Action on June 7, we're highlighting how New Jersey educators are advocating to ensure African American history is taught with accuracy and respect. Read it here:

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Let's be fair here. Just because Elon says that Trump is in the Epstein files and just because there are dozens of photos with Trump & Epstein together and just because Trump called Epstein a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side"...

submitted 1 day ago • 279 comments

Elon should explain to us exactly how he won the election for Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 424 comments

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

Coming in like…

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this is excellent. watch his gestures

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And here we go. Remember they are trying to jam through 10 years of no AI regulations.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Sign up!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ron DeSantis stranded drivers at a bridge with no warning just to stop rainbow colors from appearing on it.

submitted 3 days ago • 127 comments

I went to a store to pick something up and then walked into Target because it was right there, literally one second after I walked through the doors I remembered the boycott and turned right the fuck around without missing a beat. Fuck Target 🤷🏽‍♀️

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

More than 1000 people showed up to protest the abduction of a high school student in Milford, MA. “Hands off our kids,” they chanted. This is how we move forward. By seeing everyone else’s kids as our kids. This is the way. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/01/m...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

After three months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, a Filipino green-card holder who had been arrested at Seattle-Tacoma Airport has finally gone home.

submitted 4 days ago • 216 comments

Camden Police Chief Marcus Whitney said in a voicemail message that the department had separated from the agreement with ICE, earlier that day. Whitney said the decision came in response to community concerns. He noted that he had received numerous calls on Tuesday from people opposing the move.

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Went to a big box store today for something and a Jeep in the parking lot had a huge sign on the back that explained the meaning of habeas corpus, contextualized attacks on immigrants as an attack on all of us and called on Democrats and Republicans to join together and fight for freedom..

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Spindrift is the best sparkling water I've ever had?????

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Marilyn Monroe, born 99 years ago today. When Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked at the Mocambo Club because she was Black, Monroe (at the height of her own fame) called the owner and told him if he booked Ella, she would take a front table every night. And she did. #RIP

submitted 5 days ago • 173 comments

A radical transformation of our way of life is underway. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking this administration is normal.

submitted 5 days ago • 516 comments

The French Open on TNT sucks 🫠🫠🫠

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今度は今度、今は今。

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Honestly? I would recommend finding a small class (online or in person) where you can speak and learn in a live setting with other humans. For me, having a Japanese teacher and a chance to speak every week has been essential. Apps can supplement but nothing can replace in vivo practice.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I have no idea why, but suddenly it became a lot easier for me to read Japanese hiragana and katakana during this semester of study. The weirdest thing is that my (American) classmate is currently living in Japan and somehow it seems as though his being immersed in the language also benefitted me..

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

休みの日、日本語を勉強したいです。とてもたのしいです。上手になりたいです。

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Curtis Yarvin goes on @cnn.com, confirms that he wants a monarchy to replace democracy, says racist things and informs @hadasgold.bsky.social that he's in touch with Trump staffers. Nice to see the mainstream press catch up on this dangerously weird ideology. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

submitted 6 days ago • 4946 comments

Never has any leader had so many people wanting to make the argument that “not wearing any clothes actually makes the emperor better dressed if you think about it.”

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

submitted 6 days ago • 602 comments

🤢🤮

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Well, f#ck. “Trump taps Palantir to compile data on Americans” - 5/30/25 (Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, Alex Karp, & Stephen Cohen.) 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 123 comments

Somewhere, Patti LuPone is recreating this GIF…

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments