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I breathed a sigh of relief upon reading this. Horrifying.

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Anyway gonna shut it down for the night. Yes that man is hurting people and will continue to do so but he's deeply unpopular and is going to be more so. It's up to us to show actual solidarity with the most vulnerable and to do what we can from where we are to fight back. No throwing ppl under buses

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This is how LAPD treats our elders. Never forget.

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It looks like today was the largest single-day protest since 1970

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One good thing about today in Los Angeles is that the mainstream media was onsite before the police started rioting. So many news crews saying "the crowd here in LA is totally peaceful" right before LAPD and LA Sheriff started shooting and trampling people

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I wasn't at the No Kings protests as it was the last workshop of my virtual mentoring program year! So proud of all our graduating Asian American HS seniors, cutting up onions with their speeches! 😭 I remind myself if I can help kids feel affirmed and supported in these times then I'm doing good.

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If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one. Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

submitted 3 days ago • 714 comments

Every month or so I look up "Martin Short Meryl Streep" to see if they've announced they're together because, goddamit, hope and cuteness and love fortify the spirit

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Including Grace Meng, who represents...Flushing FLUSHING

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For those who live elsewhere, this is the heart of downtown #LosAngeles. My friends are here. My union is here (sup @wgawest.bsky.social). My teenager is here. People are passing out pastries & singing & praying. All we want is for our neighbors not to be kidnapped off the streets.

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

see, the thing i’m genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

submitted 7 days ago • 584 comments

My heart feels so heavy right now. Love and solidarity to LA.

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UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

submitted 7 days ago • 630 comments

So damn proud of these kids for their courage. 💥 Hundreds of Milford, MA high schoolers walked out in protest today after ICE detained their classmate Marcelo Gomes Da Silva. Detained on his way to volleyball practice. Illegally. These students aren’t backing down—they’re rising up. #OnYourSide

submitted 14 days ago • 78 comments

I'm rereading Jo Ann Beard's "The Fourth State of Matter" for a writing class on grief: I read it years ago and, of course, the horrific tragedy of it was what first made it stand out. But the many layers of grief and love are what makes it worth coming back. One of the best essays I've ever read.

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I'm listening to the audiobook Babel by RF Kuang where the main character is from Canton, China in the 1800s. For some goddamn reason he speaks Mandarin, which was not the language there then...it was Cantonese. For a book critiquing colonialism, I'm really frustrated at this, esp after the intro...

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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

submitted 21 days ago • 763 comments

then die

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this is huge, a major weaponization of federal power, a threat to all of higher ed.

submitted 25 days ago • 42 comments

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

submitted 25 days ago • 30 comments

Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

"Perhaps that’s the first thing we need to acknowledge to ourselves: nothing will feel like enough because everything we know and love is at stake. No individual’s actions will be commensurate with the threats we face. But we can each endeavor to do the next right thing, whatever that means for us."

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I voted NO on their “big, beautiful” bill because it will strip health care from 14 million Americans—including nearly 130,000 people in my district who rely on Medicaid.

submitted 26 days ago • 847 comments

McGovern: "What the hell are Republicans so afraid of? What the hell are so scared of that you guys are holding this hearing at 1 in the morning ... if Republicans are so proud of what's in this bill, why are you trying to ram it through in dead of night?"

submitted 27 days ago • 59 comments

Thank you @aaronmarx.bsky.social for marking up Columbia's email to me and other alumni:

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I am an alum of Columbia University, and I would love it if someone marked up the letter they just sent to alumni:

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Letter: The importance of child care programs like Head Start cannot be overstated. It’s the most important social and educational investment in children, families, and communities our country has ever undertaken.

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SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.

submitted 41 days ago • 152 comments

Whoops 😂 #itsgonnabemay

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Hey NYC, The Moth is having me retell the very first story I ever told on stage (Dec. 2016?!) on May 20th at 7:30pm at the Music Hall in Williamsburg! You can buy tickets at themoth.org/events/slam-... !

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It's official. Resistance Summer School is happening. Columbia cancelled my class on Race, Media and International Affairs, but I'm going to teach it anyway. 100+ people have enrolled in just six hours. karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...

submitted 52 days ago • 87 comments

I love when the NYT rewrites my entire story and doesn’t cite it until the 16th paragraph

submitted 54 days ago • 25 comments

A destructive wildfire has erupted in eastern New Jersey, burning more than 8,500 acres as of Tuesday night, spurring thousands of evacuations and painting the sky bright red in parts of Ocean County. wapo.st/4jN69Ms

submitted 55 days ago • 29 comments

Big win for myself: last year my cholesterol was slightly above 200 mg/dL (under is the desirable range). So I worked to eat out less at restaurants & do slightly more (lol still not that much) exercise. Today I'm down 21 mg/dL & under 200! 🥳 Gotta make sure I'm healthy to get thru this hellscape.

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Video from Friday shows ICE buses heading toward an airport in North Texas before turning around as the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration must, for now, refrain from deporting Venezuelan men based in the state under the Alien Enemies Act.

submitted 57 days ago • 55 comments

I come back to this post a lot in these times, sigh.

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I have been on the hunt for non-alcoholic IPAs here in NYC; happy to report Wegmans in Astor Place has a GREAT selection 🍻 When I was writing the first draft of my memoir I drank so much; now I have to revise sober. I still like the taste and comfort of a beer; now I get to have the NA versions! 😍😭

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Supporting kids' requires protecting #teachers who defend their rights. A HS teacher in Florida was fired, her teaching license revoked because she used her student's preferred name without parents' written permission. This petition has 51,000 names. Please add yours: www.change.org/p/reinstate-...

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A list of the 86 American colleges and universities (p. 8-9) that signed on to an amicus brief in support of the AAUP's lawsuit against "Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech." Among them are Rutgers, Michigan State, and the whole Maryland system

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Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

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