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Harvard just scrapped it's office of Diversity Inclusion and Belonging and has renamed it the office of campus and community life. They will move focus from underrepresented minorities to first generation and low income students instead. Resegregation comes to Harvard.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

Well, this is horrifying.

New interim guidance from the UK "Equality and Human Rights Commission." Trans people are effectively banned from all bathrooms. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

Release the Kraken.

This is crazy. ICE didn’t have event have a warrant to arrest the guy! The judge asked for it and they said “we have an administrative warrant” (not a real warrant). She told them to kick rock and now the FBI is charging her with obstruction the arrest ‼️

The ADL's latest antisemitism audit sounds the alarm over non-Zionist Rosh Hashanah observances... while the organization continues to defend Elon Musk's literal Nazi salutes New from @benlorber8.bsky.social in @religiondispatches.org

This should be a huge story

The first issue of Nemik's Weekly Manifesto, the newsletter I'm working on with @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social to mobilize Star Wars fans into real life action around #Andor season 2, is here! Let's get what inspired these episodes, and what you can do right now: bit.ly/NemiksManife...

Your regular reminder that the COVID pandemic is NOT over. Please use the proper language when talking about it. Please don’t say “During COVID” or “When COVID.” We are still deeply in it. People are still dying and becoming disabled from Long COVID.

Houthi airstrike defense estimated to have destroyed over half a billion dollars worth of American military hardware

Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads

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

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

Good to see @newrepublic.com showcasing quality independent journalism, especially with this important story

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

Also on the tracker a man arrested yesterday in this poster's hometown of Columbus, Ohio. As a reddit commentor in the story in r/Columbus said.. "I'd believe there are hot local singles in my area before I believe an ICE Social Media post." ICE claims without proof that he is in Tren De Aragua.

Tim Pool is in the White House briefing room today and the top producer at 60 Minutes has resigned because he doesn't have journalistic independence anymore. Bleak times for journalism.

Good job team America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that a trans teen cannot legally change their name until they turn 21 solely because they are trans despite having the support of both parents. This is unconscionable. www.advocate.com/law/mississi...

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

Today marks 83 years since the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In the words of Marek Edelman, last surviving leader of the uprising and lifelong anti-zionist: “To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors”

something like 75% of the people on that plane were proven to have absolutely zero criminal records, and they ALSO have House reps, and those House reps have offices to picket and phone lines to tie up "So-and-So just did ____, why can't YOU do that???" is a pretty good attack in these cases!

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

If liberals keep implying that there is a certain kind of person who deserves this (criminal record, no family, non-compliant), the Trump regime will keep doing it and simply claiming they were doing it to the kind of person who deserved it

oh fuck there's been an E. Coli outbreak and the Trump administration essentially hid it

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

It would take some time for this funding to really start getting off the ground but this would make ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States, and quite possibly the entire world.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Fantastic piece by Jews for Mask Rights excoriating @governor.ny.gov. Sharing evidence that these bans are abused by law enforcement, a violation of civil rights, and go directly against Jewish beliefs. “using Jews to justify stripping civil rights doesn’t make us safe — it makes us a scapegoat. “

A vote for Cuomo is a vote to put Trump in charge of NYC

“37% of Americans agree that while they would hate being British, they wouldn't mind having a British accent.” rosencomet.com/changelingti...

Without providing evidence, the Trump administration asserts for the first time in writing that Abrego Garcia is still alive

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

Rather than cite “DEI”—write out the words. Diversity Equity Inclusion Because if you’re against DEI, THAT’S what you’re against. Don’t let folks hide behind the initials.

“Jewish people came to America to escape generations of similar predations... The images of Ozturk’s arrest in twenty-first century Massachusetts evoke the oppressive tactics... that many ancestors... left behind in Odessa, Kishinev, and Warsaw.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...