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Seeing Brad Lander, NYC's comptroller and a mayoral candidate (also my former neighbor and city councilman) violently arrested by trump's immigration gestapo is making me sick to my stomach.

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In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him disclosing he had a legal firearm. Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

submitted 23 hours ago • 257 comments

""They shoot anyone who comes near the food." My contact in Gaza said this to me today, as to why he is no longer going to risk his life to receive aid. "I wanted food and I got nothing just bombing and destruction." Now he has to pay even more than he once did to buy food elsewhere.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Christ, that photo

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anyone who says that we need to “reform” #adoption to restore it to its “noble intentions” has no idea how modern adoption originated. the permanence and irrevocability of severance, the identity erasure, the secrecy & anonymity: it’s all rooted in adoption’s origin as a marketplace of babies.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

wait so the guy can pass a bill every 9 minutes??? Elect

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

This precise building is where I had my own US citizenship application processed just a few years ago.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

submitted 7 hours ago • 795 comments

I don't have a copy of my original birth certificate. The amended one is a document of lies.

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the relation of parent to child is one of stewardship, not ownership. but #adoption is designed to confer legal parenthood through the issuing of false birth records, which give the adopters permanent ownership of the adoptee's identity. why can't adult adoptees legally emancipate themselves?

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A huge congratulations to Mehdi Khawaja, winner of the @armorysqprize.bsky.social for his translation from Kashmiri of To Their His Own Hell, by Akhtar Mohiuddin! 💐💐💐

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speaking of the commodification of children: using anonymous gamete “donation” adds a cruelly ironic twist on the erasure of parentage #adoptees face. Because to have a child from an anonymously supplied gamete is to achieve exactly the thing to which the child is denied access—a biological link.

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It's upsetting and disturbing to read of this account of sexual harassment that went on even after it was reported to the head of Anglo studies at Charles University (2023-2024). The women who had the courage to come forward were gaslit by + pagenotfound.cz/clanek/ceske...

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I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as the sickness of our political era. It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 102 comments

🇵🇱🐐🌉 Every instance of guerrilla toponomy at Google Maps brings a smile to my face, such as somebody labelling the newest foot/bike bridges in Poznań as "Professor Lech Wałęsa Bridges". Wałęsa is not a professor, and these bridges aren't named after him, but it has been a few weeks already like this.

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AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

With little over one week left until the mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani’s momentum against Andrew Cuomo is drawing widespread opposition to stop him from winning the Democratic nomination and likely City Hall.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Goodnight. 🖼️ Gemma Koomen

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

I didn’t realise it was #NationalPigeonAppreciationDay yesterday and whilst I appreciate them every day, here is one of my favourite pigeon paintings. 🖼️ Joseph Crawhall

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‘Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.’ James Joyce ~ Ulysses. #BookWormSat 🖼️ The Mirror, William Merritt Chase, c.1900.

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Goodnight. Moonlit wagtail, Tom Wood, 2018.

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Sunday plans: 🖼️ Arnold Lobel

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Young Deer Gathering, Seiho Takeuchi, 1924.

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Cuckoo Flower, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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Afternoon. Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature, Guérin-Méneville, F.-E., 1838.

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Hedgehogs in the Wood, Jan Mankes, 1916.

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Morning. 🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Kyiv this morning, at least 14 killed

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

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1st major cultural difference about the US I realised was when I tweeted about how I'd just got my health insurance card after marriage and all my Indian friends were like "omg you got married congratulations!" and all my American friends were like "YOU GOT HEALTH INSURANCE, CONGRATULATIONS!!!"

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As climate solutions reporter I find many 'solutions' don't scale- or reduce pollution at all. Which is why after months of reporting I want to tell you about Vienna. Vienna has found a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change, all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in. 🎧⬇️

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It would be better for NATO and Poland if #Ukraine were in the Alliance, Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said. Speaking at the Central and Eastern European Security Forum, he said Poland doesn't help Ukraine "solely out of romantic enthusiasm" and ⤵️

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If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

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