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sivav.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
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Sure, they're selling dollars for fifteen cents, but they'll make it up in volume!

Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil.

Consider this: Brad Lander won't be able to sue the ICE officers who arrested him because the Supreme Court has made it virtually impossible to sue federal officers. In 2020, Congress considered - but did not pass - a bill that would have allowed such claims. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Concerned citizens have turned to the Neighbors app, once used largely to look for lost deliveries, to make public service announcements about ICE raids in their communities.

“These are not the droids you are looking for”

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

Sotomayor: "The majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent."

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...

"Business Insider identified 1,240 data centers in America already built or approved for construction at the end of last year — the most comprehensive tally to date. That's nearly four times the number in 2010."

These 18 Democrats just voted for the Senate's corrupt crypto industry bill that greenlights Trump's corruption: Alsobrooks Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kim Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner Warnock

While serving as a Marine, we fought for every American — no matter who they are or who they love. I’m proud to stand with the LGBTQIA+ community, and I’ll keep working to pass legislation that protects their rights, their dignity, and their freedom to live authentically and equally. Happy Pride!

There's a quick way to identify crypto-transphobes: if someone gets frothing mad angry at pronouns in emails or the word "cisgender", they really hate trans people and everything about them. Their tolerance of trans people is a micron deep. 1/2

"The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers."

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? How low professorial salaries are compared to other professions that require advanced degrees and expert knowledge. We used to be compensated with flexible time, intellectual freedom, and security. But no more.

The New York Times gets it wrong. It takes an out-of-town newspaper to get it right www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Maybe he should not have appointed an unhinged cult member to run intelligence

Inside the clashes between Trump and Gabbard The director of national intelligence has rankled Trump with her statements about nuclear war, and the president has suggested she’s off message www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

ICE: America’s most dangerous and unchecked street gang.

Once again Meta launches a feature without even taking a basic stab at privacy considerations www.404media.co/meta-invents...

this is a strong ticket

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

"You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens. I’m not obstructing, I am standing right here in the hallway. … You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant.” www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. gov't created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1968...

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

It should be embarrassing for Democratic politicians not to have been arrested by ICE.

none of these people are capable of analyzing politics in terms anything other than their narrowest and most petty resentments

A failure of journalism. Neither the push nor the NBC News article notes that THIS IS ILLEGAL. The law allows a one-time delay. That’s it! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

How and when did Gov Hochul grow a spine? So pleased.

NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

so like i know brad lander is a candidate for mayor but maybe the headlines should focus on the fact they arrested the guy CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF NEW YORK CITY’S FINANCES

If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. government created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. — @djrothkopf.bsky.social

Aside from the fact that a terrifying freak is in charge of our country, I can’t get over the fact that he ends his posts that way

NEW: The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a 2021 censorship law can't be used to ban teaching about race and gender in Oklahoma's higher education institutions. This is a win for academic freedom and the First Amendment.

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Rubio's anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy for all. Judge Julia Kobick granted a classwide preliminary injunction that applies to all trans and nonbinary people on Tuesday. New, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-f...

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

The president was reportedly “pissed off at the soldiers" whom he wanted to appear “menacing” but instead were “having a good time.” https://trib.al/fr5h3IV

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”