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Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

'If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...

As I watch Starmer tear up Labour's prospects by attacking people in poverty, abusing those who care about the living world and appeasing the ultra-rich, I feel the same sense of dislocation as I did before the Iraq War. Anyone can see the disaster coming, except, apparently, the government.

I’ll be there

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

AOC: When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

now do Israel

youtu.be/xoX52Sua8Oc?... Todd Rungren’s easy-listening response to John Donne’s Neoplatonic’The Extasie’

'Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy" and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries.' Tech bros are sociopathic exintinction events aided by demented power-needy govs bbc.com/news/article...

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

A selection from this month’s Viz.

This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri. This is not my America, and the world is aghast.

The More You Know…💫

Midsummer dark-moon, black belly of the Went. Clouds heavy with thunder, a tremor of distant horses. Glyphosate drifting down from the rape on a crisp bag. [...] Ulle’s pestilent bootlace, knotting to foam in my Vaseline fumbling, nailed to the tree, lank and bleeding.

And today's winner of the Every Accusation Is a Projection award goes to....

Only ten days left before Thorpe Marsh Apocalypse, a creative writing workshop at the site of the feralising former coal-fired power station at Thorpe Marsh, South Yorkshire. Book here. www.eventbrite.com/e/thorpe-mar...

Nigel Farage says Kemi Badenoch "doesn’t know what hard work is" - but he's certainly keeping busy himself. In just six months, he's raked in over £570,000 from GB News, gold bullion deals, social media, and public speaking - all while jetting to the US eight times.

Pasadena knows.

Everyone got tariffed by Trump except Russia.

Tariff-free, AI-free goods available here longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

www.eventbrite.com/e/thorpe-mar...

I’ve come to see the terrific mural that commemorates The Battle of Cable Street that took place on 4 Oct 1936 when thousands of Londoners opposed a march by Mosley’s Fascist ‘Blackshirts’. No pasaran! ✊ www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...

"picked bones of garefowl dumped on middens for the next five thousand years" From 'Orasaigh' by myself & @steveeely.bsky.social Shown at exhibitions, this image of Garefowl (Great Auk) isn't in the book Taken at an undisclosed site, South Uist holds the remnant population of Great Auks #birds

Sad news

Establishment corruption: when people of our class abuse children it is not that bad.

I don’t believe in ghosts but there are other hauntings. The long-stemmed irises in my mother’s day vase, a hieroglyphic haunting in one’s own home, alone and ok with that. The Blue Hour Angelina D'Roza longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Thou shalt not suffer the pile to live.

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