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ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

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In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is not a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

submitted 23 hours ago • 33 comments

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

submitted 22 hours ago • 438 comments

Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation." Are we great again yet?

submitted 1 day ago • 339 comments

Goddammit. An RCT for a vaccine is a foolish and wasteful and useless activity. Let’s be clear: this is the end run around vaccines. This is the anti-vax playbook. They want RCTs (which will necessarily cause harm since some people will get placebo and thus get sick) for all vaccines.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

anyway, so today i had a patient throw her underwear at me, in case you’re wondering how my day went.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

submitted 24 days ago • 336 comments

Apple juice recall: www.eatingwell.com/apple-juice-...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

This is true in the US as well, but you notice the incredibly low guard to prisoner ratio, and this guy just being able to walk around the prison without fear? It’s because none of the people shown here are dangerous in the slightest.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

🧵Confirmation via a friend: Starbucks will forbid employees from masking without a medical note. Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards? Starbucks wants you infected. 👉 #Sickbucks 👈

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

We just published a new study on COVID-19 in Ontario, and it turns out, the way we measured cases may have been way off. Why? Because testing wasn’t equal across age and sex groups. That skews what we think we know. In epi-speak this is called “ascertainment bias”. Here's what we found:

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

submitted 3 days ago • 525 comments

Looked over two days ago to realize the stinging nettles are starting to sprout. Today i realized they’re already eight inches high, and in danger of getting too big for me to be able to dig them out when i can finally deal with them. Argh.

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Important update on last night’s wholesome news! 💖

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

submitted 4 days ago • 153 comments

"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift." (Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass)

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

The band is @thisismytragedy.bsky.social , they’re local to Madison and they’re great. My heart has honestly been healed by punk joy tonight, and that was even before we sang happy birthday to Grandma Joyce. <3 Check them out if you get a chance, y’all. thisismytragedy.bandcamp.com

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GUYS. HER NAME IS JOYCE. SHE’S THE BASSIST’S GRANDMA. TODAY’S HER 75th BIRTHDAY. 😍😭😍😭😍

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Somebody’s sixty-something parents are at this show and it’s the cutest fucking thing, y’all

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

listen. God works in mysterious ways or whatever but it is hard to describe how spectacularly unpopular the highly conservative U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops has made itself with the rest of church leadership. the Vatican sees them as WAY too enmeshed in GOP politics and Francis legit hated them

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

Me: considering we’re in the only state in the upper Midwest where weed isn’t legal, this bar sure smells like someone put their joint out in a puddle of beer. Their menu: check out our THC-infused menu! Me: ohhhhhhhh. (Related: It seems unfair that N95s don’t filter out smells.)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If it's possible for you and a few others in your communities to band together now and to start planning back to school free stores, children's clothing swaps, school supply giveaways etc... definitely do it. There's going to be a lot of need.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

You can bid on a crocheted fantastical beast (like this whale) and other excellent signed books, bespoke postcards, etc, at the Silent Auction: Genre Creators for Trans Rights: bit.ly/genrefortrans

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

"I want to say this directly to any TERFs who are looking for the return of their loved ones after years of transphobia: nobody shunned you because they thought you were wrong, they shunned you because you're an asshole." @katelynburns.com

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