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In person I’ll be wearing a KN95. If you care about me put one on too.
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articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay
“we fuckin stole it, man”
They can’t fix the shot up windows at the cdc but they’ve always got money to murk horses
We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs.
Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.
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Doctora Malka Older
I spent six months working on this story, which is a lot of time to think about Skibidi Toilet.
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ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
from a regional state undergrad who get a state uni PhD--not an Ivy adjacent, some other one--and end up at a community college or regional public or failing private, and THEN publish a book? Those people are fucking superheroes.
(I'm not one of them, I have no books)
It's not the same, and yet.
"By one estimate, dairies that employ immigrant workers produce 79 percent of the nation’s milk supply and the price of milk would double without them." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
The handful of American officials seconded to UK government departments are increasingly being asked to leave meetings when sensitive information is discussed
www.ft.com/content/7b96...
Starting on the academic equivalent of 3rd and making it to home plate is not, in fact, as impressive as the people who start in a rec league and somehome still make it into the majors.
King Charles should meet with Epstein victims, US lawmaker says
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Congrats on Donald Trump for inventing the first Pyrrhic Loss
I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession
New: The White House is signaling that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a must-have to end the Iran War, potentially setting the stage for Iran to continue to flex its strategic position over one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels for the foreseeable future
Alt: a man sits on a yellow couch with a glass of wine from the life aquatic
