Principal B.F. Skinner

i’m actually losing my mind

Trump and Hegseth murdered a 42 year old impoverished fisherman who leaves behind a wife, 4 children, father and mother. He has no record of drug trafficking. He simply went out to fish and never came home. Donald and Pete need to be held accountable for their actions yahoo.com/news/articles/…

🚨 BREAKING: DHS has now suspended all immigration, asylum, and naturalization processing for people from 19 countries, Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. This is the most sweeping freeze in modern immigration policy, a mass halt that will trap families, delay citizenship, and strand asylum seekers indefinitely.

This is what deregulation leads to. I hope the "more deregulation" folks see that this is why we need regulations in the first place.

The governor of Darfur, Minni Arkou Minnawi, has told Middle East Eye that 27,000 Sudanese were killed in just three days as paramilitary Rapid Support Forces went on a killing spree after seizing el-Fasher late last month middleeasteye.pulse.ly/tqzrrxcixr

In 24 hours, Israel has attacked Gaza, Baalbak, and multiple fronts across our villages in south Lebanon. There are reports of casualties due to the airstrike on the town of Shmastar.

Free buses are an investment in our people and our economy — helping workers, small businesses, and every New Yorker who deserves a more connected city.

ICE dragged the country through a full-blown panic just to spit out 16 cases. Sixteen. That’s a joke, a wet firecracker, an insult to everyone they terrorised. Meanwhile Trump has shoved thousands of actual criminals back onto the streets with his clown-car pardons. Forget 16. His body count of offenders not behind bars anymore is in the thousands.

I often think about how many times Grizabella has probably saved us from a nuclear holocaust without us knowing

BREAKING: ICE just tried to deport this woman, but there was just one problem — she was Native American. You read that right: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — the agency supposedly tasked with deporting undocumented immigrants — just tried to deport an Indigenous woman whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years. Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona’s Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix — but that didn’t stop ICE from trying to ship her “back” to a country she doesn’t even belong to. Here’s how this jaw-dropping injustice unfolded: Jacobo was sitting in a Polk County, Iowa jail after being booked for allegedly driving with a suspended license — nothing violent, nothing serious. Her mother, Ericka Burns, was preparing to pick her up and bring her home when jail staff dropped a bombshell: “She’s not being released. ICE is coming to deport her.” Her mom was stunned. “How can you deport her?” she asked. “She’s Native American!” But the jail staff shrugged it off. They said they were “just holding her” for ICE. No one — not a single person — could explain how or why this was happening. Jacobo’s family went into overdrive — calling, emailing, begging officials to stop what was about to become one of the most shameful bureaucratic blunders in modern history. They reached out to tribal leaders, shared pleas on Facebook, and even showed up at the jail with her birth certificate to prove she’s an American citizen. And still, officials hesitated. Hours ticked by while ICE prepared to take her. Finally, after an agonizing all-night standoff, she was released around 4:30 a.m. — barely. And what’s ICE’s excuse? A “clerical error.” Lt. Mark Chance from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office casually dismissed it as “human error.” Just a little mix-up, they said. The detainer was meant for someone else, and they just happened to attach it to the file of a Native American woman born on U.S. soil. “We’ll have some meetings about it,” Chance said. “This is silly.” Silly? This wasn’t “silly.” This was an attempted deportation of a woman whose people are the original inhabitants of this land, by a government agency that has no idea whose land it’s even on. Let that sink in: the United States government almost deported an Indigenous woman from her own country. This is what happens when an agency like ICE is given unchecked power — where “clerical errors” can destroy lives, and where systemic racism and dehumanization are written into the paperwork. If her family hadn’t fought like hell, Leticia Jacobo could have been vanished into ICE custody — another name lost in a broken, brutal system. It’s time to abolish this corrupt and incompetent agency that can’t even tell the difference between an immigrant and an Indigenous citizen. Because if ICE can come for Native Americans, they can come for anyone. Please like and share if you’re as outraged by this as we are!

Nobody ever said doing public philosophy would be easy.

"A devoted public servant"

it's as Brecht said--"Numbers sanctify." if you kill a single human being you will likely pay for it; if you kill millions of people you may be awarded the Nobel Peace prize & certainly a gushing obituary in the N Y Times.

ICE agents shot a man in the back… Simply because he tried to warn them they were right next to a bus stop, and children would be arriving soon. They pulled their guns on him, so he went to drive away, and they shot him in the back. How long before these poorly trained “agents” kill a U.S. citizen…or a child?

Internal Family Systems is a treatment offered by tens of thousands of therapists, endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Elizabeth Gilbert, and widely embraced on social media. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives. thecut.com/article/truth-…

People will become homeless. Homelessness will be criminalized. They’ll be incarcerated and made to work for free. That’s the only long term plan they have.

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NEW: The world’s wealthiest university, @Harvard, just announced massive cuts to its PhD programs — some slashed by 75%, others eliminated entirely. chrisbrunet.com/p/harvards-phd… Meanwhile, it’s partnering with the Trump administration… to open a network of trade schools.