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there was a campaign in early 2020 called “free them all for public health” that demand hasn’t stopped being necessary and it is only more so now
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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“What the garlic would need to send up its contribution to spring flamboyance… is precisely this long period of cold. This requirement is called the ‘memory of winter,’ or, more scientifically, ‘vernalization.’ Apples and almonds and peach trees won’t flower without the memory of winter either...”
Memory of Winter – Zoë Schlanger
When is the right time to bring new life into the world? Journalist Zoë Schlanger explores how the moment of spring emergence is increasingly the biggest gamble of a plant’s life amid unpredictable fr...
emergencemagazine.org
February 1, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
proud owner of a scanner for the first time in my life
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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american liberals are fine with millions of deportations as long as they happen quietly and the police don't hurt any white people. proud of it, really
Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.
January 11, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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"abolish ICE and distribute its functions to other agencies" no the functions are actually also bad
April 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Gonna cut a good story from this next book so I can save it for the one after. This is the problem with writing from experience. There's only so much of it. Gotta admire Annie Erneux for getting two books out of fucking the same Russian.
December 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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the new jersey driver mind will be in the DSM one day
December 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Fact is, I don't want to be looked at by machines
December 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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In a Thu raid on a Jackson Heights apt, agents had a (rare) signed judicial warrant to search an apt (no residents were named), but still they forced their way in, while outside they had agents with assault rifles, an ICE caravan of oversized vehicles, and a helicopter overhead. Two people taken.
Homeland Security Busts Into Jackson Heights Apartment Building in Pre-Dawn Raid
Dozens of agents wielding assault rifles took two middle-aged, Spanish-speaking people away in cuffs early Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead.
www.thecity.nyc
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Monstrous and inhumane. Our neighbors are being tortured
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.

Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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zines are little museums you can carry around
September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I don't care what any of you say, this guy fucking sucks.
August 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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If you only have one free Art Forum article to read this month, read about this art piece that shook San Diego during the 1988 Superbowl.

We lost a great one today.
David Avalos, Louis Hock, and Elizabeth Sisco
"Welcome to America’s Finest Tourist Plantation"—this was the slogan that taunted the citizens of San Diego from the rear advertising panel of nearly one-half of the city’s buses during the…
www.artforum.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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it is not enough for four flats to be legal, new single family homes should be illegal
February 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I wrote about some recent books: caiti.blog/books-new-to...
Books new to me, late 2024 — caiti.blog
Caiti Borruso, blogging
caiti.blog
January 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM