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what’s up?

[kelsey @kelseyrolofson]

@Unfamiliar222 @S1LNTHLL it was creed bratton, different guy but they look very similar

[Jackie Singh 🇺🇸 🗳️ IWillVote.com @HackingButLegal]

Baby Giovanni with her mother and sisters.

[kelsey @kelseyrolofson]

oh my god

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Last year, a Guatemalan man living in Overland, Missouri was arrested by ICE and deported. A few weeks ago his wife, who had sought asylum, self-deported to rejoin him.

Their bodies were just found in a field, bound and gagged, with their 14-month-old daughter abandoned nearby.

[kelsey @kelseyrolofson]

a deep foreboding consumes me

[NoodleDood @NoodleDood12]

They're just blatantly using it now

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[KU Department of English @KUEnglish]

Fun news! #KUenglish Prof Robert Warrior is a story consultant (& extra!) in the new Netflix 'Little House on the Prairie' series.

“I hope those who read the books are now able to see more points of view than are represented in the books,” Warrior said.

https://t.co/tbx76PVuhs

[WIRED @WIRED]

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. https://t.co/XWEZr6Q0DF

[Laura Jedeed @LauraJedeed]

Effective tomorrow: all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are now invalid

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they go to the DMV (that most will need to drive to) and exchange their license for one with the wrong gender

https://t.co/u5B4e4T3zm

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

No words. Complete failure of humanity.

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel

Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on a private jet belonging to an Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, a joint investigation reveals.

https://t.co/LEsn5i2n46

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

New data finds the israelis have killed over 680,000 Palestinians in Gaza including 479,000 children; 380,000 under 5 | via @MusafirNafar

[kelsey @kelseyrolofson]

@bigdybbukenergy @OkayHughes fwiw, i didn’t know this and sent 400 speed film through a couple of these and the pics still turned out great!

[kelsey @kelseyrolofson]

@viridisartem understandable! take care of yourself <3 and if you decide you wanna go, they may have crisis counselors or other people (besides doctors) who can help process this bc man that’s terrifying

[Jaz Hays @JazHays]

This is what KCMO is actually jailing people for in 2025. This is important information for the upcoming election on April 8th to pay for a new City jail.

I worked on collecting and processing this data, so if you have any questions about this data, feel free to ask!

[kelsey @kelseyrolofson]

can’t watch the severance finale tn :(

[g a b y @gabydvj]

the ACLU just released video of ICE arresting Mahmoud Khalil, taken by his pregnant wife. note the plainclothes officers

[kelsey @kelseyrolofson]

borders are fake you heard it here folks

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: When you take away that artificial line that looks like it was done with a ruler— and that’s what it was. Some guy sat there years ago and they said RAH. When you take away that and you look at that beautiful formation of Canada and the United States… And then if you add Greenland.. that’s pretty good

[Hasbulla @Hasbulla]

Gaza belongs to Palestinians, and one day will be free! From the river to the sea🇵🇸 @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk

[, @w0a0i0f]

when i hear the Microsoft teams noise i feel like the most wretched downtrodden serf to have ever existed, completely hapless and victim to circumstances beyond my control (i work from home)