Blair Waldorf

Quidditch wife.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

From Godfrey Olukya for @DropSiteNews:

In Soweto, South Africa, schools are closing because buses don’t have fuel to bring the children in. Tanzania’s president announced that she would be trimming her motorcade to two vehicles, and that ministers would travel together on buses. Madagascar has declared a state of emergency. In Somalia, fishing fleets are docked, the lack of diesel cutting off a key supply of local protein, even as aid deliveries are stalled due to lack of fuel. Street demonstrations have rocked Kenya, where four people were killed in fuel protests Monday.

Government subsidies are draining state coffers in Ghana as jet fuel costs stick a knife in the heart of the effort to make Accra International Airport a global transportation hub. On a continent that relies more than any other on local agriculture to feed its population, and where the bulk of fertilizer comes from outside, the planting season crisis is in full swing. But in Malawi fertilizer can’t make it to the regions that need it, and that’s if any can be found at all.

Across Africa, from north to south and from east to west, the war waged by the U.S. and Israel on Iran is wreaking havoc, bringing to life the old cliché, “When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.”
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[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Israeli occupation army claimed it “assassinated armed terrorists” in this attack yesterday..

The two persons who were killed in the attack were aid workers distributing cooked rice to the people starved by the Israeli occupation..

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING NYT:

An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. https://t.co/aEunt6VSvy

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Some U.S. military commanders have reportedly been accused of telling their troops the Iran war is part of a biblical plan to trigger the end times https://t.co/MdQVVQIVDB

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

A government suddenly revoking the legal identity documents of a disfavored minority should raise alarm bells for anybody who has ever read any book

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

In an overlooked decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the post office can refuse to deliver your mail, which is KIND OF SIGNIFICANT if you choose to mail your ballot.

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[Interview with the Vampire Updates @iwtvupdates]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT DEBUTS IN JUNE.
NEW TEASER NOW!

[Blair Waldorf @KelzP_]

Officially, at the age where gas pain is being confused with heart attack symptoms. Was lamenting my ER co-pay as I prepared to walk out the door, and God saw fit for the gas to show itself lol

[Dan Alban @DanAlban]

ICE SHOOTING OF U.S. CITIZEN COVERED UP FOR A YEAR

"Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot by an @ICEgov Homeland Security Investigations (#HSI) officer in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025, after what ICE described as a failure to follow law enforcement instructions during a traffic incident"

"While Martinez’s death was reported in local media at the time, the reports did not identify HSI involvement or disclose that a federal agent fired the shots through the driver-side window."

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[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. I discussed the largest fraud in the history of the US immigration system perpetrated by DHS and the State Department. Even Republicans on the Committee were shocked by what this administration is doing to legal immigrants!

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves. https://t.co/hdxtf8SRtE

[Jim Mustian @JimMustian]

UPDATE: We spoke with Alberto, the man whose 8 skull fractures ICE blamed on a brick wall

He says @ICEgov beat him with the same metal rod they used to smash his friend's car windows

"There was never a wall"

w/@NewsDudeAP @jack_brook96 @APCedar

https://t.co/gLxIdhRjmC

[Jodi Cohen @Jodiscohen]

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.

https://t.co/lVuSztoWHS

[Rachel Barnhart @rachbarnhart]

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
https://t.co/SAmOXx7y8O

[Greg Hilburn @GregHilburn1]

Folks, people are literally freezing to death in their homes without power in northern Louisiana. More than 46,000 Entergy customers without electricity this afternoon #lagov #lalege #WinterStormFern https://t.co/8jZ9qTWYOY via @shreveporttimes

[Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @Amy_Siskind]

Sharing the letter from Noem to Gov. Walz, outlining conditions for federal agents to leave the city, including turning over records on Medicaid and SNAP programs, repealing sanctuary city policies, and allowing the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ to access the state's voter rolls. A remarkable shake down!
I gift this so you can read it.
https://t.co/Zkw0vKSG6O

[ProPublica @propublica]

The "worst problem you've never heard of" is the leading cause of Black land loss in this country.

Over the years, it's seen Black families stripped of hundreds of billions of dollars in land. It's called "heirs' property."
https://t.co/Z4fHSMIhD1

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

ICE has kidnapped two Black teenaged brothers 14, and 15 years old. LaShawn James and TreyShawn James. They gave the names and ages and asked for someone to tell their mother.

ICE is kidnapping children and no US politician has the guts to step in the streets to protect them.

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Hey y’all! I just wanna remind you:

I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! https://t.co/8H3dqvD5UQ

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, WaPo team found.

WaPo also built a tool to look up your county.

Exceptional, and alarming work by @LaurenWeberHP @caitlinsgilbert et al

(Gift link)

https://t.co/4xJcrENQL2