Violently absurd. “More than 12 pro-Palestine student protesters were banned from entering Widener Library for two weeks after they staged a silent “study-in” protest at the library late last month, according to an email obtained by The Crimson.”

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib had to personally intervene and compel the US State Department and Biden administration into guaranteeing an American veteran with a Purple Heart a way out of Lebanon.

New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...

something I think about a lot is that if you accurately describe the existing immigration system to most people they simply don’t believe you about how awful it is there’s obviously a lot of rampant xenophobia out there but some folks who say “just come here legally” have no idea what that entails

Something my in-laws learned in Helene that we can all do at home: Keep some cash on hand. Brevard has power and is accessible, but the internet is still down, so everyplace is cash only. They *happened* to have a stash they'd forgotten about, so they're living on that.