Ceres (@demeterinsf@mastodon.social)

elleThe people who don't or can't experience empathy, who say empathy is a "woke virus" spreading in other people's minds, are like color-blind people declaring that the colors red and green don't exist and people who "believe" are crazy. And then tearing apart the world to take out the "fake" colors.

Andrea Junker :verified:I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

memes stolen from outside fedi/atmosphere

George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Can’t make this up.

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Sir Rochard 'Dock' BunsonMissed Connections 😂 <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Cybertruck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybertruck</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Swasticar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Swasticar</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tesla</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#memes</a>

Nowhere GirlA French scientist was detained and sent back to Europe after CBP searched his belongings and found messages critical of Trump's science policy, which CBP argued could be interpreted as "terrorist intent." <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html</a>

BrianKrebsI feel like we haven't really processed or even talked much about the extent to which US federal agencies have transitioned to communicating press releases and important information on X. Want to interact with your government? Sure, just do it through X. If you let that really sink in, it's a fairly profound and terrifying shift, IMHO.

Robert J. BergerImagine saying "empathy is a weakness" and also wanting people to feel bad for you because your cars are being boycotted

progressiveparkerTrump Plays Very Dangerous Game by Saying 'F You' to Judicial OrdersIf this deportation case goes to the Supreme Court and the president ignores its ruling, every American should take to the street to secure his ouster. Robert Reich Mar 18, 2025<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/constitutional-crisis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/constitutional-crisis</a>

Alissa AzarMahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest. This letter was dictated over the phone from the ICE detention facility in Louisiana:My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request.My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights. I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted.While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University. Presidents Shafik, Armstrong, and Dean Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns — based on racism and disinformation — to go unchecked. Columbia targeted me for my activism, creating a new authoritarian disciplinary office to bypass due process and silence students criticizing Israel. Columbia surrendered to federal pressure by disclosing student records to Congress and yielding to the Trump administration's latest threats. My arrest, the expulsion or suspension of at least 22 Columbia students — some stripped of their B.A. degrees just weeks before graduation — and the expulsion of SWC President Grant Miner on the eve of contract negotiations, are clear examples.If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change — leading the charge against the Vietnam War, standing on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, and driving the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice.The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free to witness the birth of my first-born child. <a href="https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2025/03/Letter_from_a_Palestinian_Political_Prisoner_in_Louisiana_March_18,_2025.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2025/03/Letter_from_a_Palestinian_Political_Prisoner_in_Louisiana_March_18,_2025.pdf</a>

Mark HurstThe White House is now being served with Elon Musk’s Starlink. Trump officials claim it's hard to get good internet access.At the White House.So we're running all White House communications through the network owned by Elon Musk, who's in close touch with Vladimir Putin.Cool cool. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/elon-musk-starlink-white-house.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.B0N5.hIiH4Iqy0T00&smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/elon-musk-starlink-white-house.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.B0N5.hIiH4Iqy0T00&smid=url-share</a>

Ben Royce 🇺🇦There was a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#women</a>'s half-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marathon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#marathon</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kyiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kyiv</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ukraine</a> earlier this month called the Kyiv Pink Run (everyone wears pink)The runners unexpectedly intersected the funeral procession for a fallen warrior in Ukraine's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#war</a> against <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethnofascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ethnofascist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#imperialism</a> And then this happened:(the text in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukrainian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ukrainian</a> at the end references their running friend Natalka Samoilenko, killed by Russia in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bucha" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bucha</a> in 2022, they were running in her <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#memory</a>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/fartlekua/posts/1302450504308834/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.facebook.com/groups/fartlekua/posts/1302450504308834/</a> )<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#UkraineWar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HeroyamSlava" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HeroyamSlava</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Honor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Honor</a>

Randahl FinkTrump got nothing. Putin tricked Trump into demanding that Ukraine can no longer bomb Russian oil refineries, while Putin can continue bombing civilians, and Ukraine can have 0 weapon deliveries for 30 days.Trump truly possesses a lethal level of stupidity.It is time the international community tells the wannabe dictator, that we do not deal with fools, and we will now help Ukraine send Putin's murderers back to Moscow.Enough is enough.

flexghost.Hey, look who it is everybody!The Republican state senator who sponsored a bill to make Trump derangement syndrome a mental illness now faces felony charges for soliciting a minor It’s always who you most suspect

Sheril KirshenbaumA nation cannot slash science funding and expect to compete, innovate & lead.

George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽They have so few artists willing to allow their music to be used. Really says something.

Frederic JacobsCool testing of Tesla’s vision-only system versus LiDAR, showing experimentally the superiority of the laser-based sensing technique.Musk said “Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed" but turns out that Waymo has a far superior track record than Tesla, and has entered commercial service with far superior technology. This claim was about margin preservation for Tesla (given price of LiDAR sensors), not safety.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ</a>

The Bee GuyIt’s that time of year - people asking us about <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain what they’re up to. Please <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/repost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#repost</a>. Every <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/queen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#queen</a> that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bees</a> for next year! So this is important to share. Thank you. 1/9

George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽This is how we know we are in the Upside Down.

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