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Jennifer Patiño
@brujabrarian.bsky.social
Spooky Latina, librarian, data nerd, poet. 💜
Boo!
August 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE.

Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings.

This mess is escalating fast.
Immigration court arrests continued across the nation yesterday (and are likely ongoing today).

Yesterday, in NYC, 30 ICE officers swarmed the immigration court, holding lists of names of people to arrest. All were dutifully attending their immigration hearings and many had pending asylum claims.
May 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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NEW: reports today from @l-toczylowski.bsky.social and others that ICE has begun efforts to dismiss cases pending in immigration court for less than two years — so that they can then immediately arrest the same people and put them through “expedited removal,” skipping the court process entirely.
May 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Ever more ways to disempower citizens and empower oligarchs with citizens’ personal data
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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We've received multiple notes that NOAA research services (Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) may go offline at midnight. @safeguardingdata.bsky.social is working on web archiving, but if others want to nominate on this, that might be good: digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/G...
Nomination Tool: Project URL Nomination
digital2.library.unt.edu
April 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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If you supported a 10 year old American child with brain cancer, on her way to medical treatment, being deported because her parents are undocumented (but have no criminal records), then you’re a horrific person and I’m not sure how you sleep at night.
Parents deported to Mexico while seeking brain cancer treatment for young American daughter | CNN
The undocumented parents of a 10-year-old US citizen whose family was removed to Mexico say they are desperately seeking a way for either of them to return to the US with the girl so she can continue ...
www.cnn.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
March 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Shout out to libraries, library workers, and library kids!!
March 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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And here it is, my Joker moment.
I am insane now.
February 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Wrote about how Meta backing off of content moderation and continued pressure from the Trump administration now has OpenAI saying it's going to loosen up, too www.platformer.news/openai-model...
February 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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This meeting could have been a fist fight
November 3, 2023 at 8:11 PM