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This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️
How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
www.teenvogue.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.
www.404media.co
January 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It just so happens that a piece I wrote defending immigration and DEI went out *today* and I could not feel more bitter about what a drop in the ocean it is. Rough day for all of us.
Immigration facts and feelings
Despite a new wave of scapegoating, immigrants are a critical part of our economic growth
www.breakfastculture.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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They are telling you the nazi salute is not a nazi salute as a warmup to telling you the concentration camp is not a concentration camp
January 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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This from @aoc.bsky.social.

The targeting of migrants for detention & deportation, without due process, is an outrage in itself. But it’s also about profiteering.

“I want folks at home to look at which members of congress are invested in private prison companies…& look at the votes on this bill.”
January 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Chicago Legal Responders Network has produced a series of short videos about what to do if ICE shows up at your house, stops you while driving, etc. Available in Spanish and English. Please share with those who may find them useful.

Here's what to do if they show up at your house.
En Su Casa
YouTube video by Chicago Legal Responders Network
youtube.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
January 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"
Inbox: [Sen. Tom] Cotton Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Federal Use of the Term “West Bank”
December 5, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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And a further reminder that, because of Glenn Youngkin, VA’s felony disenfranchisement system is once again functioning largely as envisioned a century+ ago: boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...
A reminder that felon disenfranchisement laws were invented in Virginia and exist to specifically deny Black people the right to vote
December 5, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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hot takes about why it's not respectful to make jokes about the murder of the United healthcare CEO do not require any actual reporting, unlike @propublica.org's multiple investigations into the company's mass denial of healthcare coverage claims: www.propublica.org/article/unit...
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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I AM DECEASED.
November 15, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Testing
November 12, 2024 at 11:47 PM