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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Nearly three years before the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried that he couldn’t breathe, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin’s knee on her. Code said she began pleading: “Don’t kill me.”
“That Could Have Been Me”: The People Derek Chauvin Choked Before George Floyd
They describe an officer quick to use force and callous about their pain.
www.themarshallproject.org
May 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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“A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025.” (REUTERS/Paul Ratje)

www.reuters.com/world/americ...
April 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Our AAUP chapter is sending a letter urging WashU sign on to the AACU's "Call for Constructive Engagement" along with hundreds of other universities in the U.S. If you are a WashU faculty member, staff member, current student, or alumnus, you can sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Washington University in St. Louis Defends Higher Education
Washington University Community Endorsement of the Public Statement from the American Association of Colleges and Universities On April 22, the American Association of Colleges and Universitie...
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April 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.

Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Two men died hours apart on Wednesday afternoon inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, bringing the total of deaths behind bars to three since correction officers at more than two dozen New York State facilities went on strike earlier this month.
Two Sing Sing Prisoners Die Hours Apart as Illegal Guard Strike Drags On
Anthony Douglas, 67, and Franklyn Dominguez, 35, died on Wednesday afternoon within about four hours at a prison that has been on lockdown since correction officers launched a wildcat walkout in…
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February 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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The job of the government isn’t to “produce federal revenue” the job is meeting the needs of the people. Refuse to engage in a debate about the profitability of providing people’s needs through public resources.
Greene: Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paycheck
February 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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It is illegal for landlords to do this. And it's evil. And it shows why housing should not be a for-profit industry.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jan 12
For one listing, rent jumped nearly 86% since September. In an interview with LAist, the agent said she told her client, “People are desperate, and you can probably get good money.” via @laist.com
Asking rents skyrocket as LA fires destroy homes
For one listing, rent jumped nearly 86% since September. In an interview with LAist, the agent said she told her client, “People are desperate, and you can probably get good money.”
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January 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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NYU suspends students for an entire year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library, which refers to some students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, others sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and some flyers dropped from an upper level…
January 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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🚨 Mitchell-Lama mentioned 🚨

From earlier this fall, here's what's going on at Timothée Chalamet's old building, Manhattan Plaza:
Tenant Leader Who Once Ripped ‘Predatory’ Roc Nation Casino Bid Was Offered $20,000 Monthly Contract from Jay-Z Owned Company
Roc Nation’s bid for a casino in Times Square tried to retain an influential tenant leader of the Manhattan Plaza complex, a leaked document shows.
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December 17, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Look at this.
December 16, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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Several faculty and students were given this designation with no explanation of why other than “violation of university policy.”

In my case, the violation could only have been filming interactions between campus cops, administrators and students during a peaceful sit in.

This is where we are.
NYU Campus Security and Administration is totally out of control.

On Wednesday - I filmed a peaceful protest in Bobst library for two hours.

Yesterday at 2pm while at home,
I received an email explaining that I’ve been designated “persona non grata” and banned from several buildings on campus.
December 14, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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this is unquestionably sexual violence, holy hell
Trans women in Florida prisons now have to get breast exams to figure out whether their breasts are big enough that prison officials think they should get to keep their bras.

Wild reporting from @journo-beth.bsky.social : www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/10/n...
December 10, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't
December 10, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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I am weeping
December 5, 2024 at 2:06 PM