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Aletta
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Financial planning, taxes, tech. Once upon a time I studied astronomy.
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www.mass50501.org/events/june14
Event | No Kings, but Yaaaas Queen! — Mass 50501
On June 14th, a day of nationwide No Kings Day protests, Mass 50501 will join Boston Pride for the People with a parade contingent and a table at the Boston Common as part of the festival.
www.mass50501.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I’m worried about what happens when we start having AI-generated video going around to provoke people :/
June 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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June 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Second, the Bill sets the stage for massive privatized, for-profit concentration camps. It will quadruple the capacity of ICE to detain people--giving it capacity to detain, in for-profit arrangements where corporations make money per person per day, at least 100,000 more people.
$45 billion for adult and family detention. That would be enough to detain 100,000 people at a time, perhaps more. The New York Times reported in early April that ICE had already requested proposals from contractors who run detention facilities. Add another $3 billion for the Office of Refugee Resettlement to hold migrant children who arrive unaccompanied. How much is that combined $48 billion? Adjusted for inflation, it would be: Enough to cancel the debt of 1,240,814 student loan holders ( averaging $38,375 each). A generous estimate of what it would cost to end U.S. homelessness for 19 months ($30 billion per year). 1.6 times the global revenue of the entire music industry in 2024 ($29.6 billion in 2024 dollars). More than enough to build a new stadium for all 30 Major League Baseball teams (the Oakland As’ new stadium in Las Vegas is expected to cost $1.5 billion). More than Netflix’s forecast worldwide revenue from its 300 million-plus subscribers in 2025 ($43.5 to $44.5 billion). ICE’s detention budget in 2024 totaled $3.43 billion to hold 41,500 people at a time. This bill would quadruple that capacity,
May 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
aletta.bsky.social
I'm really concerned about this as well...
May 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
aletta.bsky.social
Someone needed to play more red light-green light in kindergarten…
May 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
aletta.bsky.social
I think about this book so often these days.
April 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM