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"[S]exually abused, threatened and punished one of the complainants."
"[O]ff-the-books late-night work scheme that coerced transgender detainees into physically and psychologically painful labor."
"ICE definitely knew."
#Louisiana #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[O]ff-the-books late-night work scheme that coerced transgender detainees into physically and psychologically painful labor."
"ICE definitely knew."
#Louisiana #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Complaints allege sexual, physical abuse at Louisiana ICE facility • Louisiana Illuminator
Complaints alleging repeated sexual harassment, sexual abuse, physical abuse, coerced labor and neglect of urgent medical and mental health care at the facility.
lailluminator.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"[S]exually abused, threatened and punished one of the complainants."
"[O]ff-the-books late-night work scheme that coerced transgender detainees into physically and psychologically painful labor."
"ICE definitely knew."
#Louisiana #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"[O]ff-the-books late-night work scheme that coerced transgender detainees into physically and psychologically painful labor."
"ICE definitely knew."
#Louisiana #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
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One thing I’ve learned in social work: most of us are way closer to being unhoused than we think. A job loss, medical bill, divorce, or emergency and suddenly you’re sleeping in your car. Housing insecurity isn’t about bad choices… it's about being one crisis away from losing everything.
July 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
One thing I’ve learned in social work: most of us are way closer to being unhoused than we think. A job loss, medical bill, divorce, or emergency and suddenly you’re sleeping in your car. Housing insecurity isn’t about bad choices… it's about being one crisis away from losing everything.
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So, the quote-- Think about where we are in history.
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
July 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
So, the quote-- Think about where we are in history.
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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until printer learned to love printer
July 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
until printer learned to love printer
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Ward Sakeik is married to an American, has a pending green card application, owns a home in Texas, and has never been to Israel-Palestine.
Why did ICE arrest her on her honeymoon and try deporting her to a country she's never seen?
My latest for FWST: www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...
Why did ICE arrest her on her honeymoon and try deporting her to a country she's never seen?
My latest for FWST: www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...
This Arlington resident has never been to Israel. Why is ICE deporting her there? | Opinion
A Palestinian refugee and UTA graduate is fighting for her release from ICE custody. | Opinion
www.star-telegram.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ward Sakeik is married to an American, has a pending green card application, owns a home in Texas, and has never been to Israel-Palestine.
Why did ICE arrest her on her honeymoon and try deporting her to a country she's never seen?
My latest for FWST: www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...
Why did ICE arrest her on her honeymoon and try deporting her to a country she's never seen?
My latest for FWST: www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...
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If a pregnant woman is brain dead, in a coma, and no longer has rights to make decisions about the pregnancy according to E. Bruenig, that means we don’t have a say in what happens to our organs and corpses after we die. We are public property upon death. Quite an argument!
June 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
If a pregnant woman is brain dead, in a coma, and no longer has rights to make decisions about the pregnancy according to E. Bruenig, that means we don’t have a say in what happens to our organs and corpses after we die. We are public property upon death. Quite an argument!
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My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some thoughts about this moment of mass protest (and where it can take us). If you want resources to help people understand this moment, this edition is for you.
Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on This Moment of Mass Protest
"What do you want people to know, and what do you want them to do?"
organizingmythoughts.org
June 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some thoughts about this moment of mass protest (and where it can take us). If you want resources to help people understand this moment, this edition is for you.
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Why protest on Saturday? www.headsupnews.org/p/no-kings-p...
‘No Kings’ protests suddenly take on a greater urgency
The rampant militarization of immigration raids makes the stakes clearer than ever
www.headsupnews.org
June 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Why protest on Saturday? www.headsupnews.org/p/no-kings-p...
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#BREAKING: #SCOTUS allows Trump to fire members of NLRB and MSPB pending full appeal; doesn’t say whether it’s overruling Humphrey’s Executor; and asserts that the Federal Reserve can be distinguished.
Three Democratic appointees publicly dissent in a feisty opinion by Justice Kagan, link to come.
Three Democratic appointees publicly dissent in a feisty opinion by Justice Kagan, link to come.
May 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This is HUGE.
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is HUGE.
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
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The pride organizers knew what they were doing with this poster smh
May 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The pride organizers knew what they were doing with this poster smh
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It really should have been 9-0 though
May 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It really should have been 9-0 though
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This story is incredible. Norman Wong is 70. His great-grandfather was Wong Kim Ark. His father was detained at Angel Island in the 20s when he was a teenager when he came here from China. His mother was interned during WWII. So much immigration history in one family.
“Over a century after his great-grandfather Wong Kim Ark fought to establish birthright citizenship in the U.S., Norman Wong is picking up the torch to defend his family's legacy and the rights of all Americans.” documentedny.com/2025/05/14/s...
May 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This story is incredible. Norman Wong is 70. His great-grandfather was Wong Kim Ark. His father was detained at Angel Island in the 20s when he was a teenager when he came here from China. His mother was interned during WWII. So much immigration history in one family.
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Same
May 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Same
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“In a time of destruction, create something.
A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”
-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”
-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
May 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“In a time of destruction, create something.
A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”
-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”
-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
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at a meeting this week i told someone that i was trying to be less petty and she said NO, be *more* petty, and she was absolutely right
May 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
at a meeting this week i told someone that i was trying to be less petty and she said NO, be *more* petty, and she was absolutely right
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Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Real Horror of 'Sinners' Isn’t Supernatural
The constraints of the Jim Crow economy drive every event in the film.
www.theatlantic.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
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May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
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She says, “Without due process, without belief in the Constitution, we are not Americans. “
This is a common (and once widely held) notion. As Pres Biden used to say, “We are the only nation founded on an idea.”
If you’ve ever heard me talk about the Constitution, you’ve heard the same thing.
This is a common (and once widely held) notion. As Pres Biden used to say, “We are the only nation founded on an idea.”
If you’ve ever heard me talk about the Constitution, you’ve heard the same thing.
On April 24, ICE agents broke into a home of a family of US citizens in Oklahoma. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE terrorized the family, ripped apart the house.
It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.
It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.
May 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
She says, “Without due process, without belief in the Constitution, we are not Americans. “
This is a common (and once widely held) notion. As Pres Biden used to say, “We are the only nation founded on an idea.”
If you’ve ever heard me talk about the Constitution, you’ve heard the same thing.
This is a common (and once widely held) notion. As Pres Biden used to say, “We are the only nation founded on an idea.”
If you’ve ever heard me talk about the Constitution, you’ve heard the same thing.
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One of the organizing principles I am constantly working to embrace in my own life is that once people arrive to the fight with genuine readiness to act, no matter how late they are, they are welcome and can be organized and moved
April 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
One of the organizing principles I am constantly working to embrace in my own life is that once people arrive to the fight with genuine readiness to act, no matter how late they are, they are welcome and can be organized and moved
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First batch of Hong Kong democrats freed after 4 years' jail for subversion reut.rs/3GwmpD0
First batch of Hong Kong democrats freed after 4 years' jail for subversion
The first batch of individuals jailed in the landmark Hong Kong national security trial of "47 democrats" accused of conspiracy to commit subversion was freed on Tuesday after being behind bars for over four years.
reut.rs
April 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
First batch of Hong Kong democrats freed after 4 years' jail for subversion reut.rs/3GwmpD0
The guards voice lines don't quite hit the same but the game is visuals of the remaster are chefs kiss
Oh boy. I can tell now that Newblivion is going to be a real problem for my sleep schedule. Just played through the dungeon intro. Man, I'd forgotten how much I loved this game the first time around. I'm in trouble.
April 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The guards voice lines don't quite hit the same but the game is visuals of the remaster are chefs kiss