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It is just wild to me that the largest facility used during Japanese internment will now be used to intern immigrants from ICE raids, people who are disappeared by masked officers off the streets, and there is still a debate about whether naming and shaming those doing it is fair.
August 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It is just wild to me that the largest facility used during Japanese internment will now be used to intern immigrants from ICE raids, people who are disappeared by masked officers off the streets, and there is still a debate about whether naming and shaming those doing it is fair.
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"The Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the US illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court...such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years."
ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings
A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"The Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the US illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court...such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years."
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" in the aftermath of the flood, local law-enforcement authorities arrested thousands of black men, caged them in “pens,” and released them to white planters in need of rebuilding their businesses."
The Mississippi River Great Flood of 1927
The Mississippi River “Great Flood of 1927” inundated large areas in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. However, it was in Mississippi where the embankments overflowed, drowning hundreds, perhaps a...
www.blackpast.org
April 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
" in the aftermath of the flood, local law-enforcement authorities arrested thousands of black men, caged them in “pens,” and released them to white planters in need of rebuilding their businesses."
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Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
April 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
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A risk assessment algorithm now has power over parole decisions in Louisiana: "TIGER does not take into account efforts prisoners make to rehabilitate themselves. Instead, it focuses on factors that cannot be changed"—including factors with known racial disparities www.propublica.org/article/tige...
An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm B...
www.propublica.org
April 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A risk assessment algorithm now has power over parole decisions in Louisiana: "TIGER does not take into account efforts prisoners make to rehabilitate themselves. Instead, it focuses on factors that cannot be changed"—including factors with known racial disparities www.propublica.org/article/tige...
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This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
propub.li
March 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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SCOOP: In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.
Trump administration cuts off legal aid for youth facing deportation
The order will end legal support for at least 100,000 unaccompanied minors.
www.motherjones.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
SCOOP: In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.
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The tech CEOs donating to Trump and sitting in the front row at his inauguration are getting exactly what they wanted, which is an administration that is happy to let them exploit consumers without fear of consequences www.fastcompany.com/91305853/tru...
Trump’s war on the FTC is his latest gift to billionaires
By attempting to fire the two Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission, President Trump gave his corporate backers what they paid for.
www.fastcompany.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The tech CEOs donating to Trump and sitting in the front row at his inauguration are getting exactly what they wanted, which is an administration that is happy to let them exploit consumers without fear of consequences www.fastcompany.com/91305853/tru...
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When civil society institutions — big law firms, Ivy League institutions — cave to Trump rather than fight what appear to be illegal demands, do they expect him to be satisfied and stop? Do they believe others should step in and fight where they have not?
March 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
When civil society institutions — big law firms, Ivy League institutions — cave to Trump rather than fight what appear to be illegal demands, do they expect him to be satisfied and stop? Do they believe others should step in and fight where they have not?