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Report documenting extensive human rights abuses by ICE.
"During another incident, officers made men eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs after forcing the group to wait hours for lunch: “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” one man said."
"During another incident, officers made men eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs after forcing the group to wait hours for lunch: “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” one man said."
“You Feel Like Your Life is Over”
The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...
www.hrw.org
July 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Report documenting extensive human rights abuses by ICE.
"During another incident, officers made men eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs after forcing the group to wait hours for lunch: “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” one man said."
"During another incident, officers made men eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs after forcing the group to wait hours for lunch: “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” one man said."
No Kings protest in Takoma Park
June 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
No Kings protest in Takoma Park
I’ll be standing up for democracy in my home town. There will be thousands of these all over the US on Saturday. Join one near you, please.
NO KINGS Takoma Park · No Kings
Join us in Takoma Park! We will gather on both sides of New Hampshire Avenue between Merwood Drive and Holton Lane, near IHOP.
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
NO KINGS is a nati...
www.mobilize.us
June 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I’ll be standing up for democracy in my home town. There will be thousands of these all over the US on Saturday. Join one near you, please.
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why is she the only one who can just clearly and cogently say the true thing
look how easy this is!
look how easy this is!
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
June 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
why is she the only one who can just clearly and cogently say the true thing
look how easy this is!
look how easy this is!
Do our universities have a policy of mandatory silence about atrocities in Gaza?
NYU withholds diploma of student who used commencement speech to address Israel-Hamas war
The university said the student “lied about the speech he was going to deliver and violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules.”
www.nbcnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Do our universities have a policy of mandatory silence about atrocities in Gaza?
Gay Venezuelan stylist Andry José Hernandez was sent to El Salvador's notorious prison without due process based primarily on the assessment of an ICE contractor who allegedly left the Milwaukee police department under a cloud of credibility questions and allegations of misconduct.
Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report
Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
www.usatoday.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Gay Venezuelan stylist Andry José Hernandez was sent to El Salvador's notorious prison without due process based primarily on the assessment of an ICE contractor who allegedly left the Milwaukee police department under a cloud of credibility questions and allegations of misconduct.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.
Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated
Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.
www.npr.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.
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“Just child after child, young patient after young patient,” Dr. Sakib Rokadiya told the AP. “The vast, vast majority were women, children, the elderly.”
Wounded children overwhelmed a Gaza hospital as Israeli bombs fell this week
When Israel unleashed a wave of bombardment this week, shattering Gaza's ceasefire, a hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis was overwhelmed with wounded children.
buff.ly
March 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Just child after child, young patient after young patient,” Dr. Sakib Rokadiya told the AP. “The vast, vast majority were women, children, the elderly.”
Sobering visit this weekend to Gettysburg. After the battle, Lincoln wondered whether a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" could last.
March 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Sobering visit this weekend to Gettysburg. After the battle, Lincoln wondered whether a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" could last.
Anyone else heard more about this?
This is beyond…
#lemonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #us after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #trump's #science cuts, "which says [<a href="/hashtag/cpb" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#cpb] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as […]
#lemonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #us after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #trump's #science cuts, "which says [<a href="/hashtag/cpb" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#cpb] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as […]
Original post on masto.ai
masto.ai
March 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Anyone else heard more about this?
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#ProudBlue
Episcopal Bishop Michael Hunn is here speaking about the Rio Grande Borderland Mission that the Episcopal Church maintains near the Texas/Mexico border. They are accused by Trump's Dept. of Homeland Security of human trafficking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl4...
Episcopal Bishop Michael Hunn is here speaking about the Rio Grande Borderland Mission that the Episcopal Church maintains near the Texas/Mexico border. They are accused by Trump's Dept. of Homeland Security of human trafficking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl4...
Bishop Michael Hunn Responds to Department of Homeland Security: Defending Our Border Ministry
YouTube video by Michael Hunn
www.youtube.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
#ProudBlue
Episcopal Bishop Michael Hunn is here speaking about the Rio Grande Borderland Mission that the Episcopal Church maintains near the Texas/Mexico border. They are accused by Trump's Dept. of Homeland Security of human trafficking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl4...
Episcopal Bishop Michael Hunn is here speaking about the Rio Grande Borderland Mission that the Episcopal Church maintains near the Texas/Mexico border. They are accused by Trump's Dept. of Homeland Security of human trafficking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl4...
This law was a bad idea when Adams signed it in 1798, using it now is much worse.
BREAKING NEWS: In a presidential action Saturday, Trump invoked the wartime authority Alien Enemies Act, targeting members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to immediate detention and deportation.
Trump enacts a 1790s law to target 'alien enemies' for detention and deportation
In a presidential action Saturday, Trump invoked the wartime authority Alien Enemies Act, targeting members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to immediate detention and deportation.
www.npr.org
March 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This law was a bad idea when Adams signed it in 1798, using it now is much worse.
Anyone know of this is screening in DC?
No Other Land has no U.S. distributor, so the filmmakers have had to make one-on-one deals with cinemas. Art house theaters such as O Cinema have been screening the film independently.
'Sounds like censorship to me.' O cinema co-founder slams proposed eviction over film
No Other Land has no U.S. distributor, so the filmmakers have had to make one-on-one deals with cinemas. Art house theaters such as O Cinema have been screening the film independently.
www.npr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Anyone know of this is screening in DC?
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Late last night, Trump signed an executive order gutting seven more federal agencies. The order included what's intended to be a death blow against Voice of America, which he's railed against for years: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Donald Trump just signed an order gutting seven more federal agencies
The order targets the funding for Voice of America, which has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs in recent weeks.
www.motherjones.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Late last night, Trump signed an executive order gutting seven more federal agencies. The order included what's intended to be a death blow against Voice of America, which he's railed against for years: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is bad: the family had TPS and were following all the necessary steps
Border patrol grabs Venezuelan parents in D.C., despite protected status
The arrest in D.C. of a Venezuelan couple with temporary protected status has sparked concerns that the Trump administration is again willing to separate parents from their children.
wapo.st
March 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is bad: the family had TPS and were following all the necessary steps
How a lot of people are feeling right now
March 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
How a lot of people are feeling right now
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This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
www.axios.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
I’ve seen a number of links to a short New Republic piece this week, and wondering if it is based on this linier piece in the Wash Post from a couple weeks ago: wapo.st/43GW7Yc
FBI takes up EPA probe amid pushback from judge, prosecutors
While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation.
wapo.st
March 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I’ve seen a number of links to a short New Republic piece this week, and wondering if it is based on this linier piece in the Wash Post from a couple weeks ago: wapo.st/43GW7Yc
Eugenics is making a come back.
The right’s new embrace of an old idea about race
The online right loves talking about “IQ.” Guess why.
www.vox.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Eugenics is making a come back.
This is the most frightening turn yet, a direct attack on the first amendment
Arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be first 'of many to come,' Trump says
Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful U.S. resident who was a graduate student at Columbia until December, was detained Saturday by federal immigration agents in New York and flown to an immigration jail in Louisi...
www.pbs.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is the most frightening turn yet, a direct attack on the first amendment
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Cuts we can agree on
March 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Cuts we can agree on
Flow is gorgeous flow.movie
FLOW – Dream Well Studio
Flow is an animated film by Gints Zilbalodis.
flow.movie
March 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Flow is gorgeous flow.movie
“ "God loves us. God weeps with us. And God walks with us through the ashes."
Through loss and grief, not around it.”
Through loss and grief, not around it.”
On Ash Wednesday, Christians hear the words "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Those words ring differently for many whose churches and homes burned in the Los Angeles fires.
'God walks with us through the ashes.' A poignant Ash Wednesday after LA wildfires
On Ash Wednesday, Christians hear the words "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Those words ring differently for many whose churches and homes burned in the Los Angeles fires.
www.npr.org
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“ "God loves us. God weeps with us. And God walks with us through the ashes."
Through loss and grief, not around it.”
Through loss and grief, not around it.”
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“The demise of independent journalism in the United States will be less spectacular than the notorious examples of other times and places—as much voluntary as coerced, less like a murder than a death of despair,” writes George Packer.
The Washington Post Is Dying a Death of Despair
The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect.
www.theatlantic.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“The demise of independent journalism in the United States will be less spectacular than the notorious examples of other times and places—as much voluntary as coerced, less like a murder than a death of despair,” writes George Packer.