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In 2025, local police & jails played a crucial role in ICE's deportation agenda.

For this year to be any different, states must prohibit this collaboration and rein in sheriffs.
Graph showing that policies blocking ICE access to jails have kept immigration arrest rates lower in some states.
January 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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mattbors.bsky.social
From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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JUST IN: A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump administration efforts to deport a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University.
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia student protests, attorney says | CNN
Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s student protest movement demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, was arrested Saturday night by federal immigration author...
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March 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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amistadlaw.bsky.social
Check out this fantastic short film that Philly Muslim Freedom Fund produced about the struggle to save FDR Park from the whims of developers to keep it connected to communities with deep roots in South Philly that have cared for it for decades.

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WHYY Presents | Rudolphy Mercy-Douglass Home for the Blind and FDR Park
Part one of this episode tells the history of the Rudolphy Mercy-Douglass Home for the Blind.
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February 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM