Adia Norris
@shuddupadia.bsky.social
Trying to keep my peace, sanity, and employment in this 2025 Black Mirror episode.
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ICYMI: On Monday I toured what will become the largest immigration detention facility in the U.S., built on Fort Bliss military installation property, and operated by a private contractor.
Here's what I saw and some takeaways 🧵
Here's what I saw and some takeaways 🧵
August 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ICYMI: On Monday I toured what will become the largest immigration detention facility in the U.S., built on Fort Bliss military installation property, and operated by a private contractor.
Here's what I saw and some takeaways 🧵
Here's what I saw and some takeaways 🧵
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Reposting this and a few other things for no particular reason today. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and the next day, too.
July 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reposting this and a few other things for no particular reason today. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and the next day, too.
So. You want to celebrate my 48th birthday? Pick stuff from the lists below to do with me, for me, or just tag me in a picture you took, showing me you did it! You have 30 days to “catch me killing the game.”
#AdiaFirst48
#AdiaFirst48
July 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So. You want to celebrate my 48th birthday? Pick stuff from the lists below to do with me, for me, or just tag me in a picture you took, showing me you did it! You have 30 days to “catch me killing the game.”
#AdiaFirst48
#AdiaFirst48
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FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from their 100-year flood map in Texas in response to appeals
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing ...
apnews.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from their 100-year flood map in Texas in response to appeals
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This has been the golden rule for fascists and racists since time began:
Identify the parts of your nation that are crumbling (on your watch) and blame it on people who don’t look like you.
What is rare (and uniquely dangerous) is to find these people running the government.
Identify the parts of your nation that are crumbling (on your watch) and blame it on people who don’t look like you.
What is rare (and uniquely dangerous) is to find these people running the government.
Stephen Miller: "What would LA look like without illegal aliens? You would be able to see a doctor in the ER right away, no wait time, no problem. You kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size."
July 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This has been the golden rule for fascists and racists since time began:
Identify the parts of your nation that are crumbling (on your watch) and blame it on people who don’t look like you.
What is rare (and uniquely dangerous) is to find these people running the government.
Identify the parts of your nation that are crumbling (on your watch) and blame it on people who don’t look like you.
What is rare (and uniquely dangerous) is to find these people running the government.
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the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
July 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
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‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version
‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version
Max will debut Sinners in the U.S. on Friday July 4, when viewers will be able to watch it two ways: by 1) streaming the exact theatrically-released version, and 2) choosing Sinners in Black American Sign Language (BASL). It’s the first time a streaming service has interpreted a film into BASL, Warner Bros. says.
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June 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version
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Loss of federal funding looks different at each library system 💔
Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️🩹
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Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️🩹
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June 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Loss of federal funding looks different at each library system 💔
Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️🩹
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Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️🩹
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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause."
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
June 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause."
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
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“We came to the United States for protection because of what we encountered in Russia,” he said. “It seems that we are encountering here what we fled.” -- Russian asylum seeker who was detained and, he says, beaten by ICE agents.
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown
After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
www.wsj.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“We came to the United States for protection because of what we encountered in Russia,” he said. “It seems that we are encountering here what we fled.” -- Russian asylum seeker who was detained and, he says, beaten by ICE agents.
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
Our use of language can be problematic, in regard to political nuance and social movements. Please exercise caution, as extreme language can completely distort reality… American mythology, which we refer to as history, is an indicator of past linguistic errors we let fly.
June 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Our use of language can be problematic, in regard to political nuance and social movements. Please exercise caution, as extreme language can completely distort reality… American mythology, which we refer to as history, is an indicator of past linguistic errors we let fly.
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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
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A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
June 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
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Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias
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Yo… “in sync?”
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Yo… “in sync?”
I gave my AP Modern World students a chance to give a TED Talk, instead of a final. These were some of the topics:
May 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I gave my AP Modern World students a chance to give a TED Talk, instead of a final. These were some of the topics: