Sarah Part
@spart.bsky.social
Senior Policy Analyst, @afcnewyork.bsky.social. She/her. Opinions my own.
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Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
March 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
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great piece from @daralind.bsky.social that can be taken as advice for any number of issues. don’t do their work for them.
Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations
How big will the Trump administration will go, and how quickly?
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:11 PM
great piece from @daralind.bsky.social that can be taken as advice for any number of issues. don’t do their work for them.