Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Stay loud!
Urge the Senate to rescind funding for ICE — and oppose any new funding for the agency — before more innocent people are detained, more families are separated and more lives are lost.
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Maura Healey is calling on the Trump administration to release data about people ICE has arrested in #Massachusetts — but her office won't answer my questions about who the state has turned over to ICE and provided no documents in response to a records request.
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“Another 112 people are being isolated. The ICE jail has recently had outbreaks of COVID-19 and tuberculosis and is rife with reports of inadequate medical care.”
"This comes as The Washington Post reports ICE is drafting a letter to terminate the facility’s $1.2 billion contract.”
Once again I will point out that most deaths in early concentration camps occur from illness and poor conditions. But these deaths are not accidents; this is one of the intended outcomes of a concentration camp.
This is a big win. Kristi Noem was a disaster, and people speaking up got her fired.
But Kristi Noem is not the architect of Trump's dangerous mass deportation policies, and we can't let up the pressure.
Fire Stephen Miller.
ICE is an evil institution that must be entirely defunded, demolished, and abolished.
Have a question about government records? By Massachusetts law, these are supposed to be open and accessible. All you have to do is file a request.
But it's not as easy as it sounds. Massachusetts, one expert said, “is one of the more secretive states.”
So we wrote a song about it. trib.al/EWHNLuW
It's been a year since the FDA promised to increase oversight over the infant formula industry. “So far, there has been a lot of sound and fury associated with this initiative in the form of declarative press statements, but it hasn’t translated into any meaningful action,” says CR's Brian Ronholm.
I saw a comment the said we aren’t “angry enough.” But all we are is angry. Our veins circulate it like acid. It cracks our sternums. It poisons and paralyzes us. We hiss and spit at each other, all impotent, helpless rage.
We don’t need more anger. We need more direction.
Unspeakable evil.
Roxbury residents protest outside the town hall after ICE bought a warehouse complex in the district to convert those facilities into detention centers, in spite of opposition from locals and the township itself.
The community does not want a prison in its area.
The American Library Association strongly denounces new federal book banning legislation proposed in Congress. Call your Reps. Tell them to oppose H.R. 7661. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 American Library Association, Show Up For Our Libraries
"Parents, not politicians, should guide their children’s reading. In our school, campus, and public libraries, materials are selected by trained literacy professionals who understand child development and community needs. Their work is grounded in one clear purpose: helping young people become lifelong readers. H.R. 7661 isn’t fundamentally about protecting kids. It’s about giving politicians broad authority to restrict whose stories are allowed on the shelves. That should concern anyone who believes in the freedom to read and the right of families to make decisions for themselves.” - ALA President Sam Helmick
"Rather than targeting librarians and teachers, Congress should invest in them. The Right to Read Act offers a better path, supporting well-staffed and well-resourced school libraries, strengthening evidence-based literacy instruction, and protecting the dedicated professionals who help young people discover books that open doors and expand horizons. When we trust families, support educators, and protect the freedom to read, our young people thrive.” - ALA President Sam Helmick.
NEW: ALA strongly denounces new federal book banning legislation introduced in Congress, HR 7661.
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Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
Judge Schiltz said he’s identified another 113 orders that ICE has violated in 77 additional cases since his Jan. 28 order.
That they had to add "US men's" as a parenthetical shows exactly what he thinks of the women's team's accomplishments, imo.
“As far as I can tell, not a single Republican lawmaker has informed the public that the Save America Act would compel all 50 states to send their voter registration rolls to the DHS or that the DHS would then run the rolls through its “SAVE” voter purge system.”
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So this is the kind of move that would normally qualify someone for asylum. This is overt persecution of a minority.
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"I had to make a decision, which was either hide or fight and I decided to fight," the teen said. "I don't want to stay home and act like I'm scared because I believe that I'm a voice for a lot of immigrants and a lot of people that support me."
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.
They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.
