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One of the main themes in this article is the risk of suicide to detainees. There’s no way to describe these conditions other than psychological torture.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

Ty! We're well & enjoying all of snuggles w/ Hans.🥰

How we design streets determines what's possible re: our relationship to outdoors, community, & health.

Thanks to @minneapolismn.gov for protected bike lanes on 26th & 28th Streets that made this trip feel safe & therefore a real option. 1/3

ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."

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Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

I saw on r/nursing this week that a nurse reported a colleague for wearing meta glasses to work. That has a billion HIPAA and other legal violations written ALL over it and that person should be fired

gavin newsom is a very useful weathervane because he believes in nothing save the fact that he should be president

that he's making these noises about israel support should tell you how incredibly over it is for israel within the democratic party going forward

imagine a world where retail properties are owned by the city and leased out to businesses with a contractual obligation to hire more employees and lower prices. imagine if we abandoned the myth of the market and actually treated the economy like a tool a society uses to serve its populace

Imagining WaPo in 1943, breathlessly describing how Germany was leveraging the most advanced technology ever used in human extermination.

Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion The cloud giant holds convertible notes in Anthropic. As the AI startup raises more money, this debt converts to equity.

If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross stands in front of the ABC chalkboard

“ABC. A always. B be. C closing military programs. Always be closing military programs. ALWAYS be closing military programs.”

Sure seems like it would buy a whole lot of everything without killing a whole bunch of everyone if we defunded the military.

Nobody is actually 100% certain about a politician's inner beliefs. Nobody, possibly not even that politician.

The question we have is: is there a greater than average risk that a man who had a Nazi tattoo for many years harbors Nazi-like beliefs?

I think our burden of proof for "potential politician might be a Nazi" should be very very low...

Better to err on the side of caution.

RESIDENTS PRIORITIZED RENT At the outset, a few alarms went off. “The first report was not so great,” Schwartz said. “Collection levels were lower than I expected [at 69.2 percent]. It quickly became alarming info that was flashing across the bottom of the CNN telecast. But it turned out to be more of an aberration because the first day of the month that month fell on a Sunday. [NMHC] adjusted how we defined the rent payment due date and what was considered ‘late’ for renters and the collection percentages improved [to 78.0 percent] from there.” “As we moved along with the survey, the proverbial ‘shoe’ never dropped,” Zrimsek added. “The cliff never came.” For Jay Parsons, vice president, head of economics and industry principal at RealPage, the big surprise in the data was “the resilience of apartment renters. While a small share did indeed struggle and that warrants attention, the good news is the vast majority of renters were able and willing to pay the rent.” “Delinquency could have been much worse with the magnitude of job loss early in the pandemic,” said Laurie Baker, COO at Camden Property Trust.

Landlords benefitted from the enhanced unemployment benefits enacted in the CARES Act, because tenants used it to pay rent, the emergency rental assistance in the ARP, plus the CARES Act loan programs

In the landlords' own words: "the proverbial ‘shoe’ never dropped . . . The cliff never came"

This is also a big one for me. The strawman argument is always "but what about the mom and pop landlords?" Well, most of them are sitting on goldmines that someone else paid for. They can always sell their multi-hundred-thousand dollar assets, walk away with their profits, and get a job!!

Why is it always presumed that a landlord cannot be asked to weather a bit of a bumpy ride for a short period, but tenants must do everything right or face the consequences? If a landlord can't handle a limited amount of arrears, they shouldn't be in business.

If one blames the Jew for not having been ennobled by oppression, one is not indicting the single figure of the Jew but the entire human race, and one is also making a quite breathtaking claim for oneself. I know that my own oppression did not ennoble me, not even when I thought of myself as a practicing Christian. I also know that if today I refuse to hate Jews, or anybody else, it is because I know how it feels to be hated. I learned this from Christians, and I ceased to practice what the Christians practiced.

I think often of this one Baldwin paragraph, not specifically because of Jewish contexts but because of the assumptions that are often made about what oppression does to anyone

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Nonprofit “affordable housing” providers showing up to testify against Pause Eviction Saves Lives is just further highlighting the way in which nonprofits & foundations have completely failed to meet this moment. This is why we need actual social safety nets, not the Nonprofit Industrial Complex.

I call it the casino-state. Everything you see is a grift, it’s all for your entertainment, and the house takes in a fortune

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

This has to be felt every day; The establishment relies on us losing hope. Do not conflate being exhausted with hope being lost.

If you need support, reach out to someone for support, but DO NOT project that emotion onto the whole movement, publicly. Don't post through it or life will pass you by

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

They've monetized and incentivized committing crimes against humanity.

It's a scandal on par with Pete Rose betting on baseball, if Pete Rose were undersecretary of defense, and baseball was murdering civilians with bombs.

I want this convo:

Republican: “Why are yall always annoyingly putting everything to votes you will lose? It’s annoying.”

Dem: “Because I want you on the record for the trial, mfer.”

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

“Direct your anger at Trump. Not the Dems”

As of right now, the 2 Dem leaders are:

-not in favor of abolishing ICE and DHS
-not in favor of an arms embargo against Israel
-not in favor of lifting the embargo against Cuba
-not in favor of leaving Venezuela alone