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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them.

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BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

Also, Trump knows all men are mortal, senses his mind is half gone already,

and the current convulsion is his Götterdammerung, or "extinction burst"...

...aiming to take everyone and everything he can touch and add it all to his own funeral pyre.

We started with restrain ICE. Then reform ICE, then landed squarely on abolish ICE.

But I’ve moved on to prosecute ICE y’all. Every last one even if it takes 20 years of trials.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

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.

So many people in the US vote for the candidate who mirrors their hate, not who will improve their lives, and certainly not for candidates who promise to improve the lives of those they hate.
It's a sick, messed up set of priorities, but seems painfully prevalent.
I wish I knew how to change it.

WV Senate passes bills targeting transgender people, drag performances • West Virginia Watch Hours before the crossover day deadline, West Virginia senators passed two bills that target LGBTQ+ people on Wednesday.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 7 WVWatch
WV Senate passes 2 bills: 1 prohibits drag shows as “adult cabaret performances” on public property or where minors cd see them; 2 wd charge trans people using right locker rooms with indecent exposure as sex offenders. Most WV Dems backed both measures.

A graphic titled Trans Rights Readathon TBR. Book covers: How to be a Good Girl by Jamie Hood; Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor; Death and the First Idea by Rickey Laurentiis; Simplicity by Mattie Lubchansky.

I'm reading these books, which is what I want to do anyway! Here are some titles on my TBR.

If you need ideas to expand your reading, TRR has got so many lists: transrightsreadathon.carrd.co#resources

I'm matching donations supporting Trans formative Schools. Send me your donation receipt & I'll kick in the same amount.

And most importantly to me personally, I am matching donations to Trans formative Schools, which provides after school programs for kids in NYC. They also show up every time those kids are under attack.

I'm matching up to $1000. DM me your redacted receipt!

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About: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. How to participate: read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters. Donate and fundraise for trans aid organizations in your community.

#TransRightsReadathon begins soon. It's a decentralized event, which means you don't have to sign up or do anything in particular, you just have to love trans people and trans books. Here's what I'm doing this year 🧵

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My best friend’s sister, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, her phone just got turned back on. She is a US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, they said she was not transferred to Broadview, and now she's in a detention facility in WI.

🚨 My best friend’s sis, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, phone just got turned back on. US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, said she was not transferred to Broadview, now she's in a detention facility in WI.😡

Also, @maiar.bsky.social, if you want to post your ma links (pp and kofi, etc.) this op has a wide reach and might be able to get help your way. 💜

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It's late but, better late than never!

Here's the Fund Me Friday thread for this week. Post your mutual aid below and I'll do my best to repost throughout the weekend.

Let's try to get some needs met this evening.

Housing The Homeless Saves Money--Here's The Research That Proves It The best way to stop homelessness is mindbogglingly simple: Give them homes.

“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high taxpayer cost. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.”

Housing the unhoused saves money. Via @fastcompany.com

Tennessee GOP Intro Bill To Kill Women Who Get An Abortion Here's an update on the bill, on the men responsible, and how you can contact them to stop this bill

Hey, so, reminder that Tennessee Republicans are introducing a bill that would kill women who get an abortion.

I dug up the MAGAs names, numbers, emails, & a script to use when calling them. Men—we need to step up. Act. Inundate them. Shut this trash down ASAP.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/tennessee-...

NY AG demands hospital resume gender-affirming treatment for trans youth New York Attorney General Letitia James is ordering NYU Langone to resume providing gender-affirming care for transgender patients under the age of 19

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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

Texas Republicans are punishing voters ‘because we can’ Tuesday’s primary descended into chaos for voters in Dallas and Williamson counties.

NEW: Over 150k Texans this week faced deliberate voting barriers driven by Republicans’ decision to switch to precinct-only polling places.

Why did Tuesday’s primaries descend into chaos and punish so many voters? As one GOP official behind the effort put it:

“Because we can.”

New York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam AG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

Oh, marvelous! I sure am. Thank you so much.

Here's a feed if you're more into that: bsky.app/profile/alex...

New Hampshire House Passes Trans Public Bathroom Ban That Bans "Asserting" Ones Identity The bill is more extreme than a recent one vetoed by the governor.

1. The New Hampshire House has passed a public building bathroom ban that says it is a violation of the state civil rights act for a trans person to "assert" their identity gives them access to a bathroom.

It bans them from public bathrooms across the state.

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Same here, but I did Love Medicine first, then Tracks, and have read everything of hers I could lay hands on ever since.
She's my favorite living author. Her works take up a whole shelf and then some.

(William Faulkner is my favorite who's passed away.)