WOW WOW WOW Mayor Mamdani names Stanley Richards as the new head of Dept of Corrections. Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the cityβs jails.
Richards is currently the president/CEO of the Fortune Society, a leading nonprofit that assists incarcerated/ formerly incarcerated
GIVE HIM HIS HAT AND BACKPACK BACK YOU GHOULS
Theyβre taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. Theyβre shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
the reality that this grossness is thriving in our culture is nauseating to the nth degree
granular, practical, well organized info here:
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
thank you so much
hey everyone, iβm sharing my poems now live in βThe Unwantedβ: a special themed issue of Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics.
www.interimpoetics.org/the-unwanted...
Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
With no warning, feds just gassed people.
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
"The man shot by federal agents this morning has died, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian OβHara told the Minnesota Star Tribune."
β οΈβ οΈβ οΈTrigger warning: live murder by ICE in MN ***today***
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Trump & Vanceβs agents saw tens of thousands of people β of all ages & races β come out *in below zero temperatures* to protest their tax-funded violence, their murder of their neighbor.
And the very next day, they executed another one.
What can Americans conclude from this?
Do not watch the video.
They beat then shot the person to death in south Minneapolis Today.
It wasnβt just a murder.
It was an execution.
Watching it wonβt help anyone.
Warrants must be issued immediately.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/mi...
i keep being interested in this. maybe not the right time for me tho given yr word.
sharing my poem in the new issue of @thebaffler.com!
thebaffler.com/poems/a-few-...
What, after all, is the world,
but a tiny dot at the end
of a very long question mark
Poet Cornelius Eady made space aliens tune in to earth today for the first time in nearly a decade, reminding them we are sometimes worth it.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vTjd...
new issue of @coloradoreview.bsky.social Colorado Review out!
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βMany of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementβ