they are this afraid of people advocating for humane behavior
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they are this afraid of people advocating for humane behavior
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But the stories of the conditions at the facility, revealed in data and recordings from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press - in addition to follow-up interviews and court filings — offer a disturbing portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition and emotional distress. The detainees describe a camp where an average of about 3,000 people have lived per day in loud and unsanitary quarters, diseases spread easily and sleep is a luxury. The center will be closed to visitors until at least March 19 because of a measles outbreak, according to U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar. Detainees struggle to obtain medication and health care, lose concerning amounts of weight because of a lack of food, and live in fear of private security guards known to use force to put down disturbances. The ceilings in the windowless tents leak when it rains, and detainees only see sunlight during brief outings once or twice a week to a cramped recreation yard. In an email, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who did not provide their name rejected claims of subprime conditions, saying Camp East Montana detainees receive food, water and medical treatment in a facility that is regularly cleaned.
Detainee says guards bet on suicide Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects. He said detainees stole others' food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals, which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health. At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome. The talk was particularly jarring, he said, because he had contemplated suicide himself.
A Cuban immigrant in his 50s told the AP he requested to receive his medication for diabetes, high blood pressure and an enlarged prostate during a six-week detention at Camp East Montana, but it never arrived. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Desperate, the man said he once refused to leave living quarters when a cleaning crew came. An immigration official offered him ibuprofen and urged him to consider leaving for another country. "He says to me, 'Look, there are a lot of detainees, we don't have enough for everyone," he said. "The man from ICE says to me, 'OK, why don't you decide it's better to leave? Leave for Mexico, go to Cuba. There you can have your medicine, have your things." Fearing death, the man agreed to self-deport to Mexico to Ciudad Juárez — across the international border from his wife and their 11-year-old son in El Paso.
AP has a new report out about the huge El Paso detention facility and the details—from 911 calls, interviews and court records—are as horrific as you’d expect apnews.com/article/suic...
A quote about women's rights from Anne Nicol Gaylor, FFRF's founding president. To the left is an image of Gaylor, to the right is a bouquet of pansies.
Anne Nicol Gaylor and Annie Laurie Gaylor founded FFRF in 1976 to combat the biggest threat to women's rights: organized religion.
50 years later, we hold the same mission -- for the rights of women and anyone else afflicted by religious overreach.
Happy #WomensHistoryMonth.
If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
They mounted it on a basement wall, with no fanfare or attempt at commemoration, in the wee hours of a Saturday. A textbook example of malicious compliance.
The idea of AI being alive is something the techlords need to believe because it's the culmination of their religion.
For the last many decades I've been aware of their shit and it fueled a lot of my academic writing, but it's worth repeating that everything they do is just to make slaves.
Especially if you have means to adopt even part of a rent AND HAVE ZELLE, we need you!!!
61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.
Fascist tried chanting “Christ is King” and Crackhead Barney responsed “My pussy is King,” leading to a group chant of the same.
what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?
By our count at @prospect.org they have killed at least 28 people since Trump's second term started.
I bet it still happens all the time. Thank goodness you are you.
It's always a mistake to underestimate me.
There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
A Klan lawyer was assigned to represent a Black man, Rocky Meyers. Meyers is still in prison. How many other people did this Klan lawyer represent who languish in prison?
Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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More than 1.5 million girls were sent to maternity homes during the Baby Scoop era, where they were kept in seclusion, told they didn’t deserve to be mothers, and returned to their lives to pretend none of it happened.
This is the America the GOP wants to make great again.
LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.
Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.
Yes!!!
Dropkick Murphys finish up their set at a benefit show across from Alex Pretti Memorial: “We’ll never forget what we saw with our own eyes, we’ll never forget what we’ve seen here today. thank we’ve seen here today. Thank you all for allowing us to come bear witness with you, thank you Minnesota!”.
with every bad thing that's happening right now children are getting the absolute shit end worst of it
Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME
Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day.
Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.
the elite & privileged are never as connected to history as the oppressed & marginalized.
someone from their rank & file commits a genocide? "im not connected to those atrocities & its not representational of who i am."
"stop living in the past!"
"i never owned a slave!"
"Through this decision, they have put millions of people in Israel, Iran, and across the Middle East in harm’s way and endangered American troops, dragging us all into war without clear objectives or an exit strategy."
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That is about as much water as 100,000 people would use in normal residential households.
2-8 mil +
Halt every last one of these
sand in the gears
monkeywrenched into oblivion
Should have pre-ordered this months ago when I first heard about it, but today's not a bad time to do it either!
I know everyone is watching what’s happening in Iran, but Ice arrested another set of journalists for reporting on their black bagging of American citizens in Nashville last night.
