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Akoto Ofori-Atta

@akoto.bsky.social

Co-founder of Capital B.

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Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.

ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from custody

The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody.

nbcnews.com

adam mahoney (he/him)@adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEW investigation: Georgia families are being outbid by Wall Street for starter homes. Lawmakers promised to help. Instead, key bills keep dying. One reason why? We found that nearly 40% of Georgia state lawmakers are invested in the real estate industry capitalbnews.org/georgia-lawm...

Georgia Lawmakers With Real Estate Ties Are Writing the State’s Housing Laws

As corporate investors snap up Atlanta homes and drive up prices, nearly two-fifths of state legislators meant to regulate them are personally invested in the state’s housing market.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Paul Robeson died 50 years ago today. Can you imagine being the most famous Black person in the world at one point, only to die in near obscurity? The American government made sure no one would remember one of the greatest Americans to ever live. He was 77

Inside of April 1976 Ebony article: Paul Robeson Farewell to a FighterCover of April 1976 Ebony Magazine with headline: Paul Robeson - Farewell To A Fighter on top right cornerVarious works on Paul Robeson, including a biography of his wife Eslanda Robeson and a book by his son Paul Robeson Jr
Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Minnesota House DFL@mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

By Douglas MacMillan When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the Jan. 3 death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp, the agency said “staff observed him in distress,” and it gave no cause of death. An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation. In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”In an interview with The Post, Santos Jesus Flores, a man who says he was detained in the segregation unit the day Lunas Campos died, said he saw at least five guards struggling with Lunas Campos after he refused to enter the segregation unit, complaining that he didn’t have his medications. Flores said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar” — Spanish for “I can’t breathe.” Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away, Flores said. “He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” said Flores, who had contacted a family member of Lunas Campos, who in turn put him in touch with a Post reporter. The Post confirmed Flores was in Camp East Montana through ICE’s detainee locator.
Maria Sacchetti - reporter - The Washington Post@mariasacchetti.bsky.social · 8mo ago

SCOOP from Douglas Macmillan Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 8mo ago

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

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amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 8mo ago

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.

steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · 8mo ago

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

Harms Committed@harmscommitted.com · 8mo ago

"After George Floyd's murder by a police officer 6 years ago [..] police departments and federal agencies banned chokeholds." "ProPublica found more than 40 cases over the past year of immigration agents using these life-threatening maneuvers." #USA #Media #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

There is a federal ban on chokeholds and similar tactics. But there is no sign of punishment for officers who've used them.

propublica.org

Ben Lorber@benlorber8.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening

On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

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