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The Angry Hippie She/her Friend to animals, plants, & books. Pie > cake
The US just put tariffs on most of the other countries in the world, the legal justification being a law permitting tariffs on countries insufficiently policing the use of slave labor.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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Seventeen data centers. One town. The residents found out what that would cost them, and then they went to work. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/fauci-just...
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 Prisciliano Trejo, aged 29 becomes the 50th person to die in #ICE custody. He was denied medical care until it was too late. His family was denied the ability to see him when he was finally sent to the hospital. This thread is one you must spend time on. We cannot ignore the atrocities!
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
This is a good reminder that some "voluntary" departures people sign while detained by ICE are the product of coercion. The worst incidents I've heard of over the years involve agents grabbing a person's hands and forcing them to sign a piece of paper they can't read; it's a "voluntary" removal.
Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · last wk.ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.
A Polish-born woman in Des Plaines who “had done everything right” has been in ICE custody for the past year. Green Card for 20 years, sought citizenship. “And it didn’t matter.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/i...
Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release.
ICE arrested Beata Siemionkowicz, a Poland native and green card holder of more than two decades, last year while she was gardening in her daughter’s backyard in Des Plaines.
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On this day in 1967, the Detroit Rebellion ended. During the conflict, at least 43 people, 33 of whom were Black, were killed—most at the hands of law enforcement.
Jul. 27, 1967 | Detroit Rebellion Leaves Dozens Dead, Most at the Hands of Law Enforcement
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Mass surveillance does not makes us safer. ACAB
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 2w ago“We have cameras everywhere in that town" A police officer shows up at a woman's door and accuses her of stealing a package from someone's porch based on information he gathered from Flock cameras However, it wasn't her The charges were eventually dropped
When Trump launched his first trade war with Beijing, China, a major buyer of US crops, turned elsewhere — and never returned. Brazil is now the world’s biggest supplier of soybeans, beef and poultry. Meanwhile, farmers in the US are in worsening trouble. #TradeGenius www.ft.com/content/8aa8...
The fall of America’s farm superpower
The US is on the verge of losing its status as the world’s leading agricultural exporter
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This happened in a Chicago suburb. No name yet. Arrest every one of these ICE assclowns.
Breaking News: The Trump administration moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining and other development. Environmentalists characterized it as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead
F*CK ICE. Who believes this tired shite? According to ICE, Salgado Araujo “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer”. The confrontation resulted in “our officer firing his weapon in self-defense”. Son said he was out, looking for workers. 🧾 t2m.co/Mxz0wP17
ICE agent fatally shoots motorist during traffic stop in Houston
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by immigration enforcement as he was looking to hire workers, his son says
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votolatino.bsky.social@votolatino.bsky.social · 4w agoICE fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a Houston enforcement operation. His family says he was a hardworking father on his way to work. This is a deadly pattern at DHS: no transparency, no oversight, no accountability. We demand an independent investigation.
Buy this book because mark Zuckerberg doesn't want you to read it
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last mo.Her lawyers have posted their documents related to the suit, including a 285-page declaration by Wynn-Williams explaining the great lengths she's gone to in order to comply with Meta's demands, and the company's absolute intransigence and arbitrary menace: katzbanks.com/sarah-wynn-w... 33/
MEMPHIS: “National Guard fatally shoots man in Memphis…” — @GovBillLee & Trump’s not-so-safe task force at it again. They claim the “male turned toward NG members with his weapon” “The task force did not immediately respond to a request for comment” www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/c...
"At no point in either video is Hurtado-Cariaco seen choking the female agent. Instead, the videos show agents placing Hurtado-Cariaco into a chokehold on two separate occasions as he attempts to break free." By recording ICE, neighbors helped this man avoid a bogus attempted murder charge.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
Since Trump won a second term, his two eldest sons have become linked to investments in at least 10 defense firms. Those firms have collectively received about $3.7 billion in federal funds since the start of the second Trump administration. Read more from Akayla Gardner:
Trump is rearming America. His sons are invested in the companies selling it weapons.
The president’s two eldest sons are linked to investments in at least 10 defense firms that have drawn some $3.7 billion in federal funds since he took office — and no law requires them to step back.
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Today is July 1st which means THCa is officially banned in Tennessee. 🤬 As a response, @campbell4tn and I renew our push for Pot for Potholes. Tired of dumb legislation? It's an election year. Vote for candidates who support #potforpotholes
After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
