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Alex R

@arcoppi.bsky.social

Seattle, ex-NYC

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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d ago

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

muellershewrote.com

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

Deb Raji@rajiinio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I feel like I have a conversation every other day with someone going through this exact crisis. We need better options for those aiming to do good work.

Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Life situations are bleak right now for a lot of people. In tech, the "Venn Diagram" of (1) positive work and (2) making enough money to support your family is increasingly non-overlapping. We all do what we can. This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.

Tech Venn Diagram Two circles, one says "Doing work that contributes beneficially to society."; the other says "Making enough income to support a family."
Taylor Nichols, MD MS@tnicholsmd.com · 10mo ago

Never stop telling normies about the ghoulish behavior being committed on their behalf, in this country, by their countrymen and women. THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS OR KNOW THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.

Kate Burns@katerqburns.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Re Graham Platner: A lot of folks are just now realizing how much our military’s culture is deeply right-wing and regressive—a place where Nazi and white nationalist iconography are commonplace (even if sometimes not recognized by the troops themselves). This was literally last year:

Army investigating social media post showing Nazi symbol

The Army opened an investigation after a National Guard unit posted a photo online that contained a symbol worn by Nazi SS troops.

militarytimes.com

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“There are definitely Nazis in uniform…In my experience they are typically relegated to conventional, noncombat arms units. Occasionally they end up in the infantry or the engineers…to learn combat tactics and explosive fabrication.”

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

H-2A apple workers in upstate NY tell us farms have gotten rid of piece rate pay, but are still forcing outrageous daily bin requirements. If workers don't meet the requirements, they won't be rehired next year. That's why they want a union to protect them. #WeFeedYou

New York State apple orchard where you see the big box of apples workers must fill
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 10mo ago

So, this crucially important state race in Georgia that I told you about? Let me offer you a frustrating update. (cc @hankgreen.bsky.social) With 14 days to go, Dems are up by a decent margin in early voting, but Kemp -- GA's loathsome governor -- has just dumped *$500K* into TV ads on the race.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 10mo ago

Today on Volts: hey listen up! The most important election of the year is happening in Georgia next month. Two seats on the (currently all-GOP) Public Service Commission are up & rising electricity prices are on everyone's mind. This is a bellwether for next year's governor & midterm elections!

Denise Wheeler@denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Trump's private army under development. ICE and other agencies are bringing high-powered weapons into American cities at an unprecedented rate and amount. Guns, armor, chemical weapons, guided missile warheads, and explosive components.

ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year

The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”

motherjones.com

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 10mo ago

WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.

Adam Weinstein@adamweinstein.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.
Coda@codahale.com · 10mo ago

When my family immigrated to this country, they did it the right way: falling from the night sky like embers, burrowing into the familiar silicates, slowly extending questing tendrils to sample the complex organic molecules of this new world, learning the logic of the self-replicators, assimilating

The UnKaren@kareneubanks.bsky.social · 10mo ago

People who missed the “pre-existing conditions” nightmare have no concept how bad that was. Being diagnosed with anything might mean no coverage & bankruptcy/death decades later. Pre-cancerous lump removed? No cancer coverage for 7 years. Past heart attack? No private coverage, ever. It was deadly.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 10mo ago

in its original form the medicaid expansion was basically mandatory and would have very clearly formed the nucleus of a genuinely universal system. and in its neutered form (thanks john roberts) it is still a powerful policy that can be built on and expanded in straightforward ways

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

charjaebug@jael.bsky.social · 10mo ago

tbqh traveling the entire country and touching grass every day for two months made me a lot less anxious about where all this is headed because there’s what the phone will tell you and then there’s real life and the gulf is just so profound between their fiction and our reality