Nicole Newnham
@nicolenewnham.bsky.social
documentary filmmaker ("Crip Camp" "The Disappearance of Shere Hite") - history, travel, cinema, fika.
AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"
Please give to support and protect immigrant communities in Minnesota.
Immigrant Rapid Response Fund
The Immigrant Rapid Response Fund (IRRF) was created by a group of philanthropic leaders close to the communities most impacted to ensure that resources move quickly and responsibly during immigration...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens).
"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump on his meeting with Gold Star families: "I invited them out to check out the new helipad, check out the new ballroom, and check out the new helicopter"
Nurses and community members are protesting in San Francisco today as part of the "People vs. Palantir" Global Week of Action. Organizers say the demonstration is focused on Palantir's work with ICE and concerns over immigration enforcement.
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
Sherrod Brown@sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
“I simply do not want to see innocent children being detained. Prisons are not a place for innocent children...” “We need to go to these board meetings... to all our other meetings, our city council. We need to be in all these spaces and insist upon being heard.” veritenews.org/2026/09/22/o...
Opponents of Alexandria ICE detention facility hold community forum - Verite News New Orleans
The England Authority Board of Commissioners is slated to discuss the planned ICE detention facility at a meeting on Thursday.
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Quilters, immigrant rights advocates and an interfaith coalition unveiled the Stolen Neighbors Quilt at the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday to honor Minnesotans detained by federal immigration enforcement - and advocate on their behalf.
In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
ICE is electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making it difficult for lawyers & relatives to find them ✏️ @apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
thedartmouth.com
@theweekendmsnow.bsky.social Why doesn’t the White House Press Pool just leave the White House is solidarity with MSNOW, CNN and Politico? Deny the President the attention he craves?
No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone. Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban
The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.
nytimes.com
“We are saying stop locking up children. There are humane alternatives that allow people to live freely while their cases are adjudicated.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
She’s feeding hundreds of kids in ICE detention using commissary accounts
Casey Revkin gives money to hundreds of families at a Texas family detention facility so that they can buy food their children will eat.
washingtonpost.com
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
A 76-year-old man holding permanent US residency and grappling with stage four prostate cancer is reportedly being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Tacoma, Washington. What the fuck are we doing here? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE holds man with stage 4 cancer in detention despite permanent US residency
ICE spokesperson says Loreto Javar failed to disclose criminal conviction in Philippines when he applied for visa
theguardian.com
My god I don’t think this stops at cruelty, it is evil. Please support the orgs on the ground in Springfield supporting the community.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2mo ago"Vilès Dorsainvil said seven Haitians had reported for ICE check-ins last Thursday. One was a woman who had given birth twenty days earlier and lost the baby. 'She came to the office. She could not even walk,' he said. 'But they put the shackle on her.'"
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer." www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · 2mo agoA 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.
Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️
Just think, in all the billions of years for which the universe has existed and all the uncountable years it will continue to exist, our infinitesimal existences overlapped with Dolly Parton's.
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents