Elaine F. Almquist

@ealmquist.bsky.social

The Movement Motivator. Political consultant, trainer, and democracy coach. Abolition accomplice. Multi-modal transit and community-building enthusiast.(She/her/hers) 🌈🖤 🌹🌻 🕊✊🏼🚲🚉

The 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.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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For the last year and a half, DoorDash has been silent as delivery drivers in DC have been hunted in the streets and even killed by ICE and other federal police. Now, the company has come out in support of #HR9720 — the blatant attack on DC Home Rule — just so it can earn more money.

Doordash has been sildent on the arrests and deaths of delivery drivers in DC — and just came out in support of HR 9720, a blatant attack on DC's Home Rule

Since the beginning of the 2nd Trump administration, critics have been saying that the rush to increase staffing at ICE was irresponsible and a threat to the public. We now know that cut corners killed at least one innocent man. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette

The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.

motherjones.com

I'm a 20+ year campaign professional. I know the ins and outs of voting laws and procedures. What would you want to know about the integrity of our voting systems in the U.S.? Know Your rights? Deadlines and dates? How to be a poll watcher? A poll worker?

Health care workers are heroes. Solidarity with the Massachusetts Nurses Association bargaining for a fair contract. I urge all parties to come to the table in good faith.

The question of what it means to be American has never felt more contested and nowhere did that come into sharper focus than watching ICE goons target Native Americans. The original people of this land.

The "Big Beautiful Bill" cut nearly $1 trillion from health care & food programs that working families depend on. That same bill gave $65 billion in tax cuts to billionaires and giant corporations. The GOP made a choice.

The genocide in Palestine is rapidly deteriorating because of Israeli government officials promotion of destruction of the homes of Palestinians. They're building colonies over the rubble of long-standing family homes more rapidly than ever. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/11/w...

Israel is expected to rapidly expand West Bank settlement - The Boston Globe

The intention is to create new realities on the ground and make physical changes to the territory that will be difficult to reverse if the country’s current leaders are not reelected.

bostonglobe.com

ALL EYES ON DELANEY HALL It's Day 7 of the hunger and labor strike in Delaney Hall, and as a reminder, here are the strikers' demands: 1. An immediate in-person meeting with Governor Mikie Sherrill at Delaney Hall to directly observe conditions and hear testimony from detained individuals (1/3)

Participants in the strike are calling for:
1. An immediate in-person meeting with Governor Mikie Sherrill at Delaney Hall to directly observe conditions and hear testimony from detained individuals
2. The immediate release of vulnerable detainees, including elderly individuals, pregnant women, young people, pregnant women and those with serious medical conditions.
3. Meaningful review of immigration cases and habeas filings
4. An end to what they describe as coercive pressure to sign deportation or voluntary departure documents.

Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'

As people rally outside of Delaney Hall, detainees inside the facility push up against a window, their bodies and hands seen from the outside. Antifascist flag flies in front of Delaney Hall as people gather in protest.

ICE's henchmen are brutally attacking our neighbors and community advocates in our streets. Pepper spraying electeds and shoving family members to the ground—all to defend their hatred for immigrant detainees.  End the chaos and shut down Delaney Hall.

Today convicted felon Donald Trump just put a person who makes money off of putting people in and keeping people in prison in charge of ICE. There is nothing less freedom-loving than profiteering off of the incarceration and enslavement of people. Disgusting.