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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 1h ago

The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.

The heroine is clipboard-dependent. The hero has no idea what he's doing. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0... Apple: books.apple.com/us/b... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/e... #HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #WedgefordTrials

A Nova Scotia man was wrongfully sent to jail by a prosecutor—and this isn’t the first time it’s happened. @desmondcole.bsky.social unpacks why we need independent reviews of shady prosecutions in the criminal justice system. youtube.com/shorts/blflv...

SHADY prosecutors

YouTube video by The Breach

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I found reel to reel tapes in my parent's things. I'd like to have them digitalized so I can hear them and share with family. However I don't want the data stolen/used for AI/used in unauthorized research. Can anyone recommend someone who can do that?

Meta is extremely bad.

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

Hydrate and stay safe at the same time this #WildfireSeason.🔥 SIP airtight valves attach to any disposable mask so you can drink without compromising your protection. Get 25% off when you purchase 4 or more! Use code "SIP4X" at checkout. buymask.ca/products/sip... #WildfireSmoke

I was asked about sensitivity reading for Japanese representation by someone who thought I also did translations from Japanese because AI told them so. This is some messed up dystopia I am living in ugh.

love to see it

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2h ago

The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.

Moana 3: Now she’s James Bond

The Independent@the-independent.com · 8h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

I hope you don't see this post because you're too busy reading a book 🙃

Networking for underrepresented scientists is 1000 times better than 40+ years ago. Back then I didn't know if other Indigenous scientists existed, now we chat regularly and have mentoring groups to support the next generation.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

My overdraft is only $2500, so I have never seen my account do this before, but sharing on the off chance that folx in a position to help might be more inclined to do so with evidence of how financial precarity is currently at a breaking point, despite my best efforts as a disabled trauma survivor!🙏🏾

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 2d ago

With financial abuse, there is no end to my ex's violations, but even if that cost me paid work since '24, I know I tried everything humanly possible to warn others about how he drained me of $183,364+ over 6.5 years, so if able to help me stay housed, please donate/share!🥹 ko-fi.com/equitablefor...

"Those of us incarcerated in the Spokane area face the same dangers as other residents, but without the ability to make the same choices about our health or safety," writes Jeffrey.

What It’s Like In Prison Just Miles Away From Washington State’s Destructive Fires

So far, a prison miles away from Spokane is operating as normal. Emergency response plans are in place if needed.

prisonjournalismproject.org

My overdraft is only $2500, so I have never seen my account do this before, but sharing on the off chance that folx in a position to help might be more inclined to do so with evidence of how financial precarity is currently at a breaking point, despite my best efforts as a disabled trauma survivor!🙏🏾

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 2d ago

URGENT MUTUAL AID Thanks to all who have shared &/or sent funds, as I am grateful for each & every $ that came through, but I am still short about $2,500, & soon out of meds, groceries, etc. again, so please help, if able!🙏🏾 Please share widely!🫂 As always, still looking for work!✨ bit.ly/CVforKKJ

Adapted from Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard by Ellen David Friedman. Find it at labornotes.org/keepgoing 🐦

My overdraft is only $2500, so I have never seen my account do this before, but sharing on the off chance that folx in a position to help might be more inclined to do so with evidence of how financial precarity is currently at a breaking point, despite my best efforts as a disabled trauma survivor!🙏🏾

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 2d ago

With financial abuse, there is no end to my ex's violations, but even if that cost me paid work since '24, I know I tried everything humanly possible to warn others about how he drained me of $183,364+ over 6.5 years, so if able to help me stay housed, please donate/share!🥹 ko-fi.com/equitablefor...

Michigan Primary: How Standing Up to Israeli Genocide Could Win Democrats Congress in November

Michigan Primary: How Standing Up to Israeli Genocide Could Win Democrats Congress in November

What we are observing today is not just a minor shift in national American politics. It is a tectonic realignment.

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"Upon rewatching the...pilot..., I struggled to imagine how Helena could...become someone with whom...[they]...would...collaborate, which...applies to organizing...as Chapter 9 of...Let This Radicalize You: Organizing & the Revolution of Reciprocal Care is...titled, "Organizing Isn't Matchmaking"!"🫂

What a Disability Justice Practitioner Learned about Organizing from an Orphan Black Rewatch

This is the author's reflections on what she learned about the necessity of organizing as a Disability Justice practitioner from an Orphan Black rewatch, despite the elephant in the room that is Cosim...

equitableforall.com

A Palestinian father has opened an indoor play centre in Gaza to give children a sense of normality as they continue to endure near-daily Israeli attacks, with free entry for families who cannot afford to pay.

Democrats are about twice as likely as Republicans to say learning a language other than English is important. Do you think learning a second language is important? 💬

Iraqi PM faces a serious crisis as powerful Shia paramilitaries refuse to disarm as September 30 deadline looms.

Iraq faces crisis as Shia armed groups defy disarmament

Iraqi PM faces a serious crisis as powerful Shia paramilitaries refuse to disarm as September 30 deadline looms.

aljazeera.com

“We typically have access to large tracts of land. We’re the perfect target.” Indigenous nations weigh whether to invite data centers onto tribal lands, Demi Guo reports. For some historians, AI data centers echo the extraction of native lands that paved the way for the Transcontinental Railroad.

Indigenous nations weigh whether to invite data centers onto tribal lands

For some scholars, the debate over AI data centers echoes the extraction of native lands that paved the way for the Transcontinental Railroad

prismreports.org

Since industrial logging began more than a century ago, most of Vancouver Island’s productive old-growth forests — those capable of growing the large trees characteristic of the island’s rainforests — have been cut. About 20 per cent of those forests remain.

B.C. is logging its last old growth and protesters are trying to stop it

Vancouver Island’s old growth rainforests are among the rarest ecosystems on Earth and protesters are trying to stop the logging there.

aptnnews.ca

"We took over control of the state of Missouri tonight, repudiating absolutely atrocious ideas."

By 60-Point Margin, Missouri Voters Reject GOP Push to Make Ballot Measures Harder to Pass

Missouri voters deliver a resounding rejection of GOP-backed measures, protecting their rights and standing up against special interests. Will this wave of defiance continue in November's election?

commondreams.org

A former union organizer just won one of Michigan’s highest-profile House primaries. Donavan McKinney’s victory adds weight to Jake Triola’s argument: Voters trust candidates from labor. So why aren’t unions running more of them?

Voters Trust Union Candidates More—So Unions Should Run Them

A new report shows that candidates with backgrounds in labor unions can win the support of working people. The Democratic Party should take note.

inthesetimes.com

NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

404media.co

Approximately 350,000 Haitians and Syrians who have remade their lives in the U.S. are now at a crossroads. Their work permits and legal status have expired, yet their home countries haven't recovered from the crises that drove them to seek Temporary Protected Status. https://to.pbs.org/4hckHal

They lost their work permits and their legal status. Returning to Haiti is still ‘unimaginable’

Approximately 350,000 Haitians and Syrians who have remade their lives in the United States are now at a crossroads. Their work permits and legal status have expired, yet their home countries haven’t ...

to.pbs.org

UN rights chief says Iran executed at least 56 people since March https://aje.news/dh26p6

My overdraft is only $2500, so I have never seen my account do this before, but sharing on the off chance that folx in a position to help might be more inclined to do so with evidence of how financial precarity is currently at a breaking point, despite my best efforts as a disabled trauma survivor!🙏🏾

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 2d ago

With financial abuse, there is no end to my ex's violations, but even if that cost me paid work since '24, I know I tried everything humanly possible to warn others about how he drained me of $183,364+ over 6.5 years, so if able to help me stay housed, please donate/share!🥹 ko-fi.com/equitablefor...

No congressional candidate in Democratic history ever had as much outside money dumped on them in one primary as Abdul El-Sayed. But El-Sayed has now survived the onslaught in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Barely.

Michigan’s primary reckoning for the Democrats

Despite record outside spending, Abdul El-Sayed and a slate of left-leaning candidates triumphed over establishment and incumbent rivals.

motherjones.com