NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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Thank you for highlighting our work! We are excited to be adding a third video to our “Paso a Paso” animated series soon - link to our website with the first two videos below.

Bloomberg American Health Initiative@americanhealth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1 in 10 people aged 12-17 reported serious thoughts of suicide in 2024. Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health Kiara Alvarez partnered with Centro SOL to address this issue for spanish-speaking youth and their families. Read more: americanhealth.jhu.edu/news/suicide...

In my new piece in @theatlantic.com, I argue that the consensus about birthright citizenship extended far beyond elite legal circles to readers of newspaper advice columns and letters to the editor pages for well more than a century. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Americans Once Understood Birthright Citizenship

Newspaper columnists instructed generations of citizens about the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the country seems to have forgotten how clear the law is.

nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com

The call for abstracts for this year's National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms is now open! Threading all the key details below! (1/n) --

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country

The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.

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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Like I'm seeing people ask why people who've signed deportation papers are being held in detention, or why people going through the "legal" process are being removed. And part of the answer is messiness, but the other part is $. It's profitable.

I think what a lot of folks miss is how profitable deportation is for the corporations involved & the politicians they're backing. Holding people, physically removing them, is cost for the taxpayer & profit into the pockets of the worst people you can imagine.

David French argued Renee Good's murder is an example of the US having two sytems of law: orderly for friends & belligerent for foes. @victorerikray.bsky.social corrects him: US law has always promised fascism for non-whites & those who stand with them. groupthreat.com/p/americas-d...

America's "dual state" is a racial state

ICE's terrors draw on an American traditions of racial violence

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Abolish ICE is not enough. It's not about training -- Ross who killed Renee Good was a TRAINER. It's not about body cams -- we saw Alex Pretti killed with our own eyes. We have to abolish the idea that violence ever made us safer, before it's too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray

It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

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Eastern European here. My entire childhood is filled with stories of abductions, torture and murder - from terror campaigns under Soviet rule and the Nazi regime before then. This kind of violence and suppression is exactly what we all hoped to be free of.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

executions in the street.

ASA members Heba Gowayed @hebagowayed.bsky.social @huntercollege.bsky.social and Victor E. Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social (University of Iowa) note that ICE's violence isn't a "mistake," but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate. @theguardian.com

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray

It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

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In an over 2-mile walk, hundreds of students made their way from Little Village Lawndale High School to the Little Village Arch, denouncing recent ICE action and supporting immigrant communities.

Students walk out of Little Village schools, hold march in protest of recent ICE activity

Little Village high school students walked the streets calling for an end to ICE and deportations in Chicago.

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Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

Or a to do list where the items say things like “follow up with” and it’s just a set of initials that you can’t place

Noooooooo 😫😫😫

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."

For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

popular.info

🌱 "During uncertain times, like the current moment, we can either retreat or move forward and plant seeds of change. This moment calls on us to plant seeds." 🌱 Honored to share my blog post in @idsainfo.bsky.social's #HealthEquity Series where I outline key practices and strategies...

Planting seeds in uncertain times: Holding the line on health equity in HIV

Oni J. Blackstock, MD, MHS, outlines key practices and strategies to continue the work of health equity in HIV in the next installment of the new Health Equity Series.

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I read about this here, along with a ton of other great news stories about species being saved, environments being protected, people living healthier lives, and so much more. Do yourself a favor: bsky.app/profile/fixt...

Fix The News | Angus Hervey | Substack [Unofficial]@fixthenews.com.web.brid.gy · last yr.

"[It's] as if we’ve collectively agreed that fiscal responsibility is best taught through the ritual humiliation of second graders." This is an excellent piece, not just about school lunch debt, but how we manage the relationship between working for systemic change and mitigating immediate harm.

I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened.

“I immediately wondered if this was real.”

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This is scandalous. The El Paso SPC is one of the few ICE detention centers owned by ICE itself. Members of Congress cannot legally be turned away from ICE facilities when conducting oversight. Yet these emails say Noem herself is deciding when and how Members can conduct oversight.

Rep. Veronica Escobar@repescobar.bsky.social · last yr.

This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.” I have some thoughts.🧵

I would have preferred to quietly conduct my oversight responsibilities as I always have, but ICE chose not to follow the law. These ‘guidelines’ are illegal, and that deserves public scrutiny.

This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.” I have some thoughts.🧵

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Smart move, and not surprising; the litigators surely knew this was an option and had the amended complaint ready to go.

Kathleen Bush-Joseph@kathleenbush.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland