When the US deports people with active asylum cases back to their home countries, we are often condemning them to death. "Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body in southern Guatemala."
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · last wk.Overland, MO, couple killed in Guatemala after being deported by ICE | STLPR www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
This shit is not inevitable, it could be made illegal tomorrow if our governments weren't in the pocket of Big Pervert.
Unofficial CTV News Mirror@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 2w agoAI devices that see, listen and record: Are we ready for the post-smartphone world?
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...
Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.
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Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England * UK politics live – latest updates * Business live – latest updates A US private equity firm will take control of NHS patient records in a deal experts say should “ring alarm bells” amid concerns sensitive health data is increasingly being handed to private companies. The investment firm TPG has bought Optum UK, the healthcare technology business behind the electronic patient record system used by most GP practices in England, in a deal worth about $400m (£300m). Continue reading...
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As far as I can tell, there was a lot more media interest in the original bogus leak than there is in this coming out now.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w agoBig news here. After Salgado Araujo was killed by an ICE agent, *someone* leaked that a search warrant for the van showed FBI thought they might have seen drug baggies in it. The family said it was drink powder. Apparently the substance was tested and the family was correct.
COME ON OUT YA MIGRA GOONS IN YER STUMBLING PLATOONS TELL YOUR WIFE HOW YOU ATE SHIT ON ICE FOR QUOOOTAS TELL EM HOW DESPITE YOUR GUNS ALL YA EVER DID WAS RUN FROM THE COLD AND FROZEN STREETS OF MINNESOTA
I have awful news. Youman Wilder, the Harlem baseball coach who courageously protected his kids from an ICE raid and said he was "willing to die" for them, very tragically, passed away this week Wilder's sister started a fundraiser set up to help with his burial: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-y...
Having a 💥PRINT SALE💥 to fund my time at ACRE Residency! This will be the first residency I’ve gone to since 2014 because I could never afford to take time away from a job and the associated costs, so needless to say I’m excited! 🧵
Don't fall for this. Rowling wants trans people to self censor and to stop sharing the report. If this report really was as defamatory as she claims, she wouldn't be cheering on its spread. What she really wants is a costly settlement from AI UK, humiliating apology, and permanent silence.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w agoAmnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
A federal judge in Atlanta has quashed a DOJ subpoena seeking the names and personal info of Fulton County's 2020 election workers. “Georgia is just a microcosm of what they're planning to do to interfere in the midterms,” says @ariberman.bsky.social, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones.
One thing is for sure in November: we are going to have an election. “Donald Trump does not have the authority to cancel elections,” @marcelias.bsky.social says. “That said, there are a lot of things he can do that will make it harder for people to vote.” Help us fight back: https://bit.ly/4qskS3m
trump is a longtime eugenics guy! constantly talking about how his genes make him superior
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump on Lindsey Graham: "His father died just about at the same age. I'm a believer in the race horse theory. If you have problems, you have problems. And he had some problems."
get in losers were canceling alexis ohanian for funding flock
shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoElon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Parking for the NYPD but not for thee. Plus other news. buff.ly/FI3GeJE
Tuesday's Headlines Ask The Question: 'Parking? Lots!' - Streetsblog New York City
Parking for the NYPD but not for thee. Plus other news.
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People really do not appreciate the importance of the "do nothing" phase in the creative process. We are all about the kinetic energy, and forget its duality with potential energy.
Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · 3w agodeeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”
TOMORROW: Join the Justice for Lorenzo mass call to mourn the loss of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and learn about plans for collective action against ICE’s deadly violence on our neighbors. We must do everything we can to halt the ICE deportation and death machine.
Justice for Lorenzo: Day of Action & Accountability Movement Call · Disappeared in America
On Tuesday, July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas. Lorenzo was not under investigation. He was not a suspect. He was a dad driving a work van with his cr...
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This Day in Labor History: July 11, 1934. The Southern Tenant Farmers Union formed when eleven white farmers and seven black farmers met in Tyronza, Arkansas to form a union of sharecroppers to fight for poor farmers’ rights. Let's talk about sharecroppers and their fight during the Depression!
The New York Times reports the Trump administration has subpoenaed several of its journalists after their report over security concerns with the new Air Force One.
New York Times reporters are subpoenaed after Air Force One reporting, newspaper says
The New York Times reports the Trump administration has subpoenaed several of its journalists after their report over security concerns with the new Air Force One.
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I’m not sure where this writing discourse is coming from lately, the one about how you have to leave your city, house, bed to have experiences to write stuff people want to read, but it’s ablest as fuck and also demonstrably untrue. Start with this amazing piece: sickmagazine.org/bed
bed — sickmagazine.org
BED BY JENNIFER BROUGH Published in SICK issue 2, 2020 Jennifer Brough (she/they) is a workshop facilitator and slow writer. She writes...
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this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!
Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · last mo.Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.
Capitalism has to end soon because the very thought that schools should be run not just like a corporation but like AMAZON — famous for being a purveyor of cheap shit quick — is wild wild work. Rotten.
Lawprofblawg@lawprofblawg.bsky.social · last mo.If New York City ran its school system like Amazon some of the diplomas would be delivered to the wrong porch, the students would be classified as independent contractors, and the school tax would keep changing every minute.
BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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