Diana Alonzo Watkins (she/Ella)
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Latina jefa, former New Yorker, #DCStatehood, Internationalist, #RadicalPhilanthropy and political junkie #DiverseCityFund #Instigator for #Justice, #GlobalSouth #MovementPower #PeoplePower
“In Salisbury, the Eastern Shore’s biggest city, about 10% of the 33,000 residents are Haitian, many of them employed under #TPS as farmworkers, caregivers and in the poultry plants that are the region’s economic backbone.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 8h ago“Empty pews and fear of ICE grip Maryland’s Eastern Shore after #TPS ends for Haitians. As Temporary Protected Status expires, many Haitian immigrants in Salisbury retreat from daily life, fearing arrest and deportation." haitiantimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
It’s been 166 days since SCOTUS struck down Trump’s illegal tariff taxes & big corporations are getting their refunds. $2.2 BILLION for Apple, $600 MILLION for Amazon, $300 million for Nike. When are American families going to see the $1,700 they're owed? Return the money, NOW.
Corporate America got billions of dollars in tariff refunds. Where’s your cut? | CNN Business
Apple got an estimated $2.2 billion tariff refund last quarter. Amazon got $600 million. Nike got $300 million. But American consumers who paid higher prices as President Donald Trump’s tariffs filter...
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“.. 15 companies with investment from President Donald Trump’s sons have garnered $3.2 billion in federal contracts, investments, and loans — most coming after Trump took office for the second time.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
At their first meeting, members of a panel cresearching "the history, operations, and resident deaths” at the site of a formerly segregated Maryland reform school were thanked for their service and warned to steel themselves to what they might find. marylandmatters.org/2026/08/05/c...
Commission to assess tragedy of Black youth at former reform school holds first meeting - Maryland Matters
At their first meeting, members of a panel cresearching "the history, operations, and resident deaths” at the site of a formerly segregated Maryland reform school were thanked for their service and wa...
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ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
“.. In April, Mr. Trump fired his Navy secretary for not moving quickly enough on building the battleship of his dreams.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
🚨 #BREAKING (CHICAGO SUBURBS) ÏCE agents pulled a GUN, and a TASER, on unarmed U.S. citizens for recording them from a public sidewalk… while threatening, “you aren’t going to like the outcome.”
🧊✈️⛓️ “Oh gosh, can you see the shackles? Oh my God,” Laney gasped as a group of women detainees stepped out of the van, their hands and feet in shackles and chains running around their waists. ⤵️
‘The Bird-Watchers’ of Memphis: Tracking ICE Flights and Documenting Detainees in Shackles
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You won't regret clicking on this beautifully told story by @lsommer.bsky.social about the Pacific Ocean and how the Trump regime is opening some marine monuments to commercial fishing.
These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, spar...
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Tried to pick something up in a DC CVS and good lord they really have made it impossible to shop there. Everything locked up, police strolling around the aisles, very few staff. It’s hard to fathom such an aggressively anti-customer retail outlet. Amazing.
The US is a monstrous entity, nothing less, nothing more. Truly monstrous.
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterdayNEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.
Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patients’ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)
Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
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Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” From the archives:
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a B...
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Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data centers in Calvert County’s June primary election. marylandmatters.org/2026/08/04/a...
Amazon abandons plans for a data center at Calvert Cliffs - Maryland Matters
Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data cente...
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In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Politico@politico.com · yesterday26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
Some law enforcement agencies treating license plate camera use as confidential information. "Police departments and sheriffs are now adopting formal policies that officers should not mention ALPR usage to vehicle occupants, or even put it in their reports." www.gadgetreview.com/police-are-b...
Police Are Being Told Not to Mention ALPR Searches to Drivers
ALPR cameras log your plate, location, and timestamp daily, yet no law requires police to disclose this during a traffic stop.
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Texas' ranking was dragged down by limited access to obstetricians, midwives and pediatric care in a new WalletHub analysis. bit.ly/3Rr7ujy
"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing
Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
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What a surprise, the alleged abuser was jacking himself up on testosterone.
This is the reality inside ICE detention centers. Children are being forced into jail-like conditions while this Administration strips away their basic human rights. We cannot allow this stand. We must hold this inhumane Administration accountable!