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Dirt, moss & lichen lover. Midwest transplant, but still a New Yorker at heart. Artist, naturalist, neurodivergent. mom to a couple cool humans. I will like all your pet pictures.
Read letters written by children held in the Dilley detention center: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old
Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days
The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
Keith Porter Jr Geraldo Lunas Campos Renee Good Alex Pretti All killed by ICE/CBP. 32 others died in ICE custody in 2025 alone. That we know of. Meanwhile ICE has stopped paying for most detainee healthcare. This is a public health emergency. Public health and medical workers. We must speak out.
Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...
Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
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UK suffragettes (WSPU) who taught themselves jiu-jitsu to tackle violence from the police and male vigilantes (image via Mary Evans Picture Library) #womensmartialarts
Songs don’t save the world. They save people. …And people do the rest.
If this projection is correct or even possibly correct, then immediate global government action is needed. Also, consider the push for new data centers & AI in this context. Context, consent and consequences matter. How did we become so obsessed with money? We’re on a rock in space! #landback
David Tomkins 🦋@davidctomkins.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...
Not sure about abolition work? Might data help? The U.S. leads the world in women’s incarceration rates. Here’s a state by state breakdown put in global context. South Dakota leads the board above El Salvador. Michigan looks good by comparison, but is still outpacing the global majority.
Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How!@leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 11mo agoToday's fun fact: if "blue" "progressive" Maryland was a country, we would incarcerate more women per capita than 153 countries, including Canada, China, Argentina, and Venezuela, and would be tied with the Russian Federation. #TheMoreYouKnow www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women...
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.
Don't be evil? "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..." www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
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Cruelty is the word that keeps surfacing
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe cruelty is the point.
So fun that I can’t believe anything I see on the internet is real anymore. What a great future. Good job rich guys.
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · 12mo agoI am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12mo agoYarn-bombing is thought to have originated in Texas USA, instigated by clothes-shop owner Magda Sayeg and a group known as Knitta Please, who began the "knit graffiti" movement to brighten up public spaces as a form of street art #Womensart
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If you're dealing with food insecurity with food stamps being cut off in November, you can find local food pantries at foodfinder.us FindHelp also has food bank and pantry listings, as well as other mutual aid orgs and resources findhelp.org
I think this is actually a smart idea. Large scale or small scale. @kentcountyindivisi.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @jasonfugate.dev
Daniel Abraham@abraham.bsky.social · last yr.If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Congress established an emergency fund to ensure that millions of Americans on SNAP continue to receive nutrition assistance when funding expires in November. Mr. President: Don’t let kids go hungry. Use these emergency funds to feed low-income families.
#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
Ah, and one of my favorite quilt pieces:
womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · last yr.'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state. Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!
Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.
