quiet enough
@quietenough.bsky.social
Unapologetically antifascist. PNW. Ain't scared.
The direct line between what happened to Mamie Till Mobley after Emmett was killed and what’s happening to this woman now is becoming a circle. A dot, actually.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 1h agoChristine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...
If you pretend to be on your phone while teens are chatting with each other, it renders you invisible & you can catch up on confusing things like Tictoc & which celebrities we should despise this week. Also, that fluffy hair is a thing now too.
Lede headline in the Springfield, Ohio, newspaper, as TPS ends for Haitians: "At the mercy of God" www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/at-the...
‘At the mercy of God’: Springfield Haitians await next steps after TPS officially ends
The official end of temporary protected status for Haiti leaves many Haitians in Springfield “at the mercy of God,” said Haitian Community Help and Support Center President Vilès Dorsainvil.
springfieldnewssun.com
If you're trans and you have the means and opportunity to safely leave the US, you probably should. The best time to get out is likely yesterday.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3h agoA trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
When I unexpectedly lost my best friend to a brain aneurysm at 37, her donated organs saved seven lives plus someone’s eyesight. This is monstrous.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h agoRFK Jr: "I'm announcing that HHS has begun the decertification of Network for Hope, the organ procurement organization."
Thomas777 is a neo-Nazi w ties to old school boneheads in the Chicago area. He's become a fash intellectual & took his carefully curated hipster costumes w him to Jared Taylor's annual AmRen conf - a gathering of white nationalists like Patriot Front - in 2023. Young bucks revere him as an old head.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h agoIn that same interview, TC’s favorite “historian” talks about writing the foreword to a new book by Thomas777. That Thomas fellow (pictured below) has said that "Hitler will be remembered in 1,000 years as the warlord who prevented Soviet world domination."
Oregon has set a record for the worst fire season in history, with 2m acres burned, and 2 months before the return of fall rains. Climate change is here. It looks like scorched forests, fires that encroach on major cities, & lost commerce and recreation. My video report from smoke fouled Portland
FWIW, both of VDARE’s founders were on the masthead of the National Review in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peter Brimelow was also a staffer for Senator Orrin Hatch. This white nationalist thread has been present in the conservative movement for a long time. Screenshot is from 1997.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
An immigrant skater in Texas: "Routine tasks became major challenges, from healthcare to banking, from finding housing to seeking police help when his car was stolen more than once."
Photo Essay: American Skater
A Venezuelan immigrant tries to make a home in San Antonio in exclusionary times.
texasobserver.org
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.
Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 6h agoWanna help? Become a Waymaker! We're running, walking, cycling 20,000 miles in September to raise money to get immigrant kids out of detention and back with family. Someone who kayaks to work is dedicating his miles to Waymakers! A salsa dance class is counting steps! It all counts! #BeAWaymaker
It's a year and a half after i highlighted the issue, but nice to see: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
arstechnica.com
Molly White@molly.wiki · 2y agowhat could go wrong with running betting markets like this?
Nothing says “public safety” like trying to siphon away clean energy money while I’ve been nursing a raging headache for two days from wildfire smoke.
Portland Mercury@portlandmercury.com · 23h agoA ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
Jackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...
Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Home in Jackson, But Details Are Sparse
Jackson police are investigating the death of a Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a home in Mississippi's capital city.
mississippifreepress.org
Friends are telling me that they are re-occupying Willy St right now. This comes after police forcibly removed the protest encampment earlier today set-up at the intersection where a police officer murdered Corey Ruiz.
Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · 19h agoa banner found above the front doors of the police HQ in Madison, Wisconsin this morning stated: “Arrest the killer cop, 608-266-4211.”
Wild that people are voting for candidates who are taking positions they are screaming for and promising to actually do things over stale political theater and social media posts that had to be bought for $1,500 a pop. Someone make it make sense.
Here is our full list of all 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a single image. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children.
This llama duckie watched me get a root canal today while outside the window the hazy wildfire smoke air rolled into our area. Strange times.
Nurses in Portland, Maine are protesting tomorrow after one of their colleagues was taken by ICE despite her pending asylum case
If you missed last year's Defense Fund PDX street fair, this Saturday 8/8 is your chance to check it out. It's full of lively music, raffles, and vendors, and ways that you can support the hotline, the bail fund, mutual aid efforts, and community support for folks impacted by the carceral state!
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
bloomberg.com
ICE hasn't returned a request for comment on Menendez's account. University Hospital in Newark, a state-funded teaching hospital, has declined to comment. This comes days after the death of Edwin Lopez Cornejo, father to a 12-year-old US citizen. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
Salvadoran Man Held at Delaney Hall Dies in ICE Custody
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
thecityreporter.nyc
"Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated [act of civic duty]." Blinding the cyclops, wrecking the panopticon. crimethinc.com/blindingthec...
All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolen
Lost cameras valued at about $24,000
valleynewslive.com
WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Act requests. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
wired.com
This guide provides a small handful of the hundreds of nonprofits in the Inland Empire region working to assist and support the most vulnerable among the population. The full guide: lataco.com/20-inland-em... By @afroxander.bsky.social
White supremacists are cheering a film that glorifies the murder of migrants, calling it a blueprint for the future and a way to recruit new supporters. The growing embrace of Citizen Vigilante shows how extremist propaganda is entering popular culture.
New Racist Film “Citizen Vigilante” Sparks Online Calls for Violence Against Immigrants
A new racist film, "Citizen Vigilante", is driving online calls for violence against immigrants after being amplified by Elon Musk and far-right influencers. The film has been embraced by extremist ne...
globalextremism.org
