Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
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I'm starting to believe that this result will be determined by turnout, and I give you my blood oath that the Cuomo-rankers in my UWS neighborhood who "liked his father" and have voted in every primary since 1948 will show up to vote. So young(er) people, PLEASE: Do your thing and nullify them!
Peter Sterne@petersterne.com · last yr.Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Democratic Party has lost its way because it is "disconnected from kitchen table issues" and also criticizes Zohran Mamdani for wanting to raise taxes on the wealthy in order to provide more services for working-class people. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🦋 bluesky friends. I need your help. Can we make sure Cuomo doesn’t get elected in NYC? Can you please help me by donating to the WFP IE? I have 20k of you on here….if half of you gave just $100, we would raise $1 mill. This dude has $8.7 million in his PAC. Help! secure.actblue.com/donate/nyc-2...
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It’s not just Kilmar Obrego Garcia. ICE is disappearing innocent people in NYC too.
okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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That one guy from Alabama who is very dumb, can’t remember his name, but he, a village idiot, held up 450 or so military promotions for like a year! Please be fucking for real when you say oh what should they do?
Trump/Exec Branch can only erode the checks and balances and grab power from another branch with House + Senate Republicans' consent. I encourage my Republican colleagues to grow a spine + affirm that we're a co-equal branch of government and not just a dictator's advisory committee...
PA friends: John Fetterman's office is 202-224-4254 To find numbers for your reps: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... Seriously, make some noise. If we don't tell them what we want, we can't complain that we aren't being represented.
Celeste Pewter@celestepewter.bsky.social · 2y agoCall script:
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As always: theonion.com/you-people-m...
You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President
For generations, U.S. presidents have gone to great lengths to avoid potential conflicts of interest. When I was elected, I followed suit by placing my small business in a blind trust to assure our ci...
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At the scene of the Amazon strike: The NYPD has now erected barricades to allow Amazon contractors to enter and leave the distribution center, helping Amazon break the picket line.
1/6 So one of the BIGGEST ad agencies in the world, got a giant project by the US GOVERNMENT to design it’s website. The agency used Midjourney. So is the US government now into the business of displacing artists and elevating a tech that stole from artists and is terrible for the environment?
Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.
Amazon workers on strike from Black Friday to Cyber Monday
(WFXR) – Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.
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The progressive case for putting a ketamine-addicted far-right robber baron in charge of the federal budget.
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Swing Left is saying that Casey can hold onto his Senate seat if provisional ballots are cured by the Nov. 12 deadline and is looking for folks to phonebank and canvas in PA. In-person canvassing sign-up: www.mobilize.us/swingleft/?o... Phone-banking: www.mobilize.us/2024pavictor...
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2y agoPennsylvania! Here we go! Pretty sure this is to try to hold Casey's Senate seat. Sign up here for ballot curing! www.mobilize.us/2024pavictor...
Good morning. Please call Governor Hochul's office and tell her she needs to start congestion pricing now before she loses the opportunity forever. The clock is ticking. 518-474-8390.
It's now too late for Marcellus Williams, but it's not too late for Robert Roberson. On Oct 17, Texas will execute him for a crime he absolutely did not commit. Make it a big deal. youtu.be/ifpEfj1_hzQ
Innocent Man to be Executed over Junk Science
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson
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Of course there will be no outcry from the US Conference of Bishops chastising the Catholic justices who signed the death warrant of an innocent man.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2y agoA good reason to oppose the death penalty is that its biggest proponents think it's *especially* important to execute the people who might be innocent.
It's 1994 and the GOP is a new and different party It's 2000 and the GOP is a new and different party It's 2010 and the GOP is a new and different party It's 2016 and the GOP is a new and different party It's 2024 and the GOP is a new and different party
part of the NYT’s contract with Satan is that after every Supreme Court term, no matter how awful, there must be a piece sucking off a conservative justice for no discernible reason
I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.
they get to keep doing this because the only people who show up to stuff like CB meetings and precinct community councils are your oldest and most reactionary neighbors. sign the fuck up, im begging you
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2y agoAt some point, New Yorkers are going to have to decide if they're a city that runs a police force or a police force that runs a city.