Tina Vasquez
@tinavasquez.bsky.social
Features Editor & Immigration Reporter @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | tina@prismreports.org
This week, @sesmith.lol wrote about how some books get deluxe multiple special edition treatment and what that says about publisher priorities. Art by @meowwwls.bsky.social!
A Forest of Special Editions and Influencers
What happens when books become aesthetic objects?
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Detention Watch Network is reporting the death of 29-year-old Priciliano Trejo, who had leukemia when he was detained by ICE in NC. ICE initially failed to provide Priciliano with access to medical care. They only released him from custody when he was on his death bed at hospital.
Supermarket sushi is now a multibillion-dollar industry, but according to a new lawsuit, the market is fueled by an unjust franchise system that skirts labor laws to exploit the industry's Burmese workforce. To learn more, read Victor Maung's latest for @prismreports.org:
The hidden cost of America's supermarket sushi boom
Myanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuit
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As a forever grieving ass bitch, I preordered @sesmith.lol’s book and I CANNOT WAIT TO READ IT. You should order it, too!
If you already know the principles & commitments of movement journalism, it’s time to take the next step! Learn what movement journalism looks like in action from award-winning journalist @tinavasquez.bsky.social—register for our August 12 Movement Journalism 201 training @ bit.ly/mj201training.
Text messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.
Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...
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@prismreports.org is a vital outlet for movement journalism we can not afford to lose
Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2w agoWe've launched a summer fundraiser. It's our hope to raise $25K to help us keep chugging along and producing our award-winning movement journalism. Please consider a one-time or monthly donation. We need your support!
we need prism! let's keep showing up for movement journalism!
Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2w agoWe've launched a summer fundraiser. It's our hope to raise $25K to help us keep chugging along and producing our award-winning movement journalism. Please consider a one-time or monthly donation. We need your support!
Please follow and donate to @prismreports.org ! An essential publication is currently struggling to stay alive:
Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2w agoWe've launched a summer fundraiser. It's our hope to raise $25K to help us keep chugging along and producing our award-winning movement journalism. Please consider a one-time or monthly donation. We need your support!
Thank you to the person who just donated $100! If you have any trouble DMing me with a screenshot of your donation, you can also email me: tina@prismreports.org.
Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2w agoTo entice you with weirdness: The first 10 people to donate $100 or more to @prismreports.org's fundraiser will get a Halloween-themed package from me! (I know it's July, but the real freaks know Summerween is the time to prep for spooky season.)
If you donate $100 or more, DM me a screenshot and your address. Your package will include at least one book and a lot of other cute stuff!
We've launched a summer fundraiser. It's our hope to raise $25K to help us keep chugging along and producing our award-winning movement journalism. Please consider a one-time or monthly donation. We need your support!
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I know that so many newsrooms are dealing with catastrophic funding cuts. It feels particularly painful for this to happen now, when @prismreports.org's movement journalism is so desperately needed.
In recent weeks, we had two very painful staff layoffs and soon, our freelance budget will see a significant cut and the remaining staff's salaries will be reduced by 10%.
If you've worked with me in recent weeks as a freelancer, I've probably shared this news with you, though it's time to share it more broadly: @prismreports.org is in serious trouble, y'all. We have lost half a million dollars in philanthropic support & we have almost no secure funding for next year.
I can't think of a publication we need more than @prismreports.org in this very specific moment of fascism. Please do what you can to save this necessary outlet.
Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2w agoWe've launched a summer fundraiser. It's our hope to raise $25K to help us keep chugging along and producing our award-winning movement journalism. Please consider a one-time or monthly donation. We need your support!
ante up working journos
Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2w agoTo entice you with weirdness: The first 10 people to donate $100 or more to @prismreports.org's fundraiser will get a Halloween-themed package from me! (I know it's July, but the real freaks know Summerween is the time to prep for spooky season.)
Fund the journalism you want to see in this world! If you don't have money to give, please consider circulating these appeals so they reach somebody who does. Word-of-mouth does wonders for independent news orgs.
Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you've worked with me in recent weeks as a freelancer, I've probably shared this news with you, though it's time to share it more broadly: @prismreports.org is in serious trouble, y'all. We have lost half a million dollars in philanthropic support & we have almost no secure funding for next year.
If you've worked with me in recent weeks as a freelancer, I've probably shared this news with you, though it's time to share it more broadly: @prismreports.org is in serious trouble, y'all. We have lost half a million dollars in philanthropic support & we have almost no secure funding for next year.
Less than a week after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Portland Press Herald is reporting that ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old man from Colombia today:
Live updates: Man killed in Biddeford ICE-involved shooting ID’ed as 26-year-old from Colombia
Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.
pressherald.com
I have a theory that when an immigration agency kills someone or engages in other forms of public state violence, DHS goes on a very transparent media blitz, ramping up its claims against so-called sanctuary cities and circulating more of its "worst of the worst" allegations against immigrants.
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ICE agents shot and killed another person: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He was an immigrant, and I hope his immigration status doesn’t stop the public from caring. I hope we don’t grow accustomed to these killings. I hope his family has the support they need to survive his death. I hope. I hope. I hope.
Andrea Shaw appeared on an online show by the Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On the show, Shaw claimed flu vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. However, she was just charged with murder. Shaw is accused of suffocating her twins.
She blamed flu shots for her twins’ deaths. Now she’s charged with murder. — The Washington Post
Andrea Shaw, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics for recommending childhood vaccines, is accused of suffocating her daughter and son.
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And with that, all three host countries are out 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸
Our food is still better and nothing can ever take that away.
“I would say this is the fastest I’ve ever seen [the legislature] move. The reaction has been, I think, fast enough to do something about it.” Across the country, locals are pushing elected officials to introduce data center regulations & pause new construction, ray levy uyeda reports.
In a divided country, U.S. residents agree on one thing: no data centers
Across the country, in cities and rural areas, locals are pushing elected officials to introduce data center regulations and pause new construction
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in Jan, I was at the rally for the trans sports case at the Supreme Court. today SCOTUS ruled states can ban trans girls from sports. @us.theguardian.com "This hyper-focus on sports is yet another example of the ways that they are trying to erase trans and non-binary people from public life.”
‘They’re here to antagonize us’: trans advocates say hostility at rallies is up as supreme court hears key case
As high court considers trans kids’ participation in school sports, tensions run high between opposing protest groups
theguardian.com
SCOTUS has issued its decision on TPS, ending protections for Haitians and Syrians in the U.S. To better understand what this means for people now facing deportation, please read this recent reporting by @jessobert.bsky.social that details the deadly conditions 350K Haitians will be returned to.
SCOTUS holds the fates of 20,000 Haitian TPS recipients on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
SCOTUS will decide if the Trump administration can deport Haitian TPS recipients, many of whom have built lives in Maryland and fear being returned to deadly conditions in Haiti
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