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Witches for Hope

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Witches for Hope in Times of Revolution https://linktr.ee/witchesforhope

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ACLU@aclu.org · 5mo ago

The Trump administration's illegal cancellation of the Digital Equity Act leaves underserved communities without means to bridge the digital divide. Congress must fight for people's ability to access and navigate the Internet by reinstating grantees' funding and guarding against future budget cuts.

How ending the Digital Equity Act has disrupted programs to help people get online

President Trump ended the Digital Equity Act that funded equipment and services for communities and organizations that are underserved by high-speed Internet. We look at who's affected and how.

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Ahmed Baba@ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 5mo ago

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Liz Neeley@lizneeley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is a big decision! Mass termination of National Endowment for the Humanities grants (remember DOGE doing this?) "unlawful, unconstitutional... and without legal effect." Terminations violate 1st Amendment & equal protection component of 5th Amendment, "and without statutory authority."

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Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you all for standing up to this administration. Just one day after Harvard filed suit against the Trump administration for freezing billions in federal funds, more than 180 higher education leaders from across the

Feral Human Rights Lawyer@natcad.bsky.social · last yr.

They are all forcibly disappeared, they are all just gone, including this person. His family and lawyers should file a report with the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances here: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

Miriam Jordan By Miriam Jordan Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent. April 22, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful. The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela. That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world. But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · last yr.

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)

Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.

nytimes.com

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · last yr.

MFP reporters would like to talk to federal workers in Mississippi who have lost jobs as a result of DOGE. If you or someone you know has lost a job or know of a program that has been cut and would be willing to speak to our reporters, please email us at MFPtips@proton.me

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Logan Grendel@focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · last yr.

Take this with a grain of salt, but it's not *just* hopecore: I don't know if we are properly considering how much faster info spreads among avg people than it used to. It was a LOT easier to suppress info before the internet. Back then, many *really* didn't know; today, millions know at a click.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last yr.

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

Brown Anthony™@anthelonious.bsky.social · last yr.

Black Mirror pitch: POTUS destroys democracy in 90 days. Everyone watches it happen on their phones. The opposition party leaders are 85 years old and post "Hey, stop" once a day. Toiletries are locked behind glass. An evil online bookstore sends Katy Perry into space for feminism. [fin]