1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
"Minnesota is under occupation by federal agents from ICE and CBP" -- agents who are murdering adults, beating teenagers, disappearing families & small children. Please support the brave people of MN as they protect one another from the occupation. Opportunities to give:
www.standwithminnesota.com
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Theater Latté Da is accepting applications through October 15 for its NEXT Generation Commission. This $20,000 commission supports the creation and development of a new musical theatre project by a creative team that includes women artists and/or artists of color.
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We have to keep saying it: There is "nothing* that Texas college faculty are prohibited by law from teaching.
Do not believe politicians who demand restrictions they never passed. Do not obey unconstitutional college policy. Do not self-censor. Do not comply.
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Please sign this petition in support of free speech for professors and K-12 teachers
Op Ed by President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd
🔔Our open letter to academic leaders in TX: “As pressures mount on TX public institutions of higher education, we write on behalf of faculty across the state to remind you of your obligations to protect academic freedom and due process.”
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From Eric Garcia (Washington bureau chief for The Independent and the author of "We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation"). See 🧵 for more important quotes from the conversation and link.
NEW: Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX has told faculty that they can't discuss trans people in curriculum. When I asked the justification for the policy, they referenced Texas state law - but Texas law doesn't forbid discussions of trans people in higher ed.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney
do you remember the twenty-first night of september?
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Detective F: Not all the sandwiches were harmless. Some were clubs. People were too frightened of sandwiches to build a Subway in Georgetown. Officer K: I still have a scar from when I took a meatball sub to the chin in '96 and, afterward, got into an unrelated knife fight. Officer J: I started here after transferring from the bread-crimes division in France. I spent decades hunting down a man who stole bread one time. My name is Javert, but that's not important. His name was Jean Valjean. I also resented him because I had just the one name and he had two.
the sandwich crimes unit contemplates the incident
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We'll need to see more "emergency media" classes in the next few years — both practical wrkshps (perhaps offered thru public libraries?*) and historical / political-econ analyses. This article could be a great addition.
* I've 🤔 organizing a Metro library wrkshp combining the critical + practical
A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, "My momma’s ashes were displayed on my table in my tent. I came back one day — and EVERYTHING was gone, including her ashes. They were clearly labled ‘In loving memory — my mom, my best friend…’ and her name. Her ashes were all that I had left of her. No one stored my stuff. I called tons of places and NO ONE knew anything. It is very difficult for me still, everyday. No warning, no remorse, nothing."
A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, “It’s hard to narrow my list down. One particularly devastating (for me) sweep took EVERYTHING I owned at the time I was gone from my spot for a couple nights. Save for my wallet, ID, and the clothes on my back, I had not brought anything with me. Unaware of the sweep, I returned to find my tent, my cot, all my clothing, several files with important document, literally everything; all of it, gone.”
A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, “Lost my clothes tents more than once all my personal items i.e. pictures family photos and kids birth certificates and it really sucked how they did it and bulldozed everything I owned litterally bulldozed it.”
A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, “Winter bedding & personal memorabilia pictures, things that can’t be replaced. One winter in the middle of the night they came and took bedding only now they mess with us every day now I try to keep it to a backpack and cart try to.”
People who experienced homeless encampment sweeps in Washington state and Tennessee wrote about the impact it had on their lives.
Our team @propublica.org added these to our page featuring stories from people across the country: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
Congratulations! I'm eager to read this -- ordering now.
If you'd like to pause your morning and have a little joyful cry... 🥹👇
you’ll want to read this
“The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma is joining forces with the two federally recognized tribes in Florida in the fight against Ron DeSantis and Florida’s rapid efforts to build a migrant detention center set to house 5,000 beds”
A photograph of the Cave of Hands
Another photograph of the Cave of Hands, featuring warm terra cotta and cream and brown stenciled hand prints on a rock wall
Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul
"Friends of the Everglades and Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit against [DHS], [ICE], the Florida Division of Emergency Management and Miami-Dade County regarding a reckless plan for a massive detention center in the heart of the Everglades..."
I just donated; maybe you will, too?
So if I had one piece of advice for 3 year olds it would be: Be less mercurial
PLEASE READ and SHARE from the CHILDREN'S Hospital Association:
“Your child—regardless of their insurance status—could see the services they rely on reduced or eliminated... The bill amounts to fewer doctors and nurses to see your child, longer wait times, and sicker children."
As a member of ICE, you may be wondering: How are the people we thrust into our vans supposed to know that we are, in fact, acting under color of law and not just kidnapping them? Can I really do this job while wearing either an Army uniform that I have assembled myself in a confusing, over-the-top way or the same T-shirt I just wore to my failed custody hearing?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
the single image every genuinely freedom-loving american has been waiting for
What’s the worst detail in this story?
The mother forced to use unclean water to make formula for her baby?
The child w/cancer now facing relapse symptoms?
The 16-year-old trying to be strong for her 2 younger siblings and mom, all trapped in the camp together?
This is America. Don’t look away.
Awful: Trump just threatened to send troops into other cities. The conundrum is this: Faced with a president whose bad faith/willingness to invent fake pretexts for abusing his powers is limitless, the system is crashing, pushing us toward the abyss.
New from me:
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