Rebecca Salazar Leon

In a conversation between June Jordan and Angela Y. Davis, published in 1990, Jordan said she was concerned about how much despair there is cuz people often take it out on themselves.

She said she wanted a return to rage, where it’s taken out on the system.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin

This week on GET LIT we talk to Aisha Sasha John & Rebecca Salazar about poetry. Specifically, their latest collections, which came out in March. The reading pile is truly staggering.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or pods or: tinyurl.com/mr6aebzc

@rsalazar.bsky.social

A Conversation with Rebecca Salazar Have you ever read a book that feels like looking into a mirror—one that reflects the parts of yourself you’ve buried while offering the comfort of a quiet, steady it’s not your fault?

Anastassia Matheson interviews @rsalazar.bsky.social about their McClelland & Stewart poetry collection, "antibody," for the Miramichi Reader:

🚨Must read/listen: “After COVID infection, the immune dysfunction usually…lasts a few months, & then it does begin to recover. But…people are often catching COVID more than once a year. And that would keep you in a permanent state of immune dysfunction…because you just keep adding infections…”

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Then last January, he had an idea for a new bit: He’d set up a fake tip line that people could use to report anyone they thought was an undocumented immigrant. It was darker than his other stunts, but it felt topical, the kind of challenge he wanted to try. At the very least, he thought, he might get a few calls he could talk about at his next show. Instead, his website has received nearly 100 submissions from across the country: people reporting their neighbors, ex-lovers, Uber drivers, strangers they saw at the grocery store. One tip came from a teacher reporting the parents of a kindergarten student at her school. “I mean, they seem like nice people or whatever,” the woman told Palmer on the call. “But if they’re taking up resources from our county, I’m not into illegal people being here.”

This @drewharwell.com story about a man who set up a fake ICE tip line, and the sheer range of people who called in, is gutting www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

New: Immigrants in MN are being released from detention without their IDs, work permits, social security cards, and other key documents that prove their status to begin with
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mothers and the disappeared Pregnant child detainees are sent to Texas, as harm crosses generations.

I wrote about the US funneling pregnant children in immigrant detention to a Texas facility where their rights can be more effectively restricted. I hear echoes of disappeared parents and kidnapped children in Argentina decades ago. In each case, the intent is to inflict deep generational trauma.

Happy to have my review of Rebecca Salazar’s antibody up at periodicities this month! Such a great collection of work! Thanks to @periodicities.bsky.social and
@robmclennan.bsky.social
@rsalazar.bsky.social

thanks again, Kim! 💜

Patient seeking care at NIH hospital detained by ICE NIH officials called immigration authorities after the patient presented a non-real ID while passing security at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

Federal immigration authorities detained a woman seeking medical care at the National Institutes of Health’s flagship research hospital after the patient presented a non-real ID while passing security.

Live updates: Shooter appeared to target CDC headquarters in shooting that left police officer dead, sources say | CNN A police officer was killed during an active shooter incident on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, according to a law enforcement official. The shooter is also dead, according to authorities....

Anti vaxx rhetoric is dangerous.

Not only does it promote the spread of contagious and preventable disease, but it radicalizes people.

The disinformation campaigns prey on people’s fears.

The Emory gunman appears to have been targeting the CDC because he believed the COVID vaccine hurt him:

It’s like nobody remembers the corpses spilling out of refrigerated morgue trucks for 18 months before the vaccine existed. Your health issues are not from the vaccine, they’re from the damn virus you keep catching because nobody masks and we collectively refuse to clean the air in shared spaces!

Gaza has reached catastrophic levels of famine, according to aid and human rights organizations, which raises the stakes of each fundraising campaign and even each post on Bluesky. The impact of donating to individual campaigns can be immediate www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad

New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing.

I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.

Dark, dark stuff.

holy shit Rümeysa Öztürk has been released! may all others kidnapped alongside her be released also and may their prison burn and may the social order that built these prisons come to ash with it

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Trump is pushing for mask bans. @governor.ny.gov is trying to do his bidding by hiding one in the New York budget. Say #NoNYmaskBan

Dear Ms. Harper, We write as counsel for Mahmoud Khalil (A-number: | Facility: Jena) to request that Mr. Khalil be released on furlough immediately for a period of two weeks. Mr. Khalil's wife has just gone into labor this morning in New York City, eight days earlier than expected. A two week furlough in this civil detention matter would be both reasonable and humane so that both parents can be present for the birth of their first child. Undersigned counsel and Mr. Khalil would be open to any combination of conditions that would allow furlough from ICE's perspective, including a GPS ankle monitor and/or scheduled check-ins. We would be grateful for a prompt reply in light of this urgent development. Thank you in advance, Mr. Kassem, Thank you for your email. After consideration of the submitted information and a review of your client's case, your request for furlough is denied. Mellissa B. Harper Field Office Director New Orleans Field Office Enforcement and Removal Operations Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys to ICE: "Mr. Khalil's wife has just gone into labor this morning in New York City, eight days earlier than expected. A two week furlough in this civil detention matter would be both reasonable and humane ..."

ICE's reply: DENIED storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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