Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true?

BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country


Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime?

BONDI: *leaves*

And I wonder if the current trend of creating harsh boundaries with our families of origin is another of these promises ... Lose another piece of yourself and your people in exchange for the peace of comfort. Is this another way to become White and Bland and Robotic?

Assimilate, learn English, move to the city, get a degree, lose the drawl and backwards thinking of rural America... Keep giving up pieces of your culture and yourself for the protection that Whiteness promises.

My European ancestors were told to come into the fold of Christ & Rome and be safe ... And lost part of themselves. Then it was come to America and be prosperous... And they lost more of themselves.

How do we start learning from the folks who have been surviving fascism this whole time?

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Welp guess I will be homeschooling these kids again...

Fighting back strengthens me and pushes away despair and hopelessness. #Resist

a blessing

adriennemareebrown.net/2025/02/12/a...

Putting one foot in front of the other for my future generations ❤️
#witchsky #witchy #resistance

Whatever your big idea is, or your strongest passion, or even your worst fear, find out who is already working on that and then find out what boring, unsexy things you can do to help. We don't need heroes, we need systematic resistance.

The passport application site is down for "maintenance"....

Raising our kids to be emotionally intelligent, compassionate, able to navigate conflict and resistant to toxic power dynamics, we're training the next generation of activists in the skills they need to organize more effectively than our generation does. #Anti-AuthoritarianParenting #resistance

Morning! In the name of democracy, here's a list of things to do today:

1. Call your senators & reps w/ real stories about how the admin's actions impact you & people you care about

2. Do something that makes you smile

Take action.
Find joy.

Protect democracy.

h/t: @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Trying not to freak out about the illegal federal funding freeze...

Does that mean you're in?

@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social talks about how the non-profit systems serve capitalism by taking change makers and wasting all our time applying for funding, documenting what was funded, then reporting it back to funders.

What seeds are we planting on Wednesday's New Moon? Remember, it's winter, we're still resting, and @chaninicholas.bsky.social says to be mindful of what might be harvesting from what we plant this week ... #witchy #moonmagic

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#witchsky and #occultsky

Witchcraft is political.

Please share your favorite politically minded witchy books. Let’s add magic to the movement.

I’ve got @leftlanesmith.bsky.social ‘s 78 Acts of Liberation and Christopher Marmolejo’s Red Tarot in my bookshop.org cart at the moment. I want more!

Yeah it's really drawn my attention to how much I use Facebook to dissociate all day long

The raids tore apart families and communities, leaving lasting trauma for Mexican Americans who remained in the U.S. as well. Former California State Senator Martha M. Escutia has said that growing up in East Los Angeles, her immigrant grandfather never even walked to the corner grocery store without his passport for fear of being stopped and deported. Even after he became a naturalized citizen, he continued to carry it with him.

One of the issues is the ‘repatriation’ took place without any legal protections in place or any kind of due process,” says Kevin R. Johnson, a dean and professor of public interest law and Chicana/o studies at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. “So you could argue that all of them were unconstitutional, all of them were illegal because no modicum of process was followed.” Instead, local governments and officers with little knowledge of immigrants’ rights simply arrested people and put them on trucks, buses or trains bound for Mexico, regardless of whether they were documented immigrants or even native-born citizens. Deporters rounded up children and adults however they could, often raiding public places where they thought Mexican Americans hung out. In 1931, one Los Angeles raid rounded up more than 400 people at La Placita Park and deported them to Mexico.

Although there was no federal law or executive order authorizing the 1930s raids, President Herbert Hoover’s administration, which used the racially-coded slogan, “American jobs for real Americans,” implicitly approved of them. His secretary of labor, William Doak, also helped pass local laws and arrange agreements that prevented Mexican Americans from holding jobs. Some laws banned Mexican Americans from government employment, regardless of their citizenship status. Meanwhile, companies like Ford, U.S. Steel and the Southern Pacific Railroad agreed to lay off thousands of Mexican American workers.

The next president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, didn’t officially sanction “repatriation drives,” but neither did he suppress them. These raids continued under his administration and only really died out during World War II, when the U.S. began recruiting temporary Mexican workers through the Bracero Program because it needed wartime labor.

Not even a hundred years ago and i never knew to learn about it~ Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported during the Great Depression in an effort to reserve jobs for white people
www.history.com/news/great-d...

Resist and Rebuild in particular... The idea of revolution is so big, but we can all find small ways to resist giving the ruling class our money and our obedience, and small ways to build our networks and communities, every day

We're resting, we're gestating, we're germinating, we're watching and waiting and planning and dreaming so that we can burst forth when it's time to start making moves in the spring.

Staaaawpppp adorable

I have this spellbook, the end of the month is coming up and we live on the Mighty Mississippi...

Love this book!!

Rev. Hendricks and One Human Family have been doing the work in the Quad Cities, they're a good place to link in

#resist #QCA #DoSomething