Sarah Einselen

It's something to step back and think that we started a war that creates refugees and have no refugee program to take anyone in. Seems like a first in many decades

A simple map of Israel made up of solid dots representing Israeli Jews, with white dots around it representing Jews outside of Israel. Caption is, "When Gentiles (and, many Jews) envision the world's Jewry, it's usually like THIS."

Header: "But in reality, it's more like THIS." That same map of blue dots making the shape of the State of Israel, but this time dots of varying blue tints surround it. There are arrows that point to other dots, making their way into Israel, showing relationships, such as: Attended Bar Mitzvah > Friend > Cousin, and Lawyer > Second Cousin > Making Aliyah. The blue gets darker the closer you get to Israel.

Whether we support Israel's actions or NOT, the diaspora's connection to it is much more complex and much closer than it appears at first glance. Naturally, our feelings about Israel reflect this complexity. Two men in a panel. One says, "The IDF is full of WAR CRIMINALS. They've murdered thousands of innocent Palestinian citizens!" The other looks on glumly and says "Hmm." He thinks, "I wonder if cousin Avi got shipped out to Gaza yet."

So when someone says, "I don't blame Jews for Israel's actions, not all JEWS are ISRAELI!" They're setting up a false dichotomy of "Blamess Jews" vs. "Guilty Jews" - and ignoring the complex ways we are connected to the only majority-Jewish nation on earth. Half of the world's roughly 16 million Jews live there. We're a tiny community. EmilyK.art

People need to better understand the relationship between diaspora Jews and Israeli Jews. It's not a simple binary.

Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.

Yeah, AI writing is... obvious (derogatory).

At least, it is to writers, and maybe especially editors.

Give it up for @randyhermanlaw.com. He gives us this wonderful thread on the hearing for the fed'l prosecutor who used AI to write his filings, filled w/ fake quotes and citations.

You will each have your own favorite post in the thread, but this Princess Bride knockoff ranks right up there for me

Too real.

That's my thinking.

80something great-grandma, on the other hand... I believe she's seen some things. She's the last of that generation on both sides of our little family.

To further make my point, I know several families in which the grandparents ARE the OG anti-vaxers.

I think we need to be talking to the great-grandparents here.

Wait a sec... Aren't grandparents of vaccine-age kids (0-5) too young to remember the pre-vaccine disease epidemics?

My kids' grandparents were born in the late 50s-60s... Polio immunization started in the 50s. Measles/mumps/rubella shots in 60s. Whooping cough was before that.

Hearing from several of my sources that the largest immigration detention center in the country, Camp East Montana, is now in a facility-wide quarantine due to the measles outbreak there. Visitation is suspended indefinitely.

DHS has not gotten back to me yet.

I'm not sure how machine translation would handle a text with more persuasive aims (vs informational). The nuances of word choice (and connotations thereof) seem to come up more in that sort of text.

I think the reason machine translation can kinda manage something like a news article is there is *so much* of that type of text it's trained on, and the form itself (at least of a straight news article) is highly standardized. There's a stylebook most of the industry works out of, after all. lol

Translation from a poorly represented language into English was basically impossible, the one time I tried. A minority language spoken in Myanmar. I was using Google's translation tools.

Translation relies a lot on understanding meaning and exercising judgement as to how to accurately translate that meaning. Current machine translators can passably translate easy texts, sometimes (texts written in standard English for lay readers, like news articles).

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

Now this is creative.

Also, I didn't know it but Tischauser here reports PF has been at the March for Life since 2019. This year "anti-abortion activists joined counterdemonstrators in mocking the white nationalist group." (This was 1st year for counter-PF protest)

As someone married to an unending fount of situationally inspired puns, this headline is 💯

Following up on my report this week - ICE hasn't yet shown signs of following its own policy against detaining pregnant/nursing moms. Here's a woman deported apparently less than a month before her due date

I encourage people to read this article.

I just want to note that this paragraph about administrators giving verbal instructions to avoid documenting what they are doing has also been reported in Florida. There, admins are attempting evade legal challenges to state sponsored censorship.

They incarcerated a white, retired British grandmother with a valid visa.

For 2 months.

I'm glad this article gets into what most don't: Even if you manage to get released, that's 2 months of not paying your bills. Her credit was wrecked.

She's retired - younger folks would have lost their jobs.

One of the great problem with journalism prizes is that they are mostly awarded based on the year a piece is published and not once their true power has been recognized.

But if ever there were a case for a special award...it should go to Julie.

Pro-Life Coalition Decries ICE Detention Practices: ‘Unborn Children Are Dying’ Dozens of anti-abortion groups are calling the Trump administration to enforce its own policies restricting detaining pregnant, postpartum, or nursing people.

Lauren Pope noted that releasing pregnant and postpartum women has “very wide support even within the conservative population. People aren’t comfortable with pregnant women being put into ICE detention.”
sojo.net/articles/new...

you've never read a description of a video that completely lived up to the actual video than this.

Hiiiii haha

You kinda still have to go find all your follows (no for you/fyp/whatever Threads calls their algo) but I have appreciated the Discover feed and the Popular With Friends feed.

My latest:

The new memo is so "open-ended," Raso notes, that it is not clear whether all refugees after the 1-year mark who haven't adjusted to LPR status would be detained, including those with applications for adjustment pending. This illustrates how nonsensical the new policy is.

My latest reported piece, published today at @sojo.net , details how this organization and others that oppose abortion are calling on the feds to quit detaining pregnant and postpartum immigrants: sojo.net/articles/new...

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

National ICE detention numbers are down, but the population at Miami Correctional Center, IN has been running high at 577 since the start of the year. See my recent post on this facility and others: austinkocher.substack.com/p/behind-the...