Jennifer LeMesurier

Need $720 today. Don’t think I’ll make it, but I didnmt think I’d make that $280 over the last couple of days either. I just want me, my wife, and my poodle to not have to worry about this anymore for this month. We already have enough to worry about. Grateful for any help. 💕💸

🚨"My mom is being arrested for documenting what happened at City Church—this is wrong. This goes against her first amendment right. She is not a protester, she is not an activist, she is a mom working to provide for her children,"-daughter of arrested journalist @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social

"Luther runs a unsanctioned library out of a broom closet, for which his fellow prisoners pay him $5 a week from a mutual aid fund of their own money. He logs every book ... and writes short reviews on index cards to help people decide what to read next."

Has anyone written about @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's "elite capture" and how it manifests in specific academic fields? I can think of anecdotal examples of how some in rhet/comp have taken up language that emerges from specific labor abuses of grad students and WPAs... Would like to read more

Posting again because it’s rent time again and we’re short again. Largely owes to teaching hiatus and hospital stay. Also, I lost a lot of online students in week one before they were tallied (I’m paid per student). I need $1,000 by Sunday. Grateful for any help.

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V: @Matt-Stefon

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽

‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

rise and grind, taxpayers, it's time to help our neighbors under threat of summary execution

My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.

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People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.

I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

Donate to Support Leo Towing for ICE Victims, organized by Juan Leon Leo Towing reaching out to anyone that wants to donate to ICE victims. All donations will… Juan Leon needs your support for Support Leo Towing for ICE Victims

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Immigrant, BIPOC-run tow companies save the day when ICE arrests leave cars abandoned Leo’s Tow and Galeana’s Towing & Services are offering free or discounted towing services to immigrants arrested by ICE whose cars are left abandoned.

Gofundme in comment

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A teenage boy with dark hair and a black and gold football jersey holds his helmet, standing on the side line of a green football field

I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens

All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October

Wow 👏👏👏 RIP

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina Adam Scharpf Christian Gläßel Abstract: Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers

“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”

(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.

Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

Please join me in praying for my city's only synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, which was set on fire in the early morning hours, yesterday.
Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.

One of the many, many ways people are fighting ICE in Minneapolis is helping neighbors safely shelter at home during a time when abductions are genuinely rampant.

People in Minneapolis are doing *so much* great work

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:

Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.

Please donate what you can.

www.2harvest.org

If they truly think the video makes the shooting seem justified, it’s because they believe summary execution is an appropriate punishment for “being a bitch” and they feel confident that many other men believe the same thing

/4 Trump and ICE and the rest of the fascist scum can murder and lie and oppress, but they can’t kill that decency that some real Americans have. They don’t have it, they are inadequate without it, and it infuriates them. But they can’t kill it.

i graduated from a high school with what i thought was as bad a racist mascot as you could find, but this one is on a new level

Live updates: Minneapolis confirms name of woman shot by ICE agent ICE says Renee Good, who was killed by one of their agents Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis, was attempting to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz challenged that na...

"A neighbor identifying himself as a doctor asked if he could render aid to the woman who shot but was told by ICE agents to stand back.. Emergency responders’ vehicles couldn’t get past ICE vehicles, so firefighters and other first responders had to walk."
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There is no legal justification, whatsoever, to use military force against a NATO ally like Greenland.

If any military member participates in this without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.

So the new paper…

—finds that immigration economics is identical to other fields of empirical inquiry: researcher priors correlate with results

—finds that the magnitude of this correlation is minuscule

—does not mention the most prominent documented bias of this kind, from one of the authors.

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.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Thank you!!

Proud and grateful to be ending the year with this piece out in Quarterly Journal of Speech!

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