Tara Rana

May this finally, finally put to rest any idea that narratives of "illegal" immigration have anything whatsoever to do with legality, laws, "rules" which individuals can "choose" to follow. "Illegal" has always been about white supremacy & prejudice. 🗃️

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Found in the Densho Digital Repository

A photograph of the Wanto Co. grocery store in Oakland, CA. The owner, Tatsuro Matsuda, placed a sign reading "I AM AN AMERICAN" on the front of the store on December 8, 1941, the day after the Pearl Harbor raid. The photograph was taken by Dorthea Lange sometime in March 1942.
🗃 #skystorians

An immigration attorney told me a few weeks ago a client at the Everglades facility was put in a cage outside all day. A guard was bringing him a cup of water & another took it and dumped it.

The exposure and dehydration is torture in itself, but I didn’t realize the cage was this small. Evil.

It is both deeply ironic and profoundly funny that all these overconfident maga chud dudebros are convinced they'll be at the top of a meritocratic system, when in reality they're actually the ones who've benefited most from what they themselves characterize as non-meritocratic factors.

"Knowledge becomes data; teaching becomes delivery. What disappears are precious human capacities—curiosity, discernment, presence. The result isn’t augmented intelligence but simulated learning: a paint-by-numbers approach to thought."

The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking. We’re outsourcing discernment. Students graduate fluent in prompting, but illiterate in judgment; faculty teach but aren’t allowed the freedom to educate; and universities, eager to appear innovative, dismantle the very practices that made them worthy of the name. We are approaching educational bankruptcy: degrees without learning, teaching without understanding, institutions without purpose.

Highly recommend this piece. The widespread, unthinking adoption of corporate AI programming undermines the purpose of education in a democratic society. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Important words from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: "The US when white supremacists like Trump were young was whiter, but this was never a white country."

Read the whole thing.

At times during the hepatitis B discussion, the committee acknowledged they didn't have data to support some of the things they were recommending - the suggestion, for instance, that the first dose of hepatitis B not be given before 2 months old.

The advisory committee on immunization practices has one job. And they didn’t do it here. From the @bostonglobe.com

THIS

A competent opposition party would call a presser and explain that while their party believes that voters should choose politicians and not the other way around, the Republican Supreme Court majority had previously said that extreme gerrymandering was legal if it was about partisanship but...

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.

Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”

The blatant use of false, inaccurate histories to arrive at a decision the majority of the Court clearly wanted regardless of the facts is a feature of both Dred Scott and Dobbs. It’s an apt comparison. 🗃️

always sit on the west/left hand side of the train when going north, folks. that’s the hack! (it’s so pretty and I made the mistake of sitting on the east side my first trip)

Federal Judge Has No Interest In Taking Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Seriously The Trump administration cited Kavanaugh’s infamous concurrence to justify its immigration arrests. Judge Beryl Howell was having none of it.

Fuck Kavanaugh stops all my homies hate Kavanaugh stops

(for purposes of this post I'm including a federal district judge who just rightly concluded that the Supreme Court's racial profiling order is *not* controlling precedent under the umbrella of 'my homies')

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This is ASTOUNDINGLY evil.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.

Law/gov people: does anyone know of a good student-friendly explainer article or vid that covers racial v partisan gerrymandering & VRA cases from Shaw v Reno up through the AL and LA maps and Rucho & Alexander…and maybe today’s TX? Trying to create a throughline for my class…
Please repost too!

Sens. Tim Kaine, Rand Paul, Chuck Schumer, and Adam Schiff have filed a War Powers Resolution to block the use of the U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela unless authorized by Congress.

#edusky 🍎 #iteachsocialstudies 🗺️

Graphic reading URGENT ACTION Call your reps and ask them to pressure DHS/ICE to reunite Fei with Yuanxin and release them both immediately. Congresswoman Nydia Velásquez DC Office: (202) 225-2361 Sunnyside Office: (718) 340-6244 Brooklyn Office: (718) 599-3658 Senator Chuck Schumer DC Office: (202) 224-6542 NYC Office: (212) 486-4430 Call Federal Plaza and demand Fei & Yuanxin's immediate release 212-436-9400 Fei A#: 221416533 Yuanxin A#: 221416532

The Dark Doppelganger of Affordable Higher Education In the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the Trump administration included a brilliant bit of faux-populism: a five-year tuition freeze. The proposal creates the illusion that the…

“Hiding behind the push to temporarily slow rising tuition costs is a plan to abandon higher education as a public good in this country.”

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

New Data Prove DHS Lied About Cato Report on ICE ICE should reprioritize serious public safety threats and be transparent about its arrests going forward.

New ICE data available today prove that DHS lied in response to my report last week, showing that over 70% of people booked into ICE custody had no criminal convictions, and just 5% had violent criminal convictions. DHS will lie about anything... www.cato.org/blog/new-dat...

US Enlisted DC Shooting Suspect in CIA-Backed Death Squad When He Was a Child Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who allegedly shot two National Guardsmen, had previously worked in a “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan.

“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the ‘war on terror.’”

Considering History: The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Origins of “Illegal” Immigration | The Saturday Evening Post Ben Railton discusses The Chinese Exclusion Act and its impact on Chinese-American families throughout the 20th century.

U.S. immigration law started with laws explicitly & entirely designed to discriminate against & exclude arrivals from specific countries. Which is to say, federal immigration policy has from its outset been about defining certain communities as "illegal."

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MEDICARE FOR ALL IS POPULAR: “A new poll finds 65% of voters support a Medicare for All system. That includes 78% of Democrats, 71% of independents, and 49% of Republicans.”

Making a broken system less bad is not enough. #MedicareForAllNow

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This makes complete sense that the biggest public university system should be part of the new NYC government!