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preparing students to engage civilly in the real world.

3/ These schools don’t believe in expressions. They don’t believe in excellence. They don’t believe in speech. They want OBEDIENCE.

The Washington Post is, ofc, saying banning speeches isn’t doing ENOUGH to prepare “students to engage civilly in the real world.”

Scum leaders, scum nation.

“The parents distance themselves from the harm they inflict by telling themselves it comes from a place of love.”

Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025 The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track

www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

Because doctors overwhelmingly think AI is acceptable in healthcare these days 😑 they even use it to write my chart messages

There are rumors of rampant outbreaks of measles & other diseases in current facilities where the overcrowding is intentional & has been a 'passive' way to kill people for a long time. The current facilities are intended to break down their physical and mental health, if not outright cause death.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Recent Changes to Immigration Policies Have Disastrous Impacts on Disabled People and Long-Term Care - AAPD In January 2025, just two weeks before President Trump’s second inauguration, I was approved by the state of Wisconsin to receive Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), a form of long-term care tha...

"Medicaid cuts and immigration raids only make... already pressing issues worse. 32% of the home care workforce is staffed by immigrants, and immigrants make up 21% of staff in nursing homes."

Excellent piece by @racheldl.bsky.social for @aapd.com:
www.aapd.com/recent-immig...

Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."

Great blog from @juliametraux.bsky.social about a truly normal man www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

(next to an image of a ballot box behind bars) THE ANTI-VOTER "SAVE ACT" WOULD MAKE IT HARDER FOR MILLIONS OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS TO CAST A BALLOT

(next to images of a passport and a birth certificate) TO CAST A BALLOT, THE "SAVE" ACT WOULD REQUIRE RESTRICTIVE VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS, LIKE A PASSPORT OR BIRTH CERTIFICATE IN ORDER TO REGISTER TO VOTE.

(next to an image of a map of the US) MORE THAN HALF OF AMERICAN CITIZENS — 150 MILLION CITIZENS-DO NOT HAVE A PASSPORT. MILLIONS DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATES.

(next to an image of voters waiting in line near a “VOTE HERE” sign) ALL THE "SAVE" ACT WILL DO IS MAKE IT HARDER FOR MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TO CAST THEIR BALLOT.

The SAVE Act is the GOP’s dangerous attempt to make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to register and vote.

Urge your Members of Congress to protect our voting rights by rejecting the SAVE Act: win.newmode.net/declarationf...

GenAI is absolutely not a good thing for "the poors"

Fuck off

If you're genuinely framing AI refusal as a "luxury position," especially for making art, you should be embarrassed all the way out of public.

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.

This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.

Let me explain & offer some advice.

begging folks to unsubscribe from the WaPo if they haven't already and put that money toward sustaining independent journalism ❤️

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.

This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

Ahhhhh this quote. This is what I keep saying and I’ll say it til the day I die.

A pebble starts an avalanche. Do the small thing you can. No effort is too small. You never know.

I also worry it creates a missed opportunity for crucial solidarities between Black citizen and immigrant communities. The state terror that both overlapping communities are faced with right now must be acknowledge for solidarity to be possible.

I am all for reaching back to slavery-era when it makes sense. But I think we obscure the present when we do that too quickly and too blithely without attention to context.

As Dorothy Roberts teaches us, the child welfare system and policing precede and set the tone for the family separations, the using of children as “bait,” and the surveillance of ICE.

I think it’s far far more useful to think about how legacies of state terror and ideas about the Black family have shaped US government agencies like the child welfare system and policing, which in turn shape the political and juridical cultures and practices of ICE.

There’s a lot being said about ICE paralleling fugitive slave patrols. As a historian of slavery, I think it’s far more complicated than most are articulating. A lot of historical context and power dynamics are being mashed up in the process.

A group, one of many, holding candles in honor of a community member executed by an unaccountable paramilitary invasion force

This is Minneapolis.

Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

This is Alex Pretti. He had a life, a family, a future — and he was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.

Hug your families today. ❤️ We must all show up for each other.

Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing

I think about the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital strike where the western media & governments insisted on Israel's innocence, saying that even suggesting that Israel would ever do such a thing was antisemitic. Then Israel destroyed every other hospital and bragged about it.

America 2026 apnews.com/article/immi...

1/19/26 - ICE, immigration, and disability Good afternoon! Here in the US, it's hard to think of anything but ICE actions. And as Friday's newsletter made clear, there is definitely a disability angle to the issue – more than one angle actua...

Disability Thinking Weekday - Monday, January 19, 2026 - ICE, immigration, and disability

#Disability #Disabled

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German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.

In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.

Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

Good advice for literally anyone regardless of exposure to violence. talking to people I love about death has made me feel so much less afraid when I experience any kind of bodily crisis.