Kevin Litke

Isn’t this February?

They don’t give a fuck.

Two-day jail stay on misdemeanor charge was harrowing for transgender detainee Conditions in the City Justice Center were reportedly dire for Archer Mallon, a non-binary transgender person held there for more than two days on misdemeanor charges stemming from a dispute with a la...

an important one by @justsamironly.bsky.social

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In February?

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Democrats Demand Answers for Federal Prison Staffing Shortage After Corrections Officers Flee for ICE Jobs Citing a ProPublica investigation that found that workers at federal lockups had been lured away to ICE, lawmakers asked how the Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to address the agency’s “unsafe conditi...

NEW: The federal prison staffing shortage, exacerbated by corrections officers fleeing to ICE jobs, has contributed to more lockdowns, more violence and less access to recidivism-reducing programs, the lawmakers noted in their letter to the BOP director.

By @keribla.bsky.social

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

After Isabel was released from a Minnesota detention center, ICE didn't return her work permit, ID, checks worth $700, or her daughter’s US passport.

She's one of many now missing key immigration and identity documents.

Scientific paper trail links the neurotoxin used to kill Alexey Navalny to the same Russian labs implicated in 2020 Novichok attack — Meduza The same Moscow-based research center linked to Alexey Navalny’s 2020 poisoning — SC Signal — also played a role in synthesizing the toxin that killed the opposition leader, according to the…

Journalists have unearthed a scientific paper trail connecting the rare toxin used to kill Alexey Navalny to Russian labs implicated in the 2020 attempt on his life. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’...

The world is drowning in plastic.

Experts say we need to stop making so much.

But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic.

Don't be fooled.

(Published June 2024)

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.

The US Immigration Industrial Complex is a Threat to Everyone If President Dwight D. Eisenhower were alive today, he very well may warn of the ever-growing immigration industrial complex.

"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities."

By: @tylermcbrien.com

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I’ve only met a few of the Epstein survivors but the ones I’ve talked to are amazingly strong. The thing that they’ve said to me, the thing that I’ve not seen reported though I’m sure someone has reported it somewhere is that they face a ton of harassment from people online.

Companies getting the $175 billion back after collecting $175 billion from the consumers

Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security's proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

NEW: Metadata left in a PDF exposes the people behind ICE's "mega" detention center plans, including the director of the Newark ERO field office and a former GEO Group executive. @regret.bsky.social with more:

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

The Trump Administration Has Created A New Form Of Family Separation A new method of detaining and deporting immigrants seems “engineered to lead to family separation,” one advocate told HuffPost.

Every day, at least 300 immigrants land at La Lima airport in the northwest region of Honduras after being deported from the US. Many have arrived without their children – having no idea where their kids are or who is taking care of them.

Journalist arrested in MN:

"The attack on the press did not start or end with my arrest. Mario Rivera, an independent journalist covering ICE arrests, was held in jail for more than 100 days, then deported. Janice Shortel was sprayed with chemical agents while covering ICE protests"

Corrections Officers and ICE goons have started patrolling the Dilley, Texas ICE Concentration Camp, confiscating children’s drawings, letters, and arts and crafts materials to prevent further leaks of the abhorrent conditions in the camp (February 17, 2026).

Host: Minnesota state investigators say the FBI has formally refused to cooperate with them in the investigation into Alex Pretti's shooting. That means they won't get access to any evidence collected after federal immigration agents killed Pretti.

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted.

This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

US conducts first air transport of nuclear microreactor in bid to show technology's viability The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense on Sunday for the first time transported a small nuclear reactor on a cargo plane from California to Utah to demonstrate the potential to quickly deploy nucl...

"There is no business case for microreactors, which — even if they work as designed — will produce electricity at a far higher cost than large nuclear reactors, not to mention renewables like wind or solar," said Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

UCLA Faculty Beat the Trump Admin. Other Schools Should Take Notes. Trump's DOJ drops appeal of court order blocking massive UCLA settlement that would have banned diversity programs and declared transgender people don't exist.

Explainer on the signifiance of UCLA’s unions' and faculty associations’ win in court. (Tl;dr: the Trump Administration must now respect actual laws—rather than withholding funding arbitrarily so as to extort policy changes—with immediate remedies if it doesn't.)

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Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956, by African American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, Gordon Parks (1912-2006)

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Another year older and deeper in debt?

Now I have more context.

the fact that they’re taking down and censoring jd vance getting boo’d on twitter lol

Trump Delivered 22% Boost to Billionaire Wealth in 2025, But Catastrophe for Working Class | Common Dreams "After a year in office, Trump and the GOP majority betrayed their promises to working people, instead serving billionaire elites and wealthy corporations," said the executive director of Americans fo...

The Billionaires Bill worked! Billionaires made over $1.5 trillion dollars last year; more than 20% richer!!

The looting and polluting continues…

No Belichick and no Brady so I don’t really hate New England anymore (okay, I do hate their owner, but that goes for most billionaires, too). But I’ve been a 49ers fan for 57 years (and remember the 2-14 seasons better than the Super Bowl ones). I’m Curious to see who I will root for Sunday.