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‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not

Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.

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The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ

In New Exhibit, a Nuanced Look at the World of Teenage Boys Talking with photographer Bill Bamberger, whose portaits of Durham students will be on display at the Ackland Museum of Art through April 12.

"I think the best images are complicated. You can look at these images and try to imagine who they are, and maybe not really get there. They’re just like a moment in time."

Figures released on Monday showed that less than 14% of almost 400,000 immigrants arrested by ICE in the first year of Trump’s second term had charges or convictions for violent criminal offences, undercutting an administration claim to be targeting “the worst of the worst”.

Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
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5 Things White People Should Stop Saying Right Now I'm a Black woman in Minneapolis and these phrases aren't helping

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Nadeen Bir for Durham Board of Education, District 2A Nadeen Bir for Durham Board of Education – District 2A

Nadeen Bir for School Board district 2A

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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.

It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

How To Tell You’re Being Manipulated By A Story Three rules of thumb for navigating manipulative waters.

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How did we get to the point where police body cams are deemed “best practice” when the # of civilians whom police have killed has only *increased each year* since the widespread adoption of the equipment?

Tamar Sarai explains the body cam propaganda & who stands to benefit from “reform narratives”⤵️

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
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YouTube video by The Philharmonik - Topic Pay Me

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This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

2 measles cases confirmed at controversial Dilley detention facility The family detention center houses children and parents.

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Need another reason to vaccinate against measles? The virus can cause immune amnesia. • NC Newsline A study by Harvard Medical School researchers found that measles can erase from 11% to 73% of the different antibodies that previously made an individual immune to other illnesses.

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As officials disparage Pretti and Good, families of Black people killed by police have déjà vu The shooting deaths of white protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers in Minneapolis have followed a playbook that is painfully familiar to Black Americans.

apnews.com/article/minn... officials disparage Pretti and Good, families of Black people killed by police have déjà vu

How will they have time to march when they’re busy working harder than the rest of us?

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Proposed data center near Apex sparks debate over rising electric costs NEW HILL, N.C. (WNCN) — A proposed data center in New Hill is drawing opposition from nearby residents, who say the project could strain the power grid and drive up electricity bills. Developers to…

I’m getting messages from Duke Power about the strain this weather is putting on the power grid. How about not building more energy guzzling data centers?

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YouTube video by Gangstagrass Gangstagrass - Freedom - Exclusive performance for Barnstormers

And even MORE artists come forward with protest tunes & songs of hope for freedom equality & justice.

Here’s Gangstagrass with “Freedom”. Exclusive Performance For Barnstormers.

At least Trump supporters still have Kid Rock, right? ☮️❤️🇺🇸✊🖖😉🤣

#DefundICE #NODEALS #DisbandICE

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real "you must be new here" vibes from the dope who tried to out-left Billy Bragg

Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died Israeli military’s U-turn in accepting official figures comes after years of attacking data as ‘Hamas propaganda’

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“If policing, surveillance, or incarceration prevented or reduced crime, or cared for victims of crime, the U.S. would be the safest and most cared for nation in the world.” substackcdn.com/image/fetch/...

I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors

People are sleeping outside Charlotte ICE office overnight because of long waits Some said they feared being arrested once inside the office, but still made the wait. Many are asylum seekers.

“It’s very inhumane because there’s no alternative,”
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