Martha K.

31K views · 1.5K reactions | There has been an increase in stories of ICE detaining people who not only serve their community but also come here through legal channels. It’s thanks to our communities ... There has been an increase in stories of ICE detaining people who not only serve their community but also come here through legal channels. It’s thanks to our communities who speak up and out that...

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Chaplain breaks silence after spending 73 days in ICE detention.

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

"For every 1,000 measles cases, there are between 1 and 3 deaths from breathing complications or brain swelling. If there are a million cases, that’s about 1,000 deaths that doctors consider preventable with the use of vaccines"

Also: about 200,000 hospitalized (1 in 5 cases in unvaccinated people)

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Abhorrent. My tax dollars being used to handsomely reward people to destroy, to cause pain, to damage .... when so many people doing work to help, to heal, to teach, are struggling to get by.
This is super hard to take.

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

Orange County Schools Prep for ICE Here’s how five different school districts in OC are preparing in case federal immigration agents show up to one of their campuses.

Schools where I work and live in California are planning on lockdowns if (when) ICE shows up.
Desperate times.

🧵1/6

Hours before a gunman fired nearly 500 rounds 🔫 into CDC HQ — killing Officer David Rose 🚔 and forcing hundreds of us into lockdown — RFK Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisor posted a gun photo with this caption:

“Five out of six scientists have proven that Russian roulette is harmless.” 🎯

Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…

Lesson from a battle worn warrior.
Key point (and difficulty): harnessing the rage for productive action without it consuming me.

Pointless indeed.
Unless the point is cruelty
via hubris.

No doubt.

Awareness saves lives.

The 14th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1868. It guarantees:

✔️ due process for all
✔️ birthright citizenship
✔️ equal protection under the law

Now more than ever, we're determined to protect these essential rights.

This is great because helplessness is the worst.

Exposé by an Israeli newspaper.
Primary sources are IDF soldiers.
--"Gaza doesn't interest anyone anymore.... It's become a place with its own set of rules. The loss of human life means nothing."--

This is what genocide looks like.
We stop caring at the risk of our humanity. 🧵

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." -Thomas Mann

This is the crux. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

We have the deets. Now we just need the courage.

My senator. Wtf.
US SENATOR.