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New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It’ll Help ICE. The city says it won’t lend this tool to ICE for surveillance. But a state law requires that local officials assist ICE, and New Orleans also wants to end a court order restricting compliance.

ICE is seeking increasing amounts of data from localities. “We’re seeing more and more signs, especially in ‘sanctuary cities,’ where the federal government’s requests are getting bigger and bigger,” says an immigration law expert.

Forced Detransitions 'Nearly Toppled' Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.

"The effects of Georgia's policy of forced detransition for trans prisoners, currently on hold, were disastrous."

"[B]allooning case loads and overwhelmed workers."

"The mental health case load nearly toppled our appointment catalogs daily."
#Georgia #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Courts

National Republicans Send Deceptive Text to ‘Confuse and Intimidate’ Missouri Voters Read more here.

In their latest move to stymie Missourians’ efforts to block the state’s new GOP congressional map, national Republicans pressured voters over text to withdraw their signatures from an anti-gerrymandering referendum petition “before it’s too late.”
https://bit.ly/49r43zW

Israeli NGO says 'the killing of Palestinians in custody has become a normalized practice' An investigation by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel found that at least 98 Palestinians have died in detention since the start of the war in Gaza. The organization said it had 'little doubt' that m...

Never Forget what Israel does to Gaza and Palestinians.

::gasps & clutches pearls:: ThOsE KiTtEnS ShOuLd bE EaTiNg sOlId fOoD. (They do; they also nurse whenever she lets them.)

Yes, they ARE still nursing occasionally. Starting today, she'll get a few hours by herself where she can chill out, watch birds, and snooze undisturbed.

😼 Mason reporting for playtime!

Big personality, big fluffy cheeks, and a lot to learn—he needs an adult mentor (no kids, sorry!) to unlock his full fun potential. 🐾 Vax’d, chipped, wormed, FeLV neg in #Tucson. He is FIV+ but is very gentle with female cat friends.

A man in a police uniform stands at a podium. An American flag is behind him.

The TikTok video shows Parks accelerating his patrol car directly toward the man, striking him with the vehicle at least once. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-of...

Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Six humpbacks, in two pods of three.
🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 #MontereyBay #CowellsCove

Another absolute banger in our war/climate/geopolitics series

"Win-win" => lose-lose was always in the cards.

I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired

Remy the tuxedo cow cat enjoy the sun while it lasts

Did sumbuddy say tuxie Tuesday?

#tuxietuesday #catsofbluesky #cats

Pope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is 'crying out' Pope Leo XIV is urging countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet.

apnews.com/article/pope...

www.love-and-hisses.com/11-18-25/

The Love & Hisses blog post for Tuesday, November 18th. 🙂

Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official. www.wired.com/story/social...

Simon is here for #tuxietuesday .

Have a good day.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky #gato

그... 쪼맹아...? 언니가 뭐 잘 못 했늬...?;

오늘 만년필잉크로 그린고양이
사실 캐릭터처럼그리는거 연구하고싶은데
(무현쌤 해달로 그리려고) 이것처럼 ..
실사처럼 그리는방법밖에몰라

꼭꼭 숨어라

Feds tell Maryland not to remove medical debt from credit scores A Maryland law aimed at keeping medical debt from ruining people’s creditworthiness went into effect Oct. 1, and 27 days later the Trump administration said the state and 14 others were violating federal...

Maryland is removing medical debt from credit scores. The feds say not so fast.

Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:

this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!

You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!

"The attorneys spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. All three said the plan is not regional to New England, but a nationwide strategy."

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

Monterey Bay feeding frenzy. 🪶🐋🐋🐋

Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May)

A bond fund for people detained by federal immigration agents is seeking donations. blockclubchi.co/4r1ZFxu

E.P.A. Rule Would Drastically Curb Protections for Wetlands

"These changes could strip federal protections from up to 55 million acres of wetlands, or about 85 percent of all wetlands nationwide" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/c...