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A service I haven’t offered in a while:

If you know someone who _would benefit from_ having someone explain immigration policy to them for an hour, or be here to ask questions, or whatever, hit me up via DM.

“Would benefit” = not just “change my mind” but “actually work to inform/persuade others.”

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Macbeth: SHIT

Naseeruddin Shah says disinvited from university event due to his political views Shah, who is an alumni of National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi and Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune, said that the decision to disinvite him perhaps was for his views.

Naseeruddin Shah showing the rest of Bollywood how not to be fascist bootlickers. 'student activists are held for years without trial but convicted rapists/murderers are frequently granted bail...cow vigilantes have a free hand to maim and kill...just how long can this hatred be sustained?'

This is our last rescue message. 5 kids shivering,my wife suffering from mitral valve prolapse,& no shelter.The cold is eating us alive. We are a family fading in the winter. 200$ could keep us alive.I hope this is not just a passing message
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@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...

US police arrested 12 anti-ICE protesters at Columbia University in New York. The demonstrators accuse the university of cooperating with immigration enforcement agents and are demanding the campus be declared a sanctuary.

Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

these conditions are horrifying. this is an amazing story of community organizing strategy and commitment, as well as another example of the criminalization of mutual aid @lataco.bsky.social

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Donate to Help Oliver Aguillon Fight ICE Detention, organized by Norma Herrera My husband, Oliver Hilario Aguillon, has recently been detained by ICE, and our… Norma Herrera needs your support for Help Oliver Aguillon Fight ICE Detention

HELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE!

Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom.

Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!

almost late to my dentist today FOR THE VERY BEST REASON. because a bunch of middle schoolers IN austin, tx staged an ICE OUT protest

My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”

THREAD.

A selection of notes I have made in my notebook about my dad, and the things he does.

1. The Public Swimming Pool

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

How did I not know this? I didn't know AEW wrestler Brody King is doing a fundraiser for Mpls families affected by ICE. By selling variant comics covers. With comics artist Daniel Warren Johnson. Who is a fellow Chicagoan? And has raised $58K so far and is still going! headlockedcomic.bigcartel.com

Help the Abdelwahed family survive I'm helping my friend, Akram Abdelwahed, raise funds to help his family survive.

I’m offline but Akram REALLY has to be offline. He’s trying to give his siblings & mom some place to live and right now trying to restore their apartment event a little.

Please yall this is an urgent need. It’s shelter. chuffed.org/project/help...

The first rent checks from this fund are starting to go out. The community is so grateful and the need continues, so please give if you can.

We've paid 32 families rent today.

Thank you to the random one of you who paid like half of those.

Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

Actually, can we make a little short goal in the next day? They really need fold & winter supplies, especially for Seraj’s baby sister. 0/183

Really can’t be online but I’d appreciate some shares for this. Our friend Seraj was suspended from the bird app, and that’s where his only reach is. Usually we have zero capacity to help this family, but now they have no one & ZERO visibility whatsoever. This is a critical + priority need.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Hundreds of Ann Arbor Pioneer students leave class to protest ICE, support immigrants • Michigan Advance Hundreds of Ann Arbor Pioneer High School students walked out of class in solidarity, speaking out against the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of a nationwide protest. Stud...

Hundreds of Ann Arbor Pioneer High School students walked out of class in solidarity, speaking out against the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of a nationwide protest.

michiganadvance.com/briefs/hundr...

Story by Martin Slagter

New Mexico Senate approves bill to ban ICE detention centers The New Mexico Legislature approved the Immigration Safety Act. House bill 9 bars the state from allowing ICE detention centers.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care.

It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back.

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

Full on concentration camps. "We don't know half of what's going on in the camps, but we know enough" is echoing from 85 years ago.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”