Saurav S.

The International AIDS Society had a 20-year boycott of the United States as a venue for their conference, because of the US travel ban on HIV-positive people. I promise you any international society that cares about access for its members can locate meetings elsewhere.

Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

ICE is getting access to Loews and Home Depot's license plate reader data.

This is what happens when you are a customer of Flock Safety. You think you're securing your parking lot, but really you're feeding surveillance data to ICE.

Did you see the latest episode of Andor? No? Good. Disney+ is on the BDS boycott list. Cancel your subscription.

3 People Die in ICE Custody in April as Conditions Worsen in Immigration Jails At least seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump’s term began.

At leat seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump took office, including three in April:

Brayan Garzón-Rayo, a 27-year-old man from Colombia who lived with his family in St. Louis.

Nhon Nguc Nguyen, 55, from Vietnam.

Marie Ange Blaise, a 44-year-old citizen of Haiti.

Map of continental US showing various places from where people have been disappeared. Currently numbering 1214.

United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing.
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NY senator backs Citi Field casino plan with Flushing Skypark proposal and $100M pledge Mets owner Steve Cohen and Hard Rock International have committed to fund a High Line-style bridge — or pay $100 million for Queens park improvements — under a new plan supported by State Sen. John Li...

They could just build the park instead of building a casino too?

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Not sure that’s true of the October Revolution as much as the February revolution though obviously the two have links.

kidnapped.

Yeah it's pretty easy.

I am reading Hossam Shabat's obituary,
And tears are welling up in my eyes.
Facebook keeps serving me an ad for a T-shirt with a kitten and the slogan "I am full of rage,"
But I don't have $23 to spend.
Somebody turn this off.

What about Plan 2025? ;)

Saurav Sarkar ~ Dispatch From Kolkata: LGBTQ Activists Face Mob Attack

To be queer or trans in India is a quixotic reality today. There is no doubt that progress has been made over decades – most notably with the 2018 decriminalisation of same-sex relations.

The local hounds started baying. Now they have stopped.

Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of documents obtained from the Yale Police Department show how the campus police closely surveilled pro-Palestine protestors, in collaboration with the FBI and counterterrorism forces.
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Could have spent more time on vampires, tbh.

Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office In the past year, the Biden administration has extended contracts for private sector jails before Trump’s plan for mass deportations

This is unconscionable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

Try the Manifesto :)

Which book?

Israel’s UNRWA ban is a spectacular own goal By banning UNRWA, Israel has unwittingly elevated Palestinian refugees to a higher level of global protection.

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UN climate talks in disarray as developing nations stage walkout at COP29 Host Azerbaijan calls for consensus after delegations from developing countries walk out of climate finance talks.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...

Alpaca nation, Cuenca, Ecuador #Alpacas #Incas #Ruins

Toucan 2, Mindo, Ecuador #birds

Toucan 1, Mindo, Ecuador #birds

Canada Reinvents the Xenophobic Wheel Bikram Singh is running out of time on his post-study work visa in Canada. Singh is one of about 70,000 migrants who were sold on the Canadian dream of

My latest: www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/22/c...
#Canada #migration #NSN #India

Otter in bed thinking about Batman's car insurance situation.

This is my wallpaper. #don'tjudgeme

The trick to garlic bread is to make at least 5 times too much of it then eat it all hunched over in the corner of the basement like a rat