Nancy Kricorian

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.

In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

Epstein and the Capitalist Conspiracy Naomi Klein discusses what to do with a narrative that mirrors the worst anti-Jewish theories and the importance of holding our depraved elites…

What do we do with a story whose real-life details are so fitted to antisemitic conspiracy? @arielleangel.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social on the Epstein files:

US Oil Blockade on Cuba Is Harming Hospitals, Education, and Scientific Research Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Cuban ambassador to the UN, discusses how the US is also attacking medical programs and tourism.

Cuba is facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. Cuba’s government announced it’s running out of fuel for commercial aviation, prompting Air Canada to cancel flights. Trump has threatened new tariffs against any nation that sends fuel to Cuba.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Indian Author Arundhati Roy Pulls Out of Berlinale Over Jury’s ‘Unconscionable’ Refusal to Comment on Gaza: ‘To Hear Them Say That Art Should Not Be Political Is Jaw-Dropping’ Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlinale over the jury's pushback over politics and its 'unconscionable' refusal to comment on Gaza.

"Let me say this clearly: what has happened in Gaza, what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel."
~ Arundhati Roy

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Aline Manoukian and the Specter of War Photography The Lebanese photojournalist who famously portrayed a Palestinian militiaman holding a kitten discusses her transition into photo editing and the image that changed her life.

reminder that this photo we all swoon over was taken by aline manoukian, an armenian lebanese woman who began her career as a photojournalist during the lebanese civil war when she was twenty years old.

cc: @hyperallergic.com & @nancykric.bsky.social

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Stewing and Knitting Managing the dumpster fires

I knit this baby sweater and have a few things to say about life in this dumpster fire time

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The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization.

This is no different.

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I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)

🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens
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Melt the ICE Hat pattern by YarnCultMN In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal...

Hey knitters, here is the anti-fascist hat that you were looking for. Profits from sales of the pattern go to immigration justice groups on the ground in Minnesota. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

coz often people invoke me and my book in online scraps about "where were you when..." and to chastize those newly organizing:

I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.

"The decision to decline an artwork in connection with its Jewish artist’s views on Israel has prompted significant dissension... while raising questions in the art world about the influence of powerful donors, and whether the political views of artists should affect the way their work is received."

Don't let the screen door hit you on the way out.

Interesting. Stephen Miller is looking increasingly isolated inside the White House as others start realizing that deliberate, concerted ethnonationalist brutality and sadism is hurting Republicans politically.

Per WSJ:

Photos of Alex Pretti with Sara’s caption: On August 16th at approximately 10:00 pm I received a call from the ICU at the VA saying my Dad had sepsis and needed to be intubated to stay alive so Josh and I headed in. We were greeted by the kindest, most calming and warm soul who helped us understand what was happening and showed deep care for us and my Dad. He continued to show utmost patience and kindness over the next few days as my Dad remained in the ICU and we were there continually. It was Alex Pretti, the man shot today by ICE. If you see this video and don't think it's murder, I don't understand your thinking and ask you to question your heart. He was out there trying to help and protect and from the little we knew of him, it doesn't surprise me he was not afraid to be on the front lines of this horrible scene in our Minneapolis. Weeping for his family and all those at the VA who no longer get to work with him or receive his care.

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti

Absolutely heartbreaking

Ah, yes. The man who signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act into law, and the deporter-in-chief. Thank you for your insights.

“He’s killing us in the streets and we still have to pay our taxes in April” is an incredibly compelling point.

HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.

This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Man killed in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse Alex Pretti: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

Another field execution by federal agents in Minneapolis. Followed by defamatory lies about the person they riddled with bullets.

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The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

Here's where we are at: federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old white man, a US citizen and ICU nurse at the VA who appears in multiple videos to have done absolutely nothing violent or even remotely illegal.

The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.