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US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.

"During the drive to the station, prosecutors say she made statements to officers about immigration enforcement, including, “Why are you doing this to your people?” and “What are you going to tell your children about what you do?”

‘They basically just kidnapped me’: US citizen taken by Border Patrol in Cary • NC Newsline As Border Patrol agents swept the Triangle area, a construction worker born in the U.S. was among those detained.

The first thing Border Patrol agents asked 18-year-old Fernando Vazquez was “Where are you from?”

Read how a U.S. citizen in Cary was handcuffed and detained amid the immigration crackdown in North Carolina:

This post will almost definitely self-destruct but I think about it all the time.

❤️ (I owe you an extremely belated, unrelated-to-this text! I haven't forgotten, I swear!)

Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leavi...

Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leaving the children behind.
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If Condé Nast Can Illegally Fire Me, No Union Worker Is Safe The Trump administration is making employers think they can ignore their legal obligations and trample on the rights of workers.

For @thenation.com, I wrote about the Condé Nast Fired Four and what our fight means for the labor movement

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

How LA employers and labor groups are trying to shield workers from ICE Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to protect employees from immigration raids.

How LA employers and labor groups are trying to shield workers from ICE.

Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to protect employees from immigration raids.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

I want to scream this from the rooftops and plaster it on some billboards:

Meta’s AI Data Center Sparks a Divide Among the Faithful in the Bible Belt In rural Louisiana, white and Black churches see the company's plan to build America's biggest AI complex very differently.

NEW:The largest AI data center in the world is being built in a rural pocket of Louisiana's bible belt once dubbed the White Gold Capital of the South

I spent time w/ churches to explore how this might be the largest test to the South's social fabric in a generation capitalbnews.org/meta-richlan...

The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back. A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.

NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co

“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.” All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.

Every year, tens of thousands of children are taken from their families because their parents can't afford decent housing. Most child welfare agencies do virtually nothing to help them even as the affordable housing crisis worsens. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Absolutely awesome (and paid!) opportunity for writers ages 15-21 here. I'll be sharing this far and wide with young folks I know: "This call is for young adult writers, whose work I’d like to include in this anthology alongside some more familiar names."

Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions For younger writers, ages 15-21

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.

North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities

NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:

We finally know the identities of the 9 anonymous authors of the May HHS report on pediatric gender-affirming care. Surprise! It's stacked with people who make money advocating against pediatric gender-affirming care.

Here's our writeup from May: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

How Washington State Discriminates Against Incarcerated Immigrants People with immigration detainers want to build a better life, but state policies make it difficult or impossible.

Today in @thenation.com: a powerful investigation from incarcerated journalist Aaron Edward Olson into the way that Washington State discriminates against immigrants in prison. Proud to have worked on this one with @typeinvestigations.org. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

5 takeaways from KyCIR’s latest season of Dig This season of Dig examines the systemic failings that allowed 20 years of child sex abuse to go unchecked.

Here's 5 key findings from @storiesbyjess.bsky.social's reporting on how Louisville leaders failed to properly investigate allegations of child sexual abuse by two ex-JCPS football coaches.
Hear the full story in the excellent 3rd season of KyCIR's podcast Dig: www.lpm.org/podcast/dig

ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation Operation “Charlotte’s Web” continues.

Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said.

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Are Data Centers the Next Frontier of Extraction in West Virginia? Mingo County, West Virginia, was once thriving, but the coal industry’s decline left it one of the poorest counties in the US. Now, several data centers could be built in the region. Are data centers ...

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social produced this story in partnership with @appalachia100.bsky.social on Mingo County, West Virginia. Such an important watch: "...the communities that are being presented with this, they're not going to take it quietly, and they haven't been."

YouTube video by More Perfect Union Why West Virginia Is the Next Target in Big Tech’s Data Center Invasion

Mingo County, West Virginia, was once thriving, but the coal industry’s decline left it one of the poorest counties in the US.

Now, multiple data centers could be built in the region.

Are data centers a new extractive industry, or will they provide a much-needed lifeline?

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The other things I think about the Current Discourse are going to have to stay in the group chat

In addition to great editors, it’s reaaaaaally important to have friends who will read your stuff and tell you “uh, no” when needed.

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

High Country News consistently has fantastic Indigenous reporting! Here's a lovely read on heavy metal on the Blackfeet reservation.

A Walgreens near me frequently has to alter their hours with little notice due to understaffing. Workers are already dealing with staffing shortages and are overworked. This is horrible.

Applications are still open for this one :)

Can't believe we live in a society where someone can mention "the brain worm thing" and for the most part, everyone else knows exactly what it refers to.