Karen Hoffmann

Hi @wxpnfm.bsky.social. Just making sure you saw this! It's unacceptable to be playing songs with racial slurs anywhere, much less a majority Black city like #Philadelphia.

Mistakes happen, but at least acknowledge it and promise it won't happen again.

ICE is cosplaying as construction workers so they can kidnap day laborers in Danbury, CT.

IG Video: @ immigrationcoalition

@wxpnfm.bsky.social Earlier today you played a Mott the Hoople song containing a slur for Black people. This is obviously not OK. Will you issue a public apology and pledge to take the song out of future rotation?

From high energy on the picket lines to ‘demoralized’ at work: How DC 33 members are navigating a post-strike workplace In the days following the first major city worker strike in almost 40 years, seven municipal employees spoke to The Inquirer about the strike and their return to work.

"Philly is a city that loves unifying our anger at somebody or something."

Trump’s Lie about Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque That photo he brandished to Cyril Ramaphosa was from the Democratic Republic of Congo—whose refugees the Trump administration is pointedly not welcoming to America.

Unreal: To sustain his lie about a "genocide" of "white farmers" while meeting with the South African president, Trump used a photo of war deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1956...

And Obama's (and the world's) failure to provide #RedressForSomeFolks. digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Trump is building a global gulag for immigrants captured by ICE: “In many ways, this is a retread of the practices of the second Bush administration in terms of extraordinary rendition abroad; the RDI program, rendition, detention, and interrogation — their torture program” ‪@bcfinucane.bsky.social‬

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

“The true intent of #ProjectEsther… is dismantling civil society institutions such as universities and nonprofit organizations as a way to get rid of any domestic opposition to the administration, all under the guise of protecting Jews.”

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

Ten Britons accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza Exclusive: Met to be handed dossier of evidence alleging crimes including killings of civilians and aid workers

Ten Britons accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr... - Raji Sourani, director of PCHR, said: “​This is illegal, this is inhuman & enough is enough. The government cannot say we didn’t know; we are providing them with all ​the evidence.”

Palestinian-American teen from North Jersey shot and killed in the West Bank A 14-year-old boy, an American citizen from New Jersey, was shot and killed by Israeli military forces in the West Bank on Sunday.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed Amer Rabee, 14, formerly of Saddle Brook, NJ. The shooting happened Sunday in Turmus Ayya, a town in the occupied West Bank where many Palestinian Americans live or own homes. Two other teens were wounded.

www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...

Horrific. Thank you @jayapal.house.gov for bringing this to light

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

@edgeofsports.bsky.social

US-backed Israeli forces have killed more journalists in Gaza than were killed during the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I & II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

JD Vance should be forced to resign over this. Just shameful, demonstrable open lying by the vice president right out in the open.

At Pine Prairie, fights still regularly break out. Mentally exhausted detainees have access to razor blades. "If there's a fight here, people can kill each other, because the officers who work here are very few ... There's no structure to keep that many people locked up."

Those detained in Pine Prairie wear the same set of uniforms every day, including underwear. The food is described as being insufficient in quantity and of questionable quality. "Every day I just lose more weight, because the food they give me doesn't sustain me."

Brasileiros denunciam detenção migratória desumana nos EUA – DW – 28/03/2025 Numa remota ex-prisão em Louisiana, relatos de instalações insalubres e alimentação escassa são generalizados. Especialistas há anos pedem o fechamento do local por violar direitos humanos.

Brazilians denounce inhumane immigration detention in the US: At a remote former prison in Louisiana, reports of unsanitary facilities and poor food are widespread. Experts have been calling for the facility to be closed for years because it violates human rights. @brasil.dw.com

The government complains: "In the two months since Inauguration Day, district courts have issued more than 40 injunctions or TROs against the Executive Branch." Maybe the courts just love injunctions that much, or MAYBE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IS DOING A BUNCH OF SHIT THAT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED

This is an enforced disappearance by plainclothes officers, with masks, being put into an u marked van, against someone without any know criminal charge, presumably for exercising free speech. A lot of crimes caught on camera here by ghoulish state agents.

Yesterday USCIS began arresting people at their immigration interviews if they were out of status. Before yesterday, USCIS did not call ice unless a person had a removed order already. This is a significant escalation. These are people who are trying to get legal through the legal process.

Do not travel to or from the United States without burner phones and laptops

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Boasberg: So when I said, Mr. Ensign, you should inform your clients immediately, however that's accomplished, whether it means turning around a plane, etc., you need to make sure this is complied with immediately. You're telling me, your first argument is that when I said those things, because it wasn't in a minute order, you didn't have to comply. That's your argument? You're telling me that that very clear point, you're saying that you felt that you could disregard it because it wasn't in the written order. That's your first argument? US: I'm stating what the position of the United States is.

I have a client with a stay of deportation who was apparently deported today. What laws?

We're leaping back centuries in a matter of weeks. It is completely insane.

The understated way they wrote it is scariest of all, to me