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I need a fucking nap

ok, enough doomscrolling for now

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:

“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...

7/ Read the rest of the letters:

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

A child’s illustration, made in what appears to be crayon, of more than a dozen figures standing together. It’s titled “Mi Familia” and credited to “Luisanney Toloza, 5 años.”

4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border

Page 1 of handwritten letter. Transcript: "Hello, my name is Ariana V.V. im 14 years old and im from Honduras, ive been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much fear to go to a place as I feel here everytime I remind myself that once I go back to Honduras a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and my younger siblings haven’t been able to see their mom in more than a month. They are very young and you need both of your parents when you are growing up. Since I got to this Center all you will feel is sadness and mostly depression. When people have their courts the longest they will last is 15 minutes, our rights are not being provided, arrest are happening when people don’t even have any type of order, arrests are happening illegally. Its sad to hear that peoples case are being denied and are getting send back to their country places where they are escaping from and are looking for protection and want to feel safe. Not a lot of people know what is happening in the Centers where immigrants are placed at. I haven’t been getting any school time. Every single person in here had their jobs they had their lifes, they aren’t any danger for this Country."

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter. Transcript: "Ive been in this country for almost 7 years and in those 7 years my mom and I found a home and made a bigger family. I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister, yeah they are with their dad but its still different for them and my mom and I. Since the day my mom and I get detained in Manhattan NY, my life was instanly paused, from my knowledge you can’t be under custody for more than 15 or 20 days, well here in Dilley Immigration Processing Center people have been in this place for 7 months, 5 months, 4-2 months, its not fair that the ICE officers are not following the laws. All kids are being damage mentally, they witness how the’ve been treated. They don’t have schools, doctor, all they have are nurses, if you need medical attention the longest you have to wait is 3 hours, but to get any medicine, pill, anything it takes a while, there are various viruses people are always sick. Serious situations happen and the officers can’t take them serious enough there are no consecuenses, they don’t care."

3/ “I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister.”

From 14-year-old Ariana V.V, whose U.S.-citizen siblings are 2 and 5 years old. Detained for 45+ days

The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.”

The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”

2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”

From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction of Sport in Occupied Palestine Derek Silva,1 Nathan Kalman-Lamb,2 Chen Chen,3 Kristi Allain,4 Jason Laurendeau,5 Janelle Joseph,6 Daniel Sailofsky,7 Shrehan Lynch,8 Anthony Weems,9 Leyla Hamed,10 Priyansh,7 Adam Ali,11 Roc Rochon,12 Zuleikha Chikh,13 Charlotte Phillips,14 Jules Boykoff,12 R. Taha,7 Jess Nachman,14 Zeana Hamdonah,7 Thomas Ross Griffin,15 Anima Adjepong,16 and Jeffrey Montez de Oca17 1 King’s University College, Western University, London, ON, Canada; 2 University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada; 3 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; 4 St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, USA; 5 University of Lethbridge, Calgary, AB, Canada; 6 Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada; 7 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 8 University of East London, London, United Kingdom; 9 Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA; 10 Independent Journalist, Madrid, Spain; 11 Western University, London, ON, Canada; 12 Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, USA; 13 Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom; 14 York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; 15 Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; 16 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA; 17 University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature focuses on the philosophical, ethical, and political foundations of events that are conventionally described as “genocide,” little scholarly attention has been paid to genocide in the disparate fields that make up sports studies. Even less attention has been paid t…

No Israeli appearance in global sport can be understood outside the context of the athleticide it has committed in Gaza—and not been held accountable for.

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people need to understand that EVERY ISRAELI ADULT IS IN THE IDF. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. the ONLY ones who arent had to go to prison and there are not very many of them

Tim Allan, who just quit as Starmer's director of comms, was on the board of the trans-eliminationist hate group "Sex Matters", whose director of advocacy Helen Joyce urged transphobes to get through to "decision makers" so that the "numbers" of trans people could be "reduced." That's what they did.

More detial on the convictions of the apple daily staff...

The others pleaded guilty in the hope that their sentences would be shorter.* Which they are. But are punishingly lengthy still.

*And, I'm sure this came into the equation for some of them: to avoid paying expensive legal fees. Which has to be factored into the lawfare being waged in Hong Kong.

💜 this as a living of Toni Cade Bambara's "the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"

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.

exactly!!

A graph showing that the US has the highest incarceration rate among founding NATO countries. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html

While the U.S. goes for gold & aims to be the best at the Olympics, it's already #1 among independent democracies when it comes to mass incarceration – and that’s nothing to celebrate.

So much for the “land of the free.”

My neurodivergence has a lot to do with why I'm anarchist who thinks this world order needs to be scrapped for something new. I don't fit here. I never fit from the day I was born. It always hurt, I always struggled to pass & make it, & I don't think I'm the only one, I think the system's wrong.

Observing the start of a carefully calculated rehabilitation campaign, I note mention of a nearly finished new book. I wonder who in publishing is now watching responses to gauge likely profits from unswerving fans versus costly outrage from the wider SF&F community. Doubtless time will reveal all.

*how dare

I legit read someone saying that they didn't like the dress bc it 'dragged everything downwards', aka how date her boobs not be immune to gravity ig

Before it gets lost in the noise:

Don’t fuck your employees.

Don’t fuck your 20-something employees.

Don’t fuck your 20-something employees who are currently depending on you for a place to live.

screenshot of Twitter-user @ItsDanaWhite’s tweet that says: You don’t want encampments but you don’t want a shelter in your neighborhood and you’re not coming together with your neighbors to help the less resourced or raise hell about the always increasing rent. Do you see how it’s not only systems perpetuating homelessness? It’s you.

screenshot of Twitter-user @ItsDanaWhite’s tweet that says: Homelessness will not disappear. Not if you push unhoused folks from one area to the next, not if you pretend you don’t see them, not with more policing, not if “they just get jobs,” not with limited “affordable units” that aren’t actually affordable, not if you leave it to HUD

screenshot of Twitter-user @ItsDanaWhite’s tweet that says: What are we willing to do? For ourselves, for each other. That’s the question I come back to daily.

“Do you see how it’s not only systems perpetuating homelessness? It’s you.”

Book cover depicting a very surreal, psychedelic illustration of a woman's face in shades of light blue, pale pink and plum purple. She wears a nose ring and dark lipstick, and she has a third eye in the middle of her forehead. There are hands holding her face, with very sharp, long nails painted black. It's unclear if these are her own hands, or someone else's. The left hand's thumb is halfway inside the woman's right eye, and a tongue curled around a cigarette is coming out of her left eye. She looks unimpressed.

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
by Mariana Enríquez
3.5/5 🌟

Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses.

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it's objectively v funny, cause she's still mad at me this morning

yesterday just before I went to sleep my cat went to the litter box and then immediately wanted to jump on my bed to ask for pets.

I had to kick her out of bed, and when I tell you that I've never seen such a naked look of betrayal on her face lol

are we gonna vanquish this fuckeng evil or what

right like it seriously needs to be reiterated a billion times that the incidents here aren't conspiratorially unique but a machinic form of patriarchal violence and violation that occurs in fractals and scales at all levels of society. sexual abuse is the glue of structures of exploitation