ICE arrests in Fresno area surge amid Trump crackdown. Here’s where they’re happening Exclusive: Data examined by The Bee details who has been arrested and deported by ICE in the Fresno area.

Exclusive: Data examined by The Bee details who has been arrested and deported by ICE in the Fresno area.

Central Valley Sikh truckers report spike in harassment after fatal FL crash Since the Aug. 12 accident, drivers are being targeted at truck stops in some states. “People are throwing water bottles, eggs at their trucks.”

NEW: Central Valley Sikh truckers report spike in harassment after fatal FL crash.

“It’s definitely affecting us,” said Gurjant Singh, whose fleet transports Valley produce to FL-based Publix Supermarkets. Some of his drivers refuse to go to Florida.
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Central Valley Sikh truckers face backlash of Florida politicizing a tragedy | Opinion Florida’s lieutenant governor is politicizing a fatal accident involving a Sikh truck driver, leading to fear in local trucking industry.

Herby Dufresne. Rodrigue Dor. Faniola Joseph. Families lost loved ones, and their grief deserves our deepest compassion. That should be the focus. Justice. Accountability. Nothing less.

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The enshittification curve of AI about to be steep and fast

ਚਿੰਤਾ ਤਾ ਕੀ ਕੀਜੀਐ ਜੋ ਅਨਹੋਨੀ ਹੋਇ ॥
People become anxious, when something unexpected happens.

ਇਹੁ ਮਾਰਗੁ ਸੰਸਾਰ ਕੋ ਨਾਨਕ ਥਿਰੁ ਨਹੀ ਕੋਇ ॥੫੧॥
This is the way of the world, O Nanak; nothing is stable or permanent. ||51||

Guru Tegh Bahaadur Ji in Salok Mehl 9 - 1429

ਫਰੀਦਾ ਇਕਨਾ ਆਟਾ ਅਗਲਾ ਇਕਨਾ ਨਾਹੀ ਲੋਣੁ ॥
Fareed, some have lots of flour, while others do not even have salt.

ਅਗੈ ਗਏ ਸਿੰਞਾਪਸਨਿ ਚੋਟਾਂ ਖਾਸੀ ਕਉਣੁ ॥੪੪॥
When they go beyond this world, it shall be seen, who will be punished. ||44||

Bhagat Sheikh Fareed Ji in Salok Fareed Jee - 1380

Naming of new Fresno school makes history. The story behind Jaswant Singh Khalra Elementary The campus will be the first public school in North America to be named after a person of Sikh descent.

“For me & for many of our South Asian community members, [Jaswant Singh Khalra] is absolutely a person of admiration, because (his life) is a story of loyalty and friendship, integrity, courage & principle,” Naindeep Singh said

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The Indian government has targeted Sikhs across North America with surveillance, censorship, harassment & murder.

Join us for a conversation on how to resist: Tues, Jan 28 at 5:30 pm PST. Link below.

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one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

“Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now”

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How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on…

Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.

More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.

(Published Jan. 2024)
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Text: 527 Explorer. Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars flow through little-known political organizations commonly called 527s. Use our database to explore who funds these organizations and how they're spending their money. Image: Webpage screenshot of ProPublica's 527 Explorer tool.

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending.

We built a database so you can more easily search these organizations' finances — which we just updated with a total of ~350k new contributions and expenditures: https://propub.li/4i01FSv

UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

Mike Davis’s Forecast for the Left His works of history and social criticism have grappled with the political and ecological disasters of the past. His work has now started to become more hopeful about the future.

Instead, that organizer was “more like a patient gardener,” daily clearing the workplace soil of the weeds of petty jealousies and rivalries so that eventually, someday, when the time was right, the sprout would pop up.

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Davis writes in Old Gods that the “classical rank-and-file organizer” didn’t spend the bulk of their time on the shop floor hopping up on soapboxes to deliver rousing speeches that sparked their coworkers to revolt against tyrannical bosses.

Spirit Airlines CEO Got A $3.8 Million Bonus A Week Before Its Bankruptcy There's a backlash against antitrust enforcement because enforcers blocked the JetBlue-Spirit merger. But this one's on the executives, who paid themselves lavishly a week before declaring bankruptcy.

Why did Spirit Airlines go bankrupt? Is it because of antitrust? No. It's because of bad management. For example, the CEO got a $3.8 million bonus a week before they declared bankruptcy. What kind of company rewards the person who destroyed it? A bad one.
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Reflecting on 25 years since to have engaged, empowered, and emboldened Sikh youth and Sangats across California and beyond

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾ॥ ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ॥