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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. 🧵

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers.

An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

Ratchet Roundtable Is Live! What’s ratchet about thriving?

Ratchet Roundtable Is Live!
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VERY excited to share this article about ratchet lineages, with a link to our first RATCHET ROUNDTABLE episode!

Tonight was a very bad night.

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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.

Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”

Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

Roe Is Gone, Abortion Isn’t: Authors Carole Joffe and David Cohen on the Resilience of Reproductive Freedom - Ms. Magazine Roe Is Gone, Abortion Isn’t: Authors Carole Joffe and David Cohen on the Resilience of Reproductive Freedom and Access

18 states and DC now have shield laws protecting people who care for traveling patients. @dsc250.bsky.social says 8 of these states have gone even further by explicitly protecting providers who, via telemedicine, care for patients across state lines. #ReproHealth

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We watched it, too. Live. Folks were devastated. We processed it a bit together, as well. I was in Maryland. It was a huge part of our curriculum in the weeks leading up to the launch.

Hooray!!!!

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Your State-by-State Guide to Every State Supreme Court - Bolts Bolts breaks down the structure, selection procedures, and functions of each state’s highest court.

We worked with legal scholar Quinn Yeargain this year to publish a guide that breaks down the structure, selection procedures, and functions of every single state’s highest court!

You can explore one of our biggest projects: boltsmag.org/whats-o...

Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more.

Taking back our power starts now.

BREAKING: WHITE-ONLY SPACES ARE BACK. Republicans just passed a bill allowing businesses to segregate bathrooms, waiting rooms, and dining areas. This is full-blown apartheid in America.

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Let’s talk about the way a name
becomes a crime,
the way a crime
becomes an argument,
the way an argument
becomes a theory,
the way a theory
sits safely
in a syllabus
far from the fire.

publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i...

People are exhausted, in an ongoing trauma response, increasingly sick and disabled, and don’t know what to do. Most are barely getting by and don’t have the time or energy to add a new, difficult thing. If they try something ineffective, motivation tanks. These conditions are policy choices.

Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.

This is how authoritarian regimes test the waters. The first disappearance is a warning. If no one fights back, the next one comes easier. And the one after that. Until fear replaces resistance.

Now, imagine this happening to you. Would anyone fight for you?

Michael Moorcock: What do you think about the current shift to the right in US politics? Andrea Dworkin: Here, in blaming and shaming the oppressed, the powerless, the left colludes with the right. There's no reason to look to the left for justice, so people look to the right for order. It's pretty simple. The victory of the right also expresses the rage of white men against women and people of colour who are seen to be eroding the white man's authority. The pain of destroying male rule won't be worse than the pain of living with it.

Andrea Dworkin said this in 1995 and it could be this week nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin...

She’s on a Scholarship at a Tribal College in Wisconsin. The Trump Administration Suspended the USDA Grant That Funded It. Tribal colleges and universities, which ProPublica last year found are perpetually underfunded by Congress, say it’s illegal to withhold financial support from them. Their funding is protected by trea...

NEW: At tribal colleges, scholarships funded by a USDA grant have been suspended amid the Trump administration’s widespread cost-cutting.

Now some students are facing their final weeks on campus.

ICE Abducts & Disappears US Green Card Holder Mahmoud Khalil ICE claims it is acting on US State Dept orders, without warrant or charge, and refuses to inform Khalil's U.S. Citizen wife or his attorney of his whereabouts

UPDATE: US federal judge in SDNY has blocked the Trump regime from deporting Mahmoud Khalil & ordered all parties to appear Wednesday @ 11:30 at SDNY courthouse to address Khalil’s habeas petition. Khalil is challenging his detention—he was never served or charged www.qasimrashid.com/p/ice-abduct...

“No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” by Toni Morrison; excerpt reads: “Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple: 1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war. 2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists. 3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.”

Toni Morrison:

Queer Activists and the Struggle for AIDS Education Donald Trump's January 20th Executive Order is a harmful attack on queer and transgender healthcare education, but it will be resisted. Lucy Kelly turns to the legacy of queer activists and allies in the struggle for AIDS education in the…

What can the history of AIDS education tell us about how to cope with the attacks made by President Donald Trump?

Laura Kelly examines the history of sexual health education to help us to contextualise the current crisis.

www.historyworkshop....

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“People are out there for their parents, out there for their grandparents, or out there for themselves..Even if we’re documented ourselves, our parents probably aren’t, our grandparents probably aren’t, so we know that we are not removed from that struggle"