First They Came For

Do you have any idea how emotionally difficult it is to carry a fetus that you know will not result in a healthy baby? When your body is still sending your brain all of the physical indications of pregnancy? It’s a form of torture I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

Even in a world where everyone’s needs are met, abortion care is always going to be needed.

There are maternal illnesses (like cancer) that can’t be treated while pregnant. There are fetal issues identified prenatal that will result in deaths shortly after birth, etc.

I spent several months unable to maintain this website due to health concerns, it is still critically important to track this information and I will be doing my best to update. Please reach out with tips.

did you even read the interview?

My miscarriage required a D&C. Pregnancy was physically miserable, no one is doing it for fun for months and changing their mind on a whim.

Flyer for lelo rally

An attack on Lelo is an attack on workers everywhere! Join the Coalition of Independent unions this Saturday at noon at City Hall for a rally to demand freedom for kidnapped organizer Lelo Juarez

Horrifying. ICE is an irredeemable institution and must be abolished.

Which is why we need to take every kidnapping and every illegal deportation seriously and resist. It’s all us.

DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...

The kidnappings and visa revocations have been ratcheting up, as has the rhetoric. Major site updates will be coming today to add the hundreds of students across universities who have had their visas revoked.

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The people of Sackets Harbor—and especially the school administrators and teachers—should serve as an example for us all that resistance can work. You do not need to comply in advance. The Trump administration is powerful, but not invincible. This story is a reminder to journalists that reporting on things happening in the smallest places can have the largest impact. My hats off to the local journalists who first made noise about this miscarriage of justice. I feel fortunate that I could help amplify it, and that we can celebrate this small but powerful victory. And we can rest a little easier knowing the third grader will finally get to see the welcome home banner hung by classmates with love.

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.

I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back.

How can anyone defend this?

Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

Either we all have rights or none of us do.

It's really that simple.

More than 1,000 march in Sackets Harbor in support of detained children, mother

In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan.

Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.

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If you could break the heart of an impersonal tracker-bot like me, this would sure as hell do it.

When we say “first they came for”, we mean allowing anyone to be illegally detained and deported is a threat to everyone.

I find those things abominable and am utterly opposed to them. Did you not see the massive pro-Palestine protests that happened yesterday or do you think everyone in the streets is a liberal?

Serious question - what is your theory of change?

Looking down on a mass movement rather than finding opportunities to strengthen and direct that energy is some too-online shit. We gotta play the cards we’re dealt.

I know the poem and I am a socialist.

It is my job to meet people where they are at and help them reach a more developed view of politics. There are some people who are going to be unreachable, but most people do not have an ideologically consistent framework for understanding the world.

Having people in the streets is good.

They have already shown they are willing to put in effort to causes they believe in. If you think people are unfocused in their demands, it is your opportunity to talk to them and sharpen their critique.

#firsttheycamefor site update: An ICE raid in Washington arrested 37 people while working at their jobs. According to a witness, ICE agents were “wielding their guns like they were going to shoot us” and “corralled us into a room at the back of the building”

Screenshot of Instagram post from Palestinian Youth Movement: “Happening Now in DC: massive banner unveiled with names of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023”. The video I screenshotted is those protestors passing the banner down in a line

Palestinian Youth Movement continues to impress me

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

I just spoke with Principal Cook about today's protest, having Tom Homan living in the community, and maintaining hope that her students who ICE stole will be returned.

Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

There were more than 100,000 people at the rally in Boston! The crowd stretched from City Hall all the way to Boston common. Inspiring speakers plus the Dropkick Murphys! #HandsOff

Big turnouts for today's #HandsOff! protests nationwide, including in smaller towns and cities — here's Portland, Maine

We have the momentum

#firstheycamefor site update: Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez is 73 years old and has lived in the US for 45 years. He was arrested by ICE on his way to work on Monday.

In addition to the cruelty of ICE, it’s disgraceful that a man of his age must work and can’t have a dignified retirement.