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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 16h

ICE is using inhumane straightjackets called the "WRAP" on immigrants for hours' long deportation flights if they ask for an attorney or express fear in returning to countries where they may be tortured. Dozens of people have died in prisons and jails from improper use of these torture devices.

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

apnews.com

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 2d

If it makes you feel any better, I was almost 40 years old when I learned that lamb are sheep.

After my partner stopped laughing hysterically he asked “what the hell did you think lambs are?”

I said tentatively, “maybe little goats?”

Reader, he almost died, he was laughing so hard at me.

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 2d

ICE shouldn't lock up pregnant, postpartum, or lactating women, except in “exceptional circumstances.” When they must be detained, there are strict requirements to meet their needs. The Trump Administration is ignoring all of that - and women are losing pregnancies and suffering as a result.

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

theintercept.com

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 2d

Each year, thousands of pregnant people are incarcerated – yet some states fail to provide basic care and necessary accommodations during pregnancy.

Locking up pregnant people does not leave anyone better off.

Graph showing that some US state prison systems fail to provide extra pillows, offer special diets, or psychosocial support during pregnancy

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Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Supreme Court granted cert

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 7d

“Our fascist raids of terror have caused a worker shortage in a critical industry that feeds the country, so we need to pay the remaining workers even LESS” is the sharp economic thinking of a gaggle of idiots led by someone who managed to go bankrupt while owning a casino.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 7d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve already pre-ordered my copy and can’t wait to read it — critical reading during these times.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 4d

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 4d

At a certain point they should drag out the soccer goals and make the baseball players take penalty shots on the catchers.

Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 4d

Mariners going to extras.

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 4d

At a certain point they should drag out the soccer goals and make the baseball players take penalty shots on the catchers.

Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 4d

Mariners going to extras.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 4d

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

www.favounicorn.com/inflatable-f...

Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 7d

Me too!

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 7d

“Our fascist raids of terror have caused a worker shortage in a critical industry that feeds the country, so we need to pay the remaining workers even LESS” is the sharp economic thinking of a gaggle of idiots led by someone who managed to go bankrupt while owning a casino.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 7d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 7d

The Dolly ofrenda candle has been activated (RBG, Che, and the Grateful Dead called in for service for good measure)

Dolly Parton ofrenda candle showing her in white and playing a guitar, RBG candle, Che Guevara shot glass, and part of a Grateful Dead tabla.

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 7d

NOT FUCKING NOW OR EVER, SATAN

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Corene Kendrick @corene.bsky.social · 7d

No doubt the timing of that unhinged screed is just a coinky-dink
www.kut.org/politics/202...

News organizations fight to unseal Texas AG Ken Paxton's divorce case records

A group of eight state and national media organizations want the records in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s divorce case released to the public.

www.kut.org

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 10d

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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