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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · Jul 23

Reproductive rights groups have resumed helping Alabamians seeking out-of-state abortions after a ruling earlier this year from a federal judge.

via @alabamareflector.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/repr...

Reproductive rights groups revive abortion aid in Alabama after court victory

Reproductive rights groups have resumed helping Alabamians seeking out-of-state abortions after a ruling earlier this year from a federal judge.

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

To download the app that shows the neighborhood memorial cited at top, go to apps.apple.com/us/app/place... (Apple) and play.google.com/store/apps/d... (Google Play)

Sign that the British forces erected at the entrance to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany, 29 May 1945. It reads: This is the site of the infamous Belsen concentration camp liberated by the british on 15 April 1945. 10,000 unburied dead were found here. Another 13,000 have since died. All of them victims of the German new order in Europe. And an example of Nazi Kultur.

Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

For more on immigrants' loss of rights in the US: www.hrw.org/news/2025/02... (20/21)

Ten Harmful Trump Administration Immigration and Refugee Policies

The Trump administration has enacted new immigration policies at a dizzying pace, some of which obliterate programs built over decades to enable avenues to safety for people fleeing war and persecutio...

www.hrw.org

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

For more information on what one tourist advisory calls --even in this city more haunted by ghosts than perhaps any other in Europe -- "Berlin's most Unsettling Memorial," www.slowtravelberlin.com/places-of-re... (19/21)

Berlin’s Most Unsettling Memorial

Two Berlin artists talk about their controversial memorial in Schöneberg’s Bavarian Quarter. on Slow Travel Berlin

www.slowtravelberlin.com

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

In the years after H.R. 1’s passage, ICE and CBP expanded detention dramatically. Reports documented torture, medical neglect, and guards committing murder in Tar‑heel camps including “Alligator Alcatraz.” Over 100,000 detainees reported abuse." (18/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

—and a sharp rise in deportations, family separations, and abuse followed. 'I was beaten with hoses, locked in a shipping container for days—no water, no medical care.' — Detainee, “Alligator Alcatraz,” 2027' (18/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

"July 2025: here, 50 U.S. Senators signed H.R. 1, allocating $45 billion for a network of detention camps for migrants. ICE became the largest federal law enforcement agency. Massive camp-building began immediately—Guantánamo, Fort Bliss, Alligator Alcatraz (17/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Did those who signed HR 1, just take one such step? Not hard to imagine there being a sign outside the former Congress building in 2075: (16/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

In Jackson, MS, as pedestrians pass site of a former poultry plant in 2075: "March 2025 'He didn’t come home. I thought he died.' —9-year-old after ICE raid near Laurel, MS. ICE tore families apart in the middle of workdays, leaving schools and churches scrambling to care for children." (15/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

In Miami, FL next to the former Krome facility (now a museum) in 2075: JULY 21, 2025, “'They made us kneel. The food was thrown at us.'— Migrant held at Krome ICE facility, HRW report. Detainees were shackled, denied heat and medical care, and subjected to degrading treatment in Florida." (14/21)

A street sign in Miami, FL in 2075, In Miami, FL next to the former Krome facility (now a museum) in 2075: JULY 21, 2025, “'They made us kneel. The food was thrown at us.'— Migrant held at Krome ICE facility, HRW report. Detainees were shackled, denied heat and medical care, and subjected to degrading treatment in Florida."

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

In Koreatown, next to an elementary school in 2075: "THE GOVERNMENT TOOK CHILDREN. 2,800 KIDS WERE NEVER PROPERLY TRACKED." It's back side: “'What did 'zero tolerance' mean to a 4-year-old?' —Testimony, former Border Agent, 2039. Recordkeeping failed. Many children were lost in the system." (13/21)

Black and white sign on a street, showing a silhouette of a big ICE hand pulling a mother away from a child, and text reading: "JUNE 20, 2018
THE GOVERNMENT TOOK CHILDREN.
2,800 KIDS WERE NEVER PROPERLY TRACKED.
Back of Sign:
“We were told it was ‘zero tolerance.’ But what did that mean to a 4-year-old?” — Testimony, former Border Agent, 2039
Under Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy, children were separated from their parents at the border. Recordkeeping failed. Many were lost in the system."

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

For instance, in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights, perhaps its residents will walk through and pass this daily in 2075: (12/21)

Black and white street sign reading, "October 6, 2017. DACA was ended. 800,000 young people were told: You do not belong." A red circle with a line through it encircles a soccer ball, a backpack, a school desk, a computer.

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

[Citing that OpenAI rendered the "2075" images below from my prompts, and that i acknowledge the negative environmental and cultural impacts of this, in particular on Land Back + Native people. theconversation.com/ai-affects-e... (11/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

It's no stretch to imagine an artist team in 2075, in Los Angeles or Miami or Tulsa or my hometown of Durham, creating a similar memorial to the piece-by-piece dismantling of rights of immigrants between 2016-2027. (10/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

And Hollywood doesn't tell us that genocide was a "step" by "step" process too. It took *nine* yrs after the first camps opened, for the Nazis to agree to commit genocide, in 1942 www.deutschland.de/en/topic/kno... (9/21)

Remember and explain

The House of the Wannsee Conference is now a memorial and educational site. Eighty years ago, the National Socialists planned the murder of European Jews here.

www.deutschland.de

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Yet, what few of us *feel* is how it happened piece by piece-not all at once. We don't know that "out of sight" for most Berliners meant "out of mind." They didn't find out what was being done in their name until 1946 or *later* (for some it took until 1961's Eichmann trial)... almost 30 yrs. (8/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Most Americans know this story: Nazis took Jews to camps, stole their businesses and homes, beat them, starved them, enslaved them, and for nearly 6,000,000 humans, murdered them. These Nazi camps opened in 1933. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a... (7/21)

Concentration Camps, 1933–1939

Learn about early concentration camps the Nazi regime established in Germany, and the expansion of the camp system during the Holocaust and World War II.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Every day, walking through this legal "dribble drabble" signage, I realize such piecemeal laws are rarely the focus of dramatic Hollywood Holocaust films. Yet the signs make concrete that everyday people turned away to "get on with their lives," while Nazis renditioned their neighbors. (6/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

-- but instead complained to the Nazis that the dogs and cats belonging to their kidnapped Jewish neighbors were barking + meowing -- disturbing their "peace." The Nazis responded by forbidding Jews from keeping their pets after Feb. 15, 1942. (5/21)

A blue sign wtih a caliico housecat on it. Underneath the image is text from the sign, "Jews are no longer allowed to have household pets. February 15, 2942"

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

The one closest to me shows how many neighbors *knew* the Gestapo snatched people out of their homes illegally. My ghost-neighbors not only *did* nothing to help ....(4/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Or when you walk by the local elementary school, you see this sign: "Jewish children are prohibited from public school" as of Nov. 15, 1938. And after June 20, 1942, "Jewish children can no longer attend any school," private or public: (3/21)

The image is of a small chalkboard, with a string and chalk attached. The text reads in German, "Jewish children are expelled from public school, November 15, 1938." And that after June 20, 1942, Jewish children cannot attend any school, private or public."

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

So today, when you walk by a neighborhood supermarket, you see this sign, showing that from July 4, 1940 on, Jews were forbidden from buying groceries except between 4-5 pm ( 2/21)

A blue background with a loaf of bread on the front. The sign underneath the image reads, "Jews in Berlin are only allowed to buy food between four and five o'clock in the afternoon," as of July 4, 1940.

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Some future thinking by an historian. In the Berlin neighborhood of Schöneberg, artists #RenataStih and #FriederSchnock erected an 80-sign memorial in 1993, to remind everyone who lives here how the Nazis, step by terrible step, took citizenship rights away from Jews between 1933-1943. (1/21)

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Black History *is* freedom history. A lifetime of gratitude for the way @sncclegacy.bsky.social makes this visible on the daily www.aaihs.org/black-histor...

Black History Is Freedom History - AAIHS

This post is part of our online roundtable on Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney Jr.’s From Rights to Lives. Sonia Sanchez once wrote, “Where is your fire? Can’t you smell it coming out of ou...

www.aaihs.org

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Wesley Hogan @wesleyhogan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Guarantee every child in the nation a high quality education. Bob Moses' vision carrying us forward. Thank you #NowileRooks time.com/7302570/trum...

We Need a Constitutional Amendment to Protect U.S. Education

Bob Moses advocated for a constitutional amendment to protect education for all. Now is the time to heed his call.

time.com

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