How can an immigrant from Guatemala be my enemy? All they are doing is trying to make a life for themselves the same as me. The same forces that make their lives hard are the same ones driving our prices up. I hope all of us can make it this this together and band together to take our power back.

In Trump’s America. How are other people surviving? I have seen all the charts…homelessness is on the rise, people are late on car loans and mortgages, increasingly eating Hamburger Helper. I do not know how we do it, but we have got to figure out how to organize by class. /6

I got the kind of job that was supposed to mean you could have the kind of prosperity that MOST Americans had in the 50s-80s. I am not asking for sympathy and I can afford the things I need and I am very grateful for that.

It’s just…I did everything right and I can’t really afford to live /5

In Trump’s America, I have had to take on outside consulting work to maintain my standard of living.

There is no way to game this system I am here to tell you. In the early 2000s, when they were telling unemployed coal miners “to learn to code”… I actually did that.

I work in tech. /4

Spending more time organizing them than maintaining the tracker. This has to be an endurance play and I find volunteers to be unsustainable (for me, who is an introverted data nerd and reluctant leader).
I do this as a volunteer and I have less time because drumroll please… /3

3. I have less time now. I used to update the tracker daily, but now I screenshot stories when I see them and then do a big batch of data entry when I can. The update schedule is more like bi-monthly (every two weeks). I don’t want volunteers. I had a lot of volunteers at one point and I was /2

no there's SQL I can share, if you want to load all the files into a relational database

them to their records. This is effort is captured in yet another dashboard....and it should grow as I continue to find people: public.tableau.com/views/Deport...

Its too big to open with Excel, so you will need pandas or r to read it drive.google.com/file/d/1aI6s... but most importantly, the data is so detailed, we can find individuals, even though they are deidentified. I have started the process of find every publically named person and linking/2

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