jasmine mithani 🧿
@jazzmyth.bsky.social
gender, violence, tech & data @19thnews.org, reporting fellow @techpolicypress.bsky.social • queer, mixed race, disabled • reads a lot • she/her
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I got a tip a few months ago that ICE was planning to use tribal airports for ICE flights. I spent a few hours scouring flight data, found no evidence of this, and let it go.
But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!
But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!
The definition of audacity: ICE asking WA tribes to host detention centers.
They got a very polite “fuck off.”
“The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the tribal council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities.” - Tribal Chair E.K. Choke
They got a very polite “fuck off.”
“The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the tribal council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities.” - Tribal Chair E.K. Choke
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.
www.seattletimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I got a tip a few months ago that ICE was planning to use tribal airports for ICE flights. I spent a few hours scouring flight data, found no evidence of this, and let it go.
But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!
But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!
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It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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fairy tale astrology: cinderella
part 1 of a brand new series
jeannakadlec.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Speaking of the men, they’re looking for procedures to appear 'younger' and 'more virile and masculine,' says Pittman, in line with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s rhetoric surrounding military fitness and appearances."
www.axios.com/local/washin...
www.axios.com/local/washin...
D.C. plastic surgeons see surge in "Mar‑a‑Lago face" requests from Trump insiders
"[They] want to look like they had something done."
www.axios.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"Speaking of the men, they’re looking for procedures to appear 'younger' and 'more virile and masculine,' says Pittman, in line with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s rhetoric surrounding military fitness and appearances."
www.axios.com/local/washin...
www.axios.com/local/washin...
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"My hope is that it’s a ripple effect... It’s important that forgiveness is how we move forward,” said a tribal rep.
It’s women who are predominantly leading the movement.
It’s women who are predominantly leading the movement.
Two years ago, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration approached the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the original caretakers of the land, with an unheard of proposition: Would they like a piece of their land back?
19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...
19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...
For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
19thnews.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"My hope is that it’s a ripple effect... It’s important that forgiveness is how we move forward,” said a tribal rep.
It’s women who are predominantly leading the movement.
It’s women who are predominantly leading the movement.
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Does anyone remember an MIT Media Lab(?) project called Immersion(?), which let you input your email account and showed you your network of contacts via the to/from metadata? It's gone--but does something like it still exist?
(Asking for teaching, TIA!)
(Asking for teaching, TIA!)
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Does anyone remember an MIT Media Lab(?) project called Immersion(?), which let you input your email account and showed you your network of contacts via the to/from metadata? It's gone--but does something like it still exist?
(Asking for teaching, TIA!)
(Asking for teaching, TIA!)
AND — a sale on subscriptions! $1 for one month!!
Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0:
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November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
AND — a sale on subscriptions! $1 for one month!!
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Migrated my newsletter [data & feelings] to beehiiv.
This is my low-volume personal newsletter. As I wrote in my last post, I've been in a writing funk this year. But moving forward.
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This is my low-volume personal newsletter. As I wrote in my last post, I've been in a writing funk this year. But moving forward.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Migrated my newsletter [data & feelings] to beehiiv.
This is my low-volume personal newsletter. As I wrote in my last post, I've been in a writing funk this year. But moving forward.
Subscribe here: jazzmyth.beehiiv.com/subscribe
This is my low-volume personal newsletter. As I wrote in my last post, I've been in a writing funk this year. But moving forward.
Subscribe here: jazzmyth.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Gentle intro to some of the difficulties with content moderation for people very new to the realities of the concept
Hopefully I've done this correctly in terms of the leaflet setup this time. Here's a first post in a series on T&S on Bluesky.
Moderating With Humans, For Humans
aaron.leaflet.pub
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Gentle intro to some of the difficulties with content moderation for people very new to the realities of the concept
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Hi! Are you doomscrolling? You still deserve time to rest and recover. Max loves you.
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Hi! Are you doomscrolling? You still deserve time to rest and recover. Max loves you.
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Interesting to see the Latter-day Saints position on AI:
>"We are teaching church members that we will not grow spiritually if we allow AI to write our sacrament talks or do our seminary homework. AI cannot replace our individual effort and spiritual preparation as we prepare lessons, prayers...”
>"We are teaching church members that we will not grow spiritually if we allow AI to write our sacrament talks or do our seminary homework. AI cannot replace our individual effort and spiritual preparation as we prepare lessons, prayers...”
Church won’t use AI to create images of Jesus Christ or to prepare conference talks, apostle says
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses AI, but general conference talks are divinely inspired, not artificial, Elder Gong says.
www.deseret.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Interesting to see the Latter-day Saints position on AI:
>"We are teaching church members that we will not grow spiritually if we allow AI to write our sacrament talks or do our seminary homework. AI cannot replace our individual effort and spiritual preparation as we prepare lessons, prayers...”
>"We are teaching church members that we will not grow spiritually if we allow AI to write our sacrament talks or do our seminary homework. AI cannot replace our individual effort and spiritual preparation as we prepare lessons, prayers...”
The New York City mayor’s race was also a high-profile repudiation of a powerful man accused of sexual misconduct.
19thnews.org/2025/11/zohr...
19thnews.org/2025/11/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani, who ran on universal child care, elected New York City mayor
Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 in the face of sexual misconduct allegations.
19thnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The New York City mayor’s race was also a high-profile repudiation of a powerful man accused of sexual misconduct.
19thnews.org/2025/11/zohr...
19thnews.org/2025/11/zohr...
musing more on the loss of Teen Vogue's award-winning politics coverage and I think it was a place where a lot of adults turned for youth perspectives — not sure what is going to replace that (suggestions open)
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
musing more on the loss of Teen Vogue's award-winning politics coverage and I think it was a place where a lot of adults turned for youth perspectives — not sure what is going to replace that (suggestions open)
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Los Angeles, all of Metro is freeeeeee today so you can get to your polling place 🗳
Includes:
- 30m free on the bikes
- Metro Micro, use the app instead of lyft/uber
Includes:
- 30m free on the bikes
- Metro Micro, use the app instead of lyft/uber
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Los Angeles, all of Metro is freeeeeee today so you can get to your polling place 🗳
Includes:
- 30m free on the bikes
- Metro Micro, use the app instead of lyft/uber
Includes:
- 30m free on the bikes
- Metro Micro, use the app instead of lyft/uber
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
Teen Vogue evolved into an incredible source of politics coverage under Lex, and is one of the founding members of the @19thnews.org Network. We frequently republish each other's work. This is a devastating loss.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Teen Vogue evolved into an incredible source of politics coverage under Lex, and is one of the founding members of the @19thnews.org Network. We frequently republish each other's work. This is a devastating loss.
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GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!! Today is the last day of our Flytrap subscription drive. The goal for today is 159 subscriptions! THIS IS THE LAST CALL FOR THE 15% OFF DISCOUNT: the-flytrap.ghost.io/chomp
The Flytrap
Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!! Today is the last day of our Flytrap subscription drive. The goal for today is 159 subscriptions! THIS IS THE LAST CALL FOR THE 15% OFF DISCOUNT: the-flytrap.ghost.io/chomp
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First shared w/Reuters: The NAACP has sued Virginia state election officials, accusing them of disenfranchising students by rejecting voter registration forms from students that do not include details like dormitory names, room numbers and campus mailbox information. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
First shared w/Reuters: The NAACP has sued Virginia state election officials, accusing them of disenfranchising students by rejecting voter registration forms from students that do not include details like dormitory names, room numbers and campus mailbox information. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Remember: Tech & Religion have *Always* influenced each other. In the West, they used to be explicitly the same thing; elsewhere in the world, they still are. Accepting & learning to parse those motivating values better equips us to understand— & counter— their resulting sociotechnical developments.
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Remember: Tech & Religion have *Always* influenced each other. In the West, they used to be explicitly the same thing; elsewhere in the world, they still are. Accepting & learning to parse those motivating values better equips us to understand— & counter— their resulting sociotechnical developments.
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Reposting supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal
Join hands with the Government of Jamaica. Support national disaster relief, locate shelters,
and stay informed on Hurricane Melissa updates.
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Reposting supportjamaica.gov.jm
Immigration can be used as leverage in abusive relationships: Weaponizing a lack of legal status, a threat to jeopardize proceedings or used to coerce someone to stay. This story illustrates how abusers are more empowered by anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions.
www.thecut.com/article/husb...
www.thecut.com/article/husb...
My Husband Told the Sheriff to Report Me to ICE
I was American only when it was convenient for him. When I filed a protective order, he put my family in danger.
www.thecut.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Immigration can be used as leverage in abusive relationships: Weaponizing a lack of legal status, a threat to jeopardize proceedings or used to coerce someone to stay. This story illustrates how abusers are more empowered by anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions.
www.thecut.com/article/husb...
www.thecut.com/article/husb...