Robert
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Greensboro NC Robert. Reads more than he posts these days.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole… But a significant portion of those serving ‘death by incarceration’ sentences were convicted of offenses such as robbery, burglary or drug crimes under habitual offender laws in many states.”
The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb in the U.S., even as the overall prison population declines.
How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’
The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb, even as the overall prison population declines.
www.themarshallproject.org
April 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole… But a significant portion of those serving ‘death by incarceration’ sentences were convicted of offenses such as robbery, burglary or drug crimes under habitual offender laws in many states.”
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PREA is the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
April 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
PREA is the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
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Alright how long before the tourism industry crashes
An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.”
He was held with 100 people including many Canadians.
Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.
He was held with 100 people including many Canadians.
Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.
April 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Alright how long before the tourism industry crashes
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Obvs blue states like NY and CA will be hit hard by this but Florida, Louisiana, Arizona, Montana etc are in for a world of hurt they will not see coming
Alright how long before the tourism industry crashes
An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.”
He was held with 100 people including many Canadians.
Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.
He was held with 100 people including many Canadians.
Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.
April 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Obvs blue states like NY and CA will be hit hard by this but Florida, Louisiana, Arizona, Montana etc are in for a world of hurt they will not see coming
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nightmare country. I’m compelled by conscience to add that prisoners in the us are already treated like this and worse, daily; there’s escalation here but it’s from an already intolerable state of carceral excess.
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
April 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
nightmare country. I’m compelled by conscience to add that prisoners in the us are already treated like this and worse, daily; there’s escalation here but it’s from an already intolerable state of carceral excess.
I confess this question had never occurred to me.
Why do we mark civil rights sites in the South but not those in the North? Erik Wallenberg & I focus on 8 places that need to be marked in Chicago to see the city's systemic segregation, the robust fight against it, and MLK's long support of that movement. www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/21/m...
Marking Martin Luther King Jr.'s Chicago
Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers to the civil rights movement
www.counterpunch.org
March 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I confess this question had never occurred to me.
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Bunn would make so much bank off my generation if they produced the VPR in colors like plum, lemon yellow, navy blue and mint green.
March 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Bunn would make so much bank off my generation if they produced the VPR in colors like plum, lemon yellow, navy blue and mint green.
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8-ish years ago I got strangers to pay off $300k in “lunch debt” so kids who were being punished for owing money could do things like eat, go to prom, and, walk at their own graduation. In the 20 years I’ve engaged in social media, I have never received more hate for anything else I’ve said or done.
January 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
8-ish years ago I got strangers to pay off $300k in “lunch debt” so kids who were being punished for owing money could do things like eat, go to prom, and, walk at their own graduation. In the 20 years I’ve engaged in social media, I have never received more hate for anything else I’ve said or done.
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At a routine medical appt, staff asked what I do for exercise.
Me: “Mostly I bike or walk for transportation when possible.”
Them: “Most people laugh when I ask that question. You’re doing good.”
Bike/ped infrastructure is #HealthyInfrastructure.
www.transportation.gov/mission/heal...
Me: “Mostly I bike or walk for transportation when possible.”
Them: “Most people laugh when I ask that question. You’re doing good.”
Bike/ped infrastructure is #HealthyInfrastructure.
www.transportation.gov/mission/heal...
www.transportation.gov
December 21, 2024 at 3:58 PM
At a routine medical appt, staff asked what I do for exercise.
Me: “Mostly I bike or walk for transportation when possible.”
Them: “Most people laugh when I ask that question. You’re doing good.”
Bike/ped infrastructure is #HealthyInfrastructure.
www.transportation.gov/mission/heal...
Me: “Mostly I bike or walk for transportation when possible.”
Them: “Most people laugh when I ask that question. You’re doing good.”
Bike/ped infrastructure is #HealthyInfrastructure.
www.transportation.gov/mission/heal...
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Mass incarceration *is* an economic justice issue.
It's no coincidence that the poorest & most vulnerable communities are also the most policed:
It's no coincidence that the poorest & most vulnerable communities are also the most policed:
10 ways that mass incarceration is an engine of economic injustice
The fight for a fair economy and the movement against prisons are one and the same.
www.prisonpolicy.org
December 19, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Mass incarceration *is* an economic justice issue.
It's no coincidence that the poorest & most vulnerable communities are also the most policed:
It's no coincidence that the poorest & most vulnerable communities are also the most policed:
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EXCLUSIVE: During his years at Guantanamo a Malaysian prisoner did forensic-style sketches showing his torture by the CIA. They are now part of his sealed court record. But we have obtained them exclusively for you to see.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
Prisoner’s Self-Portraits of C.I.A. Torture Surface From Sealed Court Record
“This is what his nightmares are all about,” said a lawyer for a now-confessed war criminal who spent years at Guantánamo Bay.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:16 PM
EXCLUSIVE: During his years at Guantanamo a Malaysian prisoner did forensic-style sketches showing his torture by the CIA. They are now part of his sealed court record. But we have obtained them exclusively for you to see.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
I was thinking along these lines on recent trips to Boston and NYC. Ideally, transit should be easy. Even in my own small city’s bus system, there are enough irregularities and borderline arcane details that I can get confused, and I ride nearly every day.
Honestly, this is how a lot of tourists will experience NYC. And if they're American, unless they are coming from about six other cities, most will have never taken mass transit — and certainly to never explore a new place.
We should be thinking of ways to lower the barriers to entry.
We should be thinking of ways to lower the barriers to entry.
A lot of people are hating on this but I think it's a pretty eye-opening account of what it's like for non-NYC-savvy travelers (aka most of the country) to experience the city
The subway can be intimidating for folks who have only known suburbs
www.businessinsider.com/first-trip-n...
The subway can be intimidating for folks who have only known suburbs
www.businessinsider.com/first-trip-n...
December 18, 2024 at 4:18 PM
I was thinking along these lines on recent trips to Boston and NYC. Ideally, transit should be easy. Even in my own small city’s bus system, there are enough irregularities and borderline arcane details that I can get confused, and I ride nearly every day.
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Self-serving politicians may want you to believe that violent crime is rampant and repeat offenders are to blame – but two things to remember:
1. Overall crime rates are at historically low levels
2. 74% of all jail bookings are for charges that are not "violent"
1. Overall crime rates are at historically low levels
2. 74% of all jail bookings are for charges that are not "violent"
December 14, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Self-serving politicians may want you to believe that violent crime is rampant and repeat offenders are to blame – but two things to remember:
1. Overall crime rates are at historically low levels
2. 74% of all jail bookings are for charges that are not "violent"
1. Overall crime rates are at historically low levels
2. 74% of all jail bookings are for charges that are not "violent"
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a tiktok ban is a huge win for us, the uggos who prefer text based communication
December 6, 2024 at 3:59 PM
a tiktok ban is a huge win for us, the uggos who prefer text based communication
On the Q70 bus from LGA. First time back in NY in two decades (😲). Had forgotten how overrun with cars this place is.
December 1, 2024 at 7:23 PM
On the Q70 bus from LGA. First time back in NY in two decades (😲). Had forgotten how overrun with cars this place is.
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La cuenta de Gaza Skate Team ye a vegaes la única razón pola qu'entro a Instagram tbh.
November 28, 2024 at 6:12 PM
La cuenta de Gaza Skate Team ye a vegaes la única razón pola qu'entro a Instagram tbh.
Never happened to me yet, but it’s always in the back of my mind.
Gotta love it when you’re using an app to pay for the bus and some server outage means the app… just stops working before the bus comes.
November 24, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Never happened to me yet, but it’s always in the back of my mind.
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‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29
‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29
Advocates and officials argue that consequences of Israeli siege are inextricably linked to tackling the climate crisis
As countries negotiate over climate finance, Palestinian officials and advocates have come to Cop29 in Baku to highlight global…
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:17 AM
‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29
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The UN authorizes the 1st mpox vaccine for children in an attempt to control the outbreak in Congo
The UN authorizes the 1st mpox vaccine for children in an attempt to control the outbreak in Congo
The World Health Organization has authorized the first mpox vaccine for children.
www.seattletimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:00 PM
The UN authorizes the 1st mpox vaccine for children in an attempt to control the outbreak in Congo
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From 1980 to 2004, the share of global translations INTO French doubled. The share INTO English halved.
November 22, 2024 at 1:47 AM
From 1980 to 2004, the share of global translations INTO French doubled. The share INTO English halved.
Nothing is more binary than Google reviews: It’s either “This was the most positive experience of my life!” Or…”I didn’t like my Whopper and when I went back to BK a week later to complain the hateful people who work there refused to give me a refund. Zero stars!”
November 22, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Nothing is more binary than Google reviews: It’s either “This was the most positive experience of my life!” Or…”I didn’t like my Whopper and when I went back to BK a week later to complain the hateful people who work there refused to give me a refund. Zero stars!”
Read the whole thing for a disturbing look at AI in law enforcement tech.
I went to a 2 hour training today on deep fakes & AI technology & I can say that 1. I'm believing nothing I don't experience first hand anymore and 2. Holy FUCK the rules of evidence need to catch up on foundation & authentication IMMEDIATELY.
November 21, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Read the whole thing for a disturbing look at AI in law enforcement tech.
More Esther. This one was penned by Van McCoy, possibly best remembered for “The Hustle,” but there was so much more. This one should have been a classic. (Another great take is by Irma Thomas! Not to be confused with excellent Supremes song of same title by Ashford & Simpson.)
Esther Phillips – “Some Things You Never Get Used To” (Atlantic) 1964
YouTube video by 45rpmMike
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November 20, 2024 at 1:08 AM
More Esther. This one was penned by Van McCoy, possibly best remembered for “The Hustle,” but there was so much more. This one should have been a classic. (Another great take is by Irma Thomas! Not to be confused with excellent Supremes song of same title by Ashford & Simpson.)