Copy editor and scourge of scare quotes, former long-term adjunct/academia fringer, sometime fiction writer, native New Yorker, fan of abortion, unions, and transit access. Always already angry at Israel and ADL. Used to tweet for Uni Kent precariat.
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
The @newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social Pro Se Clinic runs every Wednesday, training volunteers to support immigrants navigating court without lawyers. Jan 14, 21 & 28 trainings include asylum, SIJS, virtual hearings & more.
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ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims.
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
ICE just murdered a woman here in Minneapolis. A legal observer. Shot her multiple times while she drove away as ordered. She was a US citizen.
Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo.
Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.
this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
I have low expectations for @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social, and even I was shocked by the naked Islamophobia that she was engaging in, including falsely accusing him of "global jihad".
I called her office and told them that this behavior is unacceptable from a sitting senator
☎️: (202) 224-4451
who would the New York Times and Wall Street want in charge of New York's fire department: an upstart young firefighter or a serial arsonist? The answer may surprise you
Over 1100 Israeli academics urge the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to "mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in #Gaza", acknowledging "a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing."
We can talk about who should be the next mayor of New York City just as soon as we make sure that there is not one living resident of NYC who has not heard the sentence "DON'T RANK CUOMO."
It's nice to see elected representatives visiting their constituents who have been detained by ICE but may I respectfully suggest university presidents consider doing the same
TIME SENSITIVE
Public comments are due TODAY on Trump's attempts to force undocumented immigrants to register and cut gender-affirming care from essential benefits under ACA
Please weigh in while you can:
act.nilc.org/page/81021/p...action.transequality.org/a/protecttra...
-protests in the next two weeks
-GOP passes budget, fight to save Medicaid ahead
-GOP ❤ Wall Street, hates regular people
-how to start a tenants union
-public comment on forced registration for immigrants, health care for trans folks
-some reading on general strikes
It's a great weekend to fight.
Think of this like making calls to congressional offices. Lots of individuals writing to lots of university presidents on this *one issue* -- due process -- should be something that people of all stripes can get behind.
To put this in actionable terms: everyone with a connection to any college or university (alum, parent, student, faculty, works there) should send a letter to their president's office urging them to issue a statement calling for due process for student detentions. Do it now! #DueProcessForAll
Good morning. Monday morning. In a rank choice voting system you need to rank five good apples for mayor in addition to NOT ranking Cuomo and NOT ranking Adams.
Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!
Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...
I joined @jaketapper for a full interview on why disgraced Andrew Cuomo cannot be mayor. 1/3 talks about his pervasive abuse of power and how his supporters are about that same abuse of power:
We have a caller from Texas (outside our funding region) we’re helping because they haven’t been able to get through anywhere else.
She needs $675 for her appt and some extra for a hotel.
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Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
My union @swcolumbia.bsky.social has created a resource to support international students who are experiencing increasingly higher risk of immigration enforcement. We have done this on our own time while the University has remained silent and complicit.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...