“I’ve thought a lot of them not just as parents individually or as aspirations professionally,” Mamdani told me, “but in terms of what a marriage can look like, pursuing your professional dreams and being able to raise a family all at once.”"
Javier Abreu-Vasquez had a kidney transplant in 2023.
He was grabbed by ICE while delivering groceries to help his neighbours.
They’re refusing to give him his anti rejection meds.
Without them, he will lose the organ.
This is how people die.
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
As a result we are much more likely to do more care work, leave other paid work or take lesser paying work to accommodate caregiving, making us financially vulnerable and we are far more likely to remain with our spouses 'in sickness and in health', actually providing spousal care.
This all particularly impacts women because culturally we get far more messages about our worth being tied to caregiving, having responsibilities to care, that money isn't a key issue for us, etc...
Similarly, the state uses parenthood to absolve anyone else of providing care or broader support around both the caregiver and recipient.
"the state uses marriage as a tool to abandon disabled people...we have this myth-making around what love can do, and that marriage is about “in sickness and in health,” which absolves the state—this vow that makes you the responsible party."
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I find this hopeful:
apnews.com/article/trum... governors' gathering with White House unraveling after Trump excludes Democrats
'Every Vote Counts': What Women Leaders Know About Fixing Broken Political Systems, From Iceland to Washington msmagazine.com/2026/01/23/r...
📢Louder for those in the back.
The challenge is that it's "just what moms/daughters/women do". The challenge is not seeing the number of care tasks performed quietly in said homes, how technical they sometimes can be, or the number of hours some of us devote to care which on opportunity cost alone are worth consideration.
The challenge is invisibility of the work, who notices what happens in a home, especially overnight and during the 9to5 when other workers are in offices, factories, stores.....? and the challenge is the fact that the people doing care work are so rarely in rooms of power making decisions.
The challenge is too many people thinking that women who largely do care work and will certainly be the vast majority to do it for free in their families without Medicaid supported options, that such women are not people deserving of human rights and resources.
"...But the challenge, Stanton says, is limited funds..."
Incorrect. There are plenty of funds if they are used to take care of people instead of harming. The challenge is the will to do so. (see comments)
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Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
Wow. Alex Pretti suffered a broken rib at the hands of ICE a week before his killing.
He said he “thought he was going to die”.
Wael Tarabishi also said he would die after ICE took his full time caregiver… he died last week.
This isn’t about immigration. It’s brutality.
‘It’s not like the SS are coming’: The Italian government is scrambling to quell ICE furor after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed its agents are assisting with security at next month’s Winter Olympics in Italy.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at events held across Europe to reflect on Nazi Germany’s killing of millions of people.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Primarily black photo, with a single thick lit candle in the centre of it. International Holocaust Remembrance Day typed centred and stacked across the top.
I guess he just got lucky.
Begging you not to let Wael’s Tarabishi’s story get lost amidst all the horrors.
He was a 30 year old disabled man. His dad was his full time caregiver.
ICE took his dad away.
Wael said it would kill him. He said the fear was “real & immediate”.
He died last week. ICE killed Wael.
The National Basketball Players Association releases a statement following the Trump regime’s murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, saying that NBA players “can no longer remain silent.”
The NBPA is standing up for free speech, civil liberties, and the people of Minnesota demanding justice.
Contrary to Bovino’s claims, there is no reason to believe that the Trump administration will conduct a legitimate investigation of Saturday’s shooting.
Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in.
Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
