"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a)
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Radar network of Finland showing lots of blue "noise" which are birds. Screenshot from https://ilmu.fmi.fi/realtime.
Plot of migration intensity with the x-axis showing time and y-axis height. The migration starts at 21.00 local time and weakens at 6.00.
There has been strong night-time bird migration in recent nights, for example last night.
The new radar-based tool has revealed that birds can reach heights of almost 4 km (!) over southern Finland.
ilmu.fmi.fi/realtime
🚨NEW: VoteVets Responds to Trump’s Use of the National Guard in DC:
“Trump himself refused to activate the Guard when our Capitol was under attack; he should be embarrassed he is activating them now.”
That capitalized His is raising more questions than it’s answering
An old black and white photo of RFK and convicted pedophile Epstein at a formal dining table strewn with wine glasses. No children are present.
RFK twitter: “medical decisions should be made based on one thing: the wellbeing of the person-never on a financial bonus or a government mandate. Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training, follow the science & speak the truth without fear of punishment”
Tl;dr: THOSE HOLES ARE SPEEDHOLES
Cartoon image of businessman Mr. Burns of the Simpsons. He’s staring with dismay at a growing pile of ticker tape depicting Black Tuesday
Public speakerphone is a sensory nightmare. So thank you for humanizing people who are all too easy to despise. I’ll tone down the death glares… maybe
I can only hope he and RFK become the very best of friends and colleagues
The enemy of my enemy is also an asshole.
It isn't the comments that undermine the integrity of the judiciary, it's Trump's and Bondi's actions that do that. What Boasberg has done is what's known as telling the truth.
I once would have considered this a wildly oversimplified and problematic meme. Now it’s just a distillation of reality.
Yesterday, Wilmer Chavarria, a Vermonter & US Citizen, was held and interrogated for hours in the Houston airport by CBP agents.
He's a school superintendent. So don’t try to tell us this is about removing violent criminals. This is how they use psychological terror to intimidate us into silence.
Her name is Dr. Elizabeth Potter, a microsurgeon who specializes in complex breast cancer surgery. And this insurance company is now trying to destroy her reputation & bankrupt her surgery center since she spoke out about their practices.
I’m sure you’ll never guess which health insurance company.
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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.
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Story from the Times of London. You can almost hear the disbelief from the UK that our healthcare system is like this.
Dr Elisabeth Potter: I criticised UnitedHealth — now I’m facing ruin share.google/XzyRb4K6zC3L...
It doesn't matter why he's worried about the Epstein files. You don't need to know why. It only matters that he's shown us it is an open wound, and it is our job only to shove a rotten 2x4 into it.
🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
Noem has bony old people arms. That is all.
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
Speaking as a high school teacher with 20+ years of experience, we continue to be unprepared to deal with the deluge of white supremacist hate our students are being exposed. And now we want to partner with the latest bigotry firehose? Not in my classroom.
An I the only person alarmed that the U.S. military thinks a “show of presence” of heavily armed soldiers in a park in Los Angeles where kids play soccer is just fine and dandy?
Spent most of my life in WV (moved recently), witnessing it turn from reliably blue (voted for Dukakis!) to darkest of reds. But what sticks out to me is transformation of state govt, once a familiar story of nepotism & neglect to now a depraved story of exploitation & subversion of the common good.
What Prof. Weishart said.
Frankly this feels like a show of force in many ways. CBP has their own press guys here, lots of their own folks taking photos of bystanders
Border patrol now sweeping the park
I’m sorry, “yes we sourced a story using stolen personal data about a nonwhite politician brokered by a neonazi BUT the story illuminates the complex nature of racial identity” does not pass the laugh test
Here’s the true reported scandal of NYT’s scandalously bogus hit job on Mamdani spoon fed to the paper by a white supremacist shill. As thread says NYT should now cover *this* story with far greater fervor & outrage than it covered Claudine Gray - but don’t hold yr breath waiting for it to do that.
