Mass hungerstrike in PA ICE detention center
"What started with 70 people participating in the strike on Thursday morning, escalated to roughly 100 people by Friday morning on Unit Four of the facility, the man said."
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Really appreciate this post. IMO for all the positive aspects of the expanded social welfare state (checks, expanded child tax credits, loosening unemployment), our society really failed at creating ways for mass, safe, outdoor sociality AND community service.
The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.
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Agreed! This is a massive problem that reformist refuse to address. It is one reason, not the only reason, why police abolition is necessary.
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And in popular majors or schools where they are clearly relevant, such as economics and business, these traditions are hardly absent. Indeed, one could argue that the intellectual diversity problem in those areas is a lack of attention to left/liberal perspectives./2
I’m pivoting to healthcare and at this point mostly assume it will also die (in the sense of labor dynamics). But just hopeful to learn some healing arts to serve my communities differently than being in higher ed.
Privileged and exhausted so my peers with less privilege are so much more exhausted, chronically stressed.
For me it was going into journalism in the early 2000s (internet killing moment) then pivoting to higher ed only to learn about the deep precarious nature of most professor jobs. Then when I managed to secure tenure it was all wiped out when my partner secured her first job across the country.
Yes to this!!! The feeling of going into industries that are dying or dead and then having to start anew. It’s exhausting! And I say this with the caveats that getting to the point of credential/professional is uneven in our society, and uneven in each subsequent attempt.
Many faculty at places like Yale, especially ones who like to pontificate about the state of higher ed, have never stepped foot on a non-fancy small liberal arts campus, a state school, or a community college. Which is the majority of higher ed.
The thing that kills me abt Conservative “diversity” hires in higher ed… is that we’ve done this before. Milton Friedman was not hired at Chicago by a committee of peers. A position was created for him. Consider the horrors his so-called scholarship unleashed.
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Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.
I say this knowing that other publications have given the people their credit. But really no magazine should be giving an elected politician credit here.
This morning, as I was biking home from an ICE watch shift filled with incredible volunteers, I thought how grateful I am to the ppl of LA, Chicago, and Minneapolis for holding back a greater slide into fascism.
So grateful to the ppl not to these effing politicians.
Exactly what Kate said.
Whenever someone asks me where the Mayor should get the $150 million more funds for NYC public libraries, the answer is the cops. Period.
So true! Wasn’t that long ago (after the 2012 election) that many Rs felt the electoral college was more permanently biased in favor of Ds!
One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.
Thanks. I've long been a broken record about some of this stuff for years, but as so many institutions continue to deteriorate, it feels extra important to keep talking about what we can do without them.
Some great advice that I wish I’d gotten in my early 20s! Never too late tho
Some journalists actively dislike survivors and have done pieces meant to undermine them, which I’ve also encountered. But I really don’t trust cops or courts to do the right thing when it comes to sexual violence. Their track record is worse than abysmal. They actively cause harm every day.
This whole game of cheering on brutal crackdowns on protests, expulsions, saddling ppl with criminal records, and constantly hall monitoring protestors behavior… and then a few months or years later saying “gee wiz where are the protestors?” is so absurd its hard to know what to say
BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.
I feel this in my bones. You cannot look at what Minneapolis and the rest of the metro has been through this year and claim everyday Americans aren't fighting back.
We may not have won yet, but we are not going quietly into authoritarianism. Not while we've still got our whistles.
Unlike Canada, the U.S. has not had a truth and reconciliation commission around boarding schools–assimilation schools that systematically abused and neglected Native kids. Proposed Congressional legislation could change that. www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/bill-se...
New data shows 85% of Americans believe trans people should have the same rights and protections as everyone else. It is clear that the vast majority of Americans support trans rights, yet politicians continue scapegoating this population instead of focusing on the real issues. buff.ly/17U1WGw
If impeachment couldn't work against a defeated, out-of-power insurrectionary who put Congresspeople's lives in danger, there's no reason to think it would ever work. The Constitution thus lacks any functional way to get rid of a bad chief executive & so isn't even a minimally adequate plan of govt.
On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵