'As attention has faded, the situation for the women has turned dire at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in San Antonio, particularly for Hamideh, 47, who lives with autoimmune hemolytic anemia, which requires regular treatment and blood transfusions she isn’t getting.'
I'll write all of this up to show my work, but based on the new ICE data through March, I find that more than 450,000 people experienced ICE detention over the first ~14 months of the Trump administration. This includes initial book ins and transfers between facilities.
Going to congratulate you anyway, and wait patiently for this book since if the revisions make it even better, how can I complain?
@amalelmohtar.com congratulations on your nomination!
Today's wisdom: You can be comfortable with conversations about moose, you can be fine with the idea of a moose but none of it prepares you for the first time in your life you actually see a moose
"If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later, and I gave it to her, but it was too late."
She's not an antivaxxer--her kid caught measles as a baby while too young for the vaccine and then died years later of complications. She's a victim of the antivaxxers because they destroyed the herd immunity that should have protected her baby.
This would be a really cruel thing for her to read.
I was lucky enough to get an ARC of Laura E. Weymouth's THE CASTLE AND THE CLOISTER, the perfect book to read while raising a baby in these times. Book one of a duology.
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Checking the bill there isn't even a vote on this one in the House of Representatives, just in the Senate. So I'm going to stop wasting time online and call my senators (both Dems).
➡️ Senators must vote YES to prevent U.S.-provided arms and equipment from being used by Israel in violation of international law across the Middle East.
Call your Senator and spread the word by sharing this post! 📢
➡️ Supporting measures such as the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval is essential to stopping genocide and ensuring that the U.S. is not providing arms and equipment to Israel that can be used to carry out war crimes and genocide.
➡️ This week, two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRD) are expected to come up for a vote in the Senate. These resolutions seek to block the sale of 1,000-pound bombs and bulldozers to Israel.
People who have Republican reps or senators should organize protests against them. If they are not doing that, it is no reason for New Yorkers to not demand our senators vote against arms to Israel.
I was just trying to point out that "the surrounding area" looks different if you don't own a car.
It explains the extreme ease of organizing protests against him, he lives over a large plaza.
The reason, as I said, is that people generally tend to protest their own electeds where they have leverage and are constituents. Eg there's now a primary challenge in my district.
But it would take 3 hours each way to get to Mike Lawler's nearest office, for example, versus half an hour to go to a protest against Schumer.
*If they aren't, I don't know.
Sorry if I am assuming you are not from NYC--I don't know.
Also since most people here don't have cars, there is a huge difference between going to protest Schumer (right near a subway station) and taking a train to Mike Lawler's town.
It really needs to come from their constituents. Can you imagine the reaction if a bunch of people from the city came specially to protest?
The question is not why New Yorkers are organizing protests against our reps but why people in the areas that have Republicans to protest aren't.
There was a protest at Trump Tower last year re Palestine but there just aren't that many Republican officeholders at the federal level from NYC. Hopefully I'm not missing one but I can really only think of Malliotakis.
I participated in a protest against Malliotakis on another issue but I think that like with calling your reps, people are rightly focused on the electeds who represent them (and Malliotakis does not represent me or most of NYC).
There is only one Republican congresswoman in NYC that I know of, so most people in NYC who are upset with their rep for supporting arms to Israel are mad at a Democrat. Both senators and my rep are Democrats so I've protested outside Schumer's a few times.
RIP Ishmael Jaffree, whose actions made my life as a schoolkid from a nonreligious family easier.
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Mass denatualization never goes anywhere good.
Kuwait's parliament has been dissolved for almost 2 years now, during which the Emir has denaturalized tens of thousands. It used to have a particularly active parliament for a Gulf monarchy.
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I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing
Massive street party in Budapest right now: huge crowds dancing, hugging, crying, and opening bottles. (Reuters)
Think of how many videos you’ve seen of ICE using unlawful force. Think of how many of them are against unarmed women half their size, how many take place at daycares and schools, how many are against women trying to find justice for themselves or their families.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
ICE loves hurting and killing women.
