How We Get Free
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Somehow, the bodycam footage of Alabama police arresting a Black pastor watering his vacationing neighbor's flowers makes the story even more surreal than the headline suggests. They keep threatening to cuff a man who is *actively spraying planter boxes the entire time*.
Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
Always gotta tap the sign
People talk about “public transit” like it’s some abstract policy debate, but it’s literally the difference between someone getting to work or losing their job. A bus that runs on time isn’t a luxury. It’s dignity, mobility, and a shot at stability.
#transit
Police think an Amazon driver grabbed a kid. A Zone 6 unit is going to the Amazon warehouse out there and the duty commander was paged. Zone 3 is currently looking for any Amazon trucks and there is an alert in the plate readers to flag any of them.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
NOx can irritate eyes, nose, throat and respiratory system. In larger amounts it can cause respiratory and cardiovascular distress, and eventually contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease. Shell's ethane cracker pumps it out www.publicsource.org/beaver-count...
![Researching ICE contracts, March 26, 2026, 7pm-8:30pm ET. Learn how to use the USASpending database to find out who has contracts with ICE and how much they are making off of the detention and deportation machine. Register: littlesis.org/trainings/ [case sensitive link in all lower case]. The LittleSis logo is pictured on the bottom right corner. A screenshot of a power map depicting the various corporate connections of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is pictured at the center of the graphic. The background is black and the text is red and white.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eymmxnashedpt6yjtnqj6bju/bafkreigxg2ouypg43gfnkdadtvkvgobmx7plbxy2xoufkzk77pw2umpfbu)
Researching ICE contracts, March 26, 2026, 7pm-8:30pm ET. Learn how to use the USASpending database to find out who has contracts with ICE and how much they are making off of the detention and deportation machine. Register: littlesis.org/trainings/ [case sensitive link in all lower case]. The LittleSis logo is pictured on the bottom right corner. A screenshot of a power map depicting the various corporate connections of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is pictured at the center of the graphic. The background is black and the text is red and white.
From airlines to telecommunications to construction and engineering, a host of private, for-profit businesses are cashing in on the Trump administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants.
Join us for this training on the 26th to learn how to research ICE contracts.
littlesis.org/training/res...
Communities are mobilizing to protect each other, publicly denounce ICE, and form campaigns to weaken the various sources of ICE’s financial, political, and reputational power.
Here are six steps to research corporations collaborating with ICE.
littlesis.org/news/six-ste...
Girl nailmaker: pointing spike nails 1889.
Extract from Women Nailmakers in 19th Century Scotland, by Dr Nina Baker, TATHS newsletter #93, Summer 2006. Christina Mason was the widow of John Provan, a manufacturer in Glasgow, who died in 1858. For nearly twenty years, from1860-1879 Mrs. Provan is recorded as a nailmaker at 145 Garscube rd, Glasgow; nailmaker, rivet maker and chaplet maker, at Cedar Road, off Garscube Rd; at 127 or 129 Garscube Rd, Glasgow; at 311 Garscube Rd; and finally at 12 or 22 Palm St, Glasgow. She is not recorded in the directories after 1880. Her home was at 128½ Garscube Rd. In 1869 a David Provan (whom I presume to be either her son or a relative of her dead husband’s) was apparently involved at the same address, but in 1871, 72, Mrs. Provan is listed, again working on her own. Wills are available for John and David, but not for Christina. Garscube Road is nowadays a bit ‘rundown’, but it continues to have various light industrial workshops along its length.
#WHM
Nailmaking was frequently 'women's work' perhaps because it was working with minimal equipment, small pieces of metal, could be done in the home, & above all was badly-paid. A girl would be expected to produce 250 nails an hour.
3,800 workers at JBS's plant in Greeley, one of the largest meatpacking plants in the US, have officially gone on strike.
Didn't mean to imply I want everyone to be STEM, or even for everyone to have a PhD (including arts/history/etc). I was trying to clarify difference btwn trusting "who someone listens to" vs their own degrees.
MOSTLY though, I'd choose better representation over experts in politics or all STEM.
Allentown. 830 E Warrington Ave - Zone 3 police station. PD heard a ruckus outside of the station and it ended up being ICE agents taking someone into custody.
But also: I mostly just agree with the other comment saying our politicians should probably be a better representation of our actual population & many different fields of expertise instead of people who specialize in politics. Could be you could have both, but looking at things now, doesn't seem so.
If I (as neither a Ph.D. nor politician) could be sure politicians were listening to ACTUAL scientists, I'd feel way better. But as it is now, politicians SAY they consult with scientists & sometimes those people are NOT scientists at all & other times they "listen" as in "hear them say words."
On this International Women’s Day, I cannot stop thinking about all the girls in Iran, in Sudan, in Gaza, and so may places — girls whose lives were snuffed out in conflicts they played no part in, before they could ever become women.
And I am thinking about their mothers.
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(🎥 Vahid Online)
Taking the opportunity to again share some facts about my foremost scientific role model, an absolute ground breaker. Even now, 14 y after her death, feels ahead of her time, our understanding of evolution and ecology still trying to catch up with her.
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.
Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.
A tooth infection.
1/3
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For the people who might not be aware this literally happened:
May 13, 1985
Rocky IV: November 21, 1985
Rocky V: November 16, 1990
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...
Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job
ICE agents are still out there this morning, photographing schools from unmarked vehicles and then quickly leaving after being confronted. Keep your heads up.
I am curious if we will get reporting that ICE is selling the shit they stole from people they abducted and detained. I know of 2 cars they stole from folks they abducted.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts
I searched her name here because of how emotionally impactful this was to watch. I wish I could wish exactly the right person into her life. She deserves to have the family she wants and i really hope she finds it.
The #DouglassDay livestream may be over (with 18,725 transcriptions/name IDs submitted so far!) but there are still PLENTY of documents to transcribe, and names to find! The project will stay active until everything is finished, so let's keep up the momentum!
www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
Per @wired.com reporting, ICE is expanding its office footprint in Pittsburgh with a lease at 2000 Commerce Dr. It's an office park owned by JLL with 21k sq ft listed available on the company's site.
