Getting people to click with a lying headline and then giving them the truth after you’ve gotten their webtraffic is horrible journalism and corrosive to civil society
Oh for sure, a Republican probably wouldn’t have even got investigated for the stuff Menendez did. His corrupt ass can go right to jail, but that ® immunity card is a way bigger problem for our country than anything he did.
Many DACA recipients have been able to carve out precarious but productive lives over the last decade, becoming doctors, engineers, nurses, and working in myriad other critical professions, including as essential workers during the COVID pandemic. The time to legalize their status is long overdue, but it has become even more imperative with Trump’s threats to set up detention camps across the country before removing millions of undocumented people if he becomes president again.
Dreamers will be an easy target. Because they are already registered with the federal government, Dreamers will be among the easiest to find in a mass roundup of illegal immigrants, and they’re unlikely to get favored treatment in a new Trump administration.
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Thank you bipartisanship worshipping moderates of the Obama administration who assured us Republicans weren’t all soulless monsters, this is a very cool and not at all predictable turn of events /s
Sure, the federal government should be providing more anti-poverty resources generally to city county and state level governments, we’ve chronically underfunded those services for a long time and have a lot of deficits to make up there. What we don’t need is that dogshit legislation and these executive orders that essentially just give money to border patrol to harass and brutalize desperate people and try to make our immigration courts into even more of a rubber stamp for xenophobic bullshit than they already are.
Also, Eric Adams is a lying rat bastard who’s had it in for the homeless and poor people for decades, so anything coming from nyc.gov about the teeming masses yearning to breathe free shouldn’t be taken at face value.
PERALTA: … This big caravan left from Tapachula, which is a city near the Guatemalan border, on Christmas Eve. Some of the migrants had spent months in southern Mexico, hoping that authorities would give them permits to move through the country. They were frustrated, so a good 5,000 of them started walking north to pressure the government. And Tuesday it looked like the government had caved. The government started sending a bunch of buses over and told them, we’ll take you to a nearby town and process you, so get on the buses. But it wasn’t long before the migrants found out that immigration officials were lying about where they were sending them, and authorities also started separating families, so the migrants started trying to get off the buses, and it was chaos. Let’s listen to Gabriela Fernandez Rivero, who was separated from her boyfriend.
GABRIELA FERNANDEZ RIVERO: (Through interpreter) We have no idea where they’re taking us. We have no idea what they’re going to do. They don’t give us any answers.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking Spanish).
PERALTA: That man at the end is shouting, they’re separating kids. He was angry. He was calling immigration authorities killers.
FADEL: Do we know what ultimately happened to those people?
PERALTA: I mean, this caravan of migrants has been a headache for the president of Mexico. He said President Biden called him to tell him that he was worried about how many migrants were crossing the U.S. border. And Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he had taken care of it. And now what was a very visible migrant caravan is no more. That woman and a good 2 or 3,000 migrants were put on buses, and they ended up in a bunch of little towns across southern Mexico. We managed to track down a group that was left in a tiny town near Tuxtla, and I found Maria Isabel Tovar, who was desperately looking for her son. He had just turned 18, and she says the bus that they were on made a sudden stop, and authorities told her son to get off, and they told her to stay on. Let’s listen.
MARIA ISABEL TOVAR: (Speaking Spanish, crying).
PERALTA: And she’s been traveling for months from Venezuela. It’s been so hard, she says - traveled through so many countries, and just to lose my son this way. I don’t know, she keeps repeating. I don’t know.
FADEL: I mean, is this normal to move migrants, separate them this way?
PERALTA: It is. And it gives you a glimpse at Mexican immigration policy. What authorities are doing is trying to make it harder and harder for migrants to reach the border within the U.S. And migrants rights advocates here say that the U.S. has actually managed to build a wall on its southern border, and they say that that wall is Mexico.
Except this is all bullshit because whenever the border guards want to they just declare the official points of entry closed and force people to cross irregularly so they’ve got a legal fig leaf for denying them their rights and skipping straight to deportation
I’d rather hear the “Trump is worse” arguments than listen to people try to gaslight us into believing Biden’s been good, at least “Trump is worse” is true
They get worse every time they lose elections because they’re able to sell their voter base on all the “we need to do these horrible things to win” arguments. Step one of solving our problems is electing shitty Democratic lawmakers, step two is primarying them for failing to do what they campaigned on (with community organizing and mutual aid throughout these two steps and just as a general ongoing thing).
They were getting large donations from the police department, and the police department stopped donating because of their support for BLM.
It’s actually a bit more complicated than that. From the article,
Then, Jacob Blake was shot by police seven times in Kenosha, prompting the statewide coalition of advocacy agencies Embrace is a part of to signal their support for police reform and Embrace to release an anti-racism statement.
In response, the local law enforcement groups, which had been close working partners, pulled out of collaborative groups and the Sheriff of Barron County resigned from Embrace’s Board of Directors.
Katie Bement is the Executive Director of Embrace.
“He notified us that he would no longer support the organization or advocates for our services when survivors called 911 and he contacted other departments within our service area across county lines and told them to stop working with us too. And they did,” explained Bement.
They had been receiving $25,000 annually from the Barron County Department of Health and Human Services, but that was cut after Embrace released their statement.
“There were a lot of attempts to try to figure out, kind of, how to repair those relationships and get the funding returned,” explained Bement.
“We didn’t think that we could do this work without the criminal legal system, without being aligned with the criminal legal system,” she said.
She explained that Embrace and local law enforcement agencies had spent years developing collaborative programming that Embrace didn’t want to see crumble.
Some of the 14 law enforcement agencies in the area still refer survivors to Embrace, but that’s the extent of their relationships.
Just to be clear about that, it wasn’t just this organization, lots of domestic violence shelters and support orgs across the country lost federal funding recently when Congress cut the budget for the Victims of Crime Act. Like, here’s another news story from South Carolina all about that same problem playing out there,
Actually, it was a county health department that pulled its funding in response to the pro-BLM statement and law enforcement outcry. Police departments had been participating in “collaborative programming” with this organization (not sure if that’s just trainings or something else) and stopped doing that.
I’m going to echo everyone else recommending this podcast, it’s absolutely incredible non-fiction story telling and it will really deepen your understanding of how we all got to this point in history.
To answer your question, I actually think season 8 (all about the French Commune in 1871 and how external pressures can end up causing liberals and socialists to go to war with each other) is the best one for explaining it, but it will be really confusing if you don’t listen to season 7 first (which is all about 1848, when France revolted against a liberal monarchy and most of western Europe went “hey, we should do that too, but differently”), which will be really confusing if you don’t listen to season 6 first (all about France 1830, when the liberal monarchy who would be overthrown in 1848 overthrew the absolutist monarchy that came before them) and all its supplemental episodes (all about different western European leaders who would see rebellions in 1848).
Season 3 (all about the French revolution everyone knows about in the 1790s) will help understand a few things going on in 6 and 7, and is also worth listening to just to understand why and how liberalism got going, but I don’t think it’s strictly necessary to get seasons 6-8, and 3 is ridiculously long season because the French revolution is just an insane series of back and forth plot twists that doesn’t let up.
That all said, if you’re prepared for something ridiculously long, the final season (all about the Russian revolutions, 1905 and 1917) is an incredibly informative and interesting listen too, and kind of completes the series (this is extremely reductive, but season 1-3 are sort of the “liberalism was a big improvement over what came before it” seasons, 6-8 are sort of the “but liberalism had its problems, which socialism tried to answer” seasons, and 10 is the “but socialism has its problems too” season).
Lastly, it doesn’t really touch on the liberalism vs socialism thing, but season 4 (a history of the Haitian revolution that highlights how incredibly destructive racism and colonialism are) is probably the one season I would make everyone in the world listen to if I could.
Morehouse College might halt graduation ‘on the spot’ if there are disruptions when President Biden speaks (www.cnn.com)
Lawyer opens defense of US Sen. Bob Menendez in his corruption trial by blaming his wife (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/bob-menendez-bribery-trial-gold…
‘You are the best El Jefe!’: Henry Cuellar’s Alleged Brazen Foreign Bribery Schemes (www.texasobserver.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/henry-cuellar-indictment-briber…
Passing the DREAM Act Has Become a Nightmare (www.thebulwark.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/passing-the-dream-act-has-becom…
Biden Seeks to Curb Flow of Migrants From Nicaragua With New Restrictions (www.nytimes.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/KeixE
Mexico is stopping nearly three times as many migrants as last year, which helps the U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/mexico-stopping-three-times-as-…
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The Philharmonik "What's It All Mean?" (2024 NPR Tiny Desk Winning Entry) (piped.video)
Related, web.archive.org/…/tiny-desk-contest-2024-winner-a…
Four years after losing funds for supporting Black Lives Matter, a Wisconsin domestic violence shelter worries about their future (www.wxpr.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/four-years-after-losing-funds-f…
Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline deluged with calls, hindered by lack of shelter beds (www.wbez.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/e7d0a319-389f-4baf-b4b9-dc3da1c…
When Texas jails issue tablets, it comes at cost for inmates and families - A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make money off their use. (www.texastribune.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/texas-prisons-jails-tablets/
Hundreds of counties around the USA have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profits (www.newyorker.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/the-jails-that-forbid-children-…
Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much (lemm.ee)
Do any of them know what the word “liberal” actually means?