Almita C.
@castialmita.bsky.social
Scientist 💊💉Immigrant 🇲🇽🤠🇺🇸 Empathetic Human 💙✨🖖🏽
Men have called me intimidating 💅🏽
Men have called me intimidating 💅🏽
Buenos días, when y’all find a link to a candle with Gaga Estefania in the outfit from last night, please send my way. Okay gracias 💋
February 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Buenos días, when y’all find a link to a candle with Gaga Estefania in the outfit from last night, please send my way. Okay gracias 💋
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1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
🧵
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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
This is the most terrifying sentence he mentioned.
Trump: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition."
January 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
This is the most terrifying sentence he mentioned.
NH taking that “or die” thing to the max. 🤬
These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
NH taking that “or die” thing to the max. 🤬
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"A federal judge in Los Angeles denied a motion from the Trump administration Friday to throw out a decades-old settlement that outlines protections for immigrant children in federal detention."
laist.com/news/politic...
laist.com/news/politic...
Judge rejects Trump administration's effort to end a court settlement protecting immigrant children
The move comes as lawyers for immigrant families say children are being held for extended periods of time in Border Patrol stations.
laist.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"A federal judge in Los Angeles denied a motion from the Trump administration Friday to throw out a decades-old settlement that outlines protections for immigrant children in federal detention."
laist.com/news/politic...
laist.com/news/politic...
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Very pleased to see the dude @pabloreports.bsky.social grilling Tom Homan in this @newyorker.com essay on the politics of immigration:
“Pablo Manriquez, of Migrant Insider, shrewdly asked, ‘On deportations, why were you able to achieve so much more for Obama than you have so far under Trump?’”
“Pablo Manriquez, of Migrant Insider, shrewdly asked, ‘On deportations, why were you able to achieve so much more for Obama than you have so far under Trump?’”
A Decisive Moment for Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Public opinion is turning on the President’s policies, but it might not be enough to keep the country from entering a much darker phase.
www.newyorker.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Very pleased to see the dude @pabloreports.bsky.social grilling Tom Homan in this @newyorker.com essay on the politics of immigration:
“Pablo Manriquez, of Migrant Insider, shrewdly asked, ‘On deportations, why were you able to achieve so much more for Obama than you have so far under Trump?’”
“Pablo Manriquez, of Migrant Insider, shrewdly asked, ‘On deportations, why were you able to achieve so much more for Obama than you have so far under Trump?’”
My nephew is 2 and he was a little delayed in speaking (because bilingual). But, in the past weeks the kid has gone from phrases to now asking me in a complete sentence, “Titi, you got cheese at you house?”
😭🥺🤩
😭🥺🤩
August 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
My nephew is 2 and he was a little delayed in speaking (because bilingual). But, in the past weeks the kid has gone from phrases to now asking me in a complete sentence, “Titi, you got cheese at you house?”
😭🥺🤩
😭🥺🤩
Important Thread 🧵
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Important Thread 🧵
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“Degrading treatment by guards is commonplace in all three jails, the groups say. At the Krome North service processing center in west Miami, female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers, or adequate food.”
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“Degrading treatment by guards is commonplace in all three jails, the groups say. At the Krome North service processing center in west Miami, female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers, or adequate food.”
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so... gender affirming care.
Health clinics across America are serving up injections of testosterone. Men younger than 35 are the most eager customers
American men are hungry for injectable testosterone
A legion of new health clinics are serving it up
econ.st
July 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
so... gender affirming care.
I feel it’s racist to think DEI is just about race. It’s about leveling the field for anyone disadvantaged. This means your social class, ableness, and location. Fewer people in these areas can’t afford to maintain hospitals and research centers.
The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. “People on the right, they don’t realize they’re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.” nyti.ms/4lMDXtN
July 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I feel it’s racist to think DEI is just about race. It’s about leveling the field for anyone disadvantaged. This means your social class, ableness, and location. Fewer people in these areas can’t afford to maintain hospitals and research centers.
Some of y’all need to ask your immigrant parents what their immigration status was when you were born in the US. Maybe this attack on birthright citizenship may not affect you if the order is in the future, but what if it was retrospective? How far until your lineage is unsafe?
June 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Some of y’all need to ask your immigrant parents what their immigration status was when you were born in the US. Maybe this attack on birthright citizenship may not affect you if the order is in the future, but what if it was retrospective? How far until your lineage is unsafe?
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People are slamming Mamdani for “trying to do too much at the age of 33” and frankly they have a point because we have zero examples from history of a 33-year-old brown immigrant who opposed the elites & condemned greed while demanding access to food, healthcare, housing, & loving all thy neighbors.
June 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
People are slamming Mamdani for “trying to do too much at the age of 33” and frankly they have a point because we have zero examples from history of a 33-year-old brown immigrant who opposed the elites & condemned greed while demanding access to food, healthcare, housing, & loving all thy neighbors.
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There is a term for this: chemical warfare.
It is a war crime. And it is yet more evidence of intentional genocide.
The response will be that this is a lie. Yet, Netanyahu will also refuse to allow any independent investigation or journalists from safely entering and reporting on this war crime.
It is a war crime. And it is yet more evidence of intentional genocide.
The response will be that this is a lie. Yet, Netanyahu will also refuse to allow any independent investigation or journalists from safely entering and reporting on this war crime.
June 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
There is a term for this: chemical warfare.
It is a war crime. And it is yet more evidence of intentional genocide.
The response will be that this is a lie. Yet, Netanyahu will also refuse to allow any independent investigation or journalists from safely entering and reporting on this war crime.
It is a war crime. And it is yet more evidence of intentional genocide.
The response will be that this is a lie. Yet, Netanyahu will also refuse to allow any independent investigation or journalists from safely entering and reporting on this war crime.
*BIG SIGH* 😔
In the wake of the latest Supreme Court Obamacare decision, public health lawyers and experts cautioned that legal challenges to health policy may now shift toward assessing the scientific rationale behind those decisions.
Obamacare decision makes way for debate on what's preventive
Legal experts expect more wrangling to come.
www.politico.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
*BIG SIGH* 😔
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With the politicization of what science is worth investment and what medical care is real care, this is only going to get more difficult to determine who is qualified and willing to provide medical care.
JUST IN: Supreme Court ruling on patients rights' could devastate Planned Parenthood
Supreme Court ruling on patients rights' could devastate Planned Parenthood
The Trump administration argued along with South Carolina for the state's position.
www.axios.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
With the politicization of what science is worth investment and what medical care is real care, this is only going to get more difficult to determine who is qualified and willing to provide medical care.
I personally know more service members who’s parents are immigrants than those who’s parents are not immigrants. It’s not only about seeking benefits and a path to middle class, but because there’s genuine love of country for opportunities our home country we’re unable to afford our parents.
“I want President Trump to know not all undocumented people are bad. Most of them are here, hardworking people who have raised children like myself, my brothers to love our country, to give back. We're willing to give the ultimate sacrifice. We swore an oath to the Constitution.”
June 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I personally know more service members who’s parents are immigrants than those who’s parents are not immigrants. It’s not only about seeking benefits and a path to middle class, but because there’s genuine love of country for opportunities our home country we’re unable to afford our parents.
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They are literally doing the thing they have been supposedly terrified of for decades
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June 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
They are literally doing the thing they have been supposedly terrified of for decades
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Whatever you choose to do to respond is up to you
But I, a formerly undocumented person, invite you to donate/get involved/take action
We are only successful when YOU (yes, you) decide to pick up the phone and get involved
But I, a formerly undocumented person, invite you to donate/get involved/take action
We are only successful when YOU (yes, you) decide to pick up the phone and get involved
I spent 10 or so years of my life scared—like deadly scared—of being dragged and taken by immigration officials
The images you’re seeing on your screens RIGHT NOW are the real-life personification of people’s worst fears
Full stop
The images you’re seeing on your screens RIGHT NOW are the real-life personification of people’s worst fears
Full stop
June 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Whatever you choose to do to respond is up to you
But I, a formerly undocumented person, invite you to donate/get involved/take action
We are only successful when YOU (yes, you) decide to pick up the phone and get involved
But I, a formerly undocumented person, invite you to donate/get involved/take action
We are only successful when YOU (yes, you) decide to pick up the phone and get involved
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Garcia said he was shaken by what he heard while he was detained.
“They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”
“They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”
"A good day:" Detained U.S. citizen said agents bragged after arresting dozens at Home Depot
A U.S. citizen who was tackled and arrested by border agents after filming and yelling at them, said his "blood boiled" when agents high-five'd each other after grabbing dozens at Home Depot on Thursd...
www.latimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Garcia said he was shaken by what he heard while he was detained.
“They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”
“They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”
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“Zavala said orchards that typically host 100 or 120 pickers were finding that only 20 or 30 workers would show up.”
"The few workers who did show up said many had heard through social media that ICE set up checkpoints on the Washington-Oregon border & that agents were raiding orchards.” #WeFeedYou
"The few workers who did show up said many had heard through social media that ICE set up checkpoints on the Washington-Oregon border & that agents were raiding orchards.” #WeFeedYou
Washington cherry growers struggle to find pickers
The threat of federal agents raiding orchards is forcing a labor shortage that has caused some Washington producers to leave cherries unpicked or delay their harvests until fruit gets over ripe, which...
www.spokesman.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“Zavala said orchards that typically host 100 or 120 pickers were finding that only 20 or 30 workers would show up.”
"The few workers who did show up said many had heard through social media that ICE set up checkpoints on the Washington-Oregon border & that agents were raiding orchards.” #WeFeedYou
"The few workers who did show up said many had heard through social media that ICE set up checkpoints on the Washington-Oregon border & that agents were raiding orchards.” #WeFeedYou
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Farm workers concerns about ice activity
June 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Farm workers concerns about ice activity