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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 21m

shades of the revisionism that says what made the second red scare bad was that it targeted people who “weren’t even communists“ tbh

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 46m

wow, looks like even my ASL homework for the week is in the bag for Zohran. textbook wokeness run amok smh.

Photo of the lower half of a page of a book describing common handshapes and other elements of name signs in ASL. One photo shows a woman demonstrating a sign used in name signs for someone who has a dimple.

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 1d

that plus this is just the bog-standard crowd-out defense of means-testing that’s been in vogue for the last few decades despite how “bus,” just like “student loan cancellation,” is not in any real sense a finite resource.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"[W]hen 'bullets crashed through the window and hit Miguel,' he turned to the 18 year-old boy sitting next to him in the van and said, 'I don't think I'm going to make it, get underneath me. Let me shield you.'"
#Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting

At a vigil outside city hall last week, advocates gathered to “center the victims” and to condemn the “dehumanization” of migrants by the federal government.

www.texasobserver.org

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 2d

(I know there are paramedics on site but as someone who has worked a ton of events like this, I can attest that having EMS on site at a venue does not mean they are involved in protocols for the talent.)

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 2d

And don’t get me started on “infection controls,” but the resources to respond to the—at this point predictable—traumatic injuries with potential lifelong consequences are indefensible. To my knowledge, the people on hand to respond to medical emergencies at WNBA games are employees of the teams.

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 2d

the in-house scientists of a vast profit-making industry have never led us astray before, so I’m optimistic.

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 2d

As a former paramedic I just have to say “concussion protocols” in pro sports are motivated by capital and not medical evidence and, besides, they’re never followed. This is a serious occupational health issue, and players’ unions are among those falling down in the job. It’s disgusting to watch.

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 3d

lmao.

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 4d

let’s fucking go.

hardcover copy of the book Shadow Docket by Thomas Pynchon

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 4d

bring down an empire in 191 minutes with this one weird trick.

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 4d

the fact that she’s talking about the MOVIE Gandhi (1982) is so fucking funny lmao.

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 4d

And when Germany took control of France, they enthusiastically started using a better tank they found there.

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 7d

"While the firefighters were inside, a white panel van of the kind ICE sometimes uses to transport detainees raced out of the federal complex's underground garage and through the gap in the crowd that had parted to let the fire truck pass, according to eyewitnesses.”

Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Jun 10

On Saturday, the FDNY rushed to 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE is holding more than 100 people in inhumane conditions, to respond to an emergency call, only to learn there was no such emergency. What's going on? hellgatenyc.com/fdny-ice-hea...

The FDNY Was Sped to ICE Headquarters for a Bogus 911 Call: 'They Used Us'

After the fire truck pulled up to the federal building where more than 100 people are being held, a van of the sort ICE uses to transport detainees sped out past protesters.

hellgatenyc.com

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 8d

she only supports killing children in *other* countries.

Detroit Free Press @freep.com · 16d

BREAKING: Rep. Haley Stevens to call for RFK Jr.'s impeachment bit.ly/47Wm2xl

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 10d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14d

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 15d

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 15d

One thing the existence of “the buildings we call prisons” does is create a kind of zone of false reasonableness for anything that isn’t locking someone in a remote cage.

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 15d

when I was writing Predatory Decarceration, I came across a published law review paper that said one thing prison abolitionism fails to consider is crime (lmao) and suggesting we could resolve this tension and do “abolition” by creating a bespoke cyber-prison for every person.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 3

Local man embraces fascism.

AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America

With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker...

www.forbes.com

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 15d

idk if the himbos claim him (he can’t do a pull-up; potentially disqualifying)

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 16d

FYI for Philly people, PFS is hosting two screenings of a 4K restoration of the 1973 film The Spook Who Sat By The Door (tonight and Sunday).

Rare chance to see an amazing movie you’ve either never seen or have only seen in a bad YouTube upload.

filmadelphia.org/movies/the-s...

THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR - Philadelphia Film Society

A new 4K restoration of the long unavailable, galvanizing masterpiece! Ivan Dixon’s seminal adaptation of the Sam Greenlee novel follows the fictional first Black CIA agent whose disillusionment within the agency fuels his own activism and training of civilians in Chicago to become freedom fighters. Presented with Reelblack.

filmadelphia.org

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 16d

Someone should really tell all the small children getting turned into roadkill by their own parents that they need to look both ways.

A bar chart showing vastly increased deaths from 15 in the decade beginning in 1989 to 575 in the decade beginning in 2009, as cars have gotten bigger and have less visibility range in front of them. The graphic explains that these "frontover" fatalities occur most often in driveways and parking lots when slow-moving vehicles don't have visibility of children in front of them.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 17d

ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser

PUÑO Fundraiser

Pilsen Defense & Access is launching a fundraiser through the end of Hispanic Heritage month, with 100% of funds raised going to PUÑO! PUÑO (Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo) works to protect our...

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 17d

some members likely struggling between morality and wanting to keep Israel around for the guaranteed W in Euro qualifier matches.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17d

It appears that there is an increasingly high chance Israel will be banned next week from UEFA due to its genocide in Gaza, which would in turn effectively end its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup.

I have heard this independently confirmed from another source.

www.thetimes.com/article/11e9...

Uefa members in favour of banning Israel from European football next week
Pressure has ramped up on European football’s governing body after protests and the UN Commission’s declaration of genocide in Gaza
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