a k_wala
@akwala.bsky.social
Person. Sustaining distractions.
🍉
Huey Freeman wannabe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Freeman).
https://indieweb.social/@4slam
https://twitter.com/akwala
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Huey Freeman wannabe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Freeman).
https://indieweb.social/@4slam
https://twitter.com/akwala
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@akwala.bsky.social
· Jul 26
Media Silence And Gaza Journalists On The Brink Of Death
Western media, particularly prestige media, have aided and abetted the mass killing of Palestinian or Arab journalists by the Israeli government.
thedissenter.org
Media Silence And Gaza Journalists On The Brink Of Death - thedissenter.org/media-silenc... - @kgosztola.bsky.social
#Gaza #journalists #starvation #famine #Israel #genocide #warcrimes
#Gaza #journalists #starvation #famine #Israel #genocide #warcrimes
@pdfsam.org Hi. The Donate link at pdfsam.org/donate/ goes to PayPal's 404 error page.
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
@pdfsam.org Hi. The Donate link at pdfsam.org/donate/ goes to PayPal's 404 error page.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.
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Here's my reporting partner, @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social in a terrific video on the impacts of lead poisoning in the communities in Nigeria that we focused on in our investigation of lead recycling. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People
Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead level...
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Here's my reporting partner, @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social in a terrific video on the impacts of lead poisoning in the communities in Nigeria that we focused on in our investigation of lead recycling. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
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Don't forget the passing of the Online Safety Act in the UK. Forced age verification to use the internet is stinky and bad and disruptive and anti-privacy and this is your reminder to call your reps to say NO to KOSA and other similar bills. www.badinternetbills.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Don't forget the passing of the Online Safety Act in the UK. Forced age verification to use the internet is stinky and bad and disruptive and anti-privacy and this is your reminder to call your reps to say NO to KOSA and other similar bills. www.badinternetbills.com
Almost 3,000 cattle from Uruguay have been stuck at the Turkish border for weeks. At least 48 have died. The rest must be unloaded immediately and the sick ones must be put out of their misery!
More information: www.animal-welfare-foundation.org/en/blog/taus...
#StopLiveExports #BanLiveExports
More information: www.animal-welfare-foundation.org/en/blog/taus...
#StopLiveExports #BanLiveExports
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The #Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... - @arstechnica.com
#DEI #TrumpRegime
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... - @arstechnica.com
#DEI #TrumpRegime
Python plan to boost software security foiled by Trump admin’s anti-DEI rules
National Science Foundation said grantees must not operate any DEI programs.
arstechnica.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The #Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... - @arstechnica.com
#DEI #TrumpRegime
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... - @arstechnica.com
#DEI #TrumpRegime
Canadian women harmed by genital mutilation find help in the U.S., Kena Shah reports. An estimated 125,000 immigrant girls & women in Canada are at risk of female genital mutilation, but health care systems don’t view reconstructive surgery as “necessary.”
Canadian women harmed by genital mutilation find help in the U.S.
About 125,000 immigrant girls and women in Canada are at risk of FGM, but health care systems don’t view reconstructive surgery as “necessary”
prismreports.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Looking to protect your sensitive information from data brokers? Don’t want Big Tech monetizing your personal data? Privacy Badger is here to help! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back
www.eff.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Looking to protect your sensitive information from data brokers? Don’t want Big Tech monetizing your personal data? Privacy Badger is here to help! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Gift link.
I have to warn you. This article is devastating to read. But it is also important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
I have to warn you. This article is devastating to read. But it is also important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Nory Doesn’t Go to School Here Anymore
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Gift link.
I have to warn you. This article is devastating to read. But it is also important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
I have to warn you. This article is devastating to read. But it is also important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
Opinion | The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
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Intro'ed 15 years ago Indians need Aadhaar digital biometric ID to buy a house, get a job, open a bank account, pay tax, receive benefits, buy a car, or enrol children at school. Not mandatory but w/o Aadhaar Indian govt does not recognise you exist.
#UKpol #NZpol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
#UKpol #NZpol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion
Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Intro'ed 15 years ago Indians need Aadhaar digital biometric ID to buy a house, get a job, open a bank account, pay tax, receive benefits, buy a car, or enrol children at school. Not mandatory but w/o Aadhaar Indian govt does not recognise you exist.
#UKpol #NZpol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
#UKpol #NZpol
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Okay, I’m going to take a mea culpa on this one, as initial reporting suggested he was ONLY facing removal because of the murder conviction he’s been exonerated from. But there’s more; at 19, he pled guilty to dealing LSD. And in immigration law, that’s its own “aggravated felony” ground of removal.
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Okay, I’m going to take a mea culpa on this one, as initial reporting suggested he was ONLY facing removal because of the murder conviction he’s been exonerated from. But there’s more; at 19, he pled guilty to dealing LSD. And in immigration law, that’s its own “aggravated felony” ground of removal.
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Norway recognised Palestine as a state last year. So now Palestinians would have to comply with an 8-year residency requirement to access Norwegian nationality instead of the usual 3 years that they were accessing before, says a legal expert.
Read more: scroll.in/article/1087...
Via TRF
Read more: scroll.in/article/1087...
Via TRF
October 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Norway recognised Palestine as a state last year. So now Palestinians would have to comply with an 8-year residency requirement to access Norwegian nationality instead of the usual 3 years that they were accessing before, says a legal expert.
Read more: scroll.in/article/1087...
Via TRF
Read more: scroll.in/article/1087...
Via TRF
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Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.
SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...
> Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
#Apple #ICE #FirstAmendment
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...
> Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
#Apple #ICE #FirstAmendment
SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
migrantinsider.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...
> Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
#Apple #ICE #FirstAmendment
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...
> Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
#Apple #ICE #FirstAmendment
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One thing I’d be nice if Schatz and others acknowledged is that even judging their hard right turn on immigration in Spring 2024 on its own terms it failed miserably. In July when Harris took over Trump led on “immigration” by 9pts, by election day he led 13pts. At best it, electorally, did nothing
October 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
One thing I’d be nice if Schatz and others acknowledged is that even judging their hard right turn on immigration in Spring 2024 on its own terms it failed miserably. In July when Harris took over Trump led on “immigration” by 9pts, by election day he led 13pts. At best it, electorally, did nothing
Tell Congress: Cosponsor H.R. 3565 to block weapons transfers to Israel - action.ccrjustice.org/a/email-cong...
#USA #Israel #Gaza #BlockTheBombsAct #HR3565
#USA #Israel #Gaza #BlockTheBombsAct #HR3565
Tell Congress: Cosponsor H.R. 3565 to block weapons transfers to Israel
action.ccrjustice.org
October 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Tell Congress: Cosponsor H.R. 3565 to block weapons transfers to Israel - action.ccrjustice.org/a/email-cong...
#USA #Israel #Gaza #BlockTheBombsAct #HR3565
#USA #Israel #Gaza #BlockTheBombsAct #HR3565
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If someone says "why don't they just get in line," send them this.
"Why don't they just apply for citizenship?"
This is a question often directed toward undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
But the pathway to American citizenship for the vast majority is long, complex, and financially draining.
This is a question often directed toward undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
But the pathway to American citizenship for the vast majority is long, complex, and financially draining.
Why Is It So Hard to Become a US Citizen? - American Immigration Council
“Why don’t they just get in line?" It's a question often directed toward undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
October 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If someone says "why don't they just get in line," send them this.
The End of the Belle Époque, by Pankaj Mishra
harpers.org/archive/2025...
The arc of Indian affinity for America.
#india #usa #pankajmishra
harpers.org/archive/2025...
The arc of Indian affinity for America.
#india #usa #pankajmishra
The End of the Belle Époque, by Pankaj Mishra
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The End of the Belle Époque, by Pankaj Mishra
harpers.org/archive/2025...
The arc of Indian affinity for America.
#india #usa #pankajmishra
harpers.org/archive/2025...
The arc of Indian affinity for America.
#india #usa #pankajmishra