For shame.
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
For shame.
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"…of the top 250 most-viewed current and library scripted series in 2024…"
91.7% created by a yt person
79% of all show creators are yt men
80% of all roles yt actors
"…decreased opportunities […] despite minority households and female audiences driving viewerships…”
91.7% created by a yt person
79% of all show creators are yt men
80% of all roles yt actors
"…decreased opportunities […] despite minority households and female audiences driving viewerships…”
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"…of the top 250 most-viewed current and library scripted series in 2024…"
91.7% created by a yt person
79% of all show creators are yt men
80% of all roles yt actors
"…decreased opportunities […] despite minority households and female audiences driving viewerships…”
91.7% created by a yt person
79% of all show creators are yt men
80% of all roles yt actors
"…decreased opportunities […] despite minority households and female audiences driving viewerships…”
Reposted by Michelle Flores
Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
Nativity smashed, Mary figure ‘beaten’ at Evanston church: ‘God’s on the side of the vulnerable’
Vandals destroyed Lake Street Church of Evanston’s Nativity. It replaced Mary with a sign saying she’s in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...
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This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.
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"ICE has often been arresting children at 26 Federal Plaza behind closed doors, where members of the public are not allowed in to witness them. Accounts of these types of arrests of children have been hard to corroborate, because the families are often speedily deported ...” #AbuseofPowerWatch
The boy “is part of a growing number of children arrested and detained by ICE … One hundred and fifty one children under the age of 18 have been arrested between January and October, with a steep increase beginning in May.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊, 𝐍𝐘:
ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown. #AbuseofPowerWatch
ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown. #AbuseofPowerWatch
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"ICE has often been arresting children at 26 Federal Plaza behind closed doors, where members of the public are not allowed in to witness them. Accounts of these types of arrests of children have been hard to corroborate, because the families are often speedily deported ...” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs
Reposted by Michelle Flores
EUGENE DEBS MENTIONED
running around freaking out
running around freaking out
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
EUGENE DEBS MENTIONED
running around freaking out
running around freaking out
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Reposted by Michelle Flores
CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.
findmeatherapist.org
findmeatherapist.org
Find Me A Therapist
findmeatherapist.org
October 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.
findmeatherapist.org
findmeatherapist.org
Reposted by Michelle Flores
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, and @astra.bsky.social for a town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left, hosted w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social.
Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 PM ET
RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 PM ET
RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
October 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, and @astra.bsky.social for a town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left, hosted w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social.
Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 PM ET
RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 PM ET
RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Reposted by Michelle Flores
Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
![Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreibpqdfpwwfineikxjjncxeutbyrddhcpswh2etjfk23tbff27ajw4@jpeg)
October 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
Reposted by Michelle Flores
The fact is that undocumented workers actually pay _into_ federal programs that they can't access. In 2022, undocumented immigrants paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes and $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes: americasvoice.org/blog/on-tax-...
October 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The fact is that undocumented workers actually pay _into_ federal programs that they can't access. In 2022, undocumented immigrants paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes and $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes: americasvoice.org/blog/on-tax-...
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El pueblo de Nápoles en Italia se acaba de echar a la calle ahora mismo en defensa de la Flotilla en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina al grito de "bloqueamos todo". Grandes.
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
El pueblo de Nápoles en Italia se acaba de echar a la calle ahora mismo en defensa de la Flotilla en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina al grito de "bloqueamos todo". Grandes.
Reposted by Michelle Flores
BREAKING: Israel has begun intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is carrying 500 people from around the world seeking to bring aid to Palestinians starved by Israel's siege.
The crew includes 24 Americans, EU Members of Parliament, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, and Greta Thunberg.
The crew includes 24 Americans, EU Members of Parliament, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, and Greta Thunberg.
BREAKING: Israel Begins Intercepting 44-Ship Global Sumud Flotilla
The massive flotilla, which Italian and Spanish ships shadowed until it approached Gaza, is the fourth one attacked in the last year.
zeteo.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
BREAKING: Israel has begun intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is carrying 500 people from around the world seeking to bring aid to Palestinians starved by Israel's siege.
The crew includes 24 Americans, EU Members of Parliament, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, and Greta Thunberg.
The crew includes 24 Americans, EU Members of Parliament, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, and Greta Thunberg.
Reposted by Michelle Flores
"I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”
― Assata Shakur
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”
― Assata Shakur
September 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”
― Assata Shakur
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”
― Assata Shakur
Reposted by Michelle Flores
Two incarcerated journalists responded to questions from our readers about the widespread use of solitary confinement in the nation's prisons.
Both were subjected to this torturous practice themselves: "I will never be the same person I was before."
Both were subjected to this torturous practice themselves: "I will never be the same person I was before."
“Designed to Break You:” Two Incarcerated Writers on the Heavy Toll of Solitary Confinement
The authors of a new book on solitary answer your questions about their experiences with isolation and the movement to end the tortuous practice.
boltsmag.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Two incarcerated journalists responded to questions from our readers about the widespread use of solitary confinement in the nation's prisons.
Both were subjected to this torturous practice themselves: "I will never be the same person I was before."
Both were subjected to this torturous practice themselves: "I will never be the same person I was before."
Reposted by Michelle Flores
It was 101° when these farm workers in the Mettler, CA area in early September were weeding an organic carrot field. This careful hand weeding helps the carrots grow big and healthy and is necessary in order to avoid the use of pesticides. #WeFeedYou #CALOR
September 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It was 101° when these farm workers in the Mettler, CA area in early September were weeding an organic carrot field. This careful hand weeding helps the carrots grow big and healthy and is necessary in order to avoid the use of pesticides. #WeFeedYou #CALOR
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Wow — Italy and Spain have now both officially announced they're sending military ships to support the Gaza aid flotilla
Remarkable document: hundreds of European politicians are calling to mobilize European resources to protect the Sumud aid flotilla as it faces escalating attacks on its way to Gaza.
In other words: European politicians are trying to protect humanitarian volunteers *from Israel.*
In other words: European politicians are trying to protect humanitarian volunteers *from Israel.*
September 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Wow — Italy and Spain have now both officially announced they're sending military ships to support the Gaza aid flotilla
Reposted by Michelle Flores
Journalist Mario Guevara, from detention:
"May God grant that…love and mercy overcome the racial hatred that is dividing this beautiful nation, and that the American people understand that calling oneself Christian includes respect for and support of foreigners. At least that’s what my Bible says."
"May God grant that…love and mercy overcome the racial hatred that is dividing this beautiful nation, and that the American people understand that calling oneself Christian includes respect for and support of foreigners. At least that’s what my Bible says."
September 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Journalist Mario Guevara, from detention:
"May God grant that…love and mercy overcome the racial hatred that is dividing this beautiful nation, and that the American people understand that calling oneself Christian includes respect for and support of foreigners. At least that’s what my Bible says."
"May God grant that…love and mercy overcome the racial hatred that is dividing this beautiful nation, and that the American people understand that calling oneself Christian includes respect for and support of foreigners. At least that’s what my Bible says."
Utterly horrifying.
Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.
Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.
bittersoutherner.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Utterly horrifying.
Reposted by Michelle Flores
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Reposted by Michelle Flores
“Some Alligator Alcatraz detainees who couldn’t be located in the ICE database might have been deported — even though the internal data obtained by the Herald show the vast majority of detainees didn’t have final orders of removal from a judge before entering the facility.”
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Some Alligator Alcatraz detainees who couldn’t be located in the ICE database might have been deported — even though the internal data obtained by the Herald show the vast majority of detainees didn’t have final orders of removal from a judge before entering the facility.”
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"The issue is whether we journalists (not to mention voters, pundits, and everyone else) are attuned to — or alternately, blind to — the fact that men have a gender, too."
@titonka.bsky.social with a WORD:
@titonka.bsky.social with a WORD:
When "authenticity" means "dudes"
As 2026 approaches, can we political reporters please not forget every damn thing we learned just last year for the love of God
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"The issue is whether we journalists (not to mention voters, pundits, and everyone else) are attuned to — or alternately, blind to — the fact that men have a gender, too."
@titonka.bsky.social with a WORD:
@titonka.bsky.social with a WORD:
So horrifying.
🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.
September 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
So horrifying.
Reposted by Michelle Flores
NEW: 16 months ago, a young Palestinian locksmith went to help unlock a car.
He's been in detention ever since.
The FBI interrogated him. After refusing to become an informant, he was put in high-security as "retribution."
He's not convicted of a crime—but ICE will neither free nor deport him.
He's been in detention ever since.
The FBI interrogated him. After refusing to become an informant, he was put in high-security as "retribution."
He's not convicted of a crime—but ICE will neither free nor deport him.
A 22-Year-Old Palestinian Has Been Locked Up in 'High-Security' ICE Detention for 16 Months
Taher Mohammed Taher Hasan has faced harassment from detainees and guards and is held in a cockroach-infested cell, his legal team says.
zeteo.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: 16 months ago, a young Palestinian locksmith went to help unlock a car.
He's been in detention ever since.
The FBI interrogated him. After refusing to become an informant, he was put in high-security as "retribution."
He's not convicted of a crime—but ICE will neither free nor deport him.
He's been in detention ever since.
The FBI interrogated him. After refusing to become an informant, he was put in high-security as "retribution."
He's not convicted of a crime—but ICE will neither free nor deport him.