This is a really good piece by @natashakorecki.bsky.social at NBC News:
"Many Latinos were better versed in the details of Salgado Araujo’s shooting death than in the names and backgrounds of those running for some of the highest-profile offices in their state..."
How the shooting death of a Houston father is igniting Latino politics in Texas
(Rachel shares NBC News)
"Driver-volunteers go to homes to drop off diapers, baby formula, toilet paper, groceries...
"Drivers switch routes and cars, write addresses on paper, and carry a water bottle so they can drop the paper in water and obscure the addresses if stopped...
Trump’s immigration sweeps leave southwest Kansas communities looking for way forward
(Kansas Reflector)
"I take Utahns’ voting rights very, very seriously. They are sacred, and they ought to be protected, and they ought to be preserved, and they shouldn’t be mucked around with for political purposes.”
Utah’s top election chief says Trump admin’s ‘gamesmanship’ with voting keeps her up at night
(News from the States)
"We’re not going to just put our hands up and say, ‘Oh well, we tried.' When it opens, it’ll be even more important to pressure to close it. At that point, people are being harmed. We’re just going to keep making a stink of it.
"We'll never go away until it’s closed."
‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
(NOLA.com's Gambit)
"Some were there because even though they had not known the young man personally, they 'are dedicated to standing in solidarity with his family and all of the other Haitian families who have come to Springfield seeking a place of safety,' the pastor said..."
At Haitian student’s funeral, a community confronts painful immigration reality
(Miami Herald)
"You're living right next to people you're writing about. You're at the grocery store with someone who you just wrote about the worst day of their life.
It's very tough business, and it makes people mad, but it is a vitally important part of our society..."
(No Film School talks to the director of Kill. Bury. Print.)
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.”
(CNN)
trump's pentagon:
"In an August 2021 thread on X, Schlichter demanded an authoritarian crackdown on “liberals.”
“We must, by any means necessary, force them to be like us. No quarter. No compromise,” Schlichter wrote. In the thread, he advocates for banning everything from masks and unions to critical race theory and “leftist media.” (Last year, Hegseth’s Department of Defense required journalists to sign a pledge that would prevent them from gathering certain information. Most major journalists refused to sign the pledge and left the Pentagon.)
In the same thread on X, Schlichter also suggested that people who don’t have children, who do not serve in the military, and who don’t own property should not be allowed to vote. “Penalize barren, non-familial lifestyles through taxes and disqualification from political participation,” Schlichter wrote. “Establish property and military service qualifications for voting.” Posts in the thread were shared a combined 10,000 times."
A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
(Wired)
18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
(ABC News)
"The plans have drawn condemnation from some residents of central Louisiana, and immigrant advocates and child welfare experts have expressed concerns about possible trauma inflicted on detained children..."
New Facility at Louisiana Airport to Hold Immigrant Children and Families
(New York Times)
"Any action to restrict abortion pills would immediately break Trump’s 2024 campaign pledge that he would “not block” access to the drugs..."
(Washington Sun)
"Local community activists and faith leaders from Louisiana and beyond marched and prayed Thursday at the fenced-off barracks and trailers at the airpark site where the Trump Administration is preparing to open a privately-run facility to hold children..."
(Religion News Service)
“I wish there were people from the other party here. I just, I beg them I plead with them to support humane immigration policy,” he said. “It breaks my heart that some of them claim to be followers of Jesus, and what they're doing goes directly against the gospel…"
As Springfield prepares to bury Haitian student, sympathy surges and deportations continue
(Religion News Service)
How ICE plans to speed deportations by holding children, families beside a Louisiana airport
(NOLA.com)
these people. they don't even understand how to quit.
"A previous version of this article said that Olsen tendered his resignation from the Justice Department, according to three people familiar with his decision. Two of those people later revised their account based on new information.
A message Olsen sent Monday announcing his departure was originally misinterpreted by officials in Washington and Miami as a full resignation from the Justice Department, but Olsen later clarified to his bosses that he still intended to remain a department employee, even though he is no longer attached to the case one of those people said Wednesday. His current assignment remains unclear."
(Rachel shares the Washington Post)
"Conservative Cuban Americans have long made S. Florida GOP-friendly.
But Trump has deported a record number of Cubans. Older Cubans who lived in the US for decades were deported to Mexico, where they've struggled to get by. Some have been deported to Africa..."
(New York Times)
“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here...”
How Jared Kushner’s firm’s investment in an Israeli company could be a major conflict of interest
(CNN)
"The agency appears to regard the change as a customer experience improvement — as if interacting with a TSA agent who has been forced to stand in a crowded airport for hours on end will definitely be positive..."
Trump Administration Makes Life Worse For TSA Agents
(HuffPost)
