K. R. V.

Mennonite born + bred Pakistani-Christian. Daughter of immigrants. Writer. Flâneur. Attorney. City of Brotherly Love.

[Rita, Esq.🦋 @r4ralxrita]

Having a lawyer friend or relative is not a ticket to free legal services

[All African LGBTQ @Allafricanlgbtq]

Don't be T R A S H

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

I had never heard this history, and I am devastated.

In the 1960s, two Black infants died after receiving an experimental RSV vaccine in an NIH-sponsored study in Washington, D.C.

Their names were Ross Otto Hambrick and Victor Marcellus King.

Thread.

[Ava @noampomsky]

the only time i beg is to differ

[Rep. Adelita Grijalva @Rep_Grijalva]

When you see the videos of ICE beating and pepper-spraying people outside Delaney Hall, remember that in just a few days, House Republicans are going to try to pass a budget bill handing ICE tens of BILLIONS more in funding with zero accountability, zero oversight, and zero consequences for this abuse.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

The ADHD urge to wait for “one completely uninterrupted day” to start a task when you’ve already been waiting for 27 years

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

I began writing this book in detention and finished it fighting a deportation order. I wrote it because testimony is one of the few things that can make injustice visible before it becomes inevitable. My hope is that anyone who reads it understands: Palestine is not the exception, it is the warning. The rights we are losing were never only ours to lose. Thank you @HenryHolt

[Erik Uebelacker @Uebey]

Inside 26 Federal Plaza:

Evidence from today’s trial shows what it’s like inside NYC’s most infamous ICE holding cells.

ICE tried to prevent the suing detainees from taking these pics — a judge forced their hand. 🧵

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Trump again moves to transform the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program into a "whites only" immigration program.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1911, a white lynch mob in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, abducted Laura Nelson, a Black woman, and her young son, L.D., from a jail and hanged them from a bridge.
https://t.co/vHEX9DVDtY

[sowls @sowlspace]

THATS MISS WORLD 1994 AISHWARYA RAI

[ProPublica @propublica]

On May 2, agents followed Leonardo Garcia Venegas back to his home because they didn’t believe his claims of citizenship or that the REAL ID he showed them was legitimate.

It was familiar territory: He’d already been detained twice.

Read more: https://t.co/8eaiEPhlhv

[Parviz پرویز Malakouti-Fitzgerald @ParvizMalakouti]

What brilliant foreign student or young professional in their right mind would start a path to try to build a life in the U.S. at this point?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us learn to be rich in a different way: more attentive to relationships, more intent on valuing the common good, more attached to the local area, more grateful in welcoming and integrating those who come to live with us.

[Enomfon @mydearenomfon]

Every freedom you have as a woman was earned through the sacrifice of women who came before you. You didn’t inherit these rights by luck. Someone marched, protested, and paid a price for them.

[Rep. Adelita Grijalva @Rep_Grijalva]

It has now been more than 72 hours since Karla - a DACA recipient - was abducted from her home in Tucson.

She has no criminal history.

She has been here since she was one year old.

Her treatment is an absolute disgrace.

https://t.co/W2eTosTbcA