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of Plain Talk Rising (poems) and American Gulag: Inside US Immigration Prisons.

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"Western wind, when will you blow?"
Robert Graves makes stuff up; Kevin Pask breaks it down.
Plus a painted screen from artist Lisa Sigal.
https://t.co/cufC7xeVVa

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Is it a song? Is there a story? Kevin Pask will tell you. With a beautiful image by Lisa Sigal.

https://t.co/AwnvueisL0

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Behind the masks are not just racists, but bullies, and bullies are cowards. https://t.co/McjZrV5tvr

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Manhattan, Sept. 25, 2025.

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The CoreCivic employee's i.d. badge hangs from a purple lanyard with white lettering: "CoreCivic Diversity Equity Inclusion."
@commondreams @FIELHouston
https://t.co/tJN5wjGv6c

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Houston, South Gessner immigration court building (Alliance Tower) in the background. June 2025.

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"It is ICE that is obstructing justice—spreading fear, misinformation, and chaos in order to justify its actions," one attorney said. https://t.co/3FMrDORYzo

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My observations from immigration court in Houston, with thanks to editors and staff at Common Dreams --

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"It is ICE that is obstructing justice—spreading fear, misinformation, and chaos in order to justify its actions," one attorney said. https://t.co/3FMrDORYzo

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My observations from immigration court in Houston --

https://t.co/tJN5wjFXgE

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Houston, June 13, 2025. Outside CoreCivic/ICE immigration prison. (Que viva Mount Pleasant.)

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Does @WNYC still not understand that the admin. is trying to make "legal" into "illegal"? @SeanECarl just boosted DHS propaganda, repeating that Mamadou Diallo entered illegally. But DHS also says he "was released into our country by the Biden administration."
@onthemedia

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"'New spaces in our interiors,'" wherein Marcie Frank talks Garth Greenwell talking Westron Wynde --

https://t.co/lIjvorWVQF

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July 18, 2025.

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Demonstration outside ICE/CoreCivic immigration prison. Houston, June 13, 2025. @FIELHouston

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Please consider signing this letter to protest inhumane conditions in a New Mexico ICE prison. @ThinkLawLab

https://t.co/sEOer7EZid

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And three more here:
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The mechanics of kidnapping: How ICE is imprisoning Rumeysa Ozturk https://t.co/kUqYrUMjCT

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