This boy is not the only one who this has happened to. We obtained exclusive data that showed some 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE this year, the highest number since recordkeeping began a decade ago. https://t.co/zkykmcv8dR
Chicago’s entrenched racial segregation — decades in the making and readily apparent to everyone who lives here — makes it so that the current federal blitz is extremely targeted. That means, depending on where you live, you either feel their presence everyday, or not at all
CNN is currently making the case for why this was very slick and smart on Trump’s part and a very effective attack. It’s great that Americans get their news from two news networks that both are propaganda arms of the military industrial complex.
happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.
Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
Netanyahu said that an Iranian nuclear strike on Israel would be like “10,000 tons of TNT falling on a country the size of New Jersey (22,610 km2).”
Israel has dropped ~80,000 tons of explosives on Gaza (365 km2) - the equivalent of 8 nukes on 1.6% the size of New Jersey.
Maybe it's corny but if you are anxious about the state of this country I promise organizing / participating in mutual aid will make you feel better. Having a sense of purpose and making a tangible difference with your neighbors is a million times better than doom scrolling.
In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.