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May 3, 2019 17 tweets 146 min read Read on X
This isn't the question we should be asking.

One thing that freaking concerns me about the description of the inside of these temporary tents: guard towers. Guard towers?

They ALSO have 24 hour surveillance equipment, but sure, prison it up, @CBP. 🤬

texastribune.org/2019/05/02/new…
@CBP Pictures, fam!

For some reason (prolly cuz there aren't any immigrants there yet) CBP let media types have a look around their New Giant Tent at the Donna, Texas POE, where they can detain up to 500 people--mostly families & unaccompanied minors.

Cc: @JeffMerkley Via @nytimes
@CBP @JeffMerkley @nytimes @ifindkarma @axidentaliberal @lfkraus @jomareewade @maydaymindy9 @TheLoyalO @ImmJusticeNOW @LiteraryMouse @TrinityResists @TrisResists The cavernous facility is air conditioned, which is nice--for people who like A/C. The majority of the folks there will be Central Americans. POOR Central Americans. How used to A/C you think they are?

You think there's a reason they called CBP holding the "ice box"? 🤔
@CBP @JeffMerkley @nytimes @ifindkarma @axidentaliberal @lfkraus @jomareewade @maydaymindy9 @TheLoyalO @ImmJusticeNOW @LiteraryMouse @TrinityResists @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @DanaScottlo @SusanBChurch11 @Norberta36 @DemocracyStorm @SirineShebaya @asluvsjess @brycetache @BryanDawsonUSA @essenviews The text from the article with that last picture wasn't quite accurate... although the promotional video suggested beds or cots could be laid out in lovely huge grids, the women & children & possibly elderly people, disabled people and everyone else, will be on mats on the floor.

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Sep 14, 2020
Disgusting, but not surprising. Of course they were sterilizing immigrant women at ICE facilities. They're excruciatingly racist. Do you think they *want* more brown people in this country?

#AbolishICE #AbolishDHS
Reminder that medical abuse--and whistlerblowers calling it out--are no strangers to ICE facilities. When your country has a for-profit prison system, steeped in racism and the legacy of slavery, these are the results.

This story, from a year ago, a whistleblower tells about ICE prisons' over-use of solitary confinement to "protect" detainees who identified as LGBTQ.

Also, to "protect" those who were deemed "suicidal."

Read 16 tweets
Aug 8, 2020
Tonight on Death Thread:

I told the Portland Doc, and then the hospice Doc today, that I'm ready to start hospice now.
An intake team will be coming to the house to do all the intake-y things sometime next week. It's a little up in the air cuz I'm staying on Dobutamine, and hospice needs to take over/work out the contract with the home infusion peeps *before* I sign myself over to their care.
I was able to decide on this now because the amazing folks at my cardiac rehab place know how much I value sweating it up with them, and are making accommodations for me to continue, whilst on hospice, even if it's not strictly kosher. Mostly, I go for the companionship, tho.
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Jun 12, 2020
The Karenning of America: a thread.

Nominees for #KarenOfTheYear are......

Karen Vs. The Drive Through
Karen Vs. The Electric Bike. #KarenOfTheYear

Karen Vs. Stairs #KarenOfTheYear nominee.

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Apr 19, 2020
There are ~320 million people in the US.

Every day, we consume ~320 million X 3 meals.

Many meals USED be at restaurants, schools, sporting events, food carts, etc.

Even if these venues are closed, people STILL NEED THOSE MEALS.

How can farmers have "EXCESS" food? #DemCast
Farmers have been dumping tons and tons of food and milk, plowing crops under, even as America goes hungry. Even while thousands line up for hours--and even overnight--for a box of groceries at one of the nation's thousands of food banks.

Why not donate?
wcnc.com/article/news/h…
The main reason? It's not worth their while, financially, to do so. Sure, there're questions of storage and logistics, but it basically comes down to the fact that the food being plowed under--ordinarily destined for restaurants and cafeterias, etc., who would've paid for it--
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Apr 18, 2020
My town is the centerpoint for first in the nation study of community spread of COVID-19.

In a cooperative effort led by @OregonState, about 4,000 non-symptomatic* people (or ~1 in 12 in town) will be tested for the virus in a door-to-door survey.

kgw.com/article/news/l…
Specific information about how the TRACE COVID-19 study in Corvallis, OR will be conducted can be found here:

Testing is the key to moving forward. Studying the prevalence of the virus in the community, esp. amongst those without symptoms, is crucial.
trace.oregonstate.edu
The university *vet* school made this possible.

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Mar 7, 2020
UPDATE on children separated from their parents at the border who were in custody on June 26, 2018:

ALL 2797 eligible children have been discharged from ORR. Over 2000 were reunited with parents, another 600 into "other appropriate circumstance."



BUT.
As @jomareewade points out, not only did this process take NINETEEN MONTHS longer than Judge Sabraw originally gave the govt to do it, but there are STILL 18 CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND.

These kids have been IN federal government CUSTODY SINCE JUNE 2018.

According to the rules governing their lives, that means no one has touched these children in over a year and a half.

No one has hugged them, even when they cried.

They've likely barely been in touch with any family.

It's likely they've been moved at least 3-5 times.
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