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Rachel McGonagill Profile picture
@RachelMcGonagi1
Sep 14, 2020 • 16 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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."

Can you even imagine?

Suicidal and detained away from all family and friends, and then kept in a solitary cell for MONTHS.

No Zoom.

No Netflix.

No walks outside, or cats or doggos to relieve your stress.

Just you and your suicidal thoughts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Image
This is what ICE does when they want a story to go away:

1. They crush the whistleblower, if there was one;

2. They deport the complainant;

3. They don't show up at depositions;

4. If they do show up...they lie.

If you're interested in making your voice heard, if you're sick of ICE's Concentration Camps treating immigrants like chattel, and worse, as if their lives are worthless, then hop to it!

#NeverAgainIsNow #AbolishICE
More on the forced sterilization of immigrant women in ICE facilities, from @TheTinaVasquez:

From @CNN:

#NeverAgainIsNow #AbolishICE

cnn.com/2020/09/15/pol…
Another quick'n'easy action you can take right from the comfort of your home, to help immigrants being held in prisons when they've committed no crimes, and these women in particular: Image
This thread, for many MANY other documented instances of medical abuse and neglect at ICE and CBP facilities.

Not to mention, in case y'all fricken forgot, cuz I HAVEN'T, but SEVEN CHILDREN DIED in Federal custody inside of a year because of this administration's zero tolerance POLICY of taking those kids away from their parents, and otherwise detaining them.

#NeverForget #AbolishDHS Image
Well, that's point number 4 of the ICE playbook.

They Lie.

instagram.com/p/CFLkqsmhIpO/… ImageImageImage
75 years ago, US soldiers liberated Názi concentration camps. Now we have our own camps, in part bc 48% of Americans aged 18-39 can't name a single camp or ghetto from the 1940s.

Worse is the 11% of this age-group believing that Jews caused the Holocaust.
claimscon.org/millennial-stu… ImageImage
ICE: only 2 cases in 3 years were referred through proper channels specifically for hysterectomies.

We're meant to believe them w/out investigation, despite the facts:

1.They Lie
2.They garnish the truth: how many actual hysterectomies were *performed*?
3.They falsify records Image
Listen up:

My take from this article?

As of last night, @RepJayapal is in contact with SEVENTEEN immigrant women who had unnecessary procedures--including hysterectomies--performed on them WITHOUT CONSENT in ICE custody in GA.

More are coming forward all the time.

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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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Mar 4, 2020
I decided, a week ago, not to tell my husband this most dire part of the heart transplant visit. I told him about *needing* a heart, but not being able to *get* a heart until I took care of those 2 main problems: BMI & Support Network.

But I didn't want to unduly worry him.
He has MS, as most long-time readers will already know, but he's also on the spectrum--Asperger's--and his way of dealing with the world isn't the same as everyone else's. But for twenty years, I've been his whisperer. I *grok* him, like no one, he says, ever has before.
My being able to help him in social situations, and "interpret" for him--when I know what he meant to say, or what he actually wants--with doctors, friends, family, store clerks, etc., has been like a lifeline to him, he tells me.

He's terrified of losing me.
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