Just remember, as you watch how the police are going to treat white people showing up to the counting spaces in the next couple days, what you saw all summer.
Watch how the media describe white people’s behavior.

“A tense scene.”
“tensions running high”

Watch for emotional characterizations of their behavior that treat white people as complex humans with needs & desires.

You won’t here “vandals” “trespassers” “looters” “rioters”
They have really strong feelings about this election’s outcome and they’re expressing those feelings and things sometimes get out of hand but aw shucks democracy.

Non-white protestors are characterized by the government and media as mobs.
*hear.
How would this sort of show of force have been met?

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More from @ImmCivilRights

7 Nov
“Wanted by ICE*”

(Just not badly enough to go to a neutral magistrate and get a warrant because that’s how much we care about the public safety mission we say we serve: We are literally not willing to just go get a warrant for a guy we put on a billboard.)
ICE pretends the Fourth Amendment has nothing to do with public safety. They want the people reading this billboard to be okay in a world where their agents can arrest anyone, anytime, anywhere. Don’t worry, though, just “bad” guys. (And some kids)
A #FOIA I’ve been meaning to do but have to admit to myself I won’t is to seek the Fugitive Operations Worksheet or Field Operation Worksheet for the FugOps teams who are supposed to be looking for guys like this man and then measure them against ICE’s effort to pick a scary face
Read 5 tweets
6 Nov
So many people in movement worked so hard for candidates who weren’t even their third or fourth choice. And they won. Which means you have to listen to them. Sorry. That’s how this works.
(They also *knew* y’all were gonna do this. People who sat it out *told* them this is what the corporate party folks would do. Once they’re expendable again they’re disposable and it’s time to be quiet and let adults make deals. They knew you’d do this but worked anyway.)
The timing on it is just such a betrayal.

Couldn’t even wait until the national race was called to put people in their place.

If you want to build a left coalition around defending these broken, racist, toxic, deadly, costly institutions, prepare to answer why.
Read 7 tweets
27 Oct
Six weeks ago @ProjectSouth and @GovAcctProj filed a #Whistleblower complaint alleging horrific medical abuses at #ShutDownIrwin

We’ve asked nearly every day:
How many surgeries did ICE pay doctor Amin to perform?

They won’t tell you. Why?

17 Amin patients remain at Irwin
Since the @ProjectSouth report came out, movement orgs like @SoGA_Support @GLAHR_ @GaDetWatch, immigration lawyers coordinated by @AILANational members @ leaders, systemic change & mass rep experts at @ThinkLawLab, & health professionals at @Doc4CampClosure PHR, CVR assembled.
The record these advocates and professionals built assisted @RepJayapal with building a coalition to introduce, debate, and pass #HRes1153. @HispanicCaucus went to #ShutDownIrwin & heard directly from women. @JacksonLeeTX18 intervened to protect and free an Amin surgery survivor.
Read 8 tweets
24 Oct
According to Dr. Amin's lawyer, women in ICE custody at Irwin can't expect to get their medical records of the treatment he gave at his office and the surgery he does at the hospital from the federal agency that's paying for it because it's legally responsible for their med care.
Instead, each of these women should file three separate request forms for these records, Dr. Amin suggests.

Okay.

That's not at all how this works.

But okay.

#ShutDownIrwin
Here's the thing:

The records say what the records say.
Read 6 tweets
13 Oct
TVPA Contractor Notifications to OIG Pursuant to 48 CFR 52.222-50(d) muckrock.com/foi/united-sta… via @muckrock
S1 Overview of Voluntary Work Program Records muckrock.com/foi/united-sta… via @muckrock
Read 5 tweets
12 Oct
It’s Indigenous People’s Day so I’ll share that the paternal side of my family from whom I draw my name moved to occupied land in the mountains of North Georgia following the Trail of Tears and then benefited from an economy that extracted the world’s purest gold from the land.
Some of that gold lines the dome of the Georgia State Capitol today. The American President who murdered and forcibly relocated the Cherokee Nation—to whose people I’m told I relate by least one blood relative—had his portrait prominently displayed in the Oval Office in 2017.
If Indigenous People’s Day is to mean anything for white people, including those, like me, who also hail from Italian immigrants (many of whom would qualify as refugees by today’s standards), it must include a personal reflection of what was taken and where we’d be if it wasn’t.
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