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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Follow up article: Takeaways from AP’s report

The Trump administration wants to increase its budgeted capacity of about 41,000 beds for detaining migrants to at least 100,000 beds and maybe — if private prison executives’ predictions are accurate — more than 150,000.

 

Selected quotes. Highly recommend reading the whole thing. Tons of important info. Fuck these assholes.

The federal government has signed a deal with the private prison firm CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in Leavenworth as part of a surge of contracts U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued without seeking competitive bids.

ICE has cited a “compelling urgency” for thousands more detention beds, and its efforts have sent profit estimates soaring for politically connected private companies, including CoreCivic, based in the Nashville, Tennessee, area and another giant firm, The Geo Group Inc., headquartered in southern Florida.

To get more detention beds, the Trump administration has modified dozens of existing agreements with contractors and used no-bid contracts. One pays $73 million to a company led by former federal immigration officials for “immigration enforcement support teams” to handle administrative tasks, such as helping coordinate removals, triaging complaints or telling ICE if someone is a risk to community safety.

A tax-cutting and budget reconciliation measure approved last month by the House includes $45 billion over four years for immigrant detention, a threefold spending increase. The Senate is now considering that legislation.

Oh and our totally legit Attny General used to lobby for Geo Group

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully the “good stuff” you sprung for will kick in soon and she’ll be less resistant.

I don’t know much about horses, but I suppose this would be equivalent to a human having an infection under a fingernail or? Bc that’d be super sensitive pain wise.

So I take it she developed this since being at this farm? Could she get it again bc of conditions there?

You know, we really do need her full backstory. Sweet girl has a fan base and we love her ❤️ I know I smile every time you post a Sandy pic.

Also, if she needs anything else to help her live her best healthy life that you need help funding, I’m sure some of us would be happy to help.

Thanks for being her champion and for sharing her with the Fediverse!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Truly, a superb owl. RIP beautiful boy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

This old documentary has interviews with survivors and focuses on firsthand accounts. Highly recommend. It's age-gated so you'll have to sign in to YT to watch

Black Wall Street, Little Africa, Tulsa, Oklahoma (full version)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

S4 is a really interesting watch given the current political climate in the US. I just embarked on a re-watch this month. Agree G’kar and Londo scenes were great. My favorite duo in the show.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am so very sorry for your loss.

My favorite memory is from my childhood. We had just moved and this one particular day, I rode my bike instead of walking. I took piano lessons during the day at a building next door to the school. I went to go to my lesson around 10AM, and there Lyza was, laying down next to my bike like she was guarding it. As soon as she saw me, she bolted over to me and lots of slobbery kisses ensued. We lived about 10 city blocks from the school and I couldn't believe she'd found the bike and me. She wasn't more than 2 years old. I was so touched; she was our first dog and it was my first taste of that unconditional love. We really don't deserve them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago
  • Suicide by soft hanging
  • Cancer (family is loaded with it)
  • Stroke (genetic predisposition)
  • Some form of political violence / civil war
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sleepy girl so cute! And that’s great news to hear. I’m so glad you’re her human.

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My bathroom was right at the top of a long staircase. When I'd be putting makeup on in the morning, Gilligan would bring me one of the small sponge balls from the living room and drop it just inside the door. I'd flick it down the stairs and he'd leap down 2-3 stairs at a time, find the ball and bring it back for the next round. He'd do it over and over again, every day. Miss that boy. Great post!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes! Got a lot of mislabeled songs I ended up really liking and expanded my tastes quite a bit. Fun times

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/12574737

Now There’s a Luigi Mangione Musical Coming to San Francisco in June, and It’s Already Selling Out

 

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/25387405

Ahead of Luigi Mangione’s court appearance, supporters convened in-front of the courthouse holding banners, selling Luigi merch & parking billboard trucks that display info about UH denials [album]

http://luigimangioneinfo.com/

 

Welcome to the 8th annual Shkreli Awards, the Lown Institute’s top ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare, named for the infamous “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli.

 

Paywalled, as someone pointed out. Apologies. There is a summary video here on YT

This year, in the ongoing series “Health Care’s Colossus,” STAT documented how UnitedHealth wielded its unrivaled physician empire to boost its profits and expand its influence. The year before, in the “Denied by AI” series, STAT exposed how UnitedHealth used an unregulated algorithm to override clinicians’ judgments and deny health care, highlighting the dangers of AI use in medicine.

They show how UnitedHealth has turned health care into an assembly line that treats millions of patients as products to be monetized. And they chronicle how the $5 trillion American health care system came to be so broken.

These are the folks who discovered their AI algorithm and their reporting brought their fuckery to our collective attention

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