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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28861747

Summary

When Rosmery Alvarado, 42, arrived in Kansas City on Wednesday with her husband and daughter to attend a spousal interview for her green card application, “everyone had a bad feeling.”

They had received unusual short notice for the interview and saw warning signs. 40 minutes later, Alvarado was on her way to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

“We didn’t get any kind of warning. They didn’t let us say goodbye.”

“My mom is not a criminal,” Carina Moran said. “She’s just my mom.” “She told us that she was scared and that she probably cried to herself throughout the whole night, that it was cold.”

 

Bier, of the Cato Institute, said he has been "shocked" by the lack of pushback against Trump's proposal from Republican leaders and members of the conservative legal movement.

"It's unthinkable. It's absolutely a reflection of where Donald Trump has taken the Republican Party and the conservative movement," he said.

 

tl;dr: Bernie Sanders and AOC are trying to get grassroots organizers organized to fight Trumpism in purple-red districts. He wants you to join.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Exactly; the AP should fix their style guide.

 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/25573398

Congratulations, Wisconsin!

 

Congratulations, Wisconsin!

 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/25520591

Good to see KC standing up.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." - MLK Jr.

Your point around trying to keep the school boards on the right side of things is of paramount importance. Education is of paramount importance right now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely! I get it if you're stocking up for weather disasters to a degree, but the number of folks who rely strictly on bottled water is too high. Seems that some combination of advertising + fear and convenience have made it too enticing to use single-use water bottles, though. ☹️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Agreed! It's absolutely insane what passes the public by these days; unfortunately, I think that the extremely fast residence time for anything in the news cycle is getting worse these days...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thank goodness for the Lincoln Project! Maybe the bully in chief will eventually come to realize he's not in control here...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

They still can; the day is still young...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

A Heritage spokesperson told CyberScoop after publication that the organization was not “hacked.” Instead, the spokesperson said “an organized group stumbled upon a two-year-old archive of The Daily Signal website that was available on a public-facing website owned by a contractor. The information obtained was limited to usernames, names, email addresses, and incomplete password information of both Heritage and non-Heritage contributors, as well as article comments and the IP address of the commentor.”

At least they're admitting to being incompetent...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely despicable! Thank you for summarizing all of these details, this story has such sprawl it's difficult to capture just how all the issues factor into one another anymore. Really hope that justice starts to play out in the long term, but I'm not convinced that will happen on account of the corruption emanating from the State; the Kansas Bureau of Investigation decided to involve CBI in the matter, indicating the rot likely permeates much of the state bureaucracy as well.

There's also the attempt to undermine Kansas' 2016 Open Records Act in preventing the release of pertinent communications by officials and court records during and shortly before the raid (which many anti-transparency activists in the Kansas GOP are trying to use to get rid of the KORA (1 and 2)).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most definitely!

At least where I am, they're in the most uptown bougie strip mall they can get into; same situation with Whole Foods. Starting to shop exclusively at the two state-wide/local stores that don't have these issues, but wish more folks had access to quality local grocers who pay well and support unions.

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

That's a good question, never heard about this before now...

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