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Who’s Behind ICE? How Amazon, Palantir, Microsoft & Tech Giants Are Powering Trump’s Deportations | Video Worth Watching
From the Democracy Now! YouTube page:
A shocking new investigation by immigrant rights groups reveals how corporations like Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft are profiting from and expediting Trump’s incarceration and deportation operations. Some 10 percent of the Department of Homeland Security’s $44 billion budget is dedicated to data management. The report was published as new documents obtained by the Project on Government Oversight show Amazon is pushing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to start using its controversial facial recognition technology that could identify immigrants in real time by scanning faces in a video feed. We speak with Jacinta González, organizer with Mijente, a national political hub for Latinx organizing. The group partnered with the Immigrant Defense Project and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild on the new report titled “Who’s Behind ICE? The Tech and Data Companies Fueling Deportations.”
Following Terror Attacks, County DA Stephan Takes Down Her Anti-Soros Campaign Website
In the wake of the bombs sent via mail to various Democratic supporters, I revisited District Attorney Summer Stephan’s campaign website on Wednesday, which utilized many of the right-wing memes many believe were responsible for billionaire George Soros being included as a target.
Senator Bernie Sanders to Speak at ‘Get Out the Youth Vote’ Rally, Supporting Local Candidates
A rally on Friday at MiraCosta College in Oceanside aimed at encouraging young voters will feature one of Bernie Sanders two appearances in California.
Doors will open at the college gymnasium at 6pm for the event, open to registered voters. RSVPs are being taken via the BernieSanders.com website.
The Vermont Senator will reportedly be joined by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as he winds up a nine-state trip in support of Democratic candidates.
Asylum Seekers Aren’t Scary – Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | Video Worth Watching
In this week’s Full Frontal Samantha Bee considers the issue of what’s scary, suggests some likely candidates, and identifies some non-contenders. [Read more…]
Terror by Mail, Riots, and Refugees: Anxiety As a Political Weapon
I’ll say right up front that I don’t believe anybody with a direct connection to the Trump administration has anything to do with the bombs mailed to George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Eric Holder, and CNN.
I will instead direct readers to the definition of stochastic terrorism, namely the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.
Yes To Affordable Homes Now. Yes to Proposition 10 | Readers Write
By Ignacio Hernandez V. / ACCE
Today, more Californians are paying more than half their income on rent. Every day, the number of families struggling to make ends meet increases. According to the Los Angeles Times, every 5 percent of rent increase in Los Angeles today leads to 2,000 people becoming homeless. Seniors, families, workers, teachers, and all others on fixed incomes who have lived in their homes for years are being forced out due to unscrupulous real estate speculators.
We need a solution — and that solution is voting Yes on Proposition 10.
Passing Prop. 10 this November 6 is an easy, fair, and necessary step to help tackle the affordable housing crisis. We need to give back the right of local communities to make rental policy that’s right for them, not just for corporate landlords. Our local communities need all the tools at their disposal to address skyrocketing housing costs. [Read more…]
Four Reasons School Dress Codes are Sexist | Video Worth Watching
From the MTVDecode web page:
Is your school’s dress code sexist? While showing up to school naked might be everyone’s worst nightmare, being shamed and punished for wearing a skirt that is slightly too short or spaghetti straps that are little too thin is a real problem students (and female students in particular) face everyday.
Judge Gary Kreep & Reasons to Avoid Slate Mailers
Here’s a reminder as election day nears: direct mail voter guides from seemingly innocuous organizations are a bad resource for making ballot decisions.
A tip from a reader in this morning’s email about Judge Gary Kreep’s presence on the ‘Election Digest, a Project of the Coalition for Literacy’ slate mailer prompted me to post an updated version of the warning I made prior to the primary.
Kreep is an eccentric ultra-conservative who made it to the bench in 2012 because nobody thought he’d be taken seriously. “Everybody knew” he was a birther, associated with conspiracy crazed tea party types. “Everybody knew” Kreep’s peers at the San Diego County Bar Association rated him “Lacking Qualifications,” the lowest rating in their evaluation system for judges up for election. [Read more…]
New! A Hotline for Racists | Video Worth Watching
From the New York Times YouTube web page:
In this satirical infomercial, the comedian and actress Niecy Nash plays the inventor of a new hotline, 1-844-WYT-FEAR. The video advertises a phone service for white people to call when they can’t cope with black people living their lives near them. It’s a real phone number we created so that fearful whites can call it for advice, about their racism.
[h/t to Annie L.] [Read more…]
GOP Campaign Fodder: Transgender Humans, Birth Control, Immigrants, Jews, Muslims, and Californians
Republicans and their standard-bearer President are stepping up the pace of hate in political campaigns from coast-to-coast. Buying into their rhetoric means buying into the belief Republican candidates are the only thing standing between the ‘good people’ of the United States and mob rule.
Crusades against the ‘other’ aren’t just limited to political rallies. The administration’s bureaucracy is also doing its part.
Transgender people learned what’s in store for them on Sunday, via an article in the New York Times, which disclosed a memo seeking to reverse the Obama administration’s more fluid recognition of gender identity.
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