Joan from the Bronx
My name is Joan, so I must be a Boomer. Writer of mostly unpublished work, and the very occasional public television show. Refugee from the legal profession.
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxMaria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxThis is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxDinosaurs Survived! All 15 designs so far. www.emmalerae.com/store.html
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- Reposted by Joan from the BronxA man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxIt's Leo's Towing--and they're doing a charity event with Lito's Burritos on Sunday 💜 www.facebook.com/share/186pVG...
- Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests - CBS Minnesota share.google/becCjcjvfGiG...
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxThe public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Joan from the BronxIt really says something about our national descent that the President of the United States and the most damaged, onanistic submoron in the country are now, somehow, the same exact person.
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxWas driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxLooks like NJ-11 is sending an organizer to Congress! Congratulations @analiliafornj.bsky.social on shaking the political earth tonight! Can’t wait to keep working with you, from the streets of our neighborhoods to the halls of Congress. #FightDontFold
- Reposted by Joan from the Bronxthis is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxTrump's FBI raid in Georgia is potential model for getting search warrant to seize 2026 ballot boxes, says @rickhasen.bsky.social. "Once those ballots are out of control of election officials we’ve lost chain of custody." On the pod Rick illuminatingly explains all: newrepublic.com/article/2062...
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxThe fact that it’s an “executive order” is important here. More policies being set by authoritarian rule.
- Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxIn the historically anti-union South, the UAW just secured a landmark contract with Volkswagen. The workers won major wage increases, job security against outsourcing, and higher-quality healthcare. Congratulations to these workers, and remember: there is always hope in labor.
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxI love this and the museum is amazing ❤️🖤💚
- Reposted by Joan from the Bronx“We have been asked to call the centrist response to this presidency “moderation.” Recent events make it clear we should recognize it as appeasement.” Excellent piece by @rauchway.bsky.social about the importance of building an enduring coalition capable of recovery and reform.
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- Reposted by Joan from the Bronx“I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxCivil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxI keep seeing Americans be like “why don’t CEOs challenge trump! They’re cowards” and it’s so bizarre to see so many dyed in the wool capitalists who have no fucking clue what capitalism is or how it works
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxI hope all 23 Democratic Attorneys General open up simultaneous investigations into Elon's extraordinary lawlessness and depravity.
- Reposted by Joan from the Bronx‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxIf you won’t say this, you should not hold public office
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- Reposted by Joan from the Bronxkrugman is spiking the football and doing an end zone dance
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxCongress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor
- Reposted by Joan from the Bronxthe Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxJohn Roberts has passed up Roger Taney in the race for worst chief justice in SCOTUS history.
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxImmigrants have paid more in taxes than they have received in benefits every single year for the past 30 years, according to new analysis from Cato. Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."
- Reposted by Joan from the Bronx94 Years Ago Today: Feb. 4, 1932 Front Page
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxAI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-onl…
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxIt's a moral injury, yes, just like people who help with executions. Turns out, concentration camps are bad for lots of people idk what else to say.
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxWe believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Alex Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. Read our full story: propub.li/4qUNfXH
- Reposted by Joan from the Bronx67% of the homicides in Minneapolis and 50% of the homicides in all of Minnesota this year have been committed by federal agents. Read that again.
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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- Reposted by Joan from the BronxBegging for index inclusion has more than a whiff of desperation to it, it's what companies do when they know their own performance can't justify their high valuations. (Which is precisely why MSTR was so desperate for it at the Bitcoin peak; it's down 63% over the past year.)
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxTruly depressing that a 30-year-old gallows humour joke about American politics remains as apt as this one has.
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxThis should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.
- "For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxFrom 1982-2018, the Republican National Committee was barred from "ballot security measures" because of their record of using state actors to intimidate minority voters. (H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social) www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...
- Reposted by Joan from the Bronx"The Post is abandoning its current audience in search of one that may not exist." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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- Reposted by Joan from the BronxThis Boston Review piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is obviously not going to be the last word in the "popularism" debate. But it's the last word for me, in the sense that anything I might want to say on it is said better here. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxMy favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.
- Reposted by Joan from the BronxThe response to our Day for Gaza has been really inspiring. Thank you for affirming that this is still an important story, and that the people of Gaza have not been forgotten.
- Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
