Rebecca I. Allen
"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Writer, former journalist, wife, mom, ASU alum. Likes: words, TV, movies, equity, democracy, and Disneyland
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- "Yuliia Dolotova, a mother of two, living in Kyiv’s Ukraine says her life has been reduced to the most basic essentials: warmth, light, and food." Her husband is serving in the east. "He should be coming soon. I live from leave to leave," she said. "I wait for him—that’s what keeps me going."
- "We really thought this was going to be one of a kind," said Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Abrego Garcia's lawyers. "If anything, it was just the tip of the spear. There have been countless illegal deportation cases since then. If anything, the problem is getting worse and not better."
- ...again
- Armed Only With A Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud A short documentary on the first American journalist killed in Russia's invason of Ukraine. Directed by his brother, and produced by Juan Arredondo, who was shot during the ambush that killed Brent www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
- "The federal government cannot be trusted. Our default position should be skepticism and understanding they lie very regularly," said Sameer Kanal, a Portland city councilor. "There’s a playbook of demonizing people … and claiming vehicles were used as ‘weapons.’ We see a pattern of victim-blaming"
- Vive la France! 🇫🇷 Paris prosecutors raid French offices of Elon Musk's X "The operation comes as both Britain and the European Union have opened separate probes into the generation of sexualised deepfakes of women and children by Musk's AI chatbot Grok." www.lemonde.fr/en/police-an...
- The OC Health Care Agency has confirmed measles case, flew into LAX and visited Orange County. "Because measles is highly contagious, it can spread quickly within communities, even among those who haven’t traveled." More info: www.ochealthinfo.com/press/infect...
- Minnesota state police arrested a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol employee in St. Paul. A state trooper found 31-year-old Alfredo Mancillas Jr. of Corpus Christi, Texas, slumped over his steering wheel while "covered in vomit," according to charges filed by the St. Paul City Attorney’s Office.
- Our tax dollars used to build more US concentration camps. "DHS bought two warehouses this month, one in Williamsport, Maryland, for $102 million and another in Surprise, Arizona, for $70 million, deed records show."
- This is one of the numerous reports this week on the 23 towns where ICE plans to convert industrial buildings into detention centers that would hold a total of up to 80,000 people. Gift Link The Detention Watch Network Is pushing back: bsky.app/profile/dete...
- CATHERINE!!!! 😭
