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She/her.
I swear a lot.
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- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Holy shit never thought about that Schuylkill county has a railroad too Big Lots warehouse in Tremont PA was just bought for millions by ICE to house detainees These warehouses logistics centers pay no taxes either
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Totally forgot to add this but someone mentioned how eerie it is that a train track is running near the area and it actually runs directly behind the proposed concentration camp. This video is from the parking lot:
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2The meeting is adjourned. Mayor Kevin Sartor ended the long meeting by saying “We hear you, we have a lot to consider and your voices are impactful and powerful.” Surprise showed tf up. The overflow room filled + hundreds outside. It ended with only 2 speakers in favor of the ICE camp.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2A Dysart High School student who says she can see the warehouse from her neighborhood: “I get a pit in my stomach when I think about how in a few months I have to go to school knowing humans are screaming for help and not getting the rights they deserve.” It’s 11:15 PM.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2A Surprise resident said that, if this camp gets finalized, it will turn Surprise into an “epicenter of protests,” and lead to more death and more violence. “This doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard or anywhere in the United States.”
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2So far, only two have spoken up in favor of the concentration camp. The crowd booed the hell out of them. The mayor told people to stop booing and they booed him too.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2A graduate from Dysart High School, the school across from the proposed concentration camp just spoke out against the facility, describing it as a “death camp.” They point out that Dysart High has a 60% Hispanic population. Another speaker said there are actually 9 schools in the nearby vicinity.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2There are hundreds of people trickling into the Surprise City Council meeting. The main room has filled up, and the overflow room is filling up atm. A crowd of protesters is also outside the building. 130 people have signed up to speak (and that’s just folks who live in Surprise).
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Most of the windows are not accessible by foot but the ones that are have been mostly covered. I found a section without covers — the inside is still empty but you can see the roll-up garage door leading to the next section of the facility. The back of each section also has huge roll-up doors.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Tonight will be the first Surprise City Council meeting since the Jan. 23rd sale. According to the City, federal projects are not subject to local zoning regulations. They also claim they were unaware of the purchase.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.
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- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Do not love how this industry has been shredded and remade into a teetering heap of gig work Freelancers fighting each other for a dwindling number of scraps, generational talent falling out of the ecosystem entirely, former staffers struggling while billionaires stuff their pockets A fucking mess
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Over three years after the suspicious death of Jina Mahsa Amini sparked a nationwide protest movement in Iran, artists continue to fuel creative resistance. Alessandra Bajec reports on the Iranian artists keeping the spirit of #WomanLifeFreedom alive.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Pew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Vast camps are central to Trumpism. Stephen Miller has long been very excited about them. Backlash is another sign that opposition to Trump/Miller runs deeper than revulsion at ICE. There's real resistance to the whole ideological project of mass deportations. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2This passed unnoticed: New Pew poll finds 64% oppose mass detention of migrants while their cases are decided. That directly repudiates MAGA. Trumpism treats the release of migrants awaiting hearings as a mortal blow to the nation. The broader public does not. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2These vast new prison camps would allow for the detention of 80,000 more migrants, more than doubling Trump/Miller's capacity for deportations. Yet resistance is breaking out in red Virginia, reddish parts of New Jersey, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Utah, and more. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Former race and ethnicity reporter for WaPo: “This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one.” He also says “hundreds of people” were laid off today, and I’ve seen it reported elsewhere that layoffs affected one third of the staff.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2After paying $40M for the Melania movie, Bezos is firing hundreds of Washington Post reporters who tell us actual facts. All while turning the editorial board into a billionaire-defense operation. Too often, the billionaires who control our biggest media outlets are selling out our country.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2What if we made a rule where a sitting president can’t sue the government he runs??? It seems a no brainer.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:
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- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2There are 27 grievances against King George the third in our Declaration of Independence. Several could apply to the reckless character of trumpism. 📜Read them.👇 Text of the Declaration of Independence www.britannica.com/topic/Declar...
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2👀 Rep. Kelly Morrison describes 'horrifying' conditions inside Whipple building www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Trump wants to control the country’s future by rewriting its past. For the latest issue of our magazine, @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social explain how the president is weaponizing history to wage his never-ending cultural and legal battles. Read it here: tinyurl.com/32n7948b
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Real Estate: The Beginning Of The End
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Thousands showed up in Seattle—nurses, doctors, educators—people who heal and protect life. Congress is voting to fund ICE instead of care. The public is choosing dignity and health. Lawmakers should listen. #FundHealthcareOverICE Let’s unite in compassion
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Our main priority right now is to remove these men from power and hold them accountable. They have no conscience and they are cornered and vicious. We must demand all those who are not implicated stand up to them now. If they refuse then we can't let assume they are guilty as well.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Martinez is recounting her harrowing experience: after being shot by CBP agents, she drove a mile to the safety of an auto shop where she called 911, got treatment at a hospital for 7 bullet wounds, then was immediately taken into custody by federal agents.
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
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- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2The whole "Trump can't rig the elections" thing strikes me somewhat the same way as "climate change isn't going to drive human beings extinct" thing. Like ... sure. OK. But there's a whole lot of bad shit that stops well short of that!
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2One agonizing part of now is knowing that the gutter internet racists are seeing all their sickest dreams come true through Stephen Miller. www.thefarce.org/how-gutter-i...
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2#FAFO Instead of simply buying their midterm votes with some scraps that won't dig them out of the predicament they voted themselves into, the US government could buy those crops, like the rice, and send it to poorer countries but we don't like doing that anymore. finance.yahoo.com/news/farmers...
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2Alligator Alcatraz was woefully ill equipped to house captives, but they had enormous state-of-the-art incinerators. Perhaps like the one installed at the Saudi Embassy before they dismembered Adnan Kashoggi?
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos2⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵
- Reposted by Sascha_Vykos23 million disgusting nudified images were produced by Grok in just 11 days. Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI. My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.
