A weird feeling to be included in this today, but honored to be one of those included under immigration

We would like to highlight Lora Adams and her work on #ACA4DACA . Lora authored and led the NGO letter to the administration signed by 320 organizations and authored one of the key reports in this work, which you can read here: tinyurl.com/5deb7fz3

It's Day 2!

Today we are bridging the gap between research and policy! Lora Adams, a guest policy expert, is leading a workshop on strategic ways we view our work through a policy lens and build relationships with stakeholders.

#IWB2023 #ImmigrantWellBeing #Immigration

Someone needs to hold my face between their hands and tell me, gently and firmly, not to watch Heartstopper for the fourth time in three days.

It was the Jeanst of times, it was the Jortst of times

Gadsby used comedy to deconstruct what happens when we tell a joke at someone else's expense. That's anathema to Chappelle, who wants his jokes to challenge people with privilege but who for some unearthly reason thinks trans people fall into that category vox.com/culture/227385…

This is a pretty bulletproof refutation of the “immigrants are behind the covid surge” rhetoric, I think, but it also gets at one “why”: the unvaccinated want to avoid the blame they deserve. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

Dear America, there are good, smart, reasonable people in Arkansas who believe in science, want to keep kids safe, and very strongly disagree with many of the things you are seeing from our legislature. Do not write us all off. This isn’t entertainment, it’s life or death for us.

Nearly every migrant gets a COVID test. Those test results account for around 1% of all positives in Texas.

That means that 99% of all people testing positive in Texas aren't migrants—it's community spread, in part because Abbott banned mask mandates and vaccine requirements.

high school mean girl to nurse to antivaxxer pipeline

This is the oxymoron that restrictionists peddle.

“We cannot be humane to immigrants, because if we are not inhumane and cruel to them, they will come to the US and suffer on the journey. Therefore, to alleviate their suffering, we must make them suffer until they stop coming.”

In 10 years of living in America, I’ve talked a lot about immigrating here. But the story about how I’ve managed to stay is one I’ve never told in full.

For The Atlantic, I wrote about being — and becoming — undocumented. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This gofundme is for one of the workers who was a part of the building collapse on Kennedy Street earlier this week.

If you have any funds to spare, please donate to support his recovery. gofundme.com/f/dcsurvivor

Enslavers in Texas purposely failed to free enslaved ppl and probably never would’ve if a union general hadn’t rode into Texas. That’s the meaning of Juneteenth—not the day that slavery ended but rather that white supremacy will always find way to persevere. Note to news outlets.