1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS
The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths.
This is a health crisis and a moral crisis.
Follow along for details.
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"1970, the year in which Reichardt’s film takes place, is a hinge between the utopian visions of the 1960s and the nihilistic spirit to come, one which touts creativity and human ingenuity but keeps its eye squarely on the profit line."
Jacob Rubin on Kelly Reichardt, art, and AI.
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Now online from our Spring issue, Jacob Rubin on Kelly Reichardt, theft, and the work of art in the age of AI:
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Our new issue, FOREVER WARS, heads to press soon.
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So many Haitians were placed in detention that even the Reagan administration acknowledged the situation “could create an appearance of ‘concentration camps’ filled largely by blacks.”
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First group of migrants deported from the US under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador.
This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.
Watching Kelly Reichardt’s films in the age of Anthropic.
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The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.
The first migrants deported from the United States under a recent bilateral agreement arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, according to one of the migrants, a lawyer in contact w...
