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Nicole Chung
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“The profit margins of facilities like Delaney Hall depend on coercing people into working for otherwise illegal rates, Andrew Free, an immigration lawyer and journalist who researches conditions in ICE detention, said.”
just listen to yourselves. “we must spread lies about trans kids to win against the most unpopular president in literal history.” it’s shameful
A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK
Melissa Gira Grant
public health guy
A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks.
last weekend my daughter and I went to a Broadway show with a friend I originally met because I signed their guestbook when we were both teens, and it was v. amusing trying to explain this to my Zoomer
NSO official: “We don’t have a budget. We don’t know the status of the center. We don’t know where we’re going to perform”
so many brilliant musicians who used to be able to make a living (against the odds) might not be able to going forward. it's all so stupid and tragic.
"83% of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. When the LLM group was forced to write without AI in a follow-up session, their brain activity did not bounce back to baseline; the researchers coined the term 'cognitive debt' for the lingering deficit."
"A review that has charm & energy, that beguilingly advocates for the life of the mind, makes a case...for being a reader, for engaging in ideas in a living way... In their neglect of criticism, book & newspaper publishers assume that the development of readers is happening somewhere else, offstage"
Nicole Chung
my colleague José Olivares has been doing amazing work interviewing Delaney Hall detainees' loved ones.
"We needed their voices to be heard, which is why the protest started in the first place," Gabriela Soto, wife of Martín—a hunger and labor striker whose sudden transfer sparked protests—told him
Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung
The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
Lex McMenamin (they/them)
www.chronicle.com
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody.
As detainees go on hunger strike over conditions at Delaney Hall, relatives describe concern for loved ones’ wellbeing
"A year after resigning from the Kennedy Center, it still hurts that I had to leave... The members of the NSO were in a different position. There was nothing to gain from their resignation, except simple unemployment." Ben Folds, former artistic advisor to the NSO, on the orchestra's plight:
