Federal Agents Stopped EMT From Giving Alex Pretti First Aid — One of the women involved in the confrontation, who was the closest civilian to Pretti when he was killed, said that in the immediate aftermath of the shooting she identified herself as an emergency medical technician and moved to perform CPR. Federal agents restrained her, said the woman, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution by the government.
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next | WIRED — Records reviewed by WIRED show that the ICE surge team has successfully found spaces for ICE across the country. In addition to expanding previously held ICE offices, it has moved or is moving ICE into new buildings, or into space the government controlled under the terms of existing leases, in almost every US state and major city.
Progress Toward Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2023 - PMC — During 2000–2023, measles vaccination saved an estimated 60 million lives. From 2022 to 2023, coverage with the first dose of measles-containing vaccine (MCV) remained at 83%, estimated measles cases increased 20%, and the number of countries affected by large or disruptive outbreaks increased from 36 to 57. Coverage was lower and measles incidence was higher in low-income countries and countries with fragile, conflict-affected, and vulnerable settings.
Politics is breaking down — and so is our language for it | The Verge — This captures a mood; I can't decide if I think it's true.
Immigrant whose skull was broken during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked | AP News — Once he was taken to an ICE holding facility at Ft. Snelling in suburban Minneapolis, Castañeda Mondragón said officers resumed beating him. Recognizing that he was seriously hurt, he said, he pleaded with them to stop but they just “laughed at me and hit me again.”
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ICE warehouse plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Opinion — But then Beissel — a Schuylkill County native who sees himself as a not very political preacher, in a county that Donald Trump won in 2024 with nearly 71% of the vote — pivoted to his moral dismay over a citizenship-seeking restaurant owner and father of a 2-year-old he knows from nearby Danville who was arrested by ICE and agreed to return to Mexico. “The Bible is pretty darn clear,” he said, “that we welcome the stranger.”
Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs | WIRED
First Loves and Bad Fantasy: Re-reading David Eddings - The Rambling — I loved it, was subsumed by it, read it until the spine broke and the pages fell out and then purchased another copy from my exceedingly modest allowance. It was a gateway drug to decades of genre reading and unquestionably played some role in my career as a writer of speculative fiction. It is also, and there is no real way around this, irredeemable dreck—and Eddings was, as it would turn out, something of a monster.
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Democratic lawmakers move to restrict ICE in Colorado - The Colorado Sun
CBP Agents Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez ID’d in Alex Pretti Shooting — ProPublica
After the Minnesota killings, what is your role and how can you help? | Vox — But Fraenkel’s book is called The Dual State for a reason. This first state, the business-as-usual one, actually exists to lull you into a sense of complacency such that you don’t realize that another state is also operating in parallel with it. That second state, which Fraenkel calls “the prerogative state,” only becomes visible to you when you do something that the powers that be don’t like. Then suddenly you’re in a realm where the rule of law does not exist, where citizens can be killed with impunity, where you — even you, who thought you were invulnerable — can become a target.
Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — It’s easy to throw stones if you think about the job displacement and ecological destruction caused by this pointless technology. But such black-and-white, not-wanting-billionaires-to-get-richer thinking is, quite frankly, cruel. You can’t just measure the value of something in terms of “whether or not it makes everything worse for everyone.” The world is much more complicated than that.