gAlienLifeform

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Actually, eating less won't work for a lot of people and you could easily end up doing more harm to your health than the obesity is doing if you push it far enough

What you need to do is eat healthy and get regular physical activity to coax your body into metabolizing things like it should. Of course, healthy food and the space to exercise both cost money, so yeah - poverty is to social problems what boiling water is to generating energy.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

The salad comb thing is honestly probably the most charming story I've heard about her

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

According to my recollection, you accepted full responsibility and pledged to do better going forward. You also promised not to embezzle any of the company's money going forward, which was a weird thing to say unprompted.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Avoiding my calls because verbal conversations make you anxious? Fair enough, I will spend an embarrassingly long time to write, re-read, delete, re-write, re-read several times, re-delete, re-write a third time by blending versions one and two, re-read and realize I didn't explain something, re-write and realize that something else is irrelevant, re-read and realize it wasn't irrelevant because two paragraphs later etc. until I have a message that can't possibly be misread, send it, and then agonize about writing something that was misread until I hear back from you while pathologically refreshing my inbox.

Saying you can't talk now but scheduling a time for me later? Totally fair, you have a whole ass job outside of my stupid problems, if they can wait I will wait and if they can't I'll go back to paragraph 1.

Avoiding my calls because you think I'm dumb but won't just tell me how I'm being dumb so I can try to make improvements? Congrats, my new work project is making your work life a living hell until you either quit or schedule a call with me where we can discuss preferred communication styles and how to demonstrate mutual respect.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 28 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin, not on someone's voluntary history of involvement in a fascist organization

Yall realize this goes both ways

This is why every single ICE agent and anyone who sympathizes with them needs all their political power removed immediately before they can hurt this country anymore than they already have, they will try to retaliate against any kind of accountability for their organization's many crimes

 
 

Selamawit Mehari, an Eritrean single mother of three, was starting her day when federal agents showed up at her apartment in St. Paul, Minn., on a recent morning. As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully, the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away.

“They didn’t explain anything,” recalled her daughter, Yosan, 21, who described the encounter to The New York Times. “We didn’t understand. We had done everything right.”

The next day, chained at the wrists, waist and ankles, Ms. Mehari, 38, was shuffling up the steps of a plane bound for Texas, tears streaming down her face in the frigid wind.

More than 100 refugees with no criminal record from about a dozen countries have been arrested in Minnesota by immigration agents in recent weeks and flown to detention centers in Texas for interviews, according to lawyers, family members and faith leaders. At least some, including Ms. Mehari, were eventually released in Texas, leaving them to find their own way home.

Archived at https://archive.ph/t725T

 

9 months after the prison guard strike, incarcerated people are being denied early release after not completing programming that they don’t have access to

Archived at https://archive.ph/TayYB

 

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share evidence that shows how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.”

Marimar Martinez’s lawyer argued Monday that top Trump administration officials continue to smear her name, and that the White House’s false narrative about her arrest has even seeped into writings by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

All the while, a standard court order bars Martinez from sharing records in her case, such as body-camera footage and electronic communications. Designed to protect against the improper disclosure of evidence, attorney Chris Parente said the order has instead become “a prophylactic to countering a pernicious misinformation campaign mounted by the United States.”

Archived at https://archive.ph/3hNlh

 
 
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, but this is a weird usage of that term. Normally it's for old dudes who are maybe a bit corny (because old) but basically good dudes. Like, FD Signifier's fans call him unc all the time.

It appears she's ok

The man was swiftly tackled by someone else in the room and was eventually escorted out of the room. Omar returned to speaking after a few minutes.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has reached out to Omar’s office for more information about the incident.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/rep-ilhan-omar-charged-at-by-man-sprayed-with-unknown-substance-at-town-hall-meeting/ (arc)

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It appears she's ok

The man was swiftly tackled by someone else in the room and was eventually escorted out of the room. Omar returned to speaking after a few minutes.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has reached out to Omar’s office for more information about the incident.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/rep-ilhan-omar-charged-at-by-man-sprayed-with-unknown-substance-at-town-hall-meeting/ (arc)

e; added paragraph of quote and arc link

It's easier to serve civil paperwork to people who are in prison, let's make sure to do that too

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It appears she's ok

The man was swiftly tackled by someone else in the room and was eventually escorted out of the room. Omar returned to speaking after a few minutes.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has reached out to Omar’s office for more information about the incident.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/rep-ilhan-omar-charged-at-by-man-sprayed-with-unknown-substance-at-town-hall-meeting/ (arc)

e; added paragraph of quote and arc link

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, if they really want to support these people they need to neutralize the violent troopers who are harassing hurting and killing them. Hot cocoa is a nice gesture, and a lot of important things start with nice gestures, but it can't end here.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only way that could happen would be if this guy stayed in the race and ran as an independent, which is what he is not doing and I believe is what the other commenter is saying he should have done instead

 

Immigration attorney Eric Lee said he was at the Dilley facility for a confidential visit with clients — an immigrant family of six, including five children — when guards began shouting for everyone in the waiting area to leave, citing what they described as “an incident.”

As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car, he said he heard what sounded like “hundreds of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent." He said he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad."

Lee said clients he later spoke with told him the protest was triggered by concerns over the treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, a five-year-old who was taken into custody with his father in Minnesota earlier this week and transferred to the Dilley facility.

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Lee described Saturday’s action inside the facility as a peaceful demonstration, not a riot, and said the show of solidarity carried risk for detained families.

Lee said the protest unfolded against what he described as harsh day-to-day conditions inside the Dilley detention center. He characterized the facility as “a horrible, horrible place,” alleging that drinking water is “putrid” and often undrinkable, and that meals have contained “bugs,” dirt, and debris.

“The guards are just as tough as the guards at the adult facilities. This is not a place that you would want to have your child be for even 15 minutes,” Lee said.

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Texas Public Radio reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment on the disturbance and on Lee’s allegations regarding Liam Ramos’ treatment but had not received a response by Saturday evening.

Bolding added, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260126023037/https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2026-01-24/protest-breaks-out-at-dilley-immigration-detention-facility-holding-5-year-old-liam-ramos

 
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