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Christy Marx Rambling Writer

Important to read:

"Several years ago, The New Yorker profiled these Libyan concentration camps. “Death in Libya, it’s normal: no one will look for you, and no one will find you,” it quoted a migrant telling Amnesty International. Under Libyan law, migrants have no rights whatsoever, including the right to counsel. According to the article, thousands of “migrants are disappearing into ‘unofficial” facilities run by traffickers and militias, where aid groups have no access.”

Before Doctors Without Borders made the decision to pull out of caring for migrants in Libyan detention facilities due to violence, it reported that guards would beat patients who attempted to leave their cells in order to receive medical care. Guards would also spray automatic weapons into overly crowded cells, indiscriminately killing many of those inside."

saltypolitics.substack.com/p/b

Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky · Breaking: Trump is now sending people to concentration campsBy Julie Roginsky
#MarxToot#USpolitics#ConcentrationCamps
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petersuber

Jill Lawrence (@jilldlawrence) is very good on how US #data policy declined from #Obama ("Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default") to #Trump. "Huge collections of scientific and statistical data are already gone, while enormous caches of personal data —your finances, health, income, and more— are in the hands of unknown, inexperienced people who have no business getting access to it, based on either laws or common sense."
thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-

The Bulwark · Donald Trump’s Information Warfare Against AmericaBy Jill Lawrence
#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData
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Jonathan Emmesedi

The Austin arts and humanities are being hit hard by the Trump mandated cuts to the NEA and NEH:

axios.com/local/austin/2025/05

axios.com/local/austin/2025/04

I have no doubt that communities across the USA are also being hit by these crippling NEA/NEH grant cancellations.

The money that would have benefited a host of artists, performers, researchers, writers and , most importantly, myriad American audiences and readers is now going to be diverted to Trump's pet "history" project, The National Garden of American Heroes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National

If this Garden of OFFICIAL HISTORY kitsch ever comes into being, visitors who are not distracted by parties of bored school children will be left to wonder what criteria required the commemoration of Calvin Coolidge but not LBJ, or of Steve Jobs but not Walter Reuther. They might also lament that the compilers of this list of "American" heroes did not pause before including Tecumseh, whose gallant resistance against US expansionism ended with the desecration of his body at the hands of American soldiers.

A photo of two people smiling on a stage.
Axios Austin · Trump cuts hit Austin arts sceneBy Nicole Cobler
#USPolitics#USHistory#NEH
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