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Pmbluemoon's avatar

I know this might be a little help, make sure your healthcare directive is filled in, up to date, and notarized. Give copies to your emergency contacts as well as leaving a copy in your space (residence/car/shelter/purse/backpack). Please stay safe out there everyone 🫂

Edit: Include pets, kids, anyone under your care who might be left alone if you're gone (even for a short time).

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

This is great advice! A bit of preparation can go a long way.

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Bob's avatar

Thanks for bringing this important matter to our attention - as always Bob

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Thank you for reading!

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Charles Dignam's avatar

ICE is the equivalent of Hitler’s Nazi SA. Thugs posing as Law Enforcement Officers.

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

I wish we could hold them accountable. Get some actual transparency as opposed to letting them act like they’re above the law.

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Angie's avatar

Not only is there currently a government shutdown with Democrats trying to protect Americans from (potentially disabling) substantial healthcare premium increases due to the ACA credits expiring, now they are telling states not to send SNAP benefits to their electronic processing vendors for November because they are financially insolvent as of the end of October. They literally do not care that people may die. In fact, that's exactly the point of all of this.

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Not only do they not care, they’ve been making light of it! They know people will lose their healthcare and food, and they make sombrero AI videos and crack jokes. The cruelty is the point.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Thank you for this post. I think ICE needs missiles to target whole groups of people they want to injure or kill. Tear gas is not lethal enough for the goons. I agree with your assessment that disabled people are targets to be culled. RFK, Jr. wants to eliminate autistic persons from society. ICE can help him do that. As for helping people who get taken, is there a bracelet or finger ring that has GPS tracking? A linked relative or friend might be able to trace where someone is from that.

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Robert Riggs's avatar

Apple makes the Air Tag, a small hideable tracking device. Pair it with an iphone of a trusted wife, relative, or close friend. Should you go missing, your trusted friend can at least track your location,until the kidnappers (public or private) strip or find it.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Air Tag, that's what I couldn't remember when I wrote about devices. Thank you.

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Robert Riggs's avatar

Very welcome!

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Mac-Fac's avatar

Excellent journalism, thank you for reporting!

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The Rainbow Zee's avatar

Nazi America and the American Nazi Party. I am both fucking angry and fucking terrified.

My Grandfather fought against Nazis in WWII. Is it wrong to hope the rest of the world sees the same danger and does everything they can to stop this?

People can stand around and wave signs until the cows come home, but we need action. The nazi government should fear US.

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KOB's avatar

The parallels with how ICE is treating our most vulnerable in this country and how the IDF treats Palestinians is even more stark when you fold in the idea this is a mass disabling event...just like the genocide in Gaza and occupied Palestinian territories.

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Mac-Fac's avatar

Exactly and exactly what racist white settlers in the US military did to my indigenous Nez Perce and Kootenai descendants right here not too long ago 😡

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Tamara's avatar

Given the way people bend over backwards to encourage the mass disabling event of Covid I am not surprised at all that people aren't talking about how disabled people are targeted by ICE. It's no surprise that Government insist Covid is no threat, when it's doing their job for them (mass disabling and killing immigrants, people of colour, and protestors).

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William's avatar

Thanks for keeping things hopeful and positive, but still giving the honest truth. It's so overwhelming what's going on right now, so hard to even believe, and mostly so very sad.

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K Andrea Fields's avatar

It’s nearly impossible to do an accurate running talley of atrocities and human rights violations committed by federal agents for the benefit of the American taxpayers. The detention landscape is evolving daily! -

-Two pregnant California women were allegedly beaten on a sidewalk by ICE/CBP bounty hunters until they had miscarriages;

- Over 23 detainees have already expired while being chased down, beaten, tortured and starved while in detention;

- The facility in Miami, Florida stopped reporting fatalities after those first five were covered by mainstream media;

- Untold numbers of minor children have allegedly expired in custody at two corporate detention facilities in Texas and Louisiana;

- Several dead detainees were allegedly found in a mass grave by the side of a Texas roadway, with their hands and feet bound together.

This is not how I want my tax money spent. - kaf

POLITICO; “ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount…” -

https://share.google/ioZWweyz3hM22zNot

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Gayle Frances Larkin's avatar

Thank you for your very revealing post and all the care and attention you take to keep us all informed. I am so sorry that you are suffering so much. We stand with you. We stand beside you and we appreciate what you are doing.

It's unbelievable that so many voters have enabled these unqualified people who all should be under close medical supervision, and not be allowed to destroy everyone and everything. I wonder about the ability to reason and to think of anyone who is funding these catastrophes.

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