Just read through "Sanctuary" by Paola Mendez & Abby Sher, which was electrifying as I read news about ICE kidnappings in local towns, including one in Waltham today where they left a kid alone on the sidewalk:

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone/

I've got my share of gripes with the politics of the book (falls awkwardly between liberal and radical) but in terms of helping inspire sympathy towards the plight of immigrants, it was useful to me and might be to others.

Like Parable of the Sower, this is dystopian fiction where we can recognize some people in the real world right now live in exactly the conditions described; the only difference is how many people are in those conditions: a few or a majority.

We are I feel/hope headed towards a time of more massive protests and a true political reckoning, but I hope we reach that point sooner rather than later.

They should.

In the Abrego Garcia v. Noem (8:25-cv-00951) case

"Fix the Courts" proposes Judge Xinis approves an order to LIVE STREAM the trial, to expose the #NAZI #FASCIST #MAGAts #ClownCarCabinet controlling US/DoJ.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.120.3.pdf

A discovery of 13 bodies of gold miners in a mine shaft in Peru underscores authorities’ struggles to respond to violent gangs tapping into an illegal boom at a time of record high prices. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/06/world/crime-legal/mining-murders-peru-gold-rush/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #mining #peru #gold #kidnappings #southamerica

Relatives of Japanese people kidnapped by North Korea decades ago urged the reclusive country to release the abduction victims. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/05/japan/north-korea-abductees-relatives/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #northkorea #us #kidnappings

Y’ALL!

USA’s official ball fluffer to the rich and famous actually published this about the Republican-sponsored #kidnappings #abductions #humanTrafficking to the #cryptobro concentration camp:

❝ "The officers grabbed him and two other boys…" Merwil’s father, Wilmer Gutiérrez, told Documented, before claiming, "One said, 'No, he's not the one,' like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, 'Take him anyway.' " ❞
https://people.com/ice-agents-arrested-wrong-teen-take-him-anyway-report-11715749

a celebrity mag is doing journalism.

#Google Laid Off Workers That Help Investigators During #SchoolShootings and #Kidnappings
A third of the team responsible for handling Google’s data requests was laid off, a union representing workers said, raising concerns about how the company will manage its users’ data security.
The team, which union claims had less than 100 members before the #layoff, is responsible for dealing with law enforcement and public data requests and regulatory compliance on a global scale.
https://www.404media.co/google-legal-investigations-team-layoffs/

The Fukuoka District Court has rejected a retrial request for the executed convict of a 1992 murder of two girls. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/05/japan/crime-legal/1992-murder-retrial-rejected/ #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #fukuoka #kidnappings

A Chinese exchange student who fell victim to a "cyber kidnapping" scam in which his parents were extorted for $80,000, was found alive but "cold and scared" in a tent in the Utah wilderness, police said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/02/world/crime-legal/chinese-student-us-cyber-kidnapping/?utm_content=buffer4156c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #worldnews #crimelegal #china #us #kidnappings