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Fifteen children and teenagers have been rescued from russian occupation over the past week, the Save #Ukraine, a Ukrainian humanitarian NGO, announced on March 25.
"All of them went through fear, threats, and pressure — but now they are finally safe" - organization's founder Mykola Kuleba
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-brings-back-15-children-from-russian-occupied-territories/

Fifteen children and teenagers have been rescued from Russian occupation over the past week, the Save Ukraine, a Ukrainian humanitarian NGO, announced on March 25. "All of them went through fear, threats, and pressure — but now they are finally safe," the organization's founder, Mykola Kuleba, said. He did not specify which Russian-held Ukrainian territories the children were brought back from. Among the rescued children is 9-year-old Nazar. He had to live under air strikes from the start of
After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding.
These are his neighbors, in their city, in their own words.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-minneapolis-neighbors-protest-ice/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Minneapolis #MutualAid #Community #Minnesota #Photography

After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbors, in their city, in their own words.
“We're not a racist organization, and we don't racial profile.”
That’s a claim that Sheriff Jerry Sheridan has made again and again.
But annual reviews of every traffic stop or arrest of a Latino person have repeatedly contradicted him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sheriff-jerry-sheridan-maricopa-county-court-oversight?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arizona #MaricopaCounty #Police #Data #Courts #Racism

When Jerry Sheridan was second-in-command at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, a federal judge found he had undermined reforms meant to root out racial profiling. Now, as head of the department, Sheridan is pushing to end the court’s oversight.
The US basically isn't enforcing a whole host of laws and regulations regarding finance (hasn't since the 2007 bubble, even less so these days) which means the current bubble probably has a bunch of fraud going on—sorry, "poor information environment" is, I think, the euphemism du jour
Since online advertising has basically been filled with I Can't Believe This Is Legal™ fraud-adjacent behaviour for years, I'm personally taking the numbers coming out of tech with a grain of salt
There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator:
Only a fraction of people will find this funny.