Jeff Merrell

@jeffdmerrell
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Spending my time deepening connections to my local community and learning how to listen to it. #design #environmentaljustice #climatechange #urbanplanning #affordablehousing #publictransportation
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Home baseEvanston, Illinois, USA
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
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A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Immigration #Family #Deportation #Children #Data #Trump

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids

A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

ProPublica

More of this kind of journalism, please. Why ICE should not be funded.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/ice-detention-center-dilley-children/686302/

Inside ICE’s Detention Center for Children

The 5-year-old was briefly held at Dilley, where families are sent after ICE roundups.

The Atlantic
Thinking about: Environmental equity curriculum (part 2)

The end game for this curriculum: Folks have the power and resources to invent their own ways to create healthy neighborhood communities. I started thinking about this curriculum as involving two t…

Jeff Merrell
A Letter To Those Younger Than Me

I want to tell you about some people I met at the end of a river.

All At Once by Dr. Len

‘It's clearly fake‘: Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/brady-tkachuk-white-house-ai-video-00802767?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-politico

‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video

"It's not my voice, not my lips moving," he said.

Politico

“The unknown,” said Faxe’s soft voice in the forest, “the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action…The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”

https://jeffdmerrell.com/2026/02/23/the-only-thing-that-makes-life-possible-is-permanent-intolerable-uncertainty-not-knowing-what-comes-next/

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”

I recently started reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (science fiction is now my favorite holiday from current news and events). A moment in the story stood out. Genly Ai i…

Jeff Merrell

Ukrainians have now lived with four years of war. They have lost limbs, loved ones, livelihoods and homes, but not hope. Here are some of their stories. All posed with photos taken before Russia’s full-scale invasion changed their lives.

https://apnews.com/photo-essay/ukraine-photo-essay-portraits-anniversary-war-d7bb463924e7cad9cfaa45e59600fc60

#Ukraine #Russia

Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal

A Guardian analysis finds the vast majority of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time from January to August last year had no criminal convictions

The Guardian
What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis

The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

The Bulwark