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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

propublica.org · Feb 09

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

Shared by @cdarwin and 71 others.
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur (@Guillotine_Jones) · Feb 09
🔁 @GreetingsOut:

A very important article. Please read. If it doesn’t move you then check your humanity at the door, please. 👇🏼
“I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days”
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Femme Malheureuse (@femme_mal) · Feb 10
🔁 @ben:

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

kittyface83 (@kittyface83) · Feb 10
🔁 @DharmaDog:

"The public is rarely given an opportunity to glimpse inside Dilley and get a look at how the kids there are doing. Here, we let the children speak for themselves."

Heartbreaking! What have we become? 😢

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain..."
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

brettrick (@brettrick) · Feb 10
🔁 @ben:

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Steve's Place (@steter) · Feb 10
🔁 @DharmaDog:

"The public is rarely given an opportunity to glimpse inside Dilley and get a look at how the kids there are doing. Here, we let the children speak for themselves."

Heartbreaking! What have we become? 😢

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain..."
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷 (@Tooden) · Feb 10
🔁 @ben:

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid) · Feb 10
🔁 @DharmaDog:

"The public is rarely given an opportunity to glimpse inside Dilley and get a look at how the kids there are doing. Here, we let the children speak for themselves."

Heartbreaking! What have we become? 😢

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain..."
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

Discord Alternatives, Ranked

taggart-tech.com · Feb 09

Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

Shared by @Binder and 112 others.
Kevin Russell (@kevinrns) · Feb 10
🔁 @floatybirb:

@AyotoCorp here's an article someone here shared that lists a few more (Rocket.Chat, Zulip, Mattermost and Discourse) although some of those are different genres

taggart-tech.com/discord-alter

From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media

thejournal.ie · Feb 09

Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.

Shared by @BrianSmith950 and 27 others.
salix sericea (@Ripple13216) (@salixsericea) · Feb 10
🔁 @samlitzinger:

“From watchdogs to mouthpieces
Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.”

thejournal.ie/readme/bezos-was

wsm (@weldon) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

The Boxing Kangaroo (@platypusparent) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Tofu Musubi (@Hawaii) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Feb 10
🔁 @samlitzinger:

“From watchdogs to mouthpieces
Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.”

thejournal.ie/readme/bezos-was

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Feb 10
🔁 @samlitzinger:

“From watchdogs to mouthpieces
Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.”

thejournal.ie/readme/bezos-was

Axomamma, Antifa's cousin* (@Axomamma) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Cary (@crenquis) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

Wokebloke for Democracy (@dougiec3) · Feb 09
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Ireland's @TheJournal asked me to write about the Washington Post. I wrote its obituary--and mass media's. Don't save it. Replace it.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media jrnl.ie/6950317

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

propublica.org · Feb 09

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

Shared by @garybarker and 43 others.
Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
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ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (@grumpybozo) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
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ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

DoomsdaysCW (@DoomsdaysCW) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

trending_bot (@trending_bot) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Brian McFadden (@mcfadden) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Annother (@Avonan) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲 (@cainmark) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Polly Waugh (@PollyWaugh) · Feb 09
🔁 @ProPublica:

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
---

ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

Worth reading

Have I hardened against LLMs?

baldurbjarnason.com · Feb 09

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Shared by @troublewithwords and 36 others.
Benjamin Geer (@benjamingeer) · Feb 10
🔁 @icing:

„But my views on the tech industry and my peers in the industry have changed. They’ve changed dramatically.“

@baldur, author of The Intelligence Illusion, reviewing the last years: baldurbjarnason.com/2026/have-

icy (@otterly_icy) · Feb 09
🔁 @gl33p:

» imagine that most of the reactions to the “the risks of lead paint” piece went: “Five per cent cheaper, you say? Interesting. I need to look at using lead paint in our products” «

“Imagine that much of the subsequent discourse then showed a complete disregard of the harms, the cost in terms of human misery, and instead use the piece as an argument for increasing the use of lead paint”

“Imagine what that would feel like as a writer of that piece?”

baldurbjarnason.com/2026/have-

Daniel Temme (@dtemme) · Feb 09
🔁 @harold:

"OpenAI’s model [Whisper] fabricates in its transcripts. To this day, it still regularly makes shit up in its transcripts. That it’s being adopted in healthcare around the world should terrify you. That it’s being sold into these sensitive industries by OpenAI even though they seem well-aware of these flaws should make you question the integrity of the people running that company." — @baldur

baldurbjarnason.com/2026/have-

Shared by @wellingtonrock and 33 others.
jonathankoren™ (@jonathankoren) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

brightside (@brightside) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

John Robinson (@johnelalamo) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

Raff Karva (@RaffKarva) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

JoanBCatWoman (@muminitaly) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

Eye (@grb090423) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

Trending Bot (@trending) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

Pauline von Hellermann (@pvonhellermannn) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

Greens on the Social Web (@greens) · Feb 10
🔁 @ScottishGreens:

The monarchy is outdated and undemocratic.

Every year, the public hands over £500 million to fund a billionaire king, while energy bills, rents and food prices all rise.

Enough is enough. It's time to #AbolishTheMonarchy

greens.scot/AbolishTheMonarchy

Worth reading

Video: Opinion | We Didn’t Ask for This Internet

nytimes.com · Feb 09

Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu explain why the internet failed to live up to its early promise.

Shared by @Npars01 and 8 others.
The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Regendans (@regendans) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

ICYMI (Law) (@icymi_law) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff) · Feb 09

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Feb 10
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Kris Freedain 🙏 🏋🏻 🍕 (@krisfreedain) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

valOrie_p'O (@valOrie) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Joseph A di Paolantonio (@jadp) · Feb 09
🔁 @eff:

WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.” nytimes.com/video/opinion/1000

Why is the sky blue?

explainers.blog · Feb 09

Let’s start by asking ourselves: what color SHOULD the sky be?

Shared by @geffrey and 13 others.
Worth reading

On Craft

drcathicks.com · Feb 09

My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up on a farm without electricity. He went past eighth grade, which really mattered to him. He loved that I played harp, which he always called "elegant," in an ext...

Shared by @CosmicTraveler and 14 others.
Andy Jackson (@anj) · Feb 09
🔁 @grimalkina:

In this piece I wrote several years ago I had a ton of stories that could've illustrated feeling excluded from creativity in tech, but I used this story about not being given access to a makerspace specifically because it was so evocative to me! So on the nose

drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

Steven Hoefer (@troublewithwords) · Feb 09
🔁 @grimalkina:

In this piece I wrote several years ago I had a ton of stories that could've illustrated feeling excluded from creativity in tech, but I used this story about not being given access to a makerspace specifically because it was so evocative to me! So on the nose

drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

Jennifer Moore 😷 (@unchartedworlds) · Feb 09
🔁 @grimalkina:

In this piece I wrote several years ago I had a ton of stories that could've illustrated feeling excluded from creativity in tech, but I used this story about not being given access to a makerspace specifically because it was so evocative to me! So on the nose

drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

Random Geek (@randomgeek) · Feb 09
🔁 @grimalkina:

In this piece I wrote several years ago I had a ton of stories that could've illustrated feeling excluded from creativity in tech, but I used this story about not being given access to a makerspace specifically because it was so evocative to me! So on the nose

drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

Ethan Marcotte (@beep) · Feb 09
🔁 @grimalkina:

In this piece I wrote several years ago I had a ton of stories that could've illustrated feeling excluded from creativity in tech, but I used this story about not being given access to a makerspace specifically because it was so evocative to me! So on the nose

drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦 (@emd) · Feb 09
🔁 @grimalkina:

In this piece I wrote several years ago I had a ton of stories that could've illustrated feeling excluded from creativity in tech, but I used this story about not being given access to a makerspace specifically because it was so evocative to me! So on the nose

drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

cwicseolfor (@cwicseolfor) · Feb 09
🔁 @grimalkina:

In this piece I wrote several years ago I had a ton of stories that could've illustrated feeling excluded from creativity in tech, but I used this story about not being given access to a makerspace specifically because it was so evocative to me! So on the nose

drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

Deb Chachra (@debcha) · Feb 09
🔁 @grimalkina:

In this piece I wrote several years ago I had a ton of stories that could've illustrated feeling excluded from creativity in tech, but I used this story about not being given access to a makerspace specifically because it was so evocative to me! So on the nose

drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

Corey Snipes 🕯️❄️ (@coreysnipes) · Feb 09
🔁 @grimalkina:

In this piece I wrote several years ago I had a ton of stories that could've illustrated feeling excluded from creativity in tech, but I used this story about not being given access to a makerspace specifically because it was so evocative to me! So on the nose

drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

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