I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
We don’t have concentration camps today in the United States, but we have something close. More than 65,000 people are currently confined in demeaning, often dangerous, sometimes torturous and increasingly deadly conditions not because they have committed a crime, but because they have committed the civil infraction of being on the wrong side of a border. They are ripped from their homes, their families, their jobs and are shipped hundreds of miles away where they languish in squalid, freezing cold and punishing conditions with limited and sometimes no access to lawyers, loved ones, nutritious food, sunlight or medical care. At least 52 people have died in ICE custody since the second Trump administration came into office. Tens of thousands have been held in solitary confinement.
Oversight mechanisms of these facilities have been gutted, members of Congress have been turned away, and ICE has stopped reporting basic and legally mandated data about who is inside and what happens to them. The rapid expansion of the detention system, the inherent inhumanity of policing human mobility, and lack of oversight is partly why a woman in Arizona, who has been detained for 16 months without proper medical care to treat her leukemia, has reportedly lost more than 70lb and is regularly vomiting blood. It’s why people in a now shuttered camp in Florida were allegedly subjected to a two-by-two-foot outdoor punishment cage. The stories that leak out of these camps should terrify not only the migrants directly targeted, but should alarm the conscience of us all.
Continue reading...It is often the key secret ingredient in a lot of white wines, but the unsung hero of Sicily’s vineyards is taking its place in the sun
Depending on where you buy and drink wine, catarratto will be very familiar or very obscure. There was a time in the 2010s when I’d have put good money on it being the house white in half of Hackney’s restaurants, and if you’ve ever picked up a sub-£15 natural white wine at an independent bottle shop, catarratto will probably have featured. If, however, you buy wine from bigger retailers and have a taste for fruity, sun-soaked whites, chances are you’ve been drinking catarratto without even knowing it.
This is bonkers, given its prevalence. Catarratto is Sicily’s most widely planted white grape, accounting for roughly a third of the island’s vineyards; and, after sangiovese, it’s the second most planted grape in all of Italy. For decades, though, it was either destined for bulk wine, disappearing into tanks of anonymous, juicy table wines, or for use as a component of better-known Sicilian denominations such as fortified marsala or Etna bianco, where it plays a supporting role to other indigenous Sicilian grapes, such as grillo or carricante, respectively. It has about it a bit of a Quincy Jones quality: integral to the success of others before being recognised in its own right. Which it now really is, as modern producers make more complex catarrattos that really express their terroirs, be that volcanic, maritime or the rolling hills around Alcamo in the Sicilian north-west.
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SocialU bent inmiddels genoegzaam bekend met de Oekraïense 'langeafstands-sancties' tegen het Russisch Amazon, namelijk Wildberries. Ook vandaag vandaag weer geen gebrek aan aanvallen (zie onderstaand), waardoor we graag even wijzen op deze opmerkelijke alinea in de Financial Times:
"Oekraïense functionarissen zeggen dat inlichtingen van de VS en Frankrijk hadden geholpen om de opstellingen van de Russische luchtverdediging in kaart te brengen en routes te identificeren waarmee drones deze konden omzeilen en doelen diep in Rusland konden bereiken. (...) Volgens functionarissen hadden Amerikaanse en Franse inlichtingendiensten ook de doelselectie verbeterd, waardoor de Oekraïense drone-eenheden voor aanvallen op grote afstand konden leren "waar ze moesten toeslaan"."
Nou, mede mogelijk gemaakt door Frankrijk dus, het aanstaande uitsterven van Wildberries. Ondertussen raakt de Russische bevolking steeds verder ontmoedigd en blijft Poetin hier maar geen antwoord op hebben. Veel meer beeld, inclusief wanhopende burgers, onderstaand.
Naschrift 14:02 - Aangrenzende ellende in POLEN, waar voor de tweede keer sinds de start van de oorlog een Russische kruisraket op Pools grondgebied terecht kwam. In een leeg, open veld, maar wel zo'n 100 kilometer van de Oekraïense grens.
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Voortdurend moeten mensen over water oversteken om van A naar B te komen. Hoe doen ze dat en welke problemen doemen daarbij op? Deel drie in een serie: bevoorrading van winkels in de binnenstad van Utrecht. „De middeleeuwen komen terug in een modern elektrisch jasje.”
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Aan de Laan van Mathenesse in Bleiswijk is donderdagmiddag een man onder een trekker terechtgekomen. Hoe dat kon gebeuren, is niet bekend. Het slachtoffer en de trekker zijn door de hulpdiensten uit het water gehaald.
Aan de Laan van Mathenesse in Bleiswijk is donderdagmiddag een man onder een trekker terechtgekomen. Hoe dat kon gebeuren, is niet bekend. Het slachtoffer en de trekker zijn door de hulpdiensten uit het water gehaald.
