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Indigenous actor Elaine Miles, best known for her roles in "Northern Exposure," "Smoke Signals," Wyvern" and "The Last of Us," was stopped by ICE earlier this month in Redmond, Wa. She showed her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, a federally recognized form of identification. An agent called her document "fake," saying "anyone can make that." She was released shortly afterwards, but says in a social media post that a similar thing happened to both her son and uncle. Indigenous rights attorney Gabriel Galanda, who does not represent Miles, says it's racial profiling. “People are getting pulled over or detained on the street because of the dark color of their skin.” Here's more from The Seattle Times.

https://flip.it/rF4QCo

"Elaine Miles was walking to a bus stop in Redmond to go to Target, she said, when four men wearing masks and vests with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement label stepped out of two black SUVs with no front plates and pressed her for her ID.

Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.....

Federal government agencies recognize tribal ID as a valid form of identification, and Miles has used it to travel back and forth to Canada and Mexico without any issues.

Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”

“Anyone can make that,” she recalled another agent saying. "

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/indigenous-actress-elaine-miles-says-ice-called-her-tribal-id-fake/

NBC Washington: Spotsylvania superintendent shows his degrees, passport after challenge by board member

One by one, Superintendent Clint Mitchell showed documents and degrees that told his story of coming to the U.S. at age 14, becoming a citizen and earning at doctorate at Virginia Tech. The crowd applauded.

"...A school board member recently demanded to see the credentials and qualifications of Superintendent Clint Mitchell, who has been on the job for nearly 18 months. He’s the school district’s first Black school superintendent. He’s also an immigrant and now a U.S. citizen..."

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/spotsylvania-superintendent-sets-record-straight-after-board-member-questions-credentials/4020832/

"Vance is now🚨🚨🚨claiming that when settlers arrived in the New World, they “found widespread child sacrifice” & that “Christian civilization ended the practice.”

Experts in N American Indigenous history say this is a complete fab. 0 evidence: of widespread child sacrifice among First Ns.

It’s racist revisionism dressed up as patriotism -tells you: how far they’ll go to rewrite history to justify opp."
-B Allen

: at a TP event on 10/31.

https://www.rev.com/transcripts/vance-speaks-at-turning-point-event

Why this story hasn't yet made the national news is a mystery.

As is, figuratively speaking, why someone didn't drive a pickup into this line of imbeciles to send them off the bridge like in The Blues Brothers or the way a London Muslim family was mowed down by a white-supremacist loner weirdo a few years back.

Perhaps London is ashamed.

Perhaps the CBC brass want to bury the story as unCanadian.

Perhaps we don't want to face the truth.

🖥️ 🇬🇧 **Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories**

"_In addition to showing how algorithms increased the visibility of posts featuring images (particularly those created with AI) and videos representing racist conspiracy theories, this article explores how these posts likely fuelled the riots by appealing to a crusading mentality that projected White/European men as morally entitled to defend Britain, animating racist fantasies deeply entrenched in the Western collective unconscious._"

Lopes Buarque, B., & Lewis, N. (2025). Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481251391636.

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This is obscene. The vile Shabana Mahmood has confirmed the new immigration rules will be retrospective.

"Under the incoming rules they will have to wait 20 years after they arrived before they can apply for settlement. It means more than 10,000 refugees who were set to qualify for settlement next year will now have to wait a further 15 years before they can settle"

https://www.thetimes.com/article/6f8338d1-833d-48e2-b69c-6cce0471f52c?shareToken=21767caa2e6d519929839d540a44647a

The Baltimore Banner: Hagerstown nail salon owner Melissa Tran arrives in Vietnam after deportation

11/19/2025 5:44 p.m.

"...Melissa Tran, a 44-year-old immigrant who built a family and a small business in Western Maryland, has been deported to Vietnam, a country she last lived in as a child....“We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals... Tran, whose full name is Mong Tuyen Thi Tran, arrived in the U.S. on a green card when she was 11 years old and has lived for nearly half her life in Hagerstown. ”

https://www.thebanner.com/politics-power/national-politics/melissa-tran-donald-trump-deportation-vietnam-5V4UQ32XANEW5BLNFIE6YARSRU/

25 girls were kidnapped Friday and now 52 more children.

Where's the outrage? Where's the call to help them?

Oh wait... It's in Africa so the White World of Media doesn't care. /s

https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-girls-abducted-school-9d288758bf1a57f3390c962f0a68596b