I think you meant a dinglehopper.

I love The Little Mermaid too much to not say this... “Whosits and whatsits GALORE.” gadgets and gizmos aplenty.

Girl, you gotta keep those whoozits and whatsits in that aplenty status.

Just close your eyes when you sign it Tay and KEEP YOUR DAMN MONEY.

Yep and lo and behold, ICE’s increased reliance on ankle bracelets corresponds with when she left ICE for GEO

And detention is wonderfully profitable for GEO and CCA (the other major private company that runs immigrant detention facilities). The facility at Dilley, which is run by CCA, has a cost of ~$300/day per person detained there. There are 2,400 beds, so when full, the facility is costing the US $720,000/day. It’s been…

GEO added Julie Myers, former director of ICE under Bush, to their board in 2013 or 2014.

Volunteers at the San Antonio bus station have found many families do not understand the terms of their release, and even where they have been handed important documents, they are in English so Spanish or indigenous language speakers do not understand the content

Nope, not EOIR. The initial custody determination for any person detained in ICE custody is made by ICE, who can determine whether to release someone on conditions (including an ankle bracelet), or can set a bond. If the person is released on conditions, there is a procedure for them to challenge that in front of a…

Anyone want to wager on some ICE bigwig being related to a bigwig for the company that produces/tracks ankle monitors?

Color me shocked. I came here with documents and speaking English and was treated by the MoFos immigration agents in the border as a potential criminal. I became a resident (green card holder) and got my PhD. That changed...nothing when it came to immigration procedures. They still treated me like a threat. I became a…

Your last statement is true in that people sometimes do blame other factors when they don’t get xyz thing solely on basis of merit (or lack thereof), but racism and sexism are very real and we shouldn’t deny people’s experiences because some people do have a great time. Also, please do recognize that even per official…

Absolutely, but if you think she was experiencing retaliation before, it would be ten times worse if she tried to form a union. I am 100% pro-union. I am in a union, and I am an active member. Are you in a union? Because if you were, you would not be throwing a suggestion like that around so casually.

I worked in HR at Google for nearly eight years; I quit two months ago and am now taking some time off to write and other shit and also stop commuting 4 hours a day and answering emails 24/7.

Yep. This is the conclusion people always come to and they are totally right to do so. Who wants to be the person who files a messy, hard to prove discrimination case like Ellen Pao and then have it follow you to your next job? This is also why culture changes so slowly within a corporation. There is no motivation (or…

that’s some disingenuous bullshit right there

Honestly. Imagine how bad you’d feel if you were one of the people there, had no idea what happened, and read a story that basically says you went merrily along getting pissed while a lady died?

I mean, if I saw someone jump off a roof in front of me, I’d probably be like, “oooof I maybe just want to go home and be under a blanket,” but I wouldn’t expect everyone to have the same reaction as me. I do remember going to just sit and watch movies with a friend who witnessed a stranger’s suicide, and she was…

Getting away from Hasidism is no joke, either. Poor thing, she probably felt really alone and isolated. And confused! That culture is light-years away from midtown-Manhattan culture, I can imagine she was in a constant state of “WTF” on top of everything else.