Podcasts about TPS

El servicio de ciudadanía e inmigración anunció una reducción drástica del periodo máximo de validez de los permisos de trabajo, que pasaría de 5 años a 18 meses.En otras noticias: En Nueva Orleans agentes de la patrulla fronteriza llevan a cabo el operativo 'Catahoula Crunch' y han arrestado a decenas de inmigrantes en el primer día.El almirante Frank Bradley se reunió con congresistas en Washington para rendir cuentas sobre el doble ataque a una presunta narco lancha en el Caribe.El representante demócrata Henry Cuellar habló con Univision después de ser indultado por Donald Trump. 

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on December 02, 2025. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): Anthropic acquires BunOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:52): Mistral 3 family of models releasedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121889&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:15): OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI raceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:37): What will enter the public domain in 2026?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117112&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:00): Apple Releases Open Weights Video ModelOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117802&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:22): IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay offOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124324&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(08:45): Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119500&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:07): 100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLiteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124205&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(11:30): Paged OutOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126217&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:52): Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul DocumentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125184&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

#180En este episodio, la abogada Barbara Vazquez del bufete de abogados de inmigración, Vazquez & Servi, P.C., contesta preguntas de los oyentes de PA'LANTE MI GENTE! Pregunta:     ¿Todavía se puede someter una petición familiar por medio de matrimonio con ciudadano estadounidense cuando el beneficiario entro ilegalmente a EE. UU.?Pregunta:     Tengo entendido que no están dando fianza de inmigración a personas quienes entraron de manera indocumentada a EE. UU. ¿Pero, esto también aplica para quienes llegaron y en la frontera pidieron TPS? O también son considerados indocumentados?  Pregunta:    Soy de Colombia y entre en el 2023 con asilo pendiente. Desde mi entrada he tenido 2 arrestos. Mis abogados han sido sinceros conmigo al decirme que seguramente seria removido de EE. UU. Yo deseo irme para mi país antes de la navidad. Ya cerré un caso de DUI, pero ahora tengo 4 cargos de felonía por robo.    No pienso gastar $7000 para cerrarlo. ¿Esto me cerraría las puertas para siempre    para entrar legalmente a este país? Aviso: La información que reciben por este medio es de carácter general y no substituye una consulta formal con un abogado. Haga "clic" en el enlace

Dapper Labs and Flow are executing a comprehensive strategy to align the Flow ecosystem with the next wave of crypto adoption. This update creates a direct link between network usage and network value. In fact, thismodel is designed to make the FLOW token net deflationary at a sustained 250 TPS.~This episode is sponsored by iTrust Capital~iTrustCapital | Get $100 Funding Reward + No Monthly Fees when you sign up using our custom link! ➜ https://bit.ly/iTrustPaulGuest: Roham Gharegozlou, CEO of Dapper Labs / FlowFlow website ➜ https://flow.com/00:00 Intro00:08 Sponsor: iTrust Capital00:35 Price vs Fundamentals01:49 Fastest Growing L102:04 Could Flow Flip Sui?02:22 Enshrined Protocols03:34 Peak Money Launch Product06:11 Safe Automated Yields07:57 MoreMarkets & KittyPunch 09:12 Liquidity Incoming09:44 Institutional DeFi on Flow?11:32 Build-Your-Own Vaults12:43 Dapper Labs Treasury Moving on chain13:38 $FLOW Becomes Deflationary!15:14 NBA & Disney Ecosystem Coming18:50 Disney Pinnacle is Too Conservative20:45 One Year Later21:20 ESPN Bet Sportsbook on Flow?21:54 Beezie Can Flip Courtyard23:16 Flow needs better gaming strategy25:35 Flow Rewards Season 2 + Airdrop Coming!26:30 outro#Crypto #Crypto #ethereum~$FLOW Enters Next Phase = Peak Money!

What's really happening with immigration in America? Host Radell Lewis sits down with David Rozas, founding partner of Rozas Law Firm and one of the nation's leading immigration attorneys, to break down the immigration crisis beyond the political talking points. David Rozas has spent his career taking on some of the toughest immigration cases in the country, from asylum seekers to refugees and unaccompanied immigrant children. As a founding partner of Rozas Law Firm, he grew the small practice into one of the nation's largest removal defense firms, now with 75 employees serving clients in all 50 states. In this episode, we discuss: The broken asylum process and why cases take years Your constitutional rights during ICE encounters Why work visas could be the key to immigration reform The humanitarian crisis behind the political debate Due process erosion and what it means for everyone DACA, TPS, and paths forward for undocumented immigrants Whether you lean left, right, or somewhere in the middle, this conversation cuts through the noise to examine immigration policy, deportation, and reform from an attorney on the front lines. Connect with David Rozas: Website: https://www.rozaslaw.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rozaslaw LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-rozas-231805106/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rozaslawfirm/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@davidj.rozas Purple Political Breakdown delivers political solutions without bias. Subscribe for nonpartisan analysis on the issues that matter. #Immigration #ImmigrationReform #Asylum #Deportation #DueProcess #ImmigrationAttorney #BorderPolicy #DACA #TPS #WorkVisa #HumanitarianCrisis #ImmigrationRights #PurplePolitics #Podcast

Valuable upgrades to the Ethereum network will be rolled out on December 3, 2025, Fusaka mainnet upgrade. This specific mainnet upgrade aims to provide better dependability, swifter synchronization, and improvements to longstanding issues related to block and transaction processing.~This episode is sponsored by iTrust Capital~iTrustCapital | Get $100 Funding Reward + No Monthly Fees when you sign up using our custom link! ➜ https://bit.ly/iTrustPaulGuest: Justin Drake researcher, Ethereum Foundation00:00 intro00:06 Sponsor: iTrust Capital00:40 Fusaka Upgrade on Wednesday!02:05 Most Important Upgrades in Fusaka03:20 TPS for Payments04:13 L1 vs L2 Transaction Speeds05:06 Next Upgrade = Glamsterdam 06:05 Scaling for mega institutions07:32 zkEVM Beast Mode09:11 Ethereum vs Solana TPS09:56 Velocity vs Volume11:35 China Attacking Bitcoin?14:03 U.S. Military Defending Bitcoin?14:20 Transactions on Bitcoin Decaying16:18 Quantum Threat on Bitcoin18:13 Decentralizing Layer-2's19:41 Tom Lee vs Michael Saylor21:46 Cardano bug split chain22:15 $ETH Price after Fusaka Upgrade23:20 outro#Ethereum #Crypto #bitcoin~Ethereum Fusaka Upgrade This Week!

En este episodio analizamos el impacto real del caso del inmigrante afgano involucrado en un tiroteo y cómo este evento detonó un efecto dominó que está afectando a toda la comunidad inmigrante: — Revisión de residencias de 19 países — Pausa en decisiones de asilo afirmativo — Evaluación de asilos aprobados durante la administración Biden — Cambios en seguridad nacional anunciados por USCISAdemás, explicamos paso a paso lo que sí cambia, lo que NO cambia, y cómo prepararte según tu tipo de caso (asilo, residencia, TPS, ajuste de estatus, etc.). Cerramos con una reflexión espiritual sobre mantener la calma y la esperanza en tiempos difíciles.

Episode 442 of the Immigration Lawyer's Toolbox® Podcast breaks down the week's Top 10 immigration law updates, including major litigation wins restoring access to counsel after LA raids, the reinstated SIJS deferred action policy, the surge in habeas petitions tied to DHS's new bond memo, California's fight over masked ICE agents, challenges to million-dollar civil fines, and growing concerns over Border Patrol's expanded surveillance and domestic airport detentions. John also continues his Law Firm Management Series with a focus on knowledge and quality, and shares updates on the upcoming consular processing training, the ILT community, and so much more. Spotify | iTunes | YouTube Music | YouTube Timestamps: 00:00 – Opening 00:33 – Introduction 02:52 – Judge Rules Gov't Illegally Restricted Attorney Access at LA Detention Site (B-18 Case) 03:38 – Court Grants Stay of the SIJS Deferred Action Policy Rescission (Nov. 19, 2025) 04:22 – Surge in Habeas Petitions After DHS Memo Alters Bond Eligibility 06:45 – Trump Administration Sues California Over Ban on Masked Immigration Agents 07:42 – Lawsuit: Immigrants Fined Up to $1.8M for Remaining in the U.S. 08:25 – Mid-Episode Break 09:12 – Trump Announces End of TPS for Somali Community in Minnesota 09:35 – DHS Secretary Calls for Hiring "Deportation Judges" 10:08 – Border Patrol Tracking U.S. Drivers & Detaining 'Suspicious' Travel Patterns 10:57 – Reports: Travelers Detained at Domestic Airports Despite Lawful Entry & Pending Cases 11:48 – Seven Star Service (Star 2): Case Review & Analysis 14:29 – Outro Show Notes: (1) "This summer, two organizations, [CHIRLA] and Immigrant Defenders Law Center, told this Court that federal law enforcement was keeping individuals picked up in immigration raids in the basement of a federal building in downtown Los Angeles and keeping them from talking to lawyers who could help them navigate the legal process." Article here (2) Excellent news from the SIJS (Special Immigrant Juvenile Status) Backlog Coalition this morning. The 2022 SIJS Deferred Action Policy is back in effect, and "the government must conduct deferred-action and employment authorization adjudications pursuant to the 2022 Policy Alert." Shout out to Rebecca Scholtz from NIPNLG for some great lawyering. Post here (3) Habeas corpus petitions surged after DHS issued memo changing bond eligibility Link (4) Trump administration sues California over ban on masked immigration agents  (5) Lawsuit filed on behalf of immigrants fined up to $1.8 million for remaining in the country (6) Trump says he's ending Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota (7) DHS Secretary seeking "Deportation Judges" (8) Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns (9) Travelers are now reportedly being detained at domestic airports—even when they entered legally and have proof of a pending immigration case. Link (10) Seven Start Service (Star 2) Live Consular Processing training for lawyers Dec 18, 10:00–11:45 a.m. PT - NVC packets & DS-260 - Interview prep & follow-up - Timelines, fees, and real-world workflows Register here! Follow eimmigration by Cerenade: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn Start your Business Immigration Practice! (US LAWYERS ONLY - SCREENING REQUIRED): E-2 Course EB-1A Course Get the Toolbox Magazine!  Join our community (Lawyers Only) Get Started in Immigration Law! The Marriage/Family-Based Green Card course is for you Our Website: ImmigrationLawyersToolbox.com Not legal advice. Consult with an Attorney. Attorney Advertisement. #podcaster #Lawyer #ImmigrationLawyer #Interview #Immigration #ImmigrationAttorney #USImmigration #ImmigrationLaw #ImmigrationLawyersToolbox

Ethereum reaches a 60 million block gas limit. ZKsync publishes part 2 of its ZK token utility proposal. The Ethereum ecosystem hits an ATH of 31,000 TPS. And Uniswap's UNIfication proposal passes a temp check. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/832 Sponsor: Arkiv is an Ethereum-aligned data layer for Web3. Arkiv brings the familiar concept of a traditional Web2 database into the Web3 ecosystem. Find out more at Arkiv.network Disclaimer: Content is for informational purposes only, not endorsement or investment advice. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed.

My good friend Ken Roybal, a retired Los Angeles Police Department veteran with an extraordinary 35 years of service to the city of Los Angeles. Ken started his career as an LAPD officer in 1980, he patrolled the streets during some of the most turbulent times in the department's history, then honed his expertise as a background investigator from 1997 to 2001, meticulously vetting the next generation of guardians. After retiring in 2003, he continued his mission in the City of Los Angeles Personnel Department, guiding countless applicants through the rigorous hiring process until his full retirement in 2018. Now, as the founder of Policebackground.net and host of The Police Applicant Podcast—affectionately known on Instagram as The Background Whisperer—Ken empowers aspiring officers with insider strategies to navigate backgrounds, interviews, and beyond. Police Applicant Podcast  https://open.spotify.com/show/2blCjqkzrztWRsbg1W5yGH?si=2df84ec0e4894714   Contact Steve - steve@thingspolicesee.com Support the TPS show by joining the Patreon community today!
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On Tuesday's Drivetime with DeRusha... 3pm Hour: Jason talks about the protests and clashes with police in St. Paul. Where do you stand? Then, what's the dumbest thing we do when the snow hits? 4pm Hour: Chris Shaffer joins the show to talk about when the snow is coming, and how much will we get? Then on DeRusha Eats - what Thanksgiving food would you kick to the curb? 5pm Hour: On the DeRush-Hour, it's not just the Somalis that are having their temporary protected status ended. Jason talks to Alice Buckner, Executive Director of the Karen Association of Minnesota about TPS ending for refugees from Myanmar as well. Then Greg Swan joins the show to "Explain the Internet" - why he's an advocate for Waymo, and why he was right about being careful with AI teddy bears.

TDC Podcast topics - are the Lions in trouble?  Eric Zane makes fun of Mike for his social anxiety, Amy's sister bought cheap tix for the new Wicked movie and Amy wasn't happy, judge throws out the case against Jim Comey and Letitia James without prejudice, Pete Hegseth threatens Sen. Mark Kelly just a little bit for his part in the Seditious Six video, Trump is canceling the TPS program for Somali migrants in Minnesota, Minnesota taxpayers have hundreds of millions of dollars stolen and sent to terrorist groups in Somalia, gay sheep and the "I Wool Survive" campaign, Miss Jamaica does her best Kelsey Grammar impression, and email 

Send us a textWelcome back to the American Experiment Podcast!This week, Grace and Kathryn take a behind-the-scenes look at the breaking news of the week: Minnesota taxpayers have been funding terrorism abroad.Then, because of that shocking discovery, President Trump decides to end Somalia's TPS (Temporary Protected Status)....and Representative Ilhan Omar is NOT happy about it.Next, ICE has been busy here in Minnesota, with recent raids in St. Paul and Northfield.After that, Rachel Paulose is back! She joins Grace and Kathryn in the studio to discuss the shocking and abhorrent persecution of Christians across the globe, especially in Nigeria. She also clears up some common misconceptions and false narratives surrounding this crisis.Remember to LIKE, SHARE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE to the American Experiment Podcast and never miss an episode! 00:00 - Welcome back!00:32 - Turkey Pardons and Viking Woes04:07 - American Experiment's Give to the Max Day Success - THANK YOU!04:41 - Trump plans to revoke Somalia's TPS status05:44 - Somali Terror Group's Largest Funder: Minnesotan Taxpayers07:54 - Rep. Ilhan Omar's MELTDOWN over Trump's Somalia plans13:05 - ICE Raids in St. Paul and Northfield 18:05 - Changes in how immigration cases handled here in MN20:57 - Rachel Paulose back on set!21:19 - Christian persecution in Nigeria and around the globe49:09 - Vote for the Golden Turkey!49:41 - Thanks for listening!

ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်မြန်မာ့အသံ (ဒီဗွီဘီ)ရဲ့  နိုဝင်ဘာ ၂၅ ရက် ညနေခင်းသတင်းတွေကို တင်ဆက် ပေးပါမယ်။  ဒီကနေ့ နားဆင်ရမယ့် သတင်းတွေကတော့  -    -ဘယ်လာရုစ်အာဏာရှင်ရဲ့ ခရီးစဉ်အတွက် နေပြည်တော်မှာ လုံခြုံရေးတိုးမြှင့်ထားတဲ့သတင်း-မြန်မာတွေအတွက် ယာယီနေထိုင်ခွင့်ပြုတဲ့ TPS အစီအစဉ်ကို အမေရိကန်အစိုးရက ရပ်တန့် လိုက်တဲ့သတင်းနဲ့ -မြန်မာစာဆရာကြီး ဂုဏ်ထူးဦးသိန်းနိုင် ကွယ်လွန်သွားတဲ့သတင်းတွေ နားဆင်ကြရမှာပါ

Snow is expected tomorrow and Wednesday across much of the state... with several inches of accumulation possible in northern Minnesota ahead of the holiday weekend. The Twin Cities could get 1 to 3 inches.An immigration judge today ordered the deportation of a Northfield man who was detained by ICE earlier this month. Somali community leaders and Democratic lawmakers rallied at the Capitol today to oppose a proposal to end temporary protected status -- or TPS -- for Somali people in Minnesota.Those stories and more in today's evening update from MPR News. Hosted by Emily Reese. Music by Gary Meister.

Jon expands his coverage of President Trump's decision to end TPS in Minnesota.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jon expands his coverage of President Trump's decision to end TPS in Minnesota.

En este episodio analizamos varias noticias críticas en el mundo de inmigración que podrían afectar directamente a miles de familias. ICE ha firmado un contrato de $5.7 millones para utilizar un sistema de inteligencia artificial capaz de monitorear hasta 8 mil millones de publicaciones diarias en redes sociales. Explicamos cómo funciona esta vigilancia, qué riesgos representa y cómo protegerte sin dejar de usar tus plataformas.También cubrimos la situación en Carolina del Norte, donde las redadas han superado ya las 250 detenciones, provocando cierres de negocios, miedo comunitario y hasta 30,000 estudiantes ausentes en un solo día. Analizamos el impacto real en la economía local y en la vida diaria de los inmigrantes.Finalmente, profundizamos en el caso Matter of CIGM, un precedente recién publicado que está transformando por completo los casos de asilo, especialmente para quienes entraron después de 2019 y para quienes podrían estar sujetos a acuerdos de “tercer país seguro”. Explico cómo ya está siendo usado por ICE contra mis propios clientes, qué significa para tu proceso, y qué hacer si estás en medio de un caso similar.Gracias por acompañarme. Recuerda suscribirte y compartir este episodio para que más personas estén informadas sobre los cambios más importantes en inmigración.

El Departamento de Tesoro planea reclasificar ciertos créditos fiscales reembolsables como beneficio público federal, afectando a inmigrantes que pagan impuestos.En otras noticias: Salió en libertad el adolescente Emmanuel González García, el joven de 15 años con autismo que estaba bajo custodia de una agencia federal en Houston.Kurt Andersen, el hombre acusado de dispararle mortalmente a la inmigrante y limpiadora guatemalteca Florinda Ríos pagó una fianza de 25 mil dólares para salir de la cárcel.Un tribunal federal de apelaciones bloqueó la libertad a más de 600 inmigrantes que iba a ser liberados en Illinois. 

Dónal Ó Coisdealbha analyzes the history and results of the management and production system (TPS) developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation, arguing that the cooperative effects the TPS had on Toyota's internal labor relations contain the seeds of a successful model of socialist industrial production. Ó Coisdealbha is the director of process control, smart and digital development at a factory owned by a multinational electrical equipment manufacturer who is currently co-authoring a book with Tom O'Brien on labour time planning. His blog can be found here.   Reading: Carlos Campos Jr. 

Retired Ontario PD aviation supervisor and K9 handler Sgt. Eric Weidner is back! Eric returns to dive deep into his years as a police dog handler with his 115-lb Czech Shepherd "Kachi" – from the very first bite, training dogs to ride in helicopters, head bites, narcotic detection at airports, and the craziest tracks and apprehensions of his career. Now retired, Eric owns CNC Technologies – the company that outfits, upgrades, and 24/7 supports law enforcement surveillance helicopters and airplanes all over the world. Hear how he went from chasing suspects on the ground and in the air to running one of the most trusted aviation companies in public safety. If you love real police K9 stories, police aviation, or just insane behind-the-scenes law enforcement tales, this is the episode for you. CNC Technologies: https://www.cnctechnologies.com Instagram: @cnctechnologies   Contact Steve - steve@thingspolicesee.com Sergeant Steve - https://www.youtube.com/@TheSergeantSteve Support the TPS show by joining the Patreon community today!
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The FBI told Congress Thomas Crooks was a motive-less ghost. TOTAL LIE. Miranda Devine just detonated the cover-up: 17 secret accounts, pro-Trump kid groomed by neo-Nazis, sudden 2020 flip to rabid anti-Trump psycho, deep in the furry fetish cult (they/them pronouns), then poof—vanishes online. Same subculture as Charlie Kirk's alleged killer. The FBI knew and buried it. Kash Patel gets briefed on every “tendril” yet suddenly the bureau can't find a thing? Same Kash now flying his country-singer girlfriend on taxpayer G5s while the rest of us get the middle finger. Corruption doesn't change jerseys—it just changes pilots.Major Fred Galvin—27 years of combat, zero KIAs under his command, betrayed by his own generals—comes in swinging. He'll break down Trump federalizing the National Guard for LA: right call or political theater? When governors lose cities to cartel fire, whose job is it to stop the bleeding? Fred's seen brass sell out warriors for headlines—he's not here for excuses.Then we march straight into Dearborn, Michigan, where Mayor Abdullah Hammoud just told a Christian resident: “You don't belong here, Islamophobe—get out!” while honoring a guy who blesses jihadi martyrs and promises Hezbollah will “take care of the job.” Street signs celebrate terrorists, Arabic subtitles on every post, and half the police force is Muslim in a city that now openly rejects the melting pot. TPS keeps Somali deportations on ice while America gets colonized block by block. This isn't immigration—it's invasion. 4PM ET: lock in, rage on, or watch your country become the Third World overnight.

If you've ever found yourself walking into a room and forgetting why you're there, struggling to find words in a meeting, or just feeling that ever-present mental cloud—this week's episode is for you.  Discover the real causes of midlife brain fog and memory issues and learn how Tara Thorne helps clients overcome them through thyroid support, hormone balance, gut health, blood sugar stabilization, and targeted nutrients. A clear, practical roadmap for women in perimenopause and menopause. Here's What You'll Learn in This Episode: Why Your Thyroid Might Be the Culprit Discover how thyroid issues can slow everything down (including your brain!) and what you need to know about proper thyroid testing. The Role of Estrogen in Mental Clarity Is your estrogen low? I'll explain why you can't always trust hormone tests during perimenopause and how to tune into the right clues. Gut Health and That Pesky Brain Fog Find out why your gut is the last place you'd think to look for answers—and why it shouldn't be. Nutrients Your Brain is Begging For Learn about the essential nutrients, including minerals and amino acids, that could turn your brain from foggy to focused. Blood Sugar Balance for a Sharper Mind It's all about the protein! I'll share how getting enough protein (and balancing minerals) is a real game changer for mood and brain function.   **BLACK FRIDAY SALE** Save up to $400 on a TPS Quick Start testing package. (Our lowest prices ever offered outside of TPS!) Click HERE to learn more. Mentioned in this episode: HRT Made Simple™ - Learn how to confidently speak to your doctor about the benefits of hormone replacement therapy so you can set yourself up for symptom-free, unmedicated years to come without feeling confused, dismissed, or leaving the medical office minus your HRT script. Hair Loss Solutions Made Simple™ – This course will teach you the best natural, highly effective, and safe solutions for your hair loss so you can stop it, reverse it, and regrow healthy hair without turning to medications. The Perimenopause Solution™ – My signature 6-month comprehensive hormonal health program for women in midlife who want to get solid answers to their hormonal health issues once and for all so they can kick the weight gain, moodiness, gut problems, skin issues, period problems, fatigue, overwhelm, insomnia, hair/eyebrow loss, and other symptoms in order to get back to the woman they once were. [FREE] The Ultimate Midlife Perimenopause Handbook - Grab my free guide and RECLAIM your confidence, your mood, your waistline and energy without turning to medications or restrictive diets (or spending a fortune on testing you don't need!).   [BOOK A 30-MINUTE SESSION WITH TARA HERE]

Planning to travel abroad with DACA or TPS in 2025? Learn how Advance Parole works, who qualifies, and how to avoid risks at re-entry. This Podcast covers everything you need for safe travel — from USCIS filing tips to airport inspection advice.  

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Ethereum hasn't reached full speed yet. Now it might. Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation outlines Lean Ethereum, a plan to optimise the stack so validators stop executing and start verifying. With zk proofs in under 12 seconds and on-prem provers around 10 kW, the base layer can reach gigagas capacity and roughly 10,000 TPS while getting more decentralized. Add Fossil, seconds-level finality, and post-quantum signatures, and the changes stick. We unpack the EthProofs race, the four-phase path to mandatory proofs, the three-times-a-year gas target in EIP-7938, and why native rollups could remove gas ceilings for L2s. If you're wondering whether Ethereum can scale without turning into a data center chain, this is the roadmap. ---

Agente de ICE apunta con su arma a una mujer en Santa Ana, California.Policía de Dallas rechazó la propuesta de colaborar con ICE.Decisión de un juez federal podría liberar a detenido de las redadas.Se intensifican cancelaciones y retrasos de vuelos por cierre del gobierno.La cámara baja  votará el acuerdo para la reapertura del gobierno.La Corte Suprema extiende hasta el jueves el bloqueo al pago total de los beneficios de SNAP.Podrían poner 107% de aranceles a las pastas italianas.Encuentran un cementerio clandestino en un rancho en Quintana Roo, México.Escucha de lunes a viernes el ‘Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna' con Elián Zidán.       

Let's talk about that mysterious, relentless bloating that seems to appear (or worsen) as we step into midlife. If you feel like your jeans fit differently by the end of the day, or you're suddenly experiencing tummy troubles you never had before, you're not alone – and you're not imagining things. Hormonal shifts during perimenopause don't just mess with our moods or energy levels—they can have a huge impact on our gut. Our estrogen, progesterone, and even thyroid hormones all play critical roles in gut function. When those hormones start to fluctuate, the gut can become more sensitive, digestion can slow down, and inflammation levels can rise.  Bloating is your body's way of asking for detective work. Maybe it's a case of poor transit time, low stomach acid, SIBO, or certain bacteria (hello methane or hydrogen sulfide producers!) making themselves at home. That's why it's so important to get personalized testing and work with someone who truly understands the microbiome—not one-size-fits-all protocols or quick fixes that can do more harm than good. In this episode:  How Your Hormones Mess With Your Gut: Learn how shifts in estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and thyroid can trigger bloating and impact digestion. Transit Time Matters: Find out why pooping daily isn't enough—you need to understand your transit time for true gut health. Thyroid's Surprising Role: Get the scoop on how sluggish thyroid function can slow things down and lead to major bloating (and exactly which labs to ask your doctor for!). Enzyme & Stomach Acid Secrets: Discover Tara's favorite enzyme supplement, plus the critical role of stomach acid (and how to spot signs of deficiency). Testing, Not Guessing: Why stool testing is THE gold standard for uncovering the real root of your bloating—and how to choose the right practitioner.   Watch on Youtube HERE.    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **BLACK FRIDAY SALE** Save up to $400 on a TPS Quick Start testing package. (Our lowest prices ever offered outside of TPS!)Click HERE to learn more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   You may also want to check out these episodes: EPS 111: Gut health IS health. How many approach gut health incorrectly & why the right testing matters with Dr. Jason Hawrelak. EPS 112: Why we stopped using the GI MAP in my practice & how we are approaching gut testing these days    Mentioned in this episode: HRT Made Simple™ - Learn how to confidently speak to your doctor about the benefits of hormone replacement therapy so you can set yourself up for symptom-free, unmedicated years to come without feeling confused, dismissed, or leaving the medical office minus your HRT script. Hair Loss Solutions Made Simple™ – This course will teach you the best natural, highly effective, and safe solutions for your hair loss so you can stop it, reverse it, and regrow healthy hair without turning to medications. The Perimenopause Solution™ – My signature 6-month comprehensive hormonal health program for women in midlife who want to get solid answers to their hormonal health issues once and for all so they can kick the weight gain, moodiness, gut problems, skin issues, period problems, fatigue, overwhelm, insomnia, hair/eyebrow loss, and other symptoms in order to get back to the woman they once were. [FREE] The Ultimate Midlife Perimenopause Handbook - Grab my free guide and RECLAIM your confidence, your mood, your waistline and energy without turning to medications or restrictive diets (or spending a fortune on testing you don't need!).   [BOOK A 30-MINUTE SESSION WITH TARA HERE]  

En este episodio del Show del Abogado Jonathan Shaw, compartimos buenas noticias para la comunidad inmigrante en Estados Unidos. 

Cientos de miles de venezolanos se quedarán, a partir de la media noche, sin el estatus de protección temporal que les permitía trabajar y vivir en los Estados Unidos.En otras noticias: La Corte Suprema suspendió temporalmente la orden judicial que obligaba al gobierno del presidente Trump a cubrir la totalidad de los beneficios del programa SNAP.ICE realizó un mega operativo en Houston en el que fueron detenidas más de 50 personas, incluyendo algunos adultos con necesidades especiales.Más de mil vuelos fueron cancelados y cerca de 4000 sufrieron retrasos debido al cierre del gobierno que ya completa 38 días.

La obesidad, la diabetes y la edad avanzada son ahora razones para negar una visa de ingreso a los Estados Unidos de acuerdo a un comunicado del departamento de estado. En otras noticias: Caos en varios aeropuertos del país, más de mil vuelos han sido cancelados y más de 4000 han sufrido retrasos por la falta de controladores aéreos a causa del cierre del gobierno. El gobierno Trump presentó una moción de emergencia para bloquear la orden de un juez que le obliga a pagar los cupones de alimentos a más de 40 millones de estadounidenses este mes de noviembre.Hoy a la media noche cientos de miles de venezolanos perderán su estatus de protección temporal que les permitía trabajar y vivir en los Estados Unidos.Ya son 17 los ataques a presuntas narco embarcaciones en el Caribe y el Pacífico. 

600.000 Venezolanos se han quedado en situación irregular en Estados Unidos tras el vencimiento de su estatus de protección temporal (TPS), concedido por la administración Biden y revocado por Donald Trump. Les permitía permanecer en el país de manera legal al considerarse que no podían regresar a su país natal de manera segura. RFI  abordó con integrantes de ONGs pro-migrantes en Estados Unidos en qué situación se quedan y qué opciones tienen estos cientos de miles de venezolanos. Con entrevistas de Manu Terradillos y Justine Fontaine "La gente (está) muy angustiada, muy desesperada. Si no tienes una petición de asilo, si no tienes ninguna otra opción, tienes el riesgo de ser deportado si te detienen." Wiliam Díaz, fundador de "Casa de Venezuela", una ong que ayuda jurídicamente a migrantes en Estados Unidos, explica el sentimiento de la comunidad venezolana, después de que este viernes 7 de noviembre 250.000 de ellos se quedasen sin su TPS, el estatus de protección temporal. Se unen a los 350.000 que lo perdieron hace unas semanas, tras una victoria judicial de Donald Trump para revocarlo.  En total son 600.000. Algunos aún están protegidos temporalmente, al haber interpuesto previamente una demanda de asilo, o contar con algunos meses más de  permiso de trabajo, pero la gran mayoría se quedan expuestos si deciden quedarse. Rachel Schmidtke es responsable para Latinoamérica de la ONG Refugees International en Estados Unidos: "La mayoría van a quedar sin estatus en Estados Unidos y eso significa que están en una situación muy precaria. Van a perder su permiso para trabajar, entonces no van a poder trabajar de forma digna ni tampoco formal en Estados Unidos y también pueden ser sujetos a la detención. O pueden ser deportados, entonces esas personas ya están en una situación de muy alto riesgo. Esta situación, unida a las agresivas actuaciones de los agentes de ICE, el servicio de inmigración y aduanas, hace que aquellos que permanecen en territorio estadounidense, opten, como cuenta William Díaz, por vivir escondidos: "Nadie quiere estar en redes sociales, nadie quiere declarar a los medios y nadie quiere incluso participar en eventos. Este fin de semana hubo un evento de festividad religiosa tradicional de Venezuela y la asistencia fue muy pobre." Ante la perspectiva de vivir de manera clandestina o ser detenidos, otra solución es abandonar el país antes de verse obligados a hacerlo. Los solicitantes del TPS recibieron esta protección por el riesgo que supone regresar a Venezuela. Rachel Schmidtke explica que en Refugees International se buscan alternativas: "Muchos que no quieren regresar a Venezuela por razones obvias, pero quizás quieren irse a Colombia o a España o a otros países donde (podrían) vivir en una situación más segura, donde tienen familia. Tenemos que empezar a mirar si otros países pueden abrir más rutas legales para estas personas. La ONG Casa de Venezuela trabaja para solicitar que se aplique una Deportación Diferida, para ganar tiempo, pero la administración Trump no parece proclive a otorgar prórrogas. 

A 37 días del cierre del gobierno, la administración Trump confirmó que a partir de mañana se reducirá el tráfico aéreo en un 10% afectando al menos 40 aeropuertos del país. Al menos 500 vuelos serán cancelado en el primer día de la medida. Un juez de Rhode Island le ordenó al gobierno Trump conseguir los fondos necesarios para financiar los beneficios del programa de asistencia nutricional SNAP.El cierre del gobierno también podría impedir que al menos 6 millones de familias de bajos recursos puedan pagar la electricidad y la calefacción en las próximas semanas por la falta de fondos del programa LIHEAP.En otras noticias: La jueza Sarah Ellis confirmó que el comandante de la patrulla fronteriza Gregory Bovino admitió mentir sobre el uso de gas lacrimógeno. La jueza limitó el uso de la fuerza a los agente federales en Chicago.

Tres muertos en el decimoséptimo ataque de EEUU contra una supuesta 'narcolancha' en el Caribe.Juez ordena al gobierno de Trump pagar todos los beneficios de SNAP de noviembre.FAA anuncia reducción del 10% en el tráfico aéreo.Aumentó a 13 el número de víctimas mortales del accidente del avión de carga de UPS.Mañana 600 mil venezolanos perderán su protección legal.ICE reporta gran operativo migratorio en "Lone star shield" al sur de Texas con más de 1500 arrestados.Alcalde electo de Nueva York Zohran Mamdani visitó Puerto Rico.La demócrata Nancy Pelosi anuncia su retiro tras casi 40 años en el Congreso.Escucha de lunes a viernes el ‘Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna' con Elián Zidán.   

Llega a su fin el TPS de cientos de miles de venezolanos; viernes de caos en 40 aeropuertos del país y Trump responde al juez federal sobre el pago al programa SNAP, entre otras noticias. Más información en UnivisionNoticias.com.

El abogado Jonathan Shaw analiza a fondo el fin del TPS para venezolanos, que afecta a más de 600,000 inmigrantes en Estados Unidos. Explica qué significa realmente perder el estatus, por qué no equivale a una orden de deportación, y qué opciones legales aún existen: asilo político, visa U, VAWA o peticiones familiares. Además, comparte advertencias sobre el aumento de estafas en redes sociales y consejos espirituales para mantener la honestidad, la fe y la esperanza en tiempos difíciles. También explica cómo funciona el asilo paso a paso —desde la regla del año hasta la persecución futura— y responde preguntas de los oyentes sobre ICE, doble nacionalidad y estrategias legales bajo la nueva administración. 

Payment chains are heating up. Not every “stablecoin chain” is playing the same game. Codex cofounder and CEO Haonan Li joins David to map the real landscape: what neutrality looks like in practice, why the bottleneck isn't TPS but fiat-to-stable friction, and how on-chain FX could pull global flows. We dig into the Bear-Chain incentive trap. Why Codex chose to build as an Ethereum L2. The case for app-specific rollups that return value to ETH. And the growing split between projects that bundle value toward Ethereum and those that pull it away. ---

Aragon introduces the Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance. Aztec publishes a Privacy Manifesto. The Ethereum Ecosystem hits 24,000 TPS. And Zora enables DMs with creator coin holders. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/817 Disclaimer: Content is for informational purposes only, not endorsement or investment advice. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed.

Virginia State Trooper & 29-year ATF Special Agent Jennifer Eskew shares shocking police stories from her 33-year law enforcement career on "Things Police See" podcast with host Steve Gold. From her first double-fatality crash as a rookie trooper to terrifying undercover crack buys in gang-infested Portsmouth, VA, and heartwarming rescues of drug-addicted moms—discover intense cop moments, bizarre naked arrests, and life-saving advice for new officers. Jennifer's new memoir Becoming Fire: Chasing the Passion to Protect, Serve and Love launches Nov 18—pre-order now! Foreword by Joe Kenda. Perfect for true crime fans, law enforcement enthusiasts, and police story lovers. Get Jennifer's Book https://www.jenniferclarkeeskew.com/   Bodycam Breakdowns - https://www.youtube.com/@thingspolicesee Contact Steve - steve@thingspolicesee.com Support the TPS show by joining the Patreon community today! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=27353055

Feeling overwhelmed? Discover how ‘reset days’ can transform your productivity. Learn Thanh’s practical strategies, including brain dumps for clarity, guided meditation for mental calm, and setting hard stops to prevent burnout. Reclaim control and get back on track with these actionable tips. Try Gusto today at gusto.com/TPS, and get 3 months free when you run […]

En este episodio, el abogado Jonathan analiza las noticias más importantes de inmigración en Estados Unidos. Explica las nuevas redadas en Texas, el uso de reconocimiento facial en aeropuertos y la decisión del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional que pone fin a la extensión automática de permisos de trabajo. Además, comenta los resultados de las elecciones recientes y cómo estos envían un mensaje político directo a Donald Trump. Durante el programa, también responde preguntas sobre la tarifa de $100 para casos de asilo, el futuro del TPS de Venezuela, renovaciones de DACA, casos VAWA y parole militar. El episodio concluye con un mensaje de esperanza, fe y unidad para la comunidad inmigrante que sigue enfrentando cambios en las leyes migratorias. 

This month The Management Brief will explore prominent lean theories that have been guiding organizations in their lean transformations. This week, Josh Howell, LEI President, and Mark Reich, LEI Chief Engineer Strategy, are joined by Dr. Steven Spear, renown lean expert and senior lecturer at MIT.   Steven is co-author of Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification,1 which examines how some companies over the last 150 years have led markets by solving their most important problems better, faster, and easier than the competition. The trio discuss Steven's work and his 30-plus years of lean learnings.  Steven recalls his start at the Toyota Production System Support Center (TSSC), when Mark was one of his mentors and sensei along with the Hajime Obha. He was thrust into all things lean and trying to grasp the Toyota Production System (TPS), without much clear instruction of principles and tools, instead just guidance to go and see and find things that were broken. “What I realized was going on is that they were teaching me to look for broken things, and the reason why they weren't telling me how is they wanted to first see what was broken in my approach,” says Steven. “So there was this layer of see a problem, solve a problem. That becomes sort of a mantra in my work about how we organize our behavior, how we architect our processes, how we architect our processes so that we can immediately see where we're wrong and use that as an immediate trigger to swarm onto the situation, figure out why it's wrong, and how to make it right.”  Steven grasped that TPS is a system built around the ability to see problems and respond to them quickly. “It's a simple thing to say, but the hard work is to keep pushing and pushing and pushing so you can see problems in greater detail, with greater accuracy, at smaller scale, sooner before they have a chance to become big problems. And everything else I think I've done since that moment ... has been elaboration on those points.”  The trio go on to discuss:  Steven's immersion in Toyota led to the groundbreaking article, “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System,”2 which puts forward rules for how to design systems that establish standards, capture understanding, enable individuals to see when things go wrong, and then fix the problems they find.   High-Velocity Edge,3 Steven's first book, was built on the insights that the way for companies to compete is on solving increasingly more problems at greater depth and breadth and faster (velocity). He eventually wrote Wiring the Winning Organization, which states more explicitly that “winner's win because they're just much better at seeing and solving problems than anybody else.”  Steven describes three layers behind the slowification, simplification, and amplification framework: 1) compete on ability to see and solve problems, 2) understand the instrumentation and ingenuity through which individuals work, and 3) architect the social circuitry in all processes, procedures, and routines by which the work of individuals is integrated into collective action toward common purpose.  A problem-solving danger zone for companies is when iteration and experimentation are inhibited. To get into a winning zone requires slowification (committed time and space to solve problems), simplification (simplify problems at the operating level rather than moving them up and down silos), and amplification (see problems earlier and more often when they are small).  Leaders need to liberate people's ingenuity rather than maximize efficiency, according to Steven. “There's too much in society where leaders think their job is to somehow collect data, do analysis, and then tell other people what to do.” While a fan of AI, Steven fears that leaders who are predisposed to data collection, analytics, and command and control management will turn AI into “an unholy devil for the rest of us” and dismiss creativity, dismiss ingenuity, and commitment to mission.  Steven and his co-author Gene Kim have tried to harmonize problem-solving ideas across different communities of thought. “We've all had the experience where someone says, ‘This must be a lean problem vs. a Six Sigma problem vs. a DevOps problem vs. an agile problem.' Folks, it's a people problem. That's it. It's people who are in a relationship and either relationships aren't working because they can't see problems, they can't solve problems, or they can't systematize what they learned. And so we thought we were doing some kind of service here to simplify the language so people could speak and collaborate across domains.” Optimism about organizations' abilities to transform: “Outside in a personal life, [people are] striving so hard to be valued by others. This is not in sort of any kind narcissistic, weak way. It's just this is what people try to do. This gets back to like our creative origins in that we want to do things useful and valuable to others. And then we bring them into the workplace, and we tell them none of that: we're going to be demeaning of you, of your potential, your opportunity, your chance for appreciation. So all we're saying is, what we've naturally been created or evolved to do, just extend that into the workplace. Mark, that's my source of optimism because when you start having conversations with people that way and get them to talk about all the joy they have as coach of this, as head of that, as volunteer here, it's like, don't leave that at the door. Bring it in. And people, when you say, ‘Oh, that's what you want me to do, yeah,' they're happy to do that.” 

El abogado Jonathan analiza las noticias más recientes sobre inmigración en EE.UU.: las redadas a nivel nacional y la postura de Donald Trump, la nueva regla que amplía el uso de huellas, escaneo de iris y ADN en procesos migratorios, y un caso reciente de la Corte de Apelaciones de Inmigración que podría afectar miles de solicitudes de asilo. Además, responde preguntas en vivo sobre TPS, apelaciones, permisos de trabajo y cómo prepararse ante los cambios. 

El abogado Jonathan explica el fin de la extensión automática del permiso de trabajo, la suspensión temporal del pago de $100 en casos de asilo, y analiza el arresto de una inmigrante en el aeropuerto de Utah, además de responder preguntas clave de la comunidad.Temas del episodio:Precauciones en Halloween (02:15)Cancelan la extensión automática del permiso de trabajo (03:30)Suspensión temporal del pago de $100 para casos de asilo (06:16)Caso real de cliente afectado por el cobro de $100 (09:00)Arresto en el aeropuerto de Salt Lake City y lecciones para la comunidad (14:00)Preguntas de la audiencia (20:36)Opciones de visa para españoles y turistas (24:16)Impuestos en matrimonios con ciudadanos (27:10)Cómo pedir asilo sin mentiras (28:40)Pasaporte europeo y elegibilidad (40:50)Casos VAWA y retrasos (42:39)Desestimaciones y citas con ICE (49:15)Prórrogas en cortes (55:20)Habeas Corpus en Georgia (56:24)Retirar asilo para pedir parole militar (57:11)Parole militar explicado (58:53)inmigración, permiso de trabajo, DHS, extensión automática, USCIS, asilo, tarifa de $100, Corte de Inmigración, arresto en aeropuerto, ICE, deportación, TPS, abogado Jonathan, inmigrantes en EE.UU., noticias migratorias 2025, comunidad latina

In this episode of the NPZ Immigration Podcast, we discuss the new DHS and USCIS rule ending automatic extensions of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for most renewal applicants, effective October 30, 2025.This change means that individuals who file to renew their work permits will no longer be automatically authorized to work while waiting for renewal approval.Our immigration attorneys explain what this rule means for employees, students, and HR professionals — and what steps you should take now to avoid gaps in employment authorization.Key Takeaways:✅ Automatic EAD extensions end for renewals filed on or after October 30, 2025✅ File your renewal 120–180 days before expiration to stay protected✅ Certain categories (like TPS-related EADs) may still qualify for limited extensions✅ DHS says this change aims to enhance vetting and national securityIf you need help filing your EAD renewal or understanding how this rule affects you, contact the attorneys at NPZ Law Group for guidance.201-670-0006 (ext. 104)info@visaserve.comwww.visaserve.com

En este episodio, el abogado Jonathan analiza un cambio histórico en inmigración: el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional elimina la extensión automática de 540 días para permisos de trabajo. Explica quiénes serán los más afectados —incluyendo solicitantes de asilo, TPS y ajuste de estatus— y qué pasos deben tomar los inmigrantes para proteger su estatus laboral. Además, comparte estadísticas impactantes sobre los resultados en cortes de inmigración: más del 75% de quienes pierden su caso lo hacen sin abogado. Jonathan detalla por qué tener representación legal puede ser la diferencia entre ganar o ser deportado. También aborda advertencias recientes desde las cortes: arrestos inmediatos después de audiencias, aumento en costos de apelaciones y la importancia de tener un plan financiero y legal anticipado. Un mensaje poderoso sobre responsabilidad, preparación y control personal frente a los desafíos del sistema migratorio en EE.UU. 

Reach out to Cody and Buhler to tell them what's up!When your family rejects you, you're just getting started!On today's episode of False Start, John Buhler (Lead Writer, FanSided) and Cody Williams (Content Director, FanSided.com) decided that their TPS reports could wait because they ain't done winning yet!Brian Kelly is out at LSU, and the college football world could not be more excited.While this show was recorded hours before Kelly was let go by the Bayou Bengals, it still works because the guys kept it 100 percent.Who could conceivably replace Kelly as the face of the Bayou Bengals?Also, they looked at Fernando Mendoza's Heisman Trophy candidacy, as well as unveiled their latest playoff projections on this Office Space-themed episode.Before you jump to conclusions, be sure you False Start first.

BIO: Sandra Van OpstalEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CO-FOUNDER OF CHASING JUSTICESandra Maria Van Opstal, a second-generation Latina, is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Chasing Justice, a movement led by people of color to mobilize a lifestyle of faith and justice . She is an international speaker, author, and activist, recognized for her courageous work in pursuing justice and disrupting oppressive systems within the church. As a global prophetic voice and an active community member on the west-side of Chicago, Sandra's initiatives in holistic justice equip communities around the world to practice biblical solidarity and mutuality within various social and cultural locations.https://chasingjustice.com/sandra-van-opstal/ Giving in Chicago: https://newlifecenters.org/ Ordg to follow in chicagohttps://www.icirr.org/ Tshirt https://secure.qgiv.com/for/peoplearenotillegalt-shirt/Danielle (00:09):good afternoon, y'all. I have a second video coming to you from my dear friend and colleague in Chicago, Humboldt Park area, a faith leader there that collaborates with the different faith communities in the area. And she's going to talk about some ways she's personally affected by what's happening by the invasion there and how you can think about things, how you might get involved. I hope you'll join me in this conversation and honor yourself. Stay curious, honor, humanity, get involved. Take collective action. Talk to your own neighbor. Let's start caring really well for one another.Oh wow. Sandra, you know me. This is Jenny McGrath. This is my colleague. She's a bible nut. She wrote out the Bible How many times?Like scripture nut and a researcher, a therapist and purity culture, kind of like Survivor, but did a lot of work with women around that. And we talk a lot about race and current events. And I restarted my podcast and I asked Jenny if she'd want to join me. She has a great love for justice and humans and making a difference. So that's kind of how Jenny joined up with me. Right. Anything else you want to say?Sandra, I saw your post on social media and I was like, I could do that. I could contribute to that. And so that's what I'm here to do. Want to hear about your experience. What does resilience look like for you all over there? What do you need from us? How can we be a part of what's happening in Chicago from wherever we are? And if there's practical needs or things you want to share here, we can also send those out.Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do, where you're located in Chicago, and just a little bit even about your family, if you're willing?Sandra (01:40):Yeah, sure. So it's great to be with you guys. I'm Sandra Van Opal and I'm here on the west side of Chicago in a neighborhood called Humble Park. It's if you see in the news with all that's happening, it's the humble Hermosa, Avondale kind of zone of the ice crackdown. Well, let's not call it a crackdown. The ice invasion(02:06):Here in Chicago. I am the daughter of immigrants, so my mom is from Columbia. My father was from Argentina. They came to live in Chicago when they were in their twenties and thirties. They met in English class, so they were taking TOEFL exams, which is an exam you take in order to enter into college and schooling here in the US to show your language proficiency. And so they met learning English and the rest is history. I grew up here. I've lived here my whole life. I'm raising my family here. I'm married. I have two kids that just turned 11, so they're in fifth grade and sixth grade. And the school that they go to is a primarily immigrant school immersion, Spanish immersion. So it's a school where you take classes basically 90% in Spanish when you start and you move every year a little bit more English until you graduate when you're 50 50.(03:03):And so the school context they've been in has been receiving a lot of new neighbors, a lot of new classmates. And for that reason, actually most of their classes are still almost fully in Spanish, so they should probably be 60 40 right now. But I think a lot of their curriculum is still in Spanish, or the children have the option of having the math book in Spanish or English if they want it. If they're supposed to be English Spanish, or sorry, English math this year, then they might choose to have a Spanish book even if the instruction is in English. So that's the context I live in. I am here. I live in a home. I have chickens and a garden, and I love to be outside watching my neighbors and connecting with people. And we have a black club in our community, so a lot of our information that we're sharing with each other is through our email list and our signal group. Yeah. Oh, also what I do, I run an organization called Chasing Justice, which is focused on the intersection of faith and making the world a better place. And I am a local pastor and author on issues of worship and justice. So that's my function in this world.Danielle (04:31):I think we talk about what's happening in one sense, it seems like social media and other ways like Zoom, we're on a screen with Zoom and we're all in three different locations right now. We think of ourselves as really connected. But then when tragedy strikes or trauma or an invasion, for instance, strikes, we're connected, but it seems like we're also disconnected from one another and the practical needs and storytelling on the ground, and what does resilience look like for one person versus another? Or what does survival versus thriving look like for one person versus another? And how do we kind of join together and form a collective bond in that? I've been thinking a lot about that after I read your post Sandra on Instagram and what does that mean for me? And just as I'm talking, what does that mean for you or what are thoughts that come to mind for you?Sandra (05:27):Yeah, I am think I remember what posts you're referring to, but I think part of it is whenever something happens in our world, I believe that because of the highly digitally connected world that we're in, it feels like we are all supposed to say something. That's how we respond. Something happens and we all go, that's not right, which I think is good, we should say that, but I think the frustration, I'm sure people in LA and DC felt that, but it's like something is happening in your real life every day to your neighbors and everybody all around the country is commenting on it and commenting with such confidence and commenting with such expertise, and you're like, wait a minute. That's not how I would say that. And I think the reason that maybe that post came up for me as a kind of, it was less frustration and more sorrow, I think it felt more, more sorrow that the people that are most impacted by the issues are not the ones that are given the voice to talk about how those systems of oppression are impacting them. And I think the reason I think about things like that is I remember when I first started pastoring locally here. I mean, I had been working for a parachurch organization doing national and international work. I really felt like it was time for me to become a local pastor to understand, hey, if I'm going to be writing to pastors and speaking to pastors and challenging pastors, I should probably know what it's like to be one. And so I was supposed to be a five year stint, which ended up being 12 years pastoring locally.(07:08):And in my discussions with my staff team, I would often have one of them very respectfully, I was the executive pastors in a community with hierarchy. So they would very respectfully say, Hey, your friends that are out there blogging and writing articles and books, they're talking about stuff in ways we would never talk about it. They're talking about it in a tone that we would never use to talk about our situation and with words we would never use to describe our situation. And it's not that my friends maybe didn't have a perspective, it's that it didn't reflect their perspective. And so I think I became very sensitive to that, paying attention to, oh, how do expert justice people talk about issues of justice versus the people that are most impacted by those issues of injustice? Or how do people from within a community express their journey in ways that maybe even have a different tone than mostly anger that was coming out from the justice space?(08:10):And they're like, we wouldn't say it that way. We wouldn't talk about it that way. So I think because of that, it's really important when something happens in a local space and it is impacting us all nationally, national news, that we ask the question, how can I hear the voices of the people that this is most impacting? And so that's why I think I wrote that post. I was like, A lot of y'all have a lot to say about Chicago who don't live here and thank you, but no thank you. Invite us to talk for ourselves, invite us to speak for ourselves because there are local pastors and priests and imams and mental health providers who are experiencing this in a very real way that they probably could shed some light on what would be helpful to us. I called a bunch of friends in Los Angeles when things were happening there, and I was like, oh, how are you guys doing?(09:05):What's really happening? How can we help? If you don't have time to reply back, just know that I'm here praying for you, and I'm like with you and I'm sending money to the orgs. I see you posting and don't know what else to do. Obviously, the ice raids are impacting all of us across the country, but they're impacting each city in very different ways. Each city is a very different city with a very different ethos and a way of handling things. And as you guys know, Chicago is the best. I'm so proud of us right now. I'm so proud of us. We're like, no, you can't talk to us like that. No, you can't have our streets. But it also gets us into trouble because it's rooted in our philosophy of community organizing, though the linsky method, which is agitation, agitation, agitation. So we have stuff to learn too. But that's what you're seeing in Chicago is a lot of agitation. But yeah, that's why I wrote it. I wrote it like, I know 20 community leaders you could talk to here in Chicago that would give you a good idea of what we're experiencing and what would be best for us if you wanted to come alongside of us and help in prayer. So yeah.Jenny (10:27):Yeah, I think just a sense of wanting to hear more, whatever you feel. Well, and whatever feels safe to share in this podcast setting of just what it has been like for you to be on the ground in the community that you're in, in the roles that you're in with the family you're in. I just find myself curious about your experience.Sandra (10:52):Yeah. Okay. So I think about this in three different areas. One is, how is this impacting me as a parent, the other in my family and connected to family members. The other one is how is this impacting me as a neighbor? And then the other is, how is this impacting me as a civic leader, as a faith leader here? And so the hardest one has actually been, as a parent, if I could be honest with you, it's really been hard. Those of us that have raised kids, especially younger children or well all children, they each have their own season of development. But raising kids and being a village for children right now I think is really hard. They've gone through lockdown, George Floyd protests, watching multiple genocides, a war in Ukraine, and now this locally. And I believe in talking to your kids about what's happening and talking to them about it in ways that is appropriate for their age. So that has changed for me since my children were five when the pandemic started and now they're 11. That has changed for me what that looks like.(12:32):But there are many families, dozens of families in their school that have not returned since the ice raids have started. Their friends are missing from class. Ice has repeatedly been around their school. Ice has been on our corner where we grocery shop, get tacos, go to therapy. My son asked me the other day, will they throw me on the ground? If they see me, will they throw me on the ground? And this is one of my sons already struggles a lot with anxiety and he has anxiety, and he's also a black child. And so he's already been processing being black in the context of law enforcement in our city and what's happened. And so I think he kind of went through that season and he's like, so will they throw me on the ground if they see me? And I'm like, no, buddy. They're not going to. Hopefully there's enough cameras around that they'll throw you on the ground.(13:42):And so I think trying to figure out how to answer those kinds of questions. How can we think about our friends? How can we pray for our friends? We've done a lot more prayer in the 15 minute commutes to and from school, I think just for very specific needs that our neighbors are going through. And neighbor that I live in close proximity to the other day was running an errand and was detained by ice and was let go on the spot in the parking lot of the Home Depot, but its someone our kids know really well and helping them to process that. Their friend, a neighbor has gone through this, I think requires a different set of parenting skills and I believe are in most parenting books.(14:48):And so I find myself almost, man, I wish there was a resource for that man. I wish there was a place to talk about that. Let me talk to my neighbor about how they talk to their kids about that. And for those of us that come from Latino cultures, we don't really talk about hard things a lot. We're not really taught to talk about them. It's like we endure them and we go through them, but we don't give them space for processing. And so both of my children are in therapy. I don't know what they talk about in therapy, probably girls and love interests and bullying and all the rest of the things that kids talk about, but I think they probably unpack some of what they're going through with their friends. They are also wanting to make a difference. So we're trying to figure out what does that look for them to make things good in the community they live in.(15:42):So that's the first area is parenting. I don't know if you guys have anything to add advice to give me on that, but I think the hardest thing for me is what do we do with our children? What do we do with a generation that is growing up, watching their government step over so many boundaries, doing things that are completely illegal or unethical or dangerous for our society and feeling like, Hey, we're living in a time, I know a lot of people posted the quote from Ann Frank talking about what was happening in their streets. And I'm like, yeah, my kids are watching that. And I don't know how they're processing it or where they see their faith in the midst of that. I mean, luckily we have an amazing church. We talk about stuff like that all the time. So I mean, yeah, the mayor goes to our church and the pastor's an amazing person, and we have lots of civic leaders and law enforcement in our church. So I think they're watching, they're able to have some mentorship in that area, I think because spoken about from the pulpit, but man, being little must be really hard right now.Danielle (17:09):Maybe we don't need to press too fast, even though we're in a podcast right now. I think it bears the weight of just a little bit of space to just hang with that comment. I have older kids than you. As recently, I told my 20-year-old son who we are not suffering yet, the street raids. For some reason, Seattle hasn't been the focus point yet, but he did lose his federal aid and his Pell grants and everything for college this year. And so him and a lot of other kids had a significant do have a significant college tuition to make up. And we were talking about it and I was like, well, this will be the normal for you. This will be what's normal. This will be what's normal for our family. And my husband actually stepped in and said to me in a moment of despair and lament, because my son wants to be a music teacher.(18:21):He said to me, he's like, but you always tell me nothing's impossible. We can figure it out. And I was like, yeah, I do say that, but I don't believe it right now. He is like, well, he's like, I believe it right now. So I don't know what it looks like to come up with an extra for us. It's an extra $6,000, so we don't have the money yet, but what does it look like? But I think it goes back to that sense of finding some balance with our kids of what's real, what's not giving. What I hear for you, Sandra, and I'm kind of fumbling through my words, so maybe Jenny can step in, but offering our kids the validation of their reality that's so important in age appropriate and the different steps we're in the validation of reality. But I also find myself searching and grasping for where's the hope? Where are the strands of faith for our family? Where are the strands of hope searching for? Like you said, what are the practical actions your boys can do that also kind of I think plant seeds and generate hope in their hearts when we can step out and do actions?Sandra (19:43):Yeah. No, I think the hard part is I can't promise them things will get better. I can't promise them there's going to be an end to genocide in Palestine. I can't promise them. I keep telling everyone, when we pray at night and we talk about our days and stuff, and I just tell 'em, we, my husband and I tell 'em, and the only thing we can promise you is that God is with us. And I think the reality is when you've had proximity to our global siblings, that suffering didn't just start two Octobers ago or even for our own families. The suffering as my African brother once told me at a conference, he said, what do you mean when we suffer? Life is suffering and suffering is life. Or if we suffer, someone said, yeah, if we suffer, it's like some pretty from the west if we suffer.(20:35):It's like no, life is suffering and suffering is life. So I think part of it is we have within our story as people who follow the Jesus way, we have a story of people who have really always suffered. The story of scripture is a story of marginalized, persecuted, displaced people that are wandering in a land looking for home. And in those stories, you find God's presence with them. You find the worship of their creator. You find moments of joy, rhythms of feasting and fasting. You find all the traditions we do now that come out of the story of the people. So I can tell them, baby, I can only promise you that God is with us the same way that God was with, we go through the stories and the same way that God has always been with the black church in America, the same way that God has always been with our Latino community, the same way that God is with our siblings in Gaza, God is with us.(21:35):And so it doesn't take the pain away, but we can know that God is there. I try to teach my kids, lemme tell you, this is so bad parenting. Sorry, you can cut this out if you need to. But the other day we were praying for our country and I said, God, I just pray. Pray for Trump. I pray God, either you would change his heart or you would help him to go to sleep and just not wake up tomorrow. And then my son was like, I can't believe you prayed that prayer. Mom, I can't believe you said that. That's such a bad prayer. I was like, have you read the Psalms?(22:12):I was like, tonight, let's read a psalm. I'm going to read to you what David prayed for his enemies. And just because the Bible calls us to love our enemies and to see them as human does not mean we cannot pray that they will fall asleep. And so I said, I'm not saying I'm going to do anything bad. I know my phone's listening to me right now. I'm not saying I'm going to take matters into my own hands. I'm just saying I wouldn't be sad. That's all. And he's like, he just could not get over it because, and he just kept digging. Papa, Papa would never pray a prayer like that. He would never, I said, Papa hasn't read the Psalms. I read the Psalms. I know exactly what the Psalms say. And I was like, and the thing is because God is for good, because God is against evil and because God knows my heart, he knows God knows how much I love him, and I'm asking him to please take this evil away from our neighborhood.(23:04):Please take this evil away from our country. Please take this evil away. We're living in evil times, Terry. These are bad times. And this is not only a bad person. This is somebody that's raising up all of the badness to be allowed. And so I'm going to pray that prayer every day. And I know that you think it's not good, and I'm so sorry, but tonight we'll read the Psalms. Then that night we read some Psalms. I was like, see what David prays for his enemy. I said, and the thing is, God is there with us in our prayers. He's not like, what? I can't believe she cussed. I can't believe she said that bad. I can't believe she want to be friends with this guy that's too evil. And so I think part of it's processing faith with them. It's like, I don't know what kind of, let's just talk about Jesus and what he said. Let's talk about what the Bible models for us and prayer. Let's talk about It's okay to be mad. It's okay. It's okay to want evil to end. It doesn't mean we take things into our own hands, but it's okay to want the evil to end. And so those are the kinds of conversations where I go home, I'm like, okay, let me just look at my stuff. Is that wrong? Is that theologically correct? I called my husband. Do you think this is theologically okay? Am I mal forming our children? But I feel like it's an okay prayer, isn't it an okay prayer? Those are the kinds of things that are happening. I don't know,Jenny (24:37):I mean, I am not a theologian, but I think it's an okay prayer to pray. And I'm just thinking about, I've had two thoughts going through my mind, and one of course I couldn't and wouldn't want to put on some type of silver lining and be like, kids are going to be fine. They're resilient. And something that we say in the somatic trauma world a lot is that trauma isn't about an event. It's often about not having a safe place to go in the midst of or after an event. And what I just keep hearing is you making yourself available to be a safe place for your kids to process and reimagine what moving through this moment looks like. And also holding that in families that are being torn apart, that don't have those safe places to go in this moment. And I think part of what we're experiencing is this term, the boomerang of imperialism, as you said, these are not new things happening to families all over the world. And the ricochet of how we are now experiencing that in the heart of the empire, where I find my sense of hope is that that is the sign that the snake is eating its head and it will collapse. And I believe in rebirth and regrowth and hope that we can create a world that is different than a world that builds empires that do this to families. And as where my mind goes.Sandra (26:39):Yeah. And I think for ourselves, for our children, for in the work that I do with chasing justice with activists, it's like the only thing I can do, I'm not going to be able to change the world. The only thing I can do is change the little world that I'm in. So what can I do to make a difference and make things good in the world that I'm in? And so it boils down to very, very practical, tangible, embodied unfancy. Things like calling your neighbors and checking in on them to see if they need you to take their kids to school, finding out if everybody got home, okay. When there was a raid in a particular area, asking, or not even asking, but dropping food off for people and saying, Hey, we made a grocery room. We just thought we'd pick up some essentials for everybody.(27:27):Because part of it too is how do you do that without asking your, how do you help your neighbor without asking your neighbor their status? And that's not appropriate. And how do you help your neighbor without assuming they don't have money or making them feel like some kind of project? And so I think part of it is figuring out how to practice mutual aid in ways that are communal that just says, Hey, we picked up this. We figured this week we'd drop it off to five different families, and next week we'll do five other families. Who knows if they need it or not, but at least they know you're thinking of them. I think something you said about trauma, which I think is really important when you work in communities where you have communal, collective, complex generational trauma, which is we're just always living in this.(28:19):I have status, so I don't worry about leaving my home. I also am white. I'm a white Latina, so I'm not like, well, maybe they'll pull me over. Well, I don't know. But I know if I was browner my other family members that would definitely be like, please carry a copy of your passport and your ID at all times. But now I don't leave the house without, I used to leave the house with my keys and my phone, maybe a wallet. I don't know where a wallet is. Now I'm like, oh, I better have my ID on me(28:48):Mostly because if I intervene, I'm afraid if I get arrested, I won't have ID on me. But I think about all the ways that you have to leave the house differently now. And this is for people that they already felt vulnerable in their TPS, in their temporary protective status status or in their undocumented status or in their green card holder status or whatever status they had, that they already felt vulnerable in some way. And now if they don't go to work, their family doesn't eat, so they leave the house. But how do they leave the house? If you go to school every day and you're wondering if your parents are going to pick you up because now you're aware you have this emergency family plan, what does that feel like day in and day out, decade after decade to feel vulnerable? That kind of trauma is something I don't understand in my body, though I understand it as a concept.(29:47):It's the trauma of feeling vulnerable at all times of sending your kids out into the world. And because our US Supreme Court and because our government has decided it's okay to racially profile people, so I keep telling my mom, you better not be speaking Spanish at Target. She's bilingual. I'm like, please do not speak Spanish at Target. Do not open your mouth. And I would never have said that ever in the past, super proud of being a Latina and being bilingual, but I'm scared for my mom. And so I'm checking in on family members who have vulnerable status. I'm trying to find out if everybody's okay. So I think there are, it's like I told my husband the other day, and the car was like, can you imagine having this kind of fear day in and day out for decades at a time in a country and building a life?(30:44):And all of a sudden, many of our DACA recipients or young undocumented folks that are in college, all of a sudden they're not going to finish their degree. They're now in a country they don't even know. They didn't grow up there in a language they don't understand or their spouse is missing. And now they don't know if they're in Swatee, they don't know if they're in Mexico. They don't know where they are. And so I think that, I don't know that I fully understand what to do about that as a neighbor or as a pastor, but to say there must be something within the community like some gift or strength or accessing that helps them endure that kind of trauma when they cannot reach out for help.(31:44):My brother also told me the other day, he's an ER doctor. He's like, man, the county ER is so empty right now because people go to the county hospital for services when they don't have insurance. And many, many of them are Asian, south Asian, Latino, and African immigrants, and now they're not going or Ukrainian or Russian or whatever. So now it's emptiness and churches. Some of our churches are used to be 300 people now. There's like 40 people on a Sunday. So the reporting that I'm hearing from, whether it's the hospitals or just the stores, if you drive down our street, it's like empty nest. It is never empty. There's always people walking around on the street, whole family is going grocery shopping now. There's just nobody out. It's like a ghost town. Nobody's leaving unless they have to leave. And so it changes the feel of a community. It changes the environment. People that need access to healthcare aren't going for their follow-up appointments or their treatments because they're afraid to go to the hospital. People that would normally go to law enforcement if there's domestic violence or something happening, which already would feel very, very difficult to do, are unwilling to do it because they're afraid to leave and afraid to report to any law enforcement. Even in a sanctuary city.(33:18):I don't know what's happening to these families that aren't going to school. I'm assuming that the school has some kind of e-learning doing for them or some kind of packets they're making for the kids in the meantime while they're missing school. But there's all these things that daily rhythms of life that aren't happening. And so for many of us are like, I don't feel like going to church today. Oh, well, I feel like I'm many Sundays. I don't feel like going to church for other people, the privilege of attending worship in a congregational setting is something they'd love to have that they just can't access anymore. And so there's all these things that have changed about our daily reality that I don't know if we're going to fully understand how that's impacted us until years from now. We just don't see an end to it. We're not sure when this is going to end.Danielle (34:13):I have a flurry of thoughts going through my mind as you're speaking. One is when I did a consult with my analyst that I consult with, and we were talking about anxiety around different things with clients, and she was like, well, that's not anxiety, that's terror. And this person should feel terror because that's the reality.(34:45):That's not a pathology. So that's number one just in the therapy world, we don't want to pathologize people for feeling this terror in their bodies when that's actually the appropriate response. When immigration is sitting outside on your street, you should feel terror. Your body's giving you the appropriate warning signal. So I think about just even the shortcomings of Western psychological frameworks to address what's happening. We can't pathologize. It's not about prescribing enough medication. It's not about that. I do think you're right. I think there's some sense of, I've even felt it in my own body as you talk, a sense of, I'm going to engage what Sandra's saying and I'm also going to separate myself just enough in case that happens in Seattle so I can be just distant enough. So I got to get up, I got to eat. I got to feed my kids, I got to make sure everything's happening, got to go to work.(35:40):So I can almost feel it happening. As you describe it, we call it dissociation in psychology world, but in my analyst world, she would call it a psychic retreat, which I really like. Your psyche is kind of in a battle. You might come back from the front line to preserve yourself. And that's kind of how I think of the collective mentality a bit come back from the front lines in certain ways. So you could preserve, I need to eat, I need to sleep, I need to drink some water. I need to breathe air. So that's one thing I'm thinking about that's maybe collectively happening on multiple levels. The other thing I'm thinking about is if you're listening to this and you're in a body, even mine, a same as you, like a light-skinned Latina, white Latina, and our family has a lot of mixed identities and statuses, but if you're not in one of these situations, you can help mental health by going out and getting shit done.Sandra (36:50):Yes, absolutely. Get it done, get it done, get it done. It's like show up, put yourself. I think that's half the battle is how do we show up in spaces? I think white folks have to ask themselves. That's why all the protests, it's like, yes, it's diverse, but it's a whole lot of white people.The reason is because a lot of black folks, brown folks, vulnerable folks, we're not going to put ourselves in a position where we can have an encounter with law enforcement. So one of the things I have to say, talking about church, one of the things our pastor said the Sunday before, not the No Kings, but the immigration protest, it was like maybe a month ago, he said, listen, some of us should not be at that protest because we have a record, because we are prone to be maybe, what is it called? Oh my gosh, we're prone to be singled out by the police. We should not be there. We should pray. We should stay at home. We should host people when they come back and feed them. We should not be there. Others of us, we should be there. And you know who you are.(37:55):And so I think that's part of the discernment, which I think that's literally, it's half the conversations I'm having with people is should my children go to this protest? I fully intended to go to the No Kings protest with my full family, all of us. And I also saw these amazing alternatives like a rally for families and children. And so all these parks all over the city of Chicago, which again, were an amazing city, they had all these alternatives for if your child, someone in your family does not do crowds well, right? You're immunocompromised or you have anxiety, or I thought about, oh, maybe we shouldn't take my son to this protest. Maybe he's going to actually get an anxiety attack. Maybe we should go to this. So we had all those options till the very last minute we're decided to go to Kids Rally, but there were options for us to show up.(38:43):So when you can show up, show up if your neighborhood, there's a ton of activities in, I hope other cities are doing this too, but they're packing these little zines and these little whistles and they're telling people what to do. It's like, okay, now there's this Instagram blast about, oh, the ice is over here, and everyone shows up in their cars and they all honk their horn. You can show up in a neighborhood, honk your horn, you can blow a whistle. And we're fully intending to give away free whistles for every person that buys. The people are not a legal t-shirt for chasing justice. We're like, have a whistle. Get ready. If anything, even if you never blow that whistle, no ice in your town, you're trying to show people that I'm prepared. I'm prepared to raise my voice for you. I'm prepared to show up for you.(39:34):And so it ends up being maybe an artifact or a symbol of our willingness to ally if the time should come. But yeah, some of us, we have more privilege and showing up because I definitely have two lawyers in my speed dial right now because my husband knows that I'm prone to show up in spaces and say things that maybe will get me in trouble. So we had a meeting with a lawyer three weeks ago. He's like, please tell me what to do if my wife gets arrested or if something happens to a neighbor or he's just prepared our community block club emails and texts and signal threads. We have rapid response ready things that are rapid response. So it's like, Hey, where do you see something? I see this is the license plate. Here's a video. I saw just even informing people and praying alongside of one another.(40:29):So we have this group of pastors we gather called Pastors Rabbis and Imams called Faith Over Fear. And so in this group, someone posted like, look at Ice was heavily in our neighborhood. They said arrests that were made or the people that were detained. This is the situation, let people know. So we're just letting people know this is what's happening. Teaching people to use their phones to record everything and anything they can always being ready to show up. So I'm the type of neighbor that would anyway, if I would see law enforcement pulling over a young black or brown man, I would pull the car over and I would get out of my car and I would say, hi, I am Reverend Sandra and I'm here. I live down the street. I'm wondering if everything's okay. Here is everything. And the reason is just to show them that I'm watching. They said, no, everything's fine. I said, okay, I'm just going to sit in my car. Let me know if you need something because I'm letting them know that I'm watching.(41:37):And so I think part of it is the accountability of a community. And I love to see the walking school buses, the ride shares that parents are doing the grocery dropoffs because you can't stand in the food pantry line anymore. The GoFundMe's for particular legal fees, the trying to utilize your networks to find out if you can figure out what district or what holding location you, your loved one would be in offering mental health services. Like, Hey, here are the three organizations that do group therapy or circles or there's going to be a meditation and yoga thing offered at this center. A lot of them have a lot of embodied practices too. So I think those things are great. But yeah, we still have to, we're still living life. We're still submitting book reports for school, we're still having birthday parties and christenings, we're we still black and brown communities have been living through trauma for so long, they can't stop living.(42:53):So the question is how do we invite one another to more wholeness in our living, within our own communities, and then how do we help one another? This is affecting everybody. It's affecting not only Latino communities and not only Asian immigrant communities, but it's also affecting black communities because there's more enforcement and they're not more law enforcement and they're not necessarily targeting black communities, but where there are brown communities, sometimes there are black folks also. And so it's impacting them in just the militarization of our city. I mean, everywhere you go, there's just people marching with weapons and it could be Michigan Avenue in the shopping area downtown near the Bean, or it could be in our communities. And so I think how people are trying to, I think a city like Chicago, because it's got such a rich tradition of community organizing and community development and advocacy, I think it's very set up for what can I do in my world for my neighbors?(44:08):And then for those of you that aren't in Chicago, I think knowing which organizations are doing fantastic things, I think that's really helpful. Within the faith and justice space, I think organizations like New Life Centers that are kind of spearheading some of the new neighbors initiatives already, but they're doing this whole care system for, they're already new neighbors from Venezuela, Ecuador, and Central America who are now more vulnerable. And so they have systems in place for that. There are organizations live free Illinois who are doing more of the advocacy, raising awareness stuff. I can give you a couple, I can put in the show notes, but I think there's organizations that are doing fantastic work. Some people are just, I have a friend who's in Houston who's just like, there's a refugee family who's vulnerable right now and I need to take them groceries. Who wants to give Venmo?(45:06):Me? I think you have to trust your friends aren't going to go out for a nice rooftop beverage and 300, $400 later. Then there's groceries for this. So it's like you may not know anyone, but you may know someone who knows someone who's vulnerable. And so maybe you just are giving money to, or maybe you, I've had people send me money and be like, Hey, maybe someone who needs something. And I'm like, great. And we little, we put it cash and we put it in our car and when we need it, we help a neighbor who's in need. I think I'm calling our friends to, another one I thought of was calling our friend, inviting our friends to action. So sometimes I don't think it's that we don't want to do anything or that we're unwilling to do something. It's that we just feel so stunned. So that news that came out this week in Houston about the 15-year-old autistic boy who was taken by ICE and who has the capacity of a 4-year-old, and I was thinking about him all day long. So I just started pinging all of my friends in Houston and Austin and Dallas. I was like, anybody in Texas? I have a lot of friends in Texas. I'm like, not just, Hey Texas, do something directly. Sending it to them and saying, what have you done?(46:28):Is there a number you can call? Can you gather your small group? They're always asking, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to, I'm like, so I was like, I have something for you to do, and it's in Texas. I'm like, do you know what's happened to this kid? Is he back at home? Can you do something? Is there a GoFundMe for the parents? So I think when we're activated in small things, we develop the discipline of just being activated in general. So it's like if there's a thing that somebody invites you to give to and you give to it, then you get into the practice of giving.(47:06):If you don't start well, then where is it going to happen? So we're thinking right now, I dunno about you guys, but there's nothing in me that wants to do anything fancy right now. I rest for sure. We went to Michigan, we walked around, we took hikes. It was great. It was super free because we stayed with a friend. But there's nothing in me that's like, let me just plan a fancy vacation right now. It's not in me. And I think part of it is, it's almost like a detoxing from an American consumeristic way of seeing celebration and rests. I don't need fancy things to have rest. I don't need, doesn't have to be expensive. I don't know who came up with this. And I think it's a sensibility in us right now, and I've talked to a couple of friends about it, but it's like it's a sensibility in us that feels like it's really tone deaf to start spending a whole lot of money right now when there are so many needs in the world. And no, we can't give away our whole salaries, but we might be able to give more. For example, I don't think our friend should be saying, Hey, my son can't go to college this year. He needs $6,000. I think somebody in our friend groups could be like, actually, I am getting a bonus of $12,000. I'm going to give you three. We should be able to do that for those of us that have access.(48:27):And there are many people who have access, many other people who think they don't have money, but they do. And I think if we invite each other to say, Hey, I want to give to this person's legal fees, or I want to give to this person's college fund, or I want to give to will you give with me? And we are practicing then the kind of mutual aid that's collective that I know our grandparents did for the Latino culture, it's like the RIA system where y'all put the money in every month and every Monday the month. So it's like Koreans do it too. It's like everybody gives a hundred dollars a month and all goes into this pile and every month that pile of money moves around. So it's like our way of providing, I think there's a lot more we could be doing with our money that would give integrity to our voice. And I see a lot of talking and not a lot of sharing.Danielle (49:34):It's so true. It's a lot of talking and it's like, I think we have to get over that old white supremacy norm. If you see somebody on the street, you got to buy them food. You can't ever give them cash. That story rings through my mind as a child and just sometimes you just got to load up the cash, send someone cash for dinner and send someone cash for, I don't know, whatever they need, a bus fare or an airplane ticket or find the miles in your community if someone needs to fly somewhere. Just all these things you're talking about, we kind of have to just get over the hump and just say, Hey, people need help. Let's just go help.Sandra (50:12):And for some of us, I think it's particularly of those of us within our community that are no longer congregating at a local church. I don't know. Did you think the tithe justI think the call to generosity is still there. Whether you want to call your church a local formal traditional church or not, I would hate, I would've hated in our season that we were churchless to have stopped giving out would've been a significant amount of money that would've stopped going out. We still got salaries that year. Well, at least Carl did. Carl got a salary. So I'm like that invitation to generosity, at least at the bare minimum, at the bare minimum, 10% at the bare minimum that should be going out. And so the question is, what did all of us that left churches do with our 10% not to be legalistic because really we should be giving more. The question is, what am I allowed to keep? And for people making six figures, you need to be asking yourselves, why do you need six figures if you don't? Because most of the people, even in places like Seattle and Chicago, are living off of $50,000 a year. So I think as much as we need to ask our government to do well and be integrous in their budget, I think we need to think about that as a place of, and I say that not because I think it's going to solve the problems in Chicago, but I think that money does actually sharing does actually help some people. They haven't eaten.(52:06):They just haven't eaten. We know families whose kids don't eat.Jenny (52:19):Just thank you. It's been really important and meaningful to have your voice and your call to action and to community. I don't take lightly sharing your story and how it's specifically showing up in your community and in your own body and in your own mothering. So thank you for speaking to how you are practicing resilience and how we can think more about how to practice that collectively. It's been really, really good to be here. I am sorry I have to jump off, but thank you Danielle. I'll see you all soon.Sandra (53:23):Yeah, I mean even if you were to think about, you may not be able to provide for anyone, but is there someone in your ecosystem, in your friend group that could really use four sessions of therapy that doesn't have the finances to do so? Or that could really use sessions of acupuncture or massage therapy that doesn't have the money for it, it doesn't have insurance, and of someone who's willing to work with you on that as far as providing that for them. So I think even at that level, it's like if we had to put ourselves in someone else's shoes and say, well, what I want for someone, how would I want for someone to help me without me asking them? I think that is the biggest thing is we cannot, I don't believe we can rely on a person's ability to say what they need.(54:27):I mean, you've had stuff happen in your life. I've had health issues in my own family and problems with my family, and when people are like, oh, how can I help? I'm like, I can't think about that right now. But if a plant shows up at my house that is bringing me joy. Someone just sent me a prayer plant the other day. It's literally called a red prayer plant or something. I was like, yes, I love this. Or if someone buys dinner for my family so I don't have to cook for them, I can't stand up right now. Or if someone said, looks in on me and says, Hey, I know you guys can't be out and about much, so I just wanted to give you some funding for a streaming service. Here you go. Whatever they use it for, that's up to them. But I think to let someone know that you're thinking about them, I think is easy to do with baking something for them, sharing something with them, taking their kids for a few hours.(55:31):Because what if they just need a break from their children and maybe you could just watch their kids for a little bit, pick them up, take them to your house, watch them for a little bit. So I think there are ways that we can practically help each other that again, will make a world of difference to the person that's there next to you. And as always, calling your senators, writing letters, joining in on different campaigns that organizations are doing for around advocacy, checking in with your local city officials and your parent teacher and your schools, and figuring out what are we doing for the kids in our school even to be informed as a neighbor, what is it that our school's doing to protect our families and children? I think those are all good questions that we should always be doing and praying for people and praying specifically. We do that as a family. I think sometimes I don't know what else to do, but to say God to help.Danielle (56:35):Yeah, I mean, I have to go now, but I do think that's kind of key is not that God isn't going to intervene at some point practically, I think we are that active prayer answer for other people we're that answer. I'm not saying we're God, but we're the right. Yeah. Yeah. And just to step into that, be that answer, step into loving when it says, love your neighbor actually doing it and actually showing up and maybe loving your neighbor isn't bringing them dinner. Maybe it's just sitting down and listening to how their day went. Maybe you're not a therapist, maybe you're just a friend. Maybe you're just a community member, but you can sit in and you can hear how rough it was for that day and not take up your own space emotionally, but just be there to listen and then give them a hug and hang or leave. There's a lot of ways to show up and yeah, I'm challenged and want to do this more, so thank you. You'reSandra (57:36):Welcome. Thanks for having me.  Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.

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