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Thanks, Trump: ICE Just Gassed a Public School Into Submission (www.rollingstone.com)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/26445083

Cartwright described for Rolling Stone a years-long struggle to keep kids safe at school. “Munitions and tear gas — we aren’t new to this,” she says. “We’d been next to the ICE building the whole time.” She emphasized that the school has coexisted “harmoniously with the protesters,” but adds: “Our issue is the chemical weapons being used against them that were impacting our space.”

But as the intensity of the conflict rose, it soon became clear that the school would have to make a dramatic change. “We were getting nightly reports that green gas was enveloping our garden — our edible garden — and all of the different chemicals were impacting our soil.” Cottonwood faced the costly prospect of constant testing and remediation, or being unable to use its outdoor spaces. When the bottom dropped out of enrollment, the school chose to relocate to a recently vacant middle-school campus where Cottonwood could take over the lease.

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[–] j_roby@slrpnk.net 87 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a really great write-up, buts it’s a shame that the article does not mention that the building the school is moving into is owned by the same people that own the ICE building…

https://www.streetroots.org/news/2025/08/05/k-8-school-next-door-portland-ice-facility-plans-immediate-move

But several board members, staff and students’ parents said moving to the Bridges building could leave immigrant students at risk.

That building is owned by local real estate company Lindquist Development, which also owns the building ICE leases. Stuart Linquist, the company’s president, struck a protester with his Mercedes outside the ICE facility in 2018, and later threatened to fight anti-ICE protestors in an interview with Willamette Week about the incident.

Some Cottonwood staff and board members fear Lindquist could allow ICE agents into the building while students are in classes, according to sources who spoke to Street Roots on condition of anonymity.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Its also a Charter School so... look, I actually went to a REALLY good charter school and think it changed the course of my life. But the vast majority are scams that cut every corner due to lessened regulations.

And considering this all spun out not from "we can't teach under these circumstances" and instead "the constant chemical warfare is lowering our enrollment rates": They were gonna let ICE in regardless.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I worked for a STEM company that was hired to augment lessons and classes, primarily at charter schools. Most of the schools I visited were obvious scams and a few would disappear mid-year.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not a fan of charter schools either, but that doesn't seem related to this in any way. This is still a school full of children being exposed to this bullshit.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

School isn't currently in session, so no kids actually exposed at this point.

First day of school for them is 9/2.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe. Can't speak for charter schools, but most schools aren't entirely devoid of children for the entire summer.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I checked the calendar on their site. :)

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I actually went to a REALLY good charter school and think it changed the course of my life. But the vast majority are scams that cut every corner due to lessened regulations.

The fundamental goal of the charter school as a model is to cut the parents and the teachers out of the job of administering the school. Great that we can point to some number of charter schools where things haven't gone to shit. But they're still just trying to ignore the Private Equity Value Eating Machine and hoping it doesn't roll over them next.

Says something that the school was moved under ICE's privatized landlord. It really feels like a deliberate play to extort the charter.

They were gonna let ICE in regardless.

Arm the Teachers

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Teacher here. I have had exactly one coworker whom I would trust to carry a gun at school, and he would refuse to do it. Not to mention the possibility that a student (or group of students) could overpower a teacher and take their gun.

"More guns in schools" is not the answer.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (1388 children)

To be clear, ICE isn't TARGETING the school, the school just happens to be across the street (red marker here) from the ICE office that is being protested.

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So as ICE uses munitions against the protest, the school is facing the side effects.

Headline makes it sound as though ICE is targeting the school due to migrant students or something and that is not the case (yet).

Also note: There are no kids in that school currently, first day of school for them is 9/2.

[–] SwimmingInTheeStars@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

Suppressing protesters in a democracy with free speech is just as bad. So happy we finally Made America great again!

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Why is ICE involved in handling this protest? I had no idea they were trained or authorized to do that.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Same deal with the protests at the federal building back in 2020... attacking a federal agency is a federal crime, not a local one. Local police don't have jurisdiction.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So... I am not trying to be clever here.... That makes ICE qualified to manage protesters?

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Meta, what in the actual fuck happened in these comments?

Like 2 people posted the same comment thousands of times, shittalking a mod.

Personally I think the mod did what a mod should. The headline alone isn't 100% factual. I hate that the left is resorting to the same half-facts that has made the right so powerful.

I certainly didn't get the vibe that ICE was targeting protestors and the school was getting crossfire from the subheading. Not like that really defends ICE...they shouldn't be using teargas against otherwise peaceful protestors no matter what, let alone within spotting distance of a school. Obviously ICE is very wrong here...but the headline itself tries to make them seem even more wrong, and the subheading doesn't clear things up very much. That's intentionally misleading.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

It's an old troll user who got banned for cause back in the day then went off the rails creating dozens to hundreds of alt accounts.

Some day they'll get the proper therapy and medication they need. Today is not that day. 😅

[–] Bubberpillar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You shouldn’t even be allowed to spam comments that many times! There should be a time limit or something

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

An instance level setting? Oof...that can easily be abused. And probably has rippling effects on federated instances...I know I was getting 400s on other threads around the time he was posting.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

It's showing 1395 comments. I blocked three accounts and that reduced to like 15.

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

This is happening not far from me and I've been watching it play out over the last three months. It's egregious what ICE is getting away with. The agents are armed and armored. They're tackling peaceful protectors, slamming them to the ground, sending them to the hospital. The school's outdoor playground is about 50 feet away from where they're constantly gassing. It's not just the school either, there are apartment buildings and businesses across the street from the ICE building where residents are getting exposed as well. There's a dance school a couple blocks down as well where adults and children come and go.

It's not even like the gas is being an effective deterrent. The protestors have masks too or simply just don't give a fuck and tank it. They're just deploying munitions against civilians because they can and want to.

Iceoutofportland has been regularly reporting on the situation from the front line all summer if you want to see what's been going down daily since June.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I read enough YA dystopian stuff to tell who the bad guys are in this picture.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

They'll purge that subversive material soon enough.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

... The teachers because one of those gestapo is actually really handsome and will reveal that they are only being fascy because actually all the kids except for the viewpoint character have bad vibes?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Side note: lol wtf happened here?

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[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

This has been happening since yesterday. Right-wing spam bots.

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks mods, we appreciate you. Hope you can automate some of this...

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

I'm not a mod, but I share the sentiment.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Had to happen eventually ig

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[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

Can we defund domestic terrorists yet?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

terrorstate behavior