I'm an immigration historian. We lack the lexicon to describe this evil. "Deportation" generally means being repatriated to the country you came from. Although there have been 3rd country removals in US history, they are rare, but now ramping up. Also "deportation" means when you're sent back, 1/

Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article)

Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.

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The language of ethnic cleansing sounds shocking but it is a simple and honest description of MAGA goals. The administration is very open about this.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The explosion of MAGA rage at birthright citizenship ruling confirms again that MAGA is really a movement for ethnic cleansing. As we discuss on the pod, it's telling that sealed border and end to TPS/asylum don't sate MAGA. They want dramatic ethnic purges. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

A new piece from me: I wrote about the right's attempts to convince young women that birth control is poison, that their hormonal fluctuations mean they can't hack it in a modern workplace, and how their sole goal should be becoming a wife and mother. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

These clinic closures—not only in red states—are so devastating to see. You realize you’re witnessing failure and defeat at a historic scale.

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3mo ago

Stumbled across demolition inside the former Planned Parenthood clinic on Bleecker Street, which is being turned into condos. Absolute gut punch

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3mo ago

Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs

I mean, what is there to even say at this point. "This Whole Thing Smacks of Gender," etc

alarming how fast we moved on from San Diego mosque shooting, but remarkable work here by @hannahgais.bsky.social, @cassiemiller.bsky.social & Rachael Fugardi detailing what radicalized shooters, including... MAGA influencer Nick Shirley's Somali daycare fraud BS www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

This is a pogrom, incited and instigated by Elon Musk. This is now the second set of pogroms incited by Elon in the UK in 2 years.

Josh Halliday@joshhalliday.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

“The mission is to close down Delaney Hall, to respect the human rights that all human beings have — no matter what their legal status is,” she said. “We’re seeking a humane response to something that is as close to evil as I’ve ever seen.” www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

‘As Close To Evil As I’ve Ever Seen’: Protesters Fight To Help ICE Detainees In Abhorrent Conditions

“We’re seeking a humane response to something that is as close to evil as I’ve ever seen,” one volunteer told HuffPost.

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Obviously, this won't go anywhere, but it says a lot that anyone is even willing to introduce this or attach their names to it www.wcnc.com/article/news...

'Extremely extreme': NC bill would authorize deadly force against women seeking abortions

Concerns also extend to families who use in vitro fertilization and women with IUDs.

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To enter into an ongoing debate: this is not nihilistic violent extremism. This is two teenagers trying to start a race war and specifically immitating others who did the same.

Cassie Miller@cassiemiller.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My colleagues and I dug into the motivations behind the San Diego shooting, finding deeply racist and misogynistic beliefs, a reverence for accelerationists and “Terrorgram,” & great replacement rhetoric that sounds eerily like what some congressman are saying www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

My colleagues and I dug into the motivations behind the San Diego shooting, finding deeply racist and misogynistic beliefs, a reverence for accelerationists and “Terrorgram,” & great replacement rhetoric that sounds eerily like what some congressman are saying www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Document by San Diego mosque shooters reveals neo-Nazi beliefs

Two teenagers in San Diego appeared to have been inspired by leaders and figureheads associated with the now defunct Atomwaffen Division.

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Feels important to add right now: Misoprostol-only abortions are also incredibly effective, but tend to come with more side effects and discomfort. This doesn’t end people’s access to medication abortion—a big target because it allows care in restricted states—but it does make people suffer more.

NPR@npr.org · 4mo ago

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone. n.pr/4uodfw7

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

A state where Republicans just stampeded to eliminate an office before a Black man could get sworn into it is leaping to eliminate more offices held by Black people? Shocked, I’m shocked.

Bill eliminating Calvin Duncan’s court clerk position passes

No member of the Orleans delegation voted for the bill, which specifically targets the Orleans Parish clerks offices and will leave Calvin Duncan locked out of his position.

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Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

“It will be reminiscent of what happened after Reconstruction was violently overthrown, when white supremacy and one-party rule were locked in for decades across the South. Indeed, the Callais decision is likely to trigger the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction.”

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4mo ago

The Supreme Court is taking us back to the Jim Crow era. The court’s six-to-three Republican-appointed majority issued a staggering ruling on Wednesday, essentially killing the remaining protections of the Voting Rights Act.

The number one leading cause of death of pregnant women…

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4mo ago

Answer: the men who got them pregnant kill them. Not top five. Not top three. Top.

The SPLC has better lawyers than Todd Blanche. Blanche shot off his mouth and claimed that the feds didn't know about the SPLC's informant program, but the SPLC produced receipts to establish that not only did they know, they got convictions out of the intel!

Southern Poverty Law Center says its informant program was not kept secret from law enforcement

The Southern Poverty Law Center has told a federal court that law enforcement agencies knew for years that the nonprofit was paying informants to report on the movements of hate groups.

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Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals

Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

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Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones.

Abortion bans are failing.

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Meanwhile, I’m sure they’ll be happy to continue to “enforce orthodoxy” in other medical settings—think state-mandated lectures discouraging people from having abortions before they’re allowed to have the procedure

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo ago

Breaking nyti.ms/414Jyna Supreme Court rejected a Colorado law banning sexual orientation or gender identity conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Bob Mann@robertmannbooks.com · 6mo ago

Gutter racism. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

While we're talking about the radicalization of young men, make sure not to miss this story jessica.substack.com/p/20-year-ol...

20 Year Old Man Planned to Murder Montana Abortion Provider

The exposed plot comes at a time of rising anti-abortion violence—and violent anti-abortion policy

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“Cesar Chavez is just a man.” What a heartbreaking sentence.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

Incredible to hear an elected official talk about the Ireland of James Connelly and Patrick Pearse, of solidarity with the oppressed and anti-colonialism.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6mo ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Happy St Patrick's Day to the Irish-American tradition that's about solidarity with oppressed peoples and opposition to imperialism, and *NOT* to the part that's about integration into American whiteness via exercises in domineering racism.

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

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