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Louise Brooks

@iamlouisebrooks.bsky.social

Former journalist, researcher/writer Lifelong political junkie on a mission to save democracy Journalism, MA, Loyola University, New Orleans Signal username: Stormy.28 art 🎨 & photography 📷 + reading 📚 Dog lover yesterday, today & tomorrow 🐶

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Wile E. Coyote's ACME Sales Rep@crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social · 7d ago

tinyurl.com/bdfc7279 James Carville: "It's the economy, stupid" Want to resist fascism? Protect LGBTQIA+, women, immigrants, and minorities? Fight #ClimateChaos? Gun Control? Tax the rich? We need to win the election first! WE MUST RUN ON THE ECONOMY, or lose it all. #ProudBlue #Blues #DV1 #DOOR

To win over working-class voters, Democrats need to stop talking about democracy

Working-class voters have moved away from the Democratic Party. Winning them back is key to the party's future, a new reports shows. But first, the messaging has to change.

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Carlos Marrero@camarrero.bsky.social · 7d ago

I support Dr Fauci and I'm glad he's pleading the 5th. Remember Trump too took the 5th hundreds of times. As a gay man. I know what the 1980s did to to our community. Fauci walked into that when it was still a career ender and everyone else looked away. He’s a hero! Illustration by me

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Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · last wk.

A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List

A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.

Seeking asylum is a legally protected international human right. Trump’s deportation agenda was never about “legal immigration.” It was always about cruelty.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump admin just published a new regulation allowing asylum officers at USCIS to deny hundreds of thousands of “affirmative asylum” applications without an interview, sending applicants directly to deportation proceedings. This means many people will never get a chance to argue their case.

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 2026-07-28 and available online at https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-15190, and on 1985 https://govinfo.gov DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY de: 9111-97 8 CFR Part 208 [CIS No. 2851-26; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2026-0199] RIN 1615-AD18 Affirmative Asylum Referrals Without Interview AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS. ACTION: Interim final rule with request for comments. SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations to permit U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to refer certain affirmative asylum applications to the Department of Justice (DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) without interview. USCIS still offers an interview prior to a grant or denial of asylum. DHS is also removing the requirement that a letter communicating the basis for referral of asylum include an assessment of the alien's credibility. DATES: Effective date: This interim final rule (IFR) is effective [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · last wk.

BREAKING: In a loss for voters, the D.C. Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling upholding parts of Trump's executive order targeting mail voting, including allowing: ✔️DHS to build a citizenship registry ✔️USPS to withhold mail ballots from states that don't share voter data with the government

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Mamdani on people who don't want him at 9/11 memorial services: "I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing alongside them ... reaffirming that we will never forget."