J Rae

@raejenn.bsky.social

Wife, mom, grandma, nurse, meditator, gardener, humanist and lover of animals and live music. Continuously evolving. No DM’s - don’t make it weird!

Republican @RepJamesComer on why he won’t do town halls: "If it's all the village idiots, I don't have any desire to do a town hall.” When they tell you who they are, believe them. (P.S. this is also why @MarshaBlackburn hides 🐔 — as local media lets her)

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says RFK Jr. offered federal help after two unvaccinated people died from measles, the first U.S. deaths this year. Shapiro declined, saying PA could handle it, and confronted Kennedy, telling him: “There’s real life consequences to spreading misinformation.”

🧵🧵🧵IT’S A CULT, AND 6 OTHER TAKEAWAYS FROM THE NATALIE HARP STORY. A THREAD.🧵🧵🧵 1. What looks like a media feeding frenzy sometimes is just overdue coverage. The unqualified and mentally unhinged people in Trump’s clown-car White House deserve more intense scrutiny than they’ve gotten.

pix of Harp and Trump

The algorithm is bombarding us with Darlene Graham clips, but what folks need to do is immediately after watching one of those listen to Annie Andrews. Here’s one. Night and day: Unserious vs intelligent and thoughtful.

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Dear corporate media: instead of parsing the language of one of the DSA’s platform issues about the two-tiered system of justice in an effort to divide the opposition, how about discussing the fascism on the other side?

In Trump's America: Some ICE prisoners have gone on hunger strikes to protest being detained and their treatment in these concentration camps. They are being force fed- a plastic tube forced thru their nose into their stomach. This is torture www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed

Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation

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1/ What’s going on with America’s farms and food? Join us for our next Inside the Big Story event, a virtual discussion about America’s farms, how our food is made and where regulations are failing to keep workers and consumers safe. Members, check your email for the invite 📩

Text: Inside the Big Story: Exposing Harm in Food and Farms. Join us for a members-only virtual discussion about America's farms, how our food is made and where regulations are failing to keep workers and consumers safe. Tuesday, Aug. 4. 4 p.m. Eastern time. Image: Gloved hands picking green fruits and placing them into a red basin.

🧵Macalester College Buddhist studies professor Erik Davis and Home Health Care nurse Natasha Rakotz have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism charges for their roles in protests against ICE in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. The charges are ludicrous.

Prof. Erik Davis of MacAlester college, standing in his officeNatasha Rakotz

Statement from Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche: "After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. "I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."

1/ Wondering what the FBI has been doing with 2020 election materials it seized in a raid earlier this year, and how it figures into Trump’s plans for the midterm elections? Well, @ProPublica has been working to find out. 🧵👇

A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Joan Sebastian Guerrero Ruben Ray Martinez Alex Pretti Renee Good Dozens of other innocent lives. These deaths aren’t mistakes. They’re the result of choices. Policy choices. Funding choices. Choices to not hold this Administration accountable. It’s time to SHUT. IT. DOWN!