Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
Ny times has a new report about mamdani using the flute in stage 2 of Mario 3 to go all the way to world 7
Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · last yr.“We like the TV-friendly guy whose policies to help people are popular, even if it will be an uphill battle. And hey, folks who usually don’t vote at all voted for him!” “This man is a danger to everyone and everything we hold dear. I want you to go back to his fucking baby book to dig up dirt.”
ecological catastrophe in florida but no worries they are focusing on the real threats: fluoridated water project.tampabay.com/investigatio...
Wasting Away: Rampant pollution caused manatees to starve. Florida waters are getting worse.
A Times analysis of millions of water samples found dangerous contamination across the state.
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You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure. Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.
Jackie Llanos@llanosjackie.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been sitting in a Salvadoran prison for over a month because the Trump Admin made a mistake. Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back. If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe. Kilmar is all of us.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING The President of El Salvador says he will not be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” The Supreme Court recently ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return. (Abrego-Garcia was never convicted of terrorism)
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.
Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley@pressley.house.gov · last yr.This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
Would you like to stop installing solar panels and start working on a loud, hot factory floor? What if I told you unions were illegal and OSHA doesn't exist. Does that sweeten the pot for you
Barrista@onbluskysku.bsky.social · last yr.The worst part of this is that even if manufacturing jobs came back because of this (they won’t) and even if Americans retooled for those jobs (they won’t) those jobs sucked! It’s like demanding to return to being a farming society. People fled that life the instant they could, in the millions!
Dead people telling the President to pursue a trade war with an uninhabited island is real George III territory
Alex Says Stuff@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · last yr.Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
These efforts were discussed endlessly in the nation's most prestigious publications. They were compared to McCarthyism, Stalinism, the Salem witch trials. College activists were framed as an existential threat against which the population required constant vigilance.
Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.
Trump Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence, Citing ‘DEI’
Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.
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"The Trump administration’s tough talk on terrorism is a Trojan horse ... If enough people take the bait, the administration will hide behind national security’s inherent political conveniences: secrecy, impunity and irreverence for civil liberties." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump is undermining domestic terrorism prevention efforts
The administration cites national security to justify its most aggressive actions, but it's dismantling programs to combat extremism and domestic terror.
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I for one will never forgive or forget the people who ordered this - nor the people who voted for this.
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
Felipe De La Hoz@felipedlh.bsky.social · last yr.Had missed this story in the Miami Herald about a man that already been granted refugee status being removed under the Alien Enemies Act declaration to CECOT. The other identified removals I'd heard of were undocumented or asylum seekers, first I'm hearing of approved refugees being targeted
300+ state & local elected officials nationwide are standing up to set the record straight: Our refugee neighbors & the U.S. refugee resettlement program enrich & strengthen communities across the country. We must #DefendRefuge. bit.ly/DefendRefug
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at the House hearing on sanctuary cities: "If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms. Stop cutting Medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our cities safe." Mic drop! 🎤
Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
There Is No AI Revolution
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...
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Our Constitution does not allow the government to hold people incommunicado, without any ability to speak to counsel or the outside world. We'll see you in court. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
Groups Sue Trump Administration for Access to Immigrants Sent from U.S. to Guantánamo Bay | American Civil Liberties Union
WASHINGTON — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today for access to immigrants transferred from the United States to...
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Shortly after Trump banned 1600 vetted Afghan refugees who risked life & limb to help the USA against the Taliban, he issued an EO to accept white South Africans as refugees...because they're white. Just one of Trump's latest fascist EOs. I break them down here: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-late...
Trump Latest EOs Dismantle Secular Governance & Advance 'Christian' Nationalism
Summarizing the latest fascist executive orders and what we must do to fight back
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BREAKING: IRAP joined more than a dozen organizations to demand the U.S. government provide access to immigrants detained at Guantánamo Bay.
ACLU@aclu.org · last yr.NEW: We sent a letter to the Trump administration demanding access to immigrants detained at Guantánamo Bay and answers about plans to expand immigration detention there. The government cannot use Guantánamo as a legal black hole to violate immigrants' rights.
You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning