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I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
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Replying to @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
So what's happening with the warehouses now? Well, ICE is now trying to offload most of them "at a steep discount." In other words, ICE effectively set millions of dollars on fire for a complete boondoggle. Reporting courtesy @projectsaltbox.com. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-puts-s...
I don’t know where I’m going with this, other than to remind myself it’s too easy to point at despicable men and say, “not me.” I’ve now lived inside of fifty years of rape culture and I didn’t even post about this at first because I didn’t think my voice mattered. So, what have I done to change it?
My concept of sexual consent was shaped by the harrowing stories of my first two girlfriends. By the Antioch College SOPP, requiring enthusiastic, ongoing verbal consent. There were times I refused to even have sex with my former wife because she was drunk. So of course I’d do something. Wouldn’t I?
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In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
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Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
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Never forget that for many of these tech billionaire creeps, "disrupt" has always just meant "break the fucking law."
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.
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i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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and the emmy for missing the point goes to… variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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I just know Bob is designing rhinestone outfits for Dolly in heaven. Rest in peace king. One of one. www.out.com/bob-mackie-d...
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I dunno, this sounds pretty airtight: "Whether a qualified voter may vote by mail is a question of state law...Congress has not afforded USPS any authority whatsoever to set rules for federal elections or mail voting." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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For ten-plus years, Elizabeth has been a valuable source of well-informed legal and political news/sanity, as well as a leader and educator in progressive activism. If these are of interest to you, consider joining her Patreon to help fund her efforts. www.patreon.com/ResistanceLi...
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Replying to @niedermeyer.online
most people want to think of what they do as being a net positive for society, so when you've been working in a field that is widely acknowledged as such it can be very difficult to adapt when that vibe shifts... the Detroit executive class in the 70s-80s are a canonical example of this
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This is part of my "minimum standards" requirement. None of this "the past is behind us, let's move forward" shit. More of the "this country will never do this again, and I'm going to make sure of it."
there's going to be a wide open "look at these gross fucking assholes" lane in the 2028 primary and the current leader is jon ossoff