David Henderson

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Sorry, Eisenhower, someone with a military-industrial complex broke your globe www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

BREAKING: We’re urging a federal judge to end ICE’s continued abuses at Camp East Montana. For over a year, people have endured unhygienic conditions, medical neglect, guard violence, and degrading treatment at this detention camp located on the Fort Bliss military base.

The Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing and reassigning staff responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign disinformation operations in U.S. elections. bit.ly/4pmBCJb

We don’t have a government. We have a crime family posing as one.

Refuge is a right. Hospitality is a duty. Deporting refugees is a crime that causes terrible harms, and it will be prosecuted as such when the rule of law returns. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...

Global warming is real .... just slow

Two pages. The same story. SNAP cuts: American children are losing food assistance and going hungry. USAID gutted: Children overseas are dying after humanitarian aid was cut. History won’t remember the excuses. It’ll remember who let children suffer. #RepublicansStarveChildren

Otherwise they’re not really rights, if the court can’t back them

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

“Battle Hymn of the Republic” can be used to make a statement in a way that “The Star-Spangled Banner” never can—and the rousing urgency of the hymn’s lyrics can’t be ignored, Jake Lundberg writes.

youtube.com/watch?v=pXVm... This is really good, both about recycling and about billionaires

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

This!

NEW: Less than 72 hours before Weber State University in Utah was scheduled to host a conference on censorship, presenters were told not to discuss identity politics, or be removed from the official program agenda. www.404media.co/how-a-univer...

Bonesteel came to my class at at WCU. This is a fantastic film which you should see!

Healthcare decisions belong with patients, families and doctors. Trans youth deserve access to the care they need.

BREAKING: A federal appeals court ruled it is illegal for President Trump to unilaterally shut down the southern border for asylum seekers. People fleeing danger have a right to seek safety in the U.S.

Politicians who want to actually fight corruption must commit not just to a tweak here and there, but to a systemic overhaul to end the culture of unaccountability that has left so many voters so disaffected for so long. bit.ly/4vAjw9g

They aren't giving away their wealth, but they are pumping it into our elections. The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the super-rich control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

"Traders placed a series of bets worth $430M on a drop in crude prices just 15 minutes before U.S. President Donald Trump ​said he would extend a ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday." Reminder that the top official at the SEC responsible for investigating insider trading was recently forced out. Hello?

"Secretary Kennedy’s unlawful declaration harmed children,” the Judge wrote. “This case highlights a leader’s unserious regard for the rule of law... “Unserious leaders are unsafe." www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

With federal agents becoming more aggressive and committing more constitutional violations, states must act to make sure we can hold these agents accountable in court. Justice can't wait.

We need a radical privacy bill of rights. A full direction change

Some Global Leadership! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Clearly

NEW: An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines. “In many ways fines have come to replace taxes."

Lonely young people are likely better off texting a random stranger than talking to a chatbot, according to a new study. www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...

Lawmakers call for use of 25th amendment after president brazenly threatens to commit war crimes in Iran

25th Amendment Now!! Call your congress reps!

ICE has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project. Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

Cost savings from new pipelines are somewhere between long-term and entirely fictional: New fossil fuel infrastructure takes a lot of time to build and is typically paid for by the consumer via utility bill hikes. The reality is climate-friendly policies actually save people money. trib.al/Iq2eyP5

“We just want what everyone else has, which is just regular, mundane lives.” From me @texasobserver.org: Fathers of trans and nonbinary kids gather to share their pride, and fight for a better future in this doc that premiered at SXSW, as a feature length expansion of an Emmy-winning short film:

The Brennan Center’s Jesse Wegman explains why he’s starting a newsletter about the Supreme Court — what needs to change for the institution, why, and how to go about it. bit.ly/3NH1Vvs

The 9/11 Security Fee collects $4.49 billion annually from passengers sold as TSA funding. Congress can legally redirect it anytime and has since 2013. Either make it a protected trust fund Congress cannot touch or abolish it. You cannot charge passengers for security and spend it on the deficit.

Been saying it for a year now. And not as a guess, either: almost every single action taken by Trump since January 20, 2025 has in some way, small or large, advanced the causing of ending our democracy. He is not hiding what he plans. For some reason media has just been tepid in reporting on it.

Some families stop fighting their cases, even when they have valid claims to stay in the U.S., because they are so desperate to leave detention centers like Dilley, where families have reported inedible food and poor medical care. So they give up and allow the government to deport them.

Monitors admit they are struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from widening war

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

We know that the far-right groups who are pushing anti-trans policies want to go beyond banning youth gender-affirming care; they want to ban care for trans adults, and they have already begun restricting care access. Read more: buff.ly/zqNDKqa

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I don’t think it’s a coincidence

Let them drive, Kansas! Let them vote!

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

Headline correction: “With New Momentum, Republican States Escalate Bullying Campaign Against Trans Youth” — With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

We must stop every single proposed concentration camp. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽