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These peaceful observers I spoke to had ICE show up at their homes in what they see as attempts at intimidation. ICE has somehow been accessing Minnesotans' private data in likely violation of state law, according to privacy advocates. share.google/J00lpWzPzOu2...
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Welcome to the Overlook hotel. I wonder how many of these greedy, corrupt ghouls will be cursed to haunt the rooms of Mar a Lago for eternity. Seriously though, what a stark visual of callousness on display.
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
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Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...
ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.
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A moment of levity I found in an article that terrifies me: "It's astonishing to me that the very people who not a handful of years ago were screaming about the government tracking us with vaccines now cheer for feeding every piece of information about themselves into Elon Musk's stupid Skynet."
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
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1/The news that additional private attorneys may have their security clearances revoked, as I did, without any due process, simply because they represented someone the President doesn't like is a disgraceful affront to the entire legal and national security system. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
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Minnesota’s deputy director for the Small Business Administration was fired Feb. 7, rehired days later when the government said it made a mistake, and then fired again last week. Another federal employee who was abruptly fired has newborn twins in the NICU. More stories of chaos + cruelty:
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Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified" This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
I wonder where we'd be right now if Elon had a special ed teacher to help him learn to regulate his emotions...
To be clear, it's not a mistake that grants to train special ed teachers were cancelled. MAGA absolutely considers those to be verboten "DEI," and Silicon Valley considers them contrary to their eugenics project.
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Keep it up! I swallowed all my social anxiety to make a call last weekend to Amy Klobuchar. If I, a person too afraid to order pizza over the phone, can call a US senator and demand action, so can you!
NEW: Democrats are facing a historic volume of phone calls from constituents infuriated by Trump. "I can't recall ever receiving this many calls," says Rep. Jim McGovern, who has been in Congress since 1997. The message: "Fight harder." @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/02/06/d...
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When will a journalist ask him why he assumes minorities and women are unqualified for every skilled profession and what exactly does he feel they are qualified to do; because it seems really fucking racist and misogynistic to me and the media dances around it like he might have some sort of point.
And now Trump is suggesting that diversity initiatives played a role.
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Yes. As someone who interned at a Congressional office in college, once a week I had to listen to every voicemail left at the front desk overnight and log every call and what they were asking about, and the reports would be sent to the higher-ups in the office on a regular basis.
It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government. Put that in a headline. www.expressnews.com/news/article...
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