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This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon
“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.
"While the wildfires were raging in California, Ben and Ted Cruz had a podcast where they just attacked Governor Newsom and Karen Bass—that was while the fires were still raging. So spare us the grandstanding and virtue signaling about how this stuff shouldn't be partisan."
We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period.
“Then they started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their fifth and fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you or help with any investigation.”
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
Dersh weighs in on the Epstein controversy: “I know for a fact docs are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know their names & why they’re being suppressed, but I’m bound by confidentiality so I can’t disclose it. Files are being suppressed to protect them & that’s wrong.”
A reminder that Brazil arrested and charged their former dictator Bolsonaro with planning a coup and trying to overturn the 2022 elections in their country. If only the United States had done the same instead of giving the plotter of a coup full totalitarian power of the govt.
Just saw this post — a dog found on the street in Germany, his ear necrotic, still waiting for surgery. It hit me hard. We talk about big emergencies under #FEMA, but this is one too. Quiet, painful, and easy to overlook. gofund.me/b7dcb077 #FEMA #KindnessMatters #AnimalEmergency
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
Alligator Alcatraz. FL lawmakers are finally being let in—after Dems got turned away last week. Here’s the catch: the tour’s not ‘til Saturday They know the conditions are inhumane. Scrub the cages, hide the worst of it, and pray no one asks too many questions. Don’t let them sanitize the truth!
NEW: Sec. Noem has now admits "last mile" disaster communications weren't up to par in the Texas catastrophe. But while bodies were still being recovered on Tuesday DHS canceled a $3 million grant focused on improving precisely those kinds of "last mile" comms. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...
BREAKING: Massive ICE raid ongoing at a farm in Camarillo, Ventura County, CA. Local news reports that an unknown number of workers have been detained. Almost 20% of US strawberries come from the county. US food supply at risk from Trump’s fascist thugs & Stephen Miller’s quota.
‘Parishioners excused.’ That’s how bad it is. A Catholic bishop lifted the obligation to attend Mass because ICE might raid the church. Mass isn’t required “if a member of the faithful has a genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions.” The feds should be ashamed. Terrorizing the faithful.
“.. We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be. “.. The people in charge who are supposed to protect us .. now use the Constitution as a weapon to suit their own ends.” @macfarlanenews.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/fired-j...
DHS appears to accidentally confirm CNN's reporting in an unhinged reply to MeidasTouch on X, noting that "by Tuesday, FEMA had deployed" staffers. This aligns with CNN's reporting that Noem didn't authorize FEMA's deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday.
Trump is pledging full support to Texas after its deadly floods – and rightfully so. But California has yet to receive $40 billion in aid to rebuild from January’s devastating wildfires. A president is supposed to govern for all Americans – not just those who voted for him.
Further confirmation from ICE HSI officers that they have been told to stop investigating pedophiles, human traffickers, and drug smugglers. Officers have been told NOT to take new criminal cases so they can instead go round up more random migrants. Morale is plummeting, especially at HSI.
The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were a response to masked violent men who terrorized Black communities, violating their civil rights.The deployment of violent masked ICE ofcrs are tapping into this unique form of terror. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat
Over the past 6 months, Trump’s FEMA has canceled critical grants, fired folks left and right, and weakened its ability to actually do the job—including helping families prepare for and recover from the devastating floods in Central Texas. Texans are paying the price for his recklessness. (1/2)
Associate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will end up being one of the heroes of this era if ever there are historians in the future who write about the fall of the United States She will almost never be in the majority on a major ruling, but she will have been the conscience of America
"'We are the federal government, and if we choose to take power away from a governor or away from a mayor, this is the new normal.' And my response is, I've seen this movie before. It used to be called a coup, and it happens in other countries." @mayor.lacity.gov on the feds in LA:
If you still support this hateful, treasonous President and actions that cause incredible harm to hundreds of millions of people, I'm not particularly interested in figuring out why you're doing that. Right now, I need to stop the bleeding you caused. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-dont-giv...
All of the Trump administration officials in question who are attorneys must be disbarred. This is a sprawling conspiracy to undermine U.S. rule of law that involves attorneys, and that is something my profession cannot allow. There should be massive state bar investigations across the board here.
Don’t buy the polished crap from the White House. Texas flood deaths weren’t a surprise...they were the price of gutting services. Cut first responders...ignore warnings...and act shocked when people die? That’s not weather. That’s political manslaughter.
This is controversial for her career but the extent of the controversy, the extent of the provocation to anyone, is showing children being bombed as kids who deserve to live instead of faceless statistics, and if someone argues against that? Idk maybe that viewpoint should be the controversial one