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A budget is a moral document.
Eisenhower
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Christian wanted people to know what immigrant families like hers were going through inside the Dilley detention center, so she gathered dozens of letters and hid them in her jacket. She and others told me and @mckenziefunk.com its becoming harder to speak out www.propublica.org/article/dill...
"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
Atlanta has the worst eviction rates in the country.
The metro area is less than a third the size of the NYC metro area, but Atlanta still has more evictions.
Atlanta also has the highest rate of mega-investor owned housing in the country.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is trying to expand the state’s already massive tax breaks for data centers.
Data center companies are already saving nearly $500,000,000 in local property taxes this year in Oregon.
Now the Governor wants to double key tax breaks from 5 years to 10.
"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances.
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ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.
We'll let their words speak for themselves.
It's the bad barrel. We need to change the conditions that make the bag apples inevitable.
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Leonard Leo is a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office.
But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.
(Published Oct. 2023)
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These are American concentration camps.
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Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA:
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Federal agents in camouflage and vests surround a vehicle. A headline reads: "Trump's Migrant Detention Pipeline Extends From Minnesota to El Paso" Photo by David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
As President Trump’s immigration crackdown continues in Minnesota, many immigrants who are detained in the Twin Cities are ending up in a desolate detention camp in the desert of West Texas, only to be released later in El Paso with no money and no obvious way to get home. trib.al/jyi6Rca
“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.”
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The @uaw.org has won a tentative agreement from VW nearly two years after workers voted to unionize in Chattanooga.
Over 3,000 workers will get:
- A 20% raise
- Better healthcare
- A bonus of about $6,550 per worker upon ratification
And much more.
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over a building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments.” by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.
For those keeping score at home:
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.
ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.
Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.
The cruelty is endless.
"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..."
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