People in ICE detention are being denied health care and adequate nutrition, often given spoiled food or nothing at all.
Our government’s cruelty to immigrants is a moral failing — not a policy solution.
The incessant, unnecessarily violent, and largely illegal assaults on neighborhoods, workplaces, and carpool lines all crystallize this Administration's commitment to cause trauma for people of color, not protect them from it—and it's a flat-out disgrace.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-weapon...
Keeping an eye on this. It could be beneficial if blue states joined together to provide essential services to their people.
Federal immigration agents in riot gear squared off with hundreds of protesters for a second consecutive day on Saturday in Los Angeles County, filling streets with tear gas and smoke. nyti.ms/4kUON0y
Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, , he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
The Insurrection Act is sweeping. It’s a huge grant of power to the President.
It is also very expressly for conditions that do not exist in California. And if you’re hypothetically the governor, you should be saying so.
The California legislature and city & county governments should file injunctions and draft emergency legislation prohibiting the quartering of now-federalized troops on private property including hotels under the Third Amendment.
Make the Guard bivouac on the ground on federal property.
The Trump administration said it would deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles as immigration agents clashed with protesters for a second consecutive day. Follow live updates. https://trib.al/hNUn74W
WATCH NOW: Live stream of ICE’s escalation towards protesters in LA. www.youtube.com/live/60OZrft...
#50501Movement #ICE #LosAngeles
At 0:21 - That’s me!
We were protesting the fascistic ICE (read: American Gestapo) raids today and the unjust attack on and arrest of SEIU-USWW President David Huerta (who was demonstrating against the ICE raids this morning)
The Trump administration is bypassing state authority by invoking Title 10 of the U.S. Code, a federal power usually reserved for major insurrections. This is a dangerous overreach, and it’s how martial law begins in the so-called land of the free.
Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles without the governor’s request or consent. Governor Newsom has publicly condemned the move, calling it “purposefully inflammatory.”
Pass the popcorn, DOGE and MAGA are fighting.
Per the UN, Russian drone operators are picking off Ukrainian civilians “like it is a video game” — then bombing ambulances that go to help… then sharing videos of it on telegram.
Trump today on the consequences: “words speak pretty loud” 🤔
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Hidden fees in live-event ticketing and hotels are now illegal under a Biden-era FTC rule that just took effect.
Kudos to former FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose leadership could finally make junk fees a thing of the past.
Ukrainians have long turned their fear and despair into determination — surrender was never an option, as it always meant losing everything. While being an obvious underdog, Ukraine decided to become the smartest, most advanced underdog it can be🧵👇
u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel...
“.. Taxpayers earning more than $3.4 million per year would receive a roughly $275,000 boost ..
“.. while those with less than $13,000 in annual income .. would go down due to cuts to social programs such as Medicaid and food stamps..”
@jeffstein.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers.
The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration.
Always follow the money.
I also highly recommend this excellent piece by @HCRichardson.bsky.social.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Casar: "The only way to push back on this is for Democrats to be really clear that if we win back a majority, we aren't just going to let bygones be bygones. We have to go and investigate who paid Trump, who paid Musk, who made money off of these pardons because that is really serious."
PLEASE read this thread.
It's vital.
And offers a way to fight this open threat.
Here it comes people.
Time to move Wikipedia, Internet Archive and all the rest of the good free internet off American soil. Or establish parallel failover backups elsewhere around the world at least.
Uh, like the nazi’s searched for Jews in closets, attics, basements OR runaway slave hunters looked for them in homes they thought might be part of the Underground Railroad.
But how could the Houthis have known about US military operations?
The FBI’s arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan is a bid to silence dissent | Moira Donegan
All people residing in the U.S. — documented or undocumented — are supposed to have access to the courts and due process.
The Trump regime arresting Judge Hannah Dugan for defending those rights puts us in very dangerous territory.
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the government from enforcing part of one of President Trump’s executive orders that directs agencies to withhold funds from cities and counties that don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
Republicans are trying to steal a seat in Texas, or at least prevent it being filled.
