“…diminishing transparency in courts operated by the Executive Office for Immigration Review…At Fort Snelling, courtrooms are often locked, dockets are redacted and observers are restricted, contrary to federal law stipulating most hearings be open to the public.”
MN Star Tribune
“Ukraine says almost 20,000 children have been illegally sent to Russia and Belarus.”
“Since Operation Metro Surge began in December, federal immigration agents have detained and deported people…dwarfing enforcement in other states…Each person plucked…left a whole life behind.”
It’s International Day of the Woman. This 3-1/2 minute film from India is important.
“…think of the clowns and posturers who now have the controls. They don’t know what they don’t know. They have no idea what they are unleashing. …These people have changed the world, for the worse, in just nine days. And none of us knows how it will end.”
James Fallows, Breaking The News
“The next court decisions will either defend our democracy or derail it further…If federal agents can occupy cities, if the DOJ can raid election offices, if courts can’t stop them, then they’ll have the tools to contest any (election) result they don’t like.” ms.now
Epic Distraction
From @Ann Telnaes
The government illegally took your money.
They won’t give it back.
Rep. Don Bacon (NE): "I've heard a lot of dumb stuff, but this is up there.”
" When I was a youth, we left parts of the family in the parking lot on Friday night when we went camping…our board made several decisions…that we were gonna serve the entire family.” (Scouting America CEO Roger Krone)
From @Nick Anderson
“…the administration did not provide evidence…of the alleged large-scale Medicaid fraud in Minnesota…Oz said (they) will only release the funds ‘after they propose an act on a comprehensive corrective action plan to solve the problem,’ adding that Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., has 60 days”
“…more than…21.3 million people, don’t have proof of citizenship readily available…(they) might be in the home of another family member or in a safety deposit box…at least 3.8 million don’t have (them) at all…because they were lost, destroyed, or stolen.
"She was a DACA recipient brought into CA as a child 27 yrs ago.
Now 42, she was a motel manager w/ no criminal record who had faithfully obtained federal permission to remain in the country.
But when she walked into her green card appointment in Sacramento last week, she was arrested & deported."
Done!
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Oppose Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
What RFK Jr.’s CDC Doesn’t Want You to Know - important read from @pauloffit.bsky.social about data about flu and Covid--vaccine preventable diseases--being hidden from the public.
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“That 4 percent…represents 40 or so people who have ended up in the hospital…In South Carolina, multiple people, including children, have been hospitalized with…encephalitis, which can lead to permanent intellectual disability or deafness, and in some cases turn fatal.”
“Bigtree…wants his teenage son to catch polio. Measles, too. He’s considered driving his unvaccinated family to South Carolina, which is in the midst of a historic outbreak, so that they can all be exposed. He prefers pertussis…to the pertussis vaccine, which he…as a ‘crime against children’.”
“While inviting the men’s hockey team to State of the Union, Trump joked he might be impeached if he didn’t invite the women too.”
— The women’s team turned him down. 🙌
“Schwank said he was told to teach officer candidates they could apprehend individuals with only an administrative removal order, not a judge’s warrant — a practice used in Minneapolis.
‘Never in my career had I received such a blatant or unlawful order,’
Schwank said.”
