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Writer, neurodivergent, bisexual, dog mom, feminist, geek, full of anxiety, wife in a straight-passing but real queer marriage. 🏳️🌈 Trying to fight the good fight over here, but occasionally I have a dog stuck in my lap.
NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.
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When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
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For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.
2028 Dem contenders are releasing these plans to eliminate taxes for low-income and middle-class people when Mamdani won on affordability by promising to tax the rich more and offer services everyone desperately needs. The playbook is right there, and yet.
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
“A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters” www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
I hate us.
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
There was a single athlete set to represent Iran in the #Paralympics, but he couldn't get there because of the war.
There are a lot of things I love about the Paralympics, but the artistry of the opening and closing ceremonies, which always includes people of varying disabilities, is always top notch and incredibly moving.
kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
I'm happy that there continues you to be lots of sports to distract me from the horrors. Tonight World Baseball Classic. Tomorrow Paralympics.
Our government is currently blockading Cuba, causing incredible harm to the people there, which is, in itself, an act of war. But sure, let's joke about bombing them.
“anger is real, and so is resolve” goes pretty damn hard
Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work
It is 2026 and we are not fucking doing this anymore. EIGHT WOMEN came forward and told stories of Franken GROPING AND FORCIBLY KISSING THEM. The man was a sexual abuser. He did not and does not belong in congress. Fucking period. End of conversation.
#NeverForget
He’ll be replaced by the Oklahoma governor.
I’ll always remember when Markwayne Mullin tried to start a fight with the head of the Teamsters in the middle of a Senate hearing, causing Bernie Sanders to yell at him: “Sit down! You’re a United States Senator!”
The new head of the Department of Homeland Security, everyone.
(He also previously confused Ayatollah Khomeini with Ayatollah Khamenei, so he has his finger on the pulse. We’re clearly in good hands.)
Bad Bunny with all of the flags of the americas and a football in his hand at the Super Bowl halftime show.
The true Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
More importantly the only Senator who fingers nostrils as a hobby
I've got laryngitis so I'm not on TV today. but if I was, I'd remind everybody that mass deportation *remains* family separation, whether Noem or Mullin or anyone else is Trump's DHS Secretary. and that policy has not changed.
If your staff doesn't pull you off the stage in this moment, it's probably because they hate you.
By BEN LEFEBVRE 03/05/2026 05:00 AM EST f • • • President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran, according to two energy industry executives familiar with the conversations. The White House is "looking under every rock for ideas on improving energy prices, especially gasoline prices," said one of the executives, who was granted anonymity to describe internal administration discussions.
I have an idea. Here’s my idea: We should have had this meeting last week before we started bombing Iran. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Phantom definitely missed Boston in this game more than they did in the semifinals. She could've made a big difference. #Unrivaled
Oy...that's not the way to end things. #Unrivaled
