Iranβs people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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Sociologist. Political Scientist. Adjunct Assistant Professor. Systems of poverty and power. Public media supporter, fur babies are family, sketch & stand-up comedy fan, Gen X, WNBA, Womenβs Pro Volleyball, Prince βοΈ. She/her. π¦ Justice is a verb.
Iranβs people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
For the first time in over a century, families across the U.S. have to fear their children growing up without citizenship in the only home they've ever known.
We'll be defending the right of birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court on April 1 in our case Barbara v. Trump.
Americans stranded in the Middle East say the State Department hotline Marco Rubio told them to call plays a recorded message warning: βPlease do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.β
Four interviews of a girl who says Trump sexually assaulted her when she was underage are gone -- missing from DOJ's release of the Epstein files.
#ReleaseTheInterviews
Struggling to get by: Behind the US underemployment crisis
Struggling to get by: Behind the US underemployment crisis https://aje.news/56hfvs
Frost on seeing the "unredacted" Epstein files: A few takeaways. Number one, there's a lot of documents that are still redacted. When I asked the DOJ about it, they said they received it that way, which means that Kash FBI kept them redacted when they gave it to the DOJ, which is interesting...
Bad Bunnyβs closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
βThe only thing more powerful than hate is loveβ
βTogether, we are Americaβ
THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATETS LOVE
Halftime Show π«Ά
Image of Bad Bunny giving his Grammy to young Liam from Minnesota.
Cause that's what heroes do.
Quotation: "If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people." Attributed to Bad Bunny, speaking about his hometown in Puerto Rico. Photo of Bad Bunny in front of a microphone. ACLU logo.
We're with Bad Bunny: We'll never stop demanding better for our communities.
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not βmove onβ from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
Everyone making noise about Olympic Skater Ilia Malinin (a white dude) pulling off the first legal backflip in competition as if he is a revolutionary skater needs to remember Surya Bonaly (black girl) completed a backflip in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and was penalized for it
I call Bullshit
Our families deserve to be safe from reckless and armed federal agents.
Sage, an impossibly cute young black cat with gold eyes, snuggled into a beige comforter while βhelpingβ me make the bed.
Here for the Caturday snuggles. #Caturday
Apparently the Trump administration now has a βMAGA-style slush fundβ to fund far right causes across Europe.
Democratic Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has officially called for President Donald Trump to be removed from office via the 25th Amendment.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS
βThe French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.β - BBC
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Exclusive: Elon Muskβs flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found reut.rs/4qcVVaE
Donald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting."
My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I built a law firm to stop it. I started Democracy Docket as another tool in the fight for democracy. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
β οΈBREAKING: A California doctor is facing the first lawsuit under Texasβs new extreme bounty hunter abortion ban. If Texas wants this fight, weβre ready. The doctor is now our client, and weβll be defending them in court.
Footage from Pflugerville Municipal Court in Texas where students from four high schools gathered to protest against ICE. The kids are alright!
Minnesota folks: if you know someone who needs a flight to MSP after being detained in Texas, standwithminnesota.com has collected donated SkyMiles to help them get home -- spread the word!
π¨ Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.
A high-ranking federal appeals judge has dismissed the Department of Justiceβs (DOJ) misconduct claim against James Boasberg, the chief district judge in Washington, D.C., who warned last year that Trump officials had disregarded his court orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Welcome home, Liam!
More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed RenΓ©e Good.
It's so sad to see what's being done to schools in Texas. Here at USC, we recently made our programs in Women's and Gender Studies and in African American Studies into departments
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