NEW: As he released 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, Judge Biery warned of vast lawlessness and inhumanity in the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. He said courts amounted to “a judicial finger in the dike.”
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About a foot in Charlotte!
I was just thinking of WormTongue and Stephen Miller. How about that.
Great quote: “the only thing that can eventually stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a camera.”
Americans are not buying Kristi Noem’s lies, thank goodness for those videos:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
How many more will die until ICE brutality stops? Yet another murder.
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Undertaking a sweeping investigation of almost all federal funding to 14 states & D.C. – all but one led by a Democrat – is a harmful & shameful escalation of the Admin’s corrupt politicization of basic governance & suggests funding freezes may be coming. www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/p...
This follows a clear pattern. The Admin is already trying to freeze funds for low-income people in 5 Dem-led states, has based disaster relief decisions on a state’s politics, & has threatened states that include localities that won’t agree to partner w/ the admin on immigration.
A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.
NEW: "Mitchell and EIN are hoping to change the dynamic of the 2026 midterms by pressuring state and local election officials to only allow voting to take place in small neighborhood precincts, rather than the vote centers." www.democracydocket.com/analysis/vot...
This is how inept ICE agents are now . They had an address that was two years outdated . Not one week, not one month, 2 years. And did not care to check the name of the person before driving him around and harassing him for hours
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Interesting analysis in the FT today, which rings true:
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🗣️ "The US is not interested in freedom or democracy, it is interested in our oil."
Venezuelans gathered in Caracas to express their solidarity with Nicolas Maduro, who was captured by the United States following a series of airstrikes.
Latest updates: trib.al/tP8daTX
BREAKING: We just won a court order blocking the Trump-Vance admin's harmful attempt to restrict federal funds for proven solutions to homelessness.
This victory helps to keep hundreds of thousands of veterans, seniors, people with disabilities, and vulnerable families housed and out of the cold.
Authoritarianism is here. Secret police arresting US citizens for speaking out.
Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.
This is what happens when secrecy and cruelty meet incompetence. Pretty much our federal government in a nutshell right now . And families pay the price.
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Hey by the way #PatHarrigan - if you are going to talk about CMPD get the name right - they are NOT the Charlotte Metropolitan Police Dept. They are the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department. Are you sure you’re from around here ?
Love wins!
But we need to stay vigilant, as you never know with this court how issues can come back up....
#LoveWins
Maine voters are projected to reject a ballot measure that would have added voter ID requirements and adjusted absentee voting rules, according to the Associated Press.
Zohran Mamdani, whose triumphant campaign was built on progressive ideas and a relentless focus on affordability, will become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century. Along the way, he energized South Asian and Muslim communities that rarely receive sustained attention from politicians.
Elizabeth neighborhood Pumpkin Wall is up! This is its 21st year- I remember when it first started!
Yup It’s still a man’s world. But that’s changing. Women’s sports will continue to rise. Stay strong.
Nope. Not someone who tried to overthrow democracy in a violent coup and said to hang his vice president and who zip ties children abducted by masked men and throws them in detention centers. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Get ready for a peaceful Oct 18 “No Kings” rally. This will be global. It will be creative . No tyrants. No kings. We want democracy #NoKings
A federal judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, even as President Trump turned to the Texas guard in a widening hunt for military forces to send to Democratic cities. Follow live: nyti.ms/3KCr5t4
This Wednesday (Oct. 1) at noon, join us for a "Lunch & Learn" with Tim Heaphy on:
Defending Democracy: Confronting Political Violence in the 21st Century
Register at: catawba-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Love math nerds. Well done Rivka! She’s proven what voting rights advocates have been saying all along :
www.forbes.com/sites/kevina...
