NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
Attorneys at the Education Department’s civil rights office describe working in a “dismissal factory.”
Most discrimination complaints filed by students’ families have been dismissed without ever being investigated, records show.
(Published Dec. 2025)
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Spanish spokesperson for the Más Madrid party Manuela Bergerot blasts the right wing of the Madrid Assembly for suggesting that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is on behalf of Iranian women.
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A handwritten letter from a child detained at Dilley center. It features a drawing of a house and a crying person’s head. Translated text reads: "We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people they won’t let us go out to the playgrounds and park and it’s very boring to do every day God touch the hearts of those at ICE let us out We are not criminals I want to go home."
While detained at the Dilley detention center, 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia wrote: “We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people … let us out we are not criminals I want to go home.”
➡️ Read more of the children's letters: https://propub.li/3OJUwLV
NEW: If Attorney General Pam Bondi’s team wins this case, thousands of immigrant moms and dads could be exposed to deportation for minor involvement in the juvenile court system, a new realm for President Trump’s deportation regime.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers.
An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social
Ratchet Roundtable Is Live!
open.substack.com/pub/drkiadh/...
VERY excited to share this article about ratchet lineages, with a link to our first RATCHET ROUNDTABLE episode!
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
18 states and DC now have shield laws protecting people who care for traveling patients. @dsc250.bsky.social says 8 of these states have gone even further by explicitly protecting providers who, via telemedicine, care for patients across state lines. #ReproHealth
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We watched it, too. Live. Folks were devastated. We processed it a bit together, as well. I was in Maryland. It was a huge part of our curriculum in the weeks leading up to the launch.
Hooray!!!!
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
We worked with legal scholar Quinn Yeargain this year to publish a guide that breaks down the structure, selection procedures, and functions of every single state’s highest court!
You can explore one of our biggest projects: boltsmag.org/whats-o...
Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more.
Taking back our power starts now.
BREAKING: WHITE-ONLY SPACES ARE BACK. Republicans just passed a bill allowing businesses to segregate bathrooms, waiting rooms, and dining areas. This is full-blown apartheid in America.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Let’s talk about the way a name
becomes a crime,
the way a crime
becomes an argument,
the way an argument
becomes a theory,
the way a theory
sits safely
in a syllabus
far from the fire.
publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i...
People are exhausted, in an ongoing trauma response, increasingly sick and disabled, and don’t know what to do. Most are barely getting by and don’t have the time or energy to add a new, difficult thing. If they try something ineffective, motivation tanks. These conditions are policy choices.
