President Trump just said, “We lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.”
A reminder of what happened to those 2.4 million Americans:
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President Trump just said, “We lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.”
A reminder of what happened to those 2.4 million Americans:
Buenos días, when y’all find a link to a candle with Gaga Estefania in the outfit from last night, please send my way. Okay gracias 💋
Benito 🩵🤍❤️
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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If you need a nasal decongestant, you gotta get the antihistamine with D that is always held behind the pharmacy counter. Also very pro Pedialyte frozen pops, especially if you have a fever because it hydrates and cools you down at the same time. ❄️
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.
Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.
Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
This is the most terrifying sentence he mentioned.
NH taking that “or die” thing to the max. 🤬
"A federal judge in Los Angeles denied a motion from the Trump administration Friday to throw out a decades-old settlement that outlines protections for immigrant children in federal detention."
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Very pleased to see the dude @pabloreports.bsky.social grilling Tom Homan in this @newyorker.com essay on the politics of immigration:
“Pablo Manriquez, of Migrant Insider, shrewdly asked, ‘On deportations, why were you able to achieve so much more for Obama than you have so far under Trump?’”
My nephew is 2 and he was a little delayed in speaking (because bilingual). But, in the past weeks the kid has gone from phrases to now asking me in a complete sentence, “Titi, you got cheese at you house?”
😭🥺🤩
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“Degrading treatment by guards is commonplace in all three jails, the groups say. At the Krome North service processing center in west Miami, female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers, or adequate food.”
so... gender affirming care.
I feel it’s racist to think DEI is just about race. It’s about leveling the field for anyone disadvantaged. This means your social class, ableness, and location. Fewer people in these areas can’t afford to maintain hospitals and research centers.
Some of y’all need to ask your immigrant parents what their immigration status was when you were born in the US. Maybe this attack on birthright citizenship may not affect you if the order is in the future, but what if it was retrospective? How far until your lineage is unsafe?
People are slamming Mamdani for “trying to do too much at the age of 33” and frankly they have a point because we have zero examples from history of a 33-year-old brown immigrant who opposed the elites & condemned greed while demanding access to food, healthcare, housing, & loving all thy neighbors.
There is a term for this: chemical warfare.
It is a war crime. And it is yet more evidence of intentional genocide.
The response will be that this is a lie. Yet, Netanyahu will also refuse to allow any independent investigation or journalists from safely entering and reporting on this war crime.
*BIG SIGH* 😔
DO NOT LOOK AWAY
ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court
With the politicization of what science is worth investment and what medical care is real care, this is only going to get more difficult to determine who is qualified and willing to provide medical care.
I know it’s not exclusive to party affiliation, but please tell me you have seen the Republican makeup videos from Suzanne Lambert. She goes in on bad makeup techniques and has beef with one of the White House makeup artists 😂
I personally know more service members who’s parents are immigrants than those who’s parents are not immigrants. It’s not only about seeking benefits and a path to middle class, but because there’s genuine love of country for opportunities our home country we’re unable to afford our parents.
They are literally doing the thing they have been supposedly terrified of for decades
Whatever you choose to do to respond is up to you
But I, a formerly undocumented person, invite you to donate/get involved/take action
We are only successful when YOU (yes, you) decide to pick up the phone and get involved
Garcia said he was shaken by what he heard while he was detained.
“They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”
“Zavala said orchards that typically host 100 or 120 pickers were finding that only 20 or 30 workers would show up.”
"The few workers who did show up said many had heard through social media that ICE set up checkpoints on the Washington-Oregon border & that agents were raiding orchards.” #WeFeedYou
Farm workers concerns about ice activity
"There's no reason to shoot anybody!" Waters shouted to the service members. "Don't allow them to make your service a service where you're killing people."
"Don't do it. Defy them!" she added. "Don't shoot those guns for anything!"
I can’t explain how fucked it is to be in a good place in my career, ticking off things I couldn’t imagine reaching, and simultaneously seeing my people be treated like animals to be hunted on the streets, in their homes, and separated from their families.
