I wrote about the US funneling pregnant children in immigrant detention to a Texas facility where their rights can be more effectively restricted. I hear echoes of disappeared parents and kidnapped children in Argentina decades ago. In each case, the intent is to inflict deep generational trauma.
"To me, as a mother who was manipulated into relinquishing her son, this 'third option' [of adoption] isn’t a bridge — it’s a trap draped in the language of bravery. It is dangerous, expensive propaganda."
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
Republicans will block tarrifs and boost concentration camps. Just in case there's any ambiguity about their priorities and aims.
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
I disagree with Congressman Gonzales that 5-year-old American citizen children are helped in any way by their kindergarten classmates being kisbnapped and disappeared by marked, armed thugs.
It's #SerotoninSunday!
🇺🇸 A new congressional resolution to PROTECT veterans’ access to abortion care has hit the floor, after Trump cut off access to abortion for ALL veterans. For this we can truly say: USA. USA. bit.ly/4ry6HJE
Ciji Graham’s is the seventh case ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman died after she was unable to access standard care in a state that has significantly restricted abortion.
Read her story: https://propub.li/4r4VQr4
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. https://cnn.it/4t7jNz8
There are 15,000 Haitians living in Springfield (1/4 of its population) and another 30,000 living in central Ohio.
What happens to these cities? What happens to the children? To their schools? How do you explain this to their classmates?
Nightmare scenario.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...
“What is very clear here on the ground in Minnesota is that ICE is not really, and DHS is not really, functioning as an immigration agency. The immigration is a pretext. It is conducting itself as a terror agency, as a state terror apparatus.” slate.trib.al/K1ImuQF
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
Minneapolis Mayor Frey on federal agents killing a Minneapolis resident:
"I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"
Gov. Tim Walz called on the Trump administration to pull back on its surge in immigration enforcement in the state.
“I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning,” Walz wrote on X. https://wapo.st/3M62eyV
There is no defending this. This is cold-blooded murder.
ICE just detained a 5-year-old child.
Don’t tell us this is about “the worst of the worst.” That’s a lie.
Absolutely vile.
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
Dr. King was clear that justice requires dignity and freedom for all. ICE terrorizing communities is state violence, and bodily autonomy means freedom from surveillance, cages, and control.
This is where I sent my cam and a memory card. Keep it going, folks
"In the 12 years examined, from 2011 to 2023, important F.D.A. actions involving mifepristone almost always adhered to evidence-based recommendations from the agency’s scientists."
Tiny Petoskey, MI showed up and showed OUT—bundled up, boots in the snow, breath visible in the bitter cold. When even the smallest towns refuse silence, you know this movement is real. Justice doesn’t hibernate. Neither do the people. ❄️✊
#ICEOutForGood
Credit to the amazing @bocksam.bsky.social
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
For decades, cops have been trained not to shoot at moving vehicles. Immigration agents have shot at least nine people since September.
All of them have been in cars.
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
NEW: The controversial interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast floated ending in-clinic abortion procedures and spoke of dropping abortion care altogether.
Leader of the affiliate serving Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi remains in her role after an investigation that sources call a "farce."
“This is just another example of this legislature endorsing misinformation and propaganda over facts and science," said Abortion Forward Deputy Director @jmiracleoh.bsky.social about House Bill 485
“This is just another example of this legislature endorsing misinformation and propaganda over facts and science," said Abortion Forward Deputy Director @jmiracleoh.bsky.social about House Bill 485
Lots going on at the Ohio Statehouse today! Follow along for all of the details.
