From grassroots sing-ins at ICE offices to sold-out concerts and viral videos, protest music is surging. Artists like Carsie Blanton and Jesse Welles, alongside movements like Singing Resistance, are turning songs into a civic language in a turbulent political moment.
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![On February 20, officials at the "Central Office" ordered FCI Butner's medical director to terminate Ms. Pinson's hormone treatment. Declaration of Grace Pinson 14 (Feb. 24, 2024) (hereinafter "Feb. 24 Pinson Decl."). In the days that followed, prison officials made Ms. Pinson strip naked and subjected her to a demeaning visual cavity search in front of multiple male guards;
they rifled through her personal and sensitive papers, including legal documents, and tossed them into a cell covered in feces, and extended her detention her in a segregation unit after she was
supposed to return to general population. Id. i9 5-8. One of the officials who engaged in this
conduct, Lt. Teague, told Ms. Pinson that if "you want to make it home alive, you need to stop sending stuff to that fucking judge." Id. 9 6. Lt. Teague told Elmer Moreno, another incarcerated
person who conferred with class counsel about this litigation, that Mr. Moreno was being held in solitary confinement because he had "been talking to [Ms. Pinson's] lawyers." Id. 9 9.
Summarizing his management philosophy, Lt. Teague informed Ms. Pinson: "T've told you before, and I'll tell you again, I don't give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want." Id. " 6.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreib4ilt7jequtyhy3rj4lhfwzfp4kjbczyf7mty46t2xd7fzokhrlm)
On February 20, officials at the "Central Office" ordered FCI Butner's medical director to terminate Ms. Pinson's hormone treatment. Declaration of Grace Pinson 14 (Feb. 24, 2024) (hereinafter "Feb. 24 Pinson Decl."). In the days that followed, prison officials made Ms. Pinson strip naked and subjected her to a demeaning visual cavity search in front of multiple male guards; they rifled through her personal and sensitive papers, including legal documents, and tossed them into a cell covered in feces, and extended her detention her in a segregation unit after she was supposed to return to general population. Id. i9 5-8. One of the officials who engaged in this conduct, Lt. Teague, told Ms. Pinson that if "you want to make it home alive, you need to stop sending stuff to that fucking judge." Id. 9 6. Lt. Teague told Elmer Moreno, another incarcerated person who conferred with class counsel about this litigation, that Mr. Moreno was being held in solitary confinement because he had "been talking to [Ms. Pinson's] lawyers." Id. 9 9. Summarizing his management philosophy, Lt. Teague informed Ms. Pinson: "T've told you before, and I'll tell you again, I don't give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want." Id. " 6.
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A mutual friend clued me into Sacramento resident Bettina Redway's connection to the geopolitical maelstrom surrounding Greenland, and it was too fascinating to keep to myself. www.sacbee.com/news/article...
McClatchy wants you to invest in a Sacramento Bee subscription, but the company doesn’t want to invest in its reporters.
Under management’s latest offer, seven local journalists would still make salaries low enough to qualify them for low-income housing.
My colleague Sharon Bernstein breaks an incredible story: The federal government shutdown sabotaged the work of law enforcement and prosecutors in at least eight cases in Sacramento. Wow! How could this happen?
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Let’s talk about something not many people are chatting about and what’s actually happening right now.
You might wonder why Imran Ahmed and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) suddenly became targets of the U.S. government. The honest answer is that their research hit where it hurt.
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
I never imagined people would use words like disgusting and despicable to describe a US president.
Ewwww
So are the killers who shot up a 2-year-old’s birthday party in Stockton, CA, a couple days after Thanksgiving. The FBI is definitely NOT performing up to the standard we expect.
In the Sacramento region, the CalFresh pause has triggered a disaster response by one county government and the region's food banks. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
#SNAP “Requirements to increase staple foods come alongside the requirement for more items to be perishable, which will present challenges for smaller food retailers with limited refrigerated storage,” Cassandra Nguyen,
UCANR nutritionist, told @cathiea.bsky.social
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It’s odd that the writer never mentions that Bezos sacrificed the paper’s credibility to score points. That’s why circulation plummeted, not because of the paper’s name, as stated here.
Are Sacramento County supervisors doing enough to prevent homelessness? Palms tenants say they're at risk, and their county supervisor isn't providing the help they need. www.sacbee.com/news/equity-...
Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.
After shutting down, the Dems have to hold out for more than they first initiated. Only funding health care doesn’t seem like much of a win after the current regime’s gross and disgusting abuse of power in Chicago. They zip-tied children!
At one point this guy is like “I’m not arguing the merits of it, but the politics” and why the fuck not dude?! Maybe the problem with the media is that you’re NOT ARGUING THE MERITS OF IF SOMETHING IS TRUE OR NOT
Literally last week every MAGA idiot around was insisting, loudly, how terrible it was that the Biden admin pressured YouTube to remove COVID misinfo, even as YouTube said it ignored the pressure. Those same folks will either be silent or cheer this on:
Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
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This Nevada County initiative aims to build upon what local start-up experts saw as a growing interest in food entrepreneurship. www.sacbee.com/news/busines...
This over-the-counter compound, frequently sold at gas stations, can be deadly if combined with alcohol or other substances. Many people aren't aware of the danger. www.sacbee.com/news/califor...
This is certainly not the norm, but I think many Americans end up in arrangements like this, effectively co-parenting their children’s more vulnerable friends. In some cases, the friends move in, and no parent ever comes looking for them. If they can keep the tax deduction, you can have their child.
The more I read of this story, the more shocked, dismayed and angry I became at the privacy violations. My colleague Sharon Bernstein, a veteran journalist, covers the courts. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...
He is really a brilliant comic.
President Trump's tariffs are almost "tailor-made" to hit the goods that lower income households prefer to purchase, says economist Ernie Tedeschi of Yale's nonpartisan Budget Lab.
Any dissent will be quashed. If this regime advocates child molestation, then every one of its followers also must advocate that. If you do not, you will be considered a danger to dear leader.
Torres: If the bill is so popular, why are the cuts largely delayed until after the midterm election? And if the bill surgically targets fraud, waste and abuse, why is it necessary to set up a $50 billion stabilization fund for rural hospitals?
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
