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In all seriousness, Vance’s unhinged diatribe really reminds me that this country is in dire straits. I can’t even wrap my mind around how bad things are and how impossible everything feels. How are we supposed to stay here and write and stay like… alive?

15.09.2025 21:43 — 👍 2226    🔁 243    💬 51    📌 21

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’ Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

06.09.2025 22:52 — 👍 6893    🔁 4150    💬 271    📌 616

Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

17.06.2025 17:26 — 👍 7436    🔁 1866    💬 25    📌 35

Can we do Scientology next? And nonprofit golf courses?

17.04.2025 00:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ummmm...

17.04.2025 00:20 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

15.04.2025 01:13 — 👍 14767    🔁 3886    💬 74    📌 132

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

15.04.2025 01:13 — 👍 31344    🔁 11627    💬 699    📌 872

Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

15.04.2025 12:33 — 👍 5486    🔁 2423    💬 106    📌 114

CNN story on lead poisoning & HHS/CDC's inability to act: Wisconsin asked the CDC for help with lead poisoning cases in Milwaukee but CDC had to cancel because HHS Secretary laid off all the CDC lead poisoning experts! Screenshot below of Ex CDC Director Tom Frieden's '09-'17 comments today #medsky

10.04.2025 19:53 — 👍 271    🔁 143    💬 1    📌 9

Also Arby’s

08.04.2025 21:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

01.04.2025 19:41 — 👍 75220    🔁 15642    💬 1388    📌 1812

Thank you Senator Booker!!

01.04.2025 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Declaration of S.Z.F.R. 1. I am a woman from Venezuela and I am in detention at Webb County Detention Center in Laredo Texas. My initials are S.Z.F.R. 2. On March 9 at 7 a.m. I was in my dorm in El Paso and was told to get my things together and I was being transferred to another facility. There was one other woman and 14 men who were also transferred with me. 3. I was supposed to have a merits hearing for my asylum claims on March 10th. 4. They took me to the airport in El Paso and I was put on a plane. Already on the plane were many Venezuelan men and three other Venezuelan women. We flew to Laredo. 5. When we got to Laredo we met up with another group of Venezuelan men. 6. There were at least 10 Venezuelan women on the plane. We arrived March 9 in Laredo and were taken to Webb County Detention Center. 7. Thursday of last week, March13th, we were told to gather our belongings and we were driven toward the airport for about an hour. We were told we were being deported to Venezuela. We never made it to the airport. We were sent back to Webb and told it was because of a plane malfunction. 8. On Friday again we were told to gather our belongings and put on the bus at Webb and sat on the bus for about 15 minutes and then were taken back to Webb. 9. Saturday morning we were again told to gather our belongings and get on the bus. We went to the airport and 8 women were put on the plane with me.

When we got on the plane there were already over 50 men on the plane. I could see other migrants walking to the plane but we took off before any additional people boarded. 11. Within a couple of minutes of take off I heard two US government officials talking and they said “there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.” 12. I asked where we were going and we were told that we were going to Venezuela. 13. Several other people on the plane told me they were in immigration proceedings and awaiting court hearings in immigration court. 14. We were not allowed to open our window shades. 15. We landed somewhere for refueling. We were there for many hours. We were arm and leg shackled the whole time. 16. We took off again and landed fairly quickly. I was then told we were in El Salvador. 17. While on the plane the government officials were asking the men to sign a document and they didn’t want to. The government officials were pushing them to sign the documents and threatening them. I heard them discussing the documents and they were about the men admitting they were members of TdA. 18. After we landed but were still on the plane a woman opened the shade. An officer rushed to shut the shade and pushed her down by her shoulders to try and stop her from looking out. The person that pushed her down had HOU-02 on his sleeve. 19. I saw out the window for a minute and I saw men in military uniforms and another plane. I saw men being led off the plane. Since I’ve been back in the U.S. I have seen news coverage and the plane I saw looks like the one I’ve seen on TV with migrants from the U.S. being delivered to El Salvador.

20. All the men got off the plane. The remaining women asked what happens to us? I was told that the President of El Salvador would not accept women. I was also told that we were going back to detention in the U.S. 21. We left in the middle of the night and landed in the early morning in Laredo. The 8 women who were on the plane were all returned back to the U.S. /s/ S.Z.F.R. S.Z.F.R.

NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"

24.03.2025 22:33 — 👍 14656    🔁 4961    💬 147    📌 168

Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it

“The MTA as a whole is averaging 448K more public transit riders per day this year…The MTA ridership growth since congestion pricing went into effect is almost 50% larger than the total ridership of America’s next-largest subway system.” bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion...

21.03.2025 00:33 — 👍 1089    🔁 268    💬 14    📌 41

There's also so much that can still be done at the state level.

13.03.2025 03:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is getting silly

06.03.2025 17:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let's not lean into these kinds of rumor posts! And let's not snipe at each other.

02.03.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

His face … “f*** my life”

01.03.2025 00:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

McConnell Retires: “My Work Destroying this Country is Done” “I retire with my head held high, knowing that I am leaving the country in smoldering ruins.”

McConnell marked the solemn occasion with a minute-long moment of silence in the middle of a sentence.

21.02.2025 01:34 — 👍 718    🔁 141    💬 32    📌 13

Musk did not post that 'billionaires are tired of subsidizing' public services The post, in which he appeared to tell people to "roll around in the mud with your fellow pigs," originated on a satirical subreddit.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...

21.02.2025 01:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

A huge problem right now is that the media is credulously reporting that so many things Trump is doing by EO/edict/OMB or OPM memo is just the end of the matter, that he can do it by fiat.

That is not true.

28.01.2025 13:51 — 👍 2345    🔁 539    💬 65    📌 30