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This is the point to all of the morons saying ”this is what Trump wants, an excuse to escalate.” He has escalated multiple times in the last few hours alone without any conflict from protesters. The national guard is just standing around staring at people, but 700 marines are now on their way.

Georgia’s Abortion Ban Is Forcing a Family to Keep Their Braindead Daughter Alive 5.14.25

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25 arrested while protesting GOP Medicaid cuts "You will kill me."

You'll probably see a lot of people post this story in one way or another. And I hope everyone posts it and talks about it.

#AltCitizen behavior on a national stage.

Courageous nonviolent actions in the moment in order to make a strong statement. This is not a fight we will stand down from.

Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement

Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen

Now I know

MUST WATCH: None of us are safe right now.

"Be strong."

Wilmer Gutiérrez sends a message to his son Merwil, held in El Salvador's CECOT prison without due process after being sent there by the Trump administration along with hundreds of other immigrants.

Head Start advocates brace for possibility of Trump eliminating funding A Trump administration document, cited by news reports, proposes eliminating funding for Head Start, which is dedicated to early child care services. An advocate says the move would be "catastrophic."

A Trump administration document, cited by news reports, proposes eliminating funding for Head Start, which is dedicated to early child care services. An advocate says the move would be "catastrophic."

No more outsourcing from abroad—the US will now cultivate its own tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free domestically.

Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group

If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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And to be clear, the government's argument in the Abrego Garcia case would apply even if it sent someone, including a U.S. citizen, to a foreign prison intentionally and with full knowledge that it was violating the law in doing so.

Where is our humanity?

You could tell the story of media in the Trump era with these two images. The first is the NYT front page after the Women’s March, the second is NYT front page today.

A good collective group of state Dem officials who are already doing important coordinated work in battling Trump: @democraticags.bsky.social

Tift County district attorney drops charges in fetus case The Tift County District Attorney announced Friday that all charges have been dismissed against a Tifton woman who was arrested after placing the fetal remains in a dumpster.

The Tift County District Attorney announced that all charges have been dismissed against a Georgia woman who was arrested after placing her fetal remains in a dumpster

They're Arresting Us for Miscarriages Now What the hell happened to the Overton Window?

Is this just our new normal? Women being arrested if a cop doesn’t like how they miscarried, and lawmakers debating whether to put us to death before breaking for fucking lunch? Has everyone lost their minds?

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

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What Garrett said.

We can just stop using the term unconstitutional now. We passed unconstitutional before Trump took office when he had already committed a coup, we left unconstitutional a couple light years behind in his first couple days in office. The constitution is worth toilet paper now. This state is no more.

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

I've been waiting but I'm still not prepared for this use of "disappeared" to become a part of our current discourse. This is not ok.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

This has been on my mind a lot.

So I ask this partly because totalizing belief systems are often very brittle. It’s extremely hard to make a single crack, but once that first crack is made they often shatter completely with surprising speed.

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished