Carrington Ward

Employers Have Exploited and Abused H-2A Farmworkers for Years. It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way. The seasonal visa program has failed to protect migrant farmworkers from wage theft, forced labor, violence and death. Experts, lawyers and advocates say there are ways to reduce and even stop the har...

We've had a lot of news on how farm workers get abused.

Time to talk about how it's not actually that hard to put a stop to it. Real, actionable steps that work contained in this article 💪

www.propublica.org/article/h-2a...

Thompson can back this up by limiting ICE hours of operation to 9-6.

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square • The TRiiBE A roundup of ICE activity in the Chicagoland area on Oct. 3.

This order comes after Broadview FD called a fence ICE erected in front of its facility illegal, after local & state police established "free speech zones" for protestors last week, and after the same local & state police joined feds in arresting protestors on Friday: thetriibe.com/2025/10/illi...

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here: https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

Ex-Trump Aide Says GOP Headed for Defeat in Shutdown Standoff The former White House official says insurance companies are likely to put their weight behind Democrats because of Obamacare.

The former White House official predicts that Republicans are likely to cave on the government shutdown despite all of the bravado on display from the White House.

Speaking of which, isn’t there a well founded belief that leaving troops in public-facing garrison duty is particularly harmful to morale, effectiveness, and loyalty? 2/

In fairness, this Administration seems so far to be paralyzed by kid-in-a-candy store indecision as to exactly which dumb war to pursue… Hence trying to drop 82nd Airborne in Portland.

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You spend all this time, reading Clausewitz and Mahan and Thucydides, studying campaigns and thinking hard about the roots of victory and defeat, the experience of war and what that means for policy and then you look over and the policy movers are strategy cheese and infantrydork.

people keep saying that he's actually trying to turn up the temperature/incite violence/get a reaction/etc. this is true, he is definitely doing that. but the parts about how weak his hand is sure do have the ring of truth

So Curtis Yarvin sucks intensely but he hasn't wielded any actual power and I have no impression he has broken any laws - being a sick, monstrous idiot being entirely legal - it is the majesty of liberal democracy that he has nothing to fear.

He ought to ponder that, but won't.

Yep. We have a massive political machine for teaching normal people to feel shame & "oh I guess my opinions & needs are less Real & Important" because.... of not being landed gentry.

And it WORKS.

Or the Turkish model that Erdogan dismantle.

What I think Trump, Hegseth and co. fundamentally do not understand as they push further and further is that the reason their illegality hasn't already exploded in their faces is because so many key people in the system do not want that explosive confrontation and will not welcome it if it comes.

me, a small farmer: Small farmers in the US aren't poor. Most are middle class at LEAST. Here's the data if you don't believe me

City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken

ppl from farm country: haha I know right

I remain fascinated by what people and organizations crumbled in the face of MAGA and which didn't.

You don't have to like Cato, but they broadly stuck to their guns, even if it means drawing the ire of the administration.

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

She has definitely had gender-affirming care.

I’ve been saying this since 2015. When will people wake up and listen to me. Trump is Doing Russia’s work to tear down America from within, members of the legislative branch and even the supremacy court are helping to bring about the Russian dream of burying America

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

MAGA star Jack Posobiec says voter fraud is a serious issue—yet he has voted for years in Pennsylvania, despite clearly living in Maryland. slate.com/news-and-pol...

ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

Alamosa, Colorado

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

I think he learned to run a blackmail and extortion business from Cohn… who learned it from Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, who learned it from J.Edgar Hoover.

The wrinkle was that being gay stopped being blackmailable, which is why he shifted his ’product line’ to statutory rape.

in all seriousness, I don't think most normal people appreciate that the majority of the military is a logistical and administrative machine

if you make the military entirely the pointy bit of the spear it simply will not work

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School has seen the Trump Administration’s “compact” for universities to receive preferable consideration for federal funding and says it amounts to First Amendment violations in blistering op-ed — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

I honestly don’t understand why there isn’t a staffer whose job is to propose a statutory fix for every possible SCOTUS decision each term.

Why are more people not talking about Hegseth firing the head of the Coast Guard so that Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski could live in the house set aside for her by law, rent-free on the taxpayers' dime.

What else are they doing on an addictive app?

Trumpco may be the cost prominent victims of Gen AI psychosi.

The Billionaires Have Been Sucking the Rest of Us Dry Since 1989—And It's Worse Than You Think | Common Dreams The 905 billionaires in the United States hold a combined $7.8 trillion in wealth, giving those at the very top political influence and power that undermines our democracy while working people scrape ...

The Billionaires Have Been Sucking the Rest of Us Dry Since 1989—And It’s Worse Than You Think

The 905 billionaires in the U.S. hold a combined $7.8 trillion in wealth, giving those at the very top political influence and power that undermines our democracy while working people scrape to get by.