Maggie From The Commonwealth (God save it!)

1. This year traffic stops by Florida cops have led to at least two dozen immigrant kids being separated from their family or caregivers and placed in federal shelters.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield.

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

NEW: Today we published a new investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/
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Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.

Live with Lee Gelernt & Joyce Vance A federal judge is considering whether to refer a criminal contempt case against government officials involved in sending Venezuelan migrants to CECOT prison to DOJ

The best way to understand a case is to talk with the person litigating it. The ACLU’s Lee Gelernt explains the most recent developments in the case involving migrants who the government sent to CECOT prison in El Salvador. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Pillage is a war crime, Rep. Salazar.

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This is an official statement from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who is the top civilian at the Pentagon, and thus the link in the chain of command between the President and the SOUTHCOM commander, and thus the key civilian who would be giving orders in what may soon be a war with Venezuela.

I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.

So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.

#DougForAlabama

Big, bad ICE saves us from a one-year-old Pepper-spraying a child apparently warms the cold, shriveled hearts of MAGA

New: A child (of U.S. citizens) is pepper-sprayed by immigration agents near Chicago.

"Trump and Stephen Miller lack the empathy and the imagination to picture themselves fleeing a troubled country with their wife and children to escape poverty and drug violence."

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Some outlets are reporting that DOGE "doesn't exist" anymore. But the fine print on that overturns the whole story: DOGE is just dropping its tarnished brand, not the chainsaw. 🧵

The Voting Rights Act Is Still Working To Stop Racist Laws. The Supreme Court Might Not Care. Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

As the U.S. Supreme Court contemplates whether the VRA has outlived its usefulness, having heard oral arguments in October questioning the constitutionality of the landmark law’s most vital remaining provision, the question of racism’s grip on America remains. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

In other words, Republicans.

For the past how many years, we've heard the bullshit from the Collins' camp that she's doesn't "usually weigh in on state issues."

And now she does for the purpose of hate?

What a psycho phony.

#mesen #mepolitics

The "peace president."

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all oil companies are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness by forcibly annexing productive wells in Venezuela

1st amendment and employment rights aside, you’d think a DOJ veteran would be smart enough to not talk shop with someone who doesn’t work there. Particularly someone they met online.

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We had a war to stop fascism. Then we had post-war trials to make it clear that "just following orders" was no excuse. Trump and Hegseth are taking the side of the death camp guards.

Republicans Launch Major New Attack on Michigan-Based Overseas Voters Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a sweeping new lawsuit in Michigan that seeks to eliminate a state law that protects voting access for U.S. citizens living abroad. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Botchelorette From NBC : Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding prosecutor was unlawfully appointed Lindsey Halligan ...

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Ruben Gallego didn’t just press Hegseth, he set a line in the sand.
Mark Kelly flew combat missions. Whiskey Pete follows political orders.

Cowardice in service of Trump is betrayal.

Share this if you’re done watching these men attack veterans who’ve given more to this country than they ever will.

DOGE is not really gone, it’s just been made standard operating procedure now. Please stop celebrating DOGE ‘ending’ as a ‘win.’ It’s not. Their cuts have already killed 600,000 people. Elon stole all your data. Don’t fall for the clickbait.

The court martial route is because they realize they can’t just lock people up through the regular courts. Criminals testing where there will be least resistance.

The vicious cycle of monopolization:

1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.

In Mussolini's Italy, the fascist movement was obsessed with people wearing suitable attire in all social settings. Thomas Mann describes this brilliantly in one of his novellas. The fact that transportation secretary Duffy obsesses over how one should dress to fly in an airplane, while being

Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students Collins' office said she signed onto the petition because she agrees with President Donald Trump’s interpretation of Title IX.

3 weeks ago, Senator Collins wouldn't tell us where she stood on protecting Mainers from gun violence because it was a state issue that "she doesn't usually weigh in on." But she'll make an exception for excluding trans kids #mepolitics

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Chinese land, US radar and ties to Taiwan: The geopolitics rattling a tiny Pacific nation (BBC News) BBCThe air above Palau's pristine waters smells of salt and breadfruit, and on calm mornings in Koror, Palau's commercial cen...

Read "Chinese land, US radar and ties to Taiwan: The geopolitics rattling a tiny Pacific nation" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6EmqLNUQ/u...

Trump went after Tish James and James Comey because he can’t stand anyone who tells the truth and holds him accountable—and today, the judge made it clear that the courtroom isn’t his personal revenge tour.

"Quite frankly I was pissed off!" Growing online page chronicles Trump Justice Dept. resignation letters Amid a wave of departures from the Justice Department, some of its former officials are curating a public online display of the farewell messages of ousted employees.

The Justice Department purge has now eclipsed 5,000 employees since January, including resignations, firings and retirements. Justice Connection, a group of former DOJ employees, has organized and posted the online page of goodbye messages worth reading.

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You know, in the run-up to Iraq, people didn't talk this way out loud. Now? MAGA doesn't understand that there's a loud part and a quiet part.

Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders' The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. ...

It'll only help elevate Mark Kelly. They need a new scandal after their bullshit case against Comey and Letitia James just fell apart.

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