Lynda Dodd

As someone who is dealing with the full impact of progressive multiple sclerosis, I cannot put into words how much I am disappointed in and morally offended by everything and everyone leading us to this anti-science era. The irrationality and the arrogance . . .

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.

from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.

Thoughts on this:

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Everyone in America should see this and think about what it implies. And have the courage, like him, to stand up.

I really hope to see more mainstream media coverage of the 250th anniversary w/ a resistence-centered perspective. I liked this from Jack Rakove:

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This is the single most effective pro-vaccine piece I've ever read. Especially if you are also active on other, bigger social media platforms, share the gift link below. You might save a life. (I am already extremely pro-vaccine and I suspect most others on this platform are too.)

“You can make all sorts of improvements to Dilley, but it’s still going to be a prison,” said Ms. Welch, the class-action lawyer, who regularly visits Dilley to assess conditions.

“You can improve education, and they should,” she added, but “it will still be a place with sick, sad children.”

EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

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The moves to mainstream him are alarming and should be taken very seriously. ⤵️

Nearly two out of three surveyed high school principals (64%) NATIONWIDE said “students from immigrant families missed school due to policies or political rhetoric related to immigrants.”

Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms

Peyton Rollins, the 21-year-old official behind a monthslong stream of Labor Dept. social media posts that parroted white-nationalist messaging has a new employer: the Department of Homeland Security. He appears to have been promoted.

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

ICYMI: This YLJ article on the internal Court deliberations in Younger v. Harris, and its racial context, is fascinating. ⤵️ yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...

This training was an inspiration. So grateful for the work @npapjustice.bsky.social is doing in Minneapolis and around the country.

We're pediatricians. We see how ICE is harming children. | Opinion Liam Ramos is one of more than 1,700 children to have been put in family detention centers since 2025. We call for these centers to close.

As pediatricians, we’re speaking out on the harms of aggressive immigration enforcement and detention on children. Our kids deserve safety and protection.

See our piece in USA Today:

The FBI's Fulton County raid was based on debunked claims by election deniers The evidence provided for seizing 700 boxes of ballots was shockingly thin.

FBI’s Fulton County affidavit confirmed what we’ve long suspected: seizure of ballots based on discredited/recycled falsehoods about 2020 election pushed by election deniers & designed to sow mistrust in election system so that Trump can interfere in midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

‘Less lethal’ crowd-control weapons still cause harm – 2 physicians explain what they are and their health effects Federal immigration agents tend to receive less training on how to properly deploy crowd-control weapons, research finds.

Tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets aren’t gentle crowd-control tools. Physicians say they can cause permanent injuries, and often do. buff.ly/bENqXXY

ICE's Masks Are All a Lie Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record.

And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.

The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

Not “racially tinged” but straight-up racist. My new column on American Crisis

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

They're Coming for Our Daughters The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
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ICE Arrests Transplant Patient and Cuts Off Life-Saving Meds The 38-year-old hasn’t had his kidney transplant medication since he was detained on Thursday.

A kidney transplant recipient in Minnesota who was arrested by ICE has allegedly been denied access to life-saving medication for more than four days.

The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

We lecture the world about human rights—yet deny basic medical care to people in our own detention centers.

That’s not just bad policy. It’s a moral failure.

If this were happening overseas, we’d be outraged.

Why do we tolerate it here?

RT. REV. MARIANN BUDDE, 153 BISHOPS: The question facing America — Whose dignity matters? Episcopal bishops condemn Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths, calling for ICE suspension and investigations into state-sanctioned violence affecting communities nationwide.

The faithful fight: We call on people of faith to stand by your values and act as your conscience demands.” Read Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde and 153 Episcopal bishops on the moral crisis our country faces and how faith communities should respond.