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Senate votes to cut $930 billion from Medicaid "This bill is about caviar over kids and hedge funds over health care."

New from me at @motherjones.com: the Senate just voted to take $930 billion from Medicaid, which could greatly impact optional Medicaid expansion and also lead to cuts of "optional" Medicaid benefits...which keep people functional. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

one thing that is important to emphasize at that this is just republican governance at work! this is what happens when you give republicans power in washington!

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”

Just going to consult this reference book, “The Consequences of Pursuing Godlike Power,” by The Entire Canon of World Literature

There is no bottom.

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

The very rule of law is undermined by this. Every immigrant is less safe. Hell, every citizen is less safe.

Defiance of court orders will now become far more common, as the Court makes it clear they will step in to save Trump from the consequences of refusal to obey.

It is hard to express enough how terrible today's decision is.

ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of — Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo —and those people will have no right to challenge that decision.

NPR Migrants Captured In Libya Say They End Up Sold As Slaves March 21, 2018 6:27 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition By Ruth Sherlock, Lama Al-Arian

Today the GOP justices on the Supreme Court endorsed migrants being sold into slavery.

They'll claim otherwise, but that's the reality — today's decision permits Trump to send people from countries around the world to any global hellhole that accepts a U.S. financial incentive.

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

Prison Is Designed to Make Fatherhood Impossible Connections with caregivers are key for children’s wellbeing, but the prison system is designed to tear families apart.

Connections with caregivers are key for children’s wellbeing, but the prison system is designed to tear families apart.

Trump, saying he's defending the USA, is doing his dumbest best to destroy whatever it is that actually makes the country great. Another excerpt from my Financial Times piece on "the struggle for Los Angeles."

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

@benstanley.eu's comment here is right on. @nytimes.com is pathetic here. "promptly escorted out by security." WTAF!?

2025 Immigrant Bond Fund I will not let ICE unjustly deport immigrants. I'm supporting CLUE to keep our communities and families strong.

Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice is a group of interfaith leaders and community members that support local workers. They have created a bond fund for detained immigrants and their families in Los Angeles.
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There Is No "Migrant Crisis" - Boston Review The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.

“The contemporary world’s work has become policing, halting, forming policy regarding, and trying to administer the movement of people. Nationhood—the very definition of citizenship—is constantly being redemarcated in response to refugees, the displaced, the fleeing, & the besieged.” —Toni Morrison

Black background with bold white text that reads: "ICE OUT OF NEW YORK! STOP THE DEPORTATIONS. TUES. JUNE 10 5PM • FOLEY SQ.

[PHOTOS] Hundreds Protest ICE Arrests at Butler County Jail, One Protester Arrested Hundreds gathered outside the Butler County Jail in Hamilton on Sunday to protest the recent wave of arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One protester ended up in handcuffs after Ham...

"Hundreds gathered outside the Butler County Jail in Hamilton on Sunday to protest the recent wave of arrests..."

if you'd told kid me that Butler County Ohio would get in the news for this I would not have believed you. beautiful to see

www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/p...

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today.

I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children.

Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us.

One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

If you have an unread copy of Let This Radicalize You lying around, this would be an excellent time to read Chapter 6: “Violence” in Social Movements. It's also a good time to share that chapter with others.

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Trump revokes Biden's order for federal agencies to promote voter registration President Trump has reversed an executive order by former President Joe Biden that calls for federal agencies to promote voter registration.

President Trump has reversed an executive order by former President Joe Biden that calls for federal agencies to promote voter registration.

Guardian vs. NYT. You know who's going to call things by their true names and who's not even gonna give you syrup with that waffle.

Guardian: "Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes....

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank as aid trucks enter Gaza Israeli settlers and military raid occupied West Bank communities as 915 aid trucks enter Gaza on day two of ceasefire.

BREAKING: US President Trump has signed an order reversing sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

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Good thing for him, that he didn’t call for a ceasefire. Because that would be seen as clear antisemitism.