chandra thomas

Photo shows a young girl with her cat

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.

She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.

Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

This x 💯

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

All the world’s enraged: a new era of ‘resistance theater’ is rising as Trump attacks the arts Writers and theater groups across the country are creating works in response to crackdowns on their communities

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Words to live by::

🚨 Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.

Embarrassed for my colleagues at the trades, who yesterday breathlessly reported that MELANIA would do $8 million at the box office this weekend, and now, when the number comes in at $7 million, are breathlessly spinning that as a win, too.

$7 million on a $75M investment is not a win—period.

Brilliant

Each new day gives us another opportunity to try again. That's really all of it.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

The arrest of @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and Georgia Fort is an outrageous assault on the 1st Amendment and all our freedoms.

They and the protesters they were covering are being persecuted by a dangerous and lawless Trump Admin for defending all of our rights.

Demand their freedom. Enough.

Donald Trump’s restitution scheme is among the greatest heists in US history Bogus claims of malicious prosecution could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions.

Trump suing his own IRS for $10 billion is so utterly farcical, I hardly know what to say. His family defrauded the govt for years on taxes, and now he wants taxpayers to pay him because someone leaked info he repeatedly promised the public he would release and never did? Sheesh. And this, too:

The general public is out risking arrest and a beating

Democratic leadership won't even risk chastisement

'Slopagandist'
the accuracy 🤌🏽

What is Nick Shirley? Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

...even in his own home.

Not all heroes wear capes 👑

They know they’re wrong. The pressure is working. Keep going.

By all means, impeach Noem. But please let’s not kid ourselves that if she’s gone the problem will be solved. Someone as bad or worse would slide right in.

This is so much deeper than that. #AbolishICE

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.

Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

All Saints, one of Pasadena’s most beautiful historic churches, is holding training for community patrols to monitor ICE and protect neighbors.

pasadenanow.com/main/pasaden...

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

❤️❤️❤️

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations

See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

The Trump family...
-has made at least $23M from licensing Trump’s name overseas since his reelection.
-is pocketing $28M from Amazon for a documentary about Melania Trump.
-has made at least $867M through various cryptocurrencies.

That's troubling.