Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article) Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

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How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

Opinion | Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency

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An agency tasked with protecting immigrant children is becoming an enforcement arm, current and former staffers say The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s welfare mission appears to be undergoing a stark transformation as President Donald Trump seeks to ramp up deportation numbers, current and former officials told T...

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Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained Migrants

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Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

This:

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Spotted you at JFK Terminal 4 this past Tuesday

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article) Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

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Joe Rogan, Voices on the Right Raise Alarm Over Trump’s Immigration Moves (Gift Article) The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration’s aggressive and at times slapdash tactics.

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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

And now it’s cut off again - the contracts were terminated, leaving incredibly vulnerable youth without legal representation. 😕

Happy Eid to all who celebrate!

Trans rights are human rights - happy Transgender Day of Visibility! 💙💖 🌈

Join me on April 5th

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/Pg8GZYws

Opinion | The MAGA Culture War Comes for Georgetown Law (Gift Article) If our liberties can survive a world war, then they can and should survive the Trump administration.

Egregious First Amendment violations are afoot www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

Ramadan Kareem to all who celebrate!

Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...

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Fortunately, this order was rescinded three days later - but so much unnecessary chaos!!

How Trump sees himself vs. how the world sees him

Trump administration cuts off legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant children Snatching funds from vulnerable minors will endanger those already at risk of being abused, advocates say

I used to do this work - representing unaccompanied children in immigration detention. Trying to abruptly cut off these extremely vulnerable children from their attorneys is disgraceful.

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Shout out to Maconites doing cool things! Go see F. Michael Haynie @papermillplayhouse.bsky.social in Mystic Pizza!

Marsha P. Johnson Marsha P. Johnson was one of the most prominent figures of the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s in New York City.

Despite the federal government’s attempts at erasure of DEI policies and transgender identity, let us honor and appreciate Martha P. Johnson this Black History Month!
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Danielle Sassoon and Other Officials Resign After Order to Drop Eric Adams Case (Gift Article) The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the Justice Department ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Ad...

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Meanwhile Trump has paused the US Refugee Admissions for everyone else, including our Afghan allies fleeing the Taliban. 🤬

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As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces (Gift Article) President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.

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“‘If it was all about merit, then we wouldn’t have Pete Hegseth,’ said Mr. Abdul, referring to Mr. Trump’s defense secretary.”

In April 2024, I had the fortunate opportunity to visit the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Tuskegee, AL. The contributions and history of the Tuskegee Airmen should forever acknowledged and celebrated, and if not known, then learned:

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Happy BHM!