They are children.

Trump is trying to scrap basic protections for unaccompanied immigrant children It's not the first time his administration has gone after the Flores settlement.

The Trump administration filed a motion to end the decades-old legal ruling that established basic standards for the treatment and release of migrant children.

“The fact that the government refuses to be held accountable to even these most basic standards to keep children safe speaks volumes.”

A video circulating on Reddit shows ICE officers wrestling a Hispanic construction worker to the ground while he repeatedly says that he is a US citizen.

He was reportedly detained for hours until he was eventually released.

Map of the U.S. showing voter support for cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food assistance) by congressional district. Support for SNAP cuts ranges from 5% to 14%. Created by Data for Progress.

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

The Trump administration canceled a program that reduced SIDS. Enter the anti-vaxxers. RFK Jr. has promoted the false claim that vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Today, I wrote about the NIH's abrupt move to cancel the Safe to Sleep program, which has reduced infant SIDS deaths by 50 percent. And about how RFK Jr. has promoted the false notion that vaccines cause SIDS. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Guatemalan woman who just gave birth in Tucson faces rapid deportation The woman will be given the choice of whether she wants to take her newborn, a US citizen born Wednesday, with her when she is deported, CBP says.

“Department of Homeland Security officers, who are posted outside the woman's Tucson Medical Center hospital room, are refusing to let the new mother speak to a lawyer, as she's requested.”

Fucking scum.

Stupider? He really hates disabled people.

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.

These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.

If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

“The child version of me who could not speak deserves a happy life just as much as anyone,” she said. She added that as a child, she was keenly aware of comments like Mr. Kennedy’s, even though she couldn’t verbalize a response. “‘Nonspeaking’ does not mean ‘non-listening,’” she said. “I was aware of the terrible things people were saying about me, when they discussed me like I wasn’t even there.”

I was particularly struck by this quote from a woman who asked to be identified only by her first name, Kara, because she is worried about harassment if colleagues find out about her diagnosis. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...

Supreme Court to hear challenge to Obamacare rule on free preventive care The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover a range of preventive services, including cancer screenings, statins and HIV-prevention medications.

🚨 The Supreme Court is hearing a case on Monday that could end free preventive care—like cancer screenings, statins and HIV-prevention medications—for 150 million Americans.

The people of Sackets Harbor—and especially the school administrators and teachers—should serve as an example for us all that resistance can work. You do not need to comply in advance. The Trump administration is powerful, but not invincible. This story is a reminder to journalists that reporting on things happening in the smallest places can have the largest impact. My hats off to the local journalists who first made noise about this miscarriage of justice. I feel fortunate that I could help amplify it, and that we can celebrate this small but powerful victory. And we can rest a little easier knowing the third grader will finally get to see the welcome home banner hung by classmates with love.

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.

I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

This is what the Senate and House Republicans could make come to pass through budget reconciliation; an increase in ICE's budget for detention from $3.4 billion to $45 billion. It would be enough to detain hundreds of thousands of people at a time, potentially more than in all federal prisons.

Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say “Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. “I can’t have this on my conscience,”…

NEW: “Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants.

“I can’t have this on my conscience,” one told ProPublica.

By @heathervogell.bsky.social

Then we got news that the Ed Dept sent state leaders a letter warning that if they don’t lose DEI programs, they could risk losing Title I funding. The federal govt. only sends schools about 10% of the funds they rely on, but schools in rural and low-income areas...
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NCCDPHP Division of Reproductive Health Division of Population Health BCSB EPI branch Prevention Research Translation Branch Office of Smoking and Health NCHHSTP Division of TB elimination -Communication, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch PBEMB GLOBAL Division of HIV and TB Communications Branch SPIN SPICE PBEMB MCHB HIDMSB EHSRB Scientific Integrity Branch NCEH Division of Environmental Science/Practice Asthma and Air Quality branch NCIRD ISD/Partnerships NIOSH Miner safety Health effects lab division Respiratory health division NCBDDD Office of the Director Disability Health NCIPC Division of Violence Prevention Division of Injury Prevention OD Office of Health Equity OCOO Office of Human Resources

New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):

Georgia Police Jailed Woman for Miscarriage and Performed Autopsy on Her Miscarried Fetus Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

The 24-year-old was found unconscious and bleeding near her apartment building. She was arrested and charged with “concealing the death of another person” and “abandonment of a dead body.”
www.jezebel.com/georgia-poli...

Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.

NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.

Children with disabilities are facing a double threat from federal cuts to support systems they need every day. Medicaid covers costs for more than 6,600,000 of them and the Dept. of Ed protects their rights at school.

Tell Congress: Hands off Medicaid ➡️ actionnetwork.org/letters/medi...

Trump Planning to Freeze Grants for Birth Control, Cancer Screenings to Investigate 'DEI' This administration has apparently taken DEI to mean the existence of, or provision of any services to, women and non-white people.

This administration has apparently taken DEI to mean the existence of, or provision of any services to, women and non-white people.
www.jezebel.com/trump-planni...

23andMe’s bankruptcy is concerning, and I am urging New Yorkers to take action to safeguard their data from being sold.

New Yorkers can follow these steps to delete their data or destroy any DNA samples held by 23andMe. ⤵️

Mr. Dudek acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times on Friday that he had concerns about what would happen if the fast changes generated problems that impaired the agency. He told advocates during the meeting that if they disrupted citizens to the point of being untenable, the agency would roll them back. In another instance, the Social Security Administration briefly ended a contract that had allowed parents of newborn babies in Maine to sign their children up for a Social Security number at the hospital, instead requiring them to do so in person at an office. Mr. Dudek said he had ordered the move after watching Janet Mills, Maine's Democratic governor, clash with Mr. Trump at the White House. He quickly reversed that decision, as well as another to end electronic death reporting in the state.

"I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president," Mr. Dudek said in the interview. "I screwed up. I'll admit I screwed up."

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admits he retaliated against the entire population of Maine—mostly newborn babies and their parents—because he thought the state’s governor had been rude to Trump in a White House meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

And he seems to be selling chocolate?

Flavor potato/dip potato

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

MAHA?

there’s this very american idea that everything we do to fight facism must be “productive” and “results-driven” in order for it to be meaningful as if the act of calling out injustice is not worthwhile on its own.

What We Lose When Our Memories Exist Entirely in Our Phones The act of putting something aside is an exercise in remembering.

I have an essay in this week’s @bloomberg.com Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll read it. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department The draft executive action, obtained by NPR, acknowledges that the department and its signature responsibilities were created by Congress and cannot legally be altered without congressional approval.

“No one likes bureaucracy, and everyone’s in favor of more efficiency, so let’s find ways to accomplish that.”
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The 10 Democrats who voted with Republicans just now to censor Al Green:

Ami Bera (CA)
Ed Case (HI)
Jim Costa (CA)
Laura Gillen (NY)
Jim Himes (CT)
Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
Marcy Kaptur (OH)
Jared Moskowitz (FL)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
Tom Suozzi (NY)