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This story is breaking across Spanish speaking outlets and networks, crickets from English speaking media..

"He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached or voted out. But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him, the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified and reanimated" -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

She's right yet again, must be a bitter pill for those who can't stand her progressive pov.

Trans youth deserve to live free of fear and bullying, especially from the President.

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

I never touched that smiling show with a 100 foot pole because I still remember Oney being transphobic to me and also this

If you or a loved one is impacted by Senate Bill 244 becoming a law, contact us by visiting aclu.org/KS_SB244 or by clicking the link in our bio. We want to hear from you.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

the egg prime directive is horseshit. every second of all the years i was in the closet i was silently screaming for someone to tell me that yes i really am trans, that theres nothing wrong with that, and even tho its scary its going to be okay. not only was it safe to help me, help is what i needed

NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

Oh look, YouTube is back. Now's the perfect opportunity to watch Stephen Colbert's interview with Rep. James Talarico: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

it’s insane that a decade ago we all agreed that giving mass shooters the attention they desired was a bad thing but now because rightwingers will quite literally lie about the shooter every single time we all have to be acutely aware of the shooters intentions and ideology

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.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Rest in Power Jesse Jackson

“What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.”—
Jesse Jackson

Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech painting

Why does Bluesky label women’s photos but not men showing full hog?

She’s wrong, demons don’t exist. This IS republicanism at its core. Anything about “balancing budgets and preserving history” is a smokescreen to distract from their crimes against humanity, and profiteering off of their neighbors suffering.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

This is fundamentally the transfer of compute-power as something a person can own, to something a person rents. Which is, you know, not good.

Yeah, AI's not taking over the world anytime soon

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

Missouri officials directed county election administrators to make voters temporarily unable to vote if they were flagged as potential noncitizens by a federal tool.

But in hundreds of cases, the tool's determinations were wrong.

With @texastribune.org

The trans community has a common enemy to unite us now, but what about afterwards? We're in need of big ideas to achieve trans liberation once the fight against fascism concludes. theneedlenews.com/trans-people...

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.

I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.

1 square = 1 year.

Tell HHS: Hands Off Our Care Take action with ACLU People Power!

New rules by the Trump administration attempt to ban gender-affirming health care for trans youth across the country.

Today is the last day to speak up and sign our petition opposing these dangerous policies.

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

What being a billionaire scion taught JB Pritzker about standing up to one Few national Democrats have pushed back as forcefully against Trump’s authoritarian crackdown. There’s a reason for that.

Few national Democrats have pushed back as forcefully against Trump’s authoritarian crackdown.

There’s a reason for that.