How Dems Could End Immunity For ICE Agents Steven Miller and DHS are bragging that ICE agents have immunity. Democratic senators could change that by conditioning their votes on passage of a bill already in Congress.

Days after the killing of Renee Good, Stephen Miller and DHS began bragging that ICE agents have immunity from being held accountable.

There's a bill sitting in Congress that would end that immunity - and Democrats could right now use their sudden leverage to force its passage.

Pass it on.

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Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Chemical Manufacturing Security By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. The United States relies on a strong chemical manufacturing sector to support

The Trump admin just exempted over 100 chemical plants, sterilizers & coal facilities from Clean Air Act rules, rolling back protections that would’ve cut cancer risk by up to 96% for nearby communities.

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Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

This is absolutely terrible news.

With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.

h/t @merz.bsky.social

ICYMI from Tuesday’s show. Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social explains the corruption behind Trump’s crypto coin scam. “He’s selling the White House,” Murphy says. Watch:

Amazing. Ann Telnaes just won a Pulitzer Prize for her work at The Washington Post --- which she resigned from after they refused to run this cartoon.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

The Crises of Due Process The David Frum Show speaks with former Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler about existential threats to the rule of law.

“Democracy got us into this mess, and democracy is going to have to get us out.”

Former Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler says the public must encourage politicians to follow norms and principles—even when they’re not mandated to do so by the law.

Mississippi Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month.

He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

Good job team America
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The wrong ICE is melting The wrong Amazon is burning

Sign of the day…

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears.

Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak.

They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent.

This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.

Warnings from a global writing festival as U.S. democracy hangs by a thread | Helen Ubiñas The world is sounding the alarm as Donald Trump runs the well-worn authoritarian playbook. Are we listening?

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THIS!

Over 1000 marched in protest in Sackets Harbor, NY on Sat after a mother & 3 children were snatched by ICE & sent to a detention center in Texas.

The 3 children were dragged out of beds at 6am put into a van in handcuffs.

1000 protesting in a town of only 1363 residents👏

(🎥 7 News)

New London, NH! Hands Off!!!

Shadows in the snow.