Alina B Baciu

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

Quick signature: Tell Congress to prevent hospital closures! Tell Congress to fix the health care crisis, prevent hospital closures, and reopen the federal government!

Quick signature: Tell Congress to fix the health care crisis, prevent rural hospital closures, and reopen the federal government! action.momsrising.org/sign/rural_s...

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Contact the Governor | Governor of California You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.

Reminder that @governor.ca.gov is reportedly considering vetoing SB79, the best housing bill to clear the CA legislature in decades.

It would be a *disaster*, substantively & for Newsom's political future. Really hope he doesn't self-immolate.

Tell him!

KFF map titled “At Least 10% of the Population in All Congressional Districts in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina Are Enrolled in the ACA Marketplaces.” The map shows the share of population that is enrolled in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces in 2025 by congressional district, 119th Congress.

⚡ A new analysis by KFF’s Jared Ortaliza finds that more than half of ACA Marketplace enrollees live in Republican congressional districts, concentrated in the South. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/48bH774

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

“… the actions of the leader of the Department of Health and Human Services have increased stigma, instilled fear and hurt access to mental health and addiction care”
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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”

msm won't pick this up, but big WIN for Palestine solidarity in Somerville, MA this morning. @marisakabas.bsky.social

Elections Commission rejects big money play to remove Palestine Solidarity measure from our November ballot. State rep @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social breaks it down.

FBI Agents now spend 1/3 of their time on immigration cases, while white-collar crime and violent crime investigations take a backseat.

FACT SHEET: Trump's Immigration Enforcement Dragnet Is Undermining Public Safety Across America - America's Voice The Trump administration is gutting real public safety efforts to fund their mass deportation agenda. Rather than focusing on drug traffickers, terrorist plots, and child predators endangering our…

This fact sheet from @americasvoice.bsky.social underscores how this administration’s mass deportation obsession harms public safety - including diverting money and staff time away from disaster preparedness and active federal investigations and toward terrorizing our communities.

Minutes after the Israeli Foreign Ministry denied allegations that Greta Thunberg was mistreated-

Ben Gvir: “I am proud that the flotilla activists are being treated as terrorists. This is my policy.”
@thecradlemedia.bsky.social

Can’t wait to see what the president’s genie, AKA SCOTUS, grants him this season …

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

Most American Jews are antisemitic, according to right wing gentiles who are constantly employing anti semitic dogwhistles www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Seems a bit weird that a position held by about 2/3 of american jews (israel is committing war crimes against palestinians) can get you fired for antisemitism

A Raw New Deal The administration’s proposed compact would seek to remake higher education in its own image

The Trump administration compact with higher education turns a manifesto of conservative grievances into policy, sprinkled with cost-cutting measures, and violates the very principles it claims to protect. I wrote about it here. It's free: adamhsays.substack.com/p/a-raw-new-...

"I think in a free country we should be able to post onto the internet, 'hey, there are masked agents on Broadway and Vine and not have the government or the tech oligarchs prevent us from doing that.' Shame on you, Tim Cook."

@radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.

blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

The inhumanity is accelerating.

There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”

Eight years ago today, a shooter killed 60 people and injured 800 more at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas.

Armed with 13 rifles equipped with bump stocks, the shooter was able to fire more than 1,000 rounds in 11 minutes, devastating the nation and shattering hundreds of families.

Lightning round of what’s closed and what’s open during this government shutdown.

Got questions?

Drop them in the replies and I’ll work to answer them through the day.

Not even Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet could give techbros a soul or a conscience

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

“I don’t think the Democrats want to shut down either,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. “Their concern right now, and it’s a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we’re not going to spend them there?”

“If you’re a Democrat — even just like a mainstream Democrat — your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism,” said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. “Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?”

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.

Distressing that amid grave national peril @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social found the time to (1) vote on a resolution memorializing a white supremacist AND (2) praise a thoroughly corrupt NYC mayor … but can’t be bothered to endorse the candidacy of the worthy and decent Zohran Mamdani

So the First Amendment protects civil servants from retaliation when they speak in their personal capacities about matters of public concern.

That includes constitutional crises — or constitutional failure, to quote @jrakove.bsky.social.
These are matters of the utmost public concern.

Recently I learned that civil servants have the First Amendment-protected right to speak out on matters of public concern.

Thurgood Marshall, in an 8-1 SCOTUS decision, noted that government employees know how the gov’t works, and the public has a special interest in hearing from them.

Think of this as equivalent to removing the merit system from government employment.

Your tax dollars deployed to serve the goals of a personalist authoritarian system. All the talk about banning DEI because of merit shown to be nonsense when they also remove merit-based processes.