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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA:

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Capt Chip is ready!

This land return and tule elk reintroduction is a significant milestone in California's relationship with the Tule River Indian Tribe.

We're taking critical steps to confront the historical wrongs committed by the state against the Native people of this land.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today' A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

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More CDC Cuts 💣💥

Gone is the Employee Assistance Program. They help staff deal with many things, among them coping with the trauma of being the victim of a terrorist attack 2 months ago.

Also gone, every policy and communications role left, eliminating any communication function at CDC.

The ACLU of Illinois, joined by other Chicago immigration advocates, filed a lawsuit against DHS and ICE in March, alleging that the January arrests of 26 individuals across the Midwest violated a 2022 consent decree that bars ICE from detaining people without a warrant or probable cause.

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'

Heroines with a gaval. You’re not going to use the military…federalise the national guard, to invade Portland Oregon. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: How the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order For more than a century, global geopolitics has revolved around oil and gas. Countries with big fossil fuel reserves, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, have amassed significant wealth and foreign influ...

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That's some good advice.

#ResistTrump

Chainsaws Over Science: Trump’s Forest Policy in One Hearing USFS Chief showcases his old school incompetence

Chainsaws Over Science: Trump’s Forest Policy in One Hearing

A must read!

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Our Supreme Court is a wreck, now they’re okay with racial profiling. The Court has lifted restrictions on immigration-related stops by federal agents in the Los Angeles area, which amounts to blatant racial profiling. Agents have been stopping people solely based on their appearance,

🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.

Millionaires tax revenue reaches $1.8 billion, on pace to double estimates Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year, the Department of Revenue said Monday in a ...

"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year."

It's going to be used for education and transportation.

See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone.
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California didn't start the redistricting fight. But we're going to win it.

A dozen or more transgender members of the U.S. Air Force who had sought early retirement to avoid being discharged for their gender identity have had those retirements canceled. Each has served between 15 and 18 years.

San Diego #NoKings

My Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson On the urgent need to defend democracy, rebuild a government that works for more Americans, and find historical context for the challenges we face today.

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This is a direct result of the hate and intolerance that Trump spews and encourages among his cult followers - it's truly disgusting 👇

Read more here: bit.ly/3Y1jt7h

#ResistTrump

Glad to hear it! I’m not watching it.

This is Nazi shit

Maine has a law that bars discrimination based on gender identity and continues to allow trans girls to compete in high school athletics.

“You'd better comply,” Trump demanded. “Otherwise, you’re not getting any federal funding.”

“We’ll see you in court,” Mills responded.

More: bit.ly/4k9p9Wp

Here you go @annieinsd.bsky.social

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

“What part of diversity, equity, and inclusion do you have a problem with?”
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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

Transgender references removed from Stonewall National Monument website The monument honors the Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969, in New York City's Greenwich Village.

You can’t stop us, and we will never let you erase history. Do what you want with your websites—worked out so well for the Gulf of Mexico. 🏳️‍⚧️ The truth doesn’t disappear just because you delete it.