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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

a fivecast marketing brochure which shows social media connections between left-wing groups across the United States.

Just learning that ICE has a $4.2 million contract for social media surveillance/AI analysis with Fivecast. A few years ago I came across a brochure of theirs which used as an example for potential police customers their ability to map left-wing groups.

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Edit: I want so desperately to believe . . .

I'm so happy to have found your comment. This has been my guess, mostly because I want to desperately to believe this isn't real. I haven't clicked on any buttons on the page and probably won't.

Hello to what happens next.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

@gregstonesart.bsky.social A Penguin victory!

This pardon seems inevitable, at this point. And 90% of MAGAs will immediately pivot to, "Ghislaine was a victim and Trump has every right to pardon her unfair conviction."

But what about the other 10%? At least a few are not going to let this go.

Holy - and I cannot emphasize this enough - shit.

Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.

DHS CONTRACTORS FOR KIDNAPPING: These job adverts confirm that DHS-ICE is hiring people off the streets with as little as 2 years military service.

Plus CBP is hiring former War on Terror analysts to hunt Americans and migrants alike.

Straight up Secret Police shit.

These were on LinkedIn.

Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy

No Kings: Safety and Deescalation Training for Hosts & Core Teams · No Kings _**Gather in-person with your planning and safety team to participate in this virtual training.**_ Get together a team of fellow No Kings organizers IN PERSON and dial in as a group for this virtual ...

Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful:

Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.

(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)

"How to take action for science" written in a retro bubbly font above a bunch of canva clipart test tubes and beakers filled with colorful bubbling liquids

Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you:
🧪 #scicomm

WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media: “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government. “In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.

After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

This

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

Have you said thank you once?

House Republican moves to rein in tariff powers Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon's bill mirrors a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Thursday.

Exclusive: GOP Rep. Don Bacon plans to introduce a bill aimed at reclaiming Congress’ authority over tariffs.

He's the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers Trump is using to launch a global trade war.

I’m not sure how many times this has to happen for people to get it.

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

🚨 WOW: Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice says the Russians "undoubtedly" have all of the information shared on the Trump administration's Signal texts.

We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper.

Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

I wrote my senators, my representative, and my governor regarding this massive breach of security that occurred either because people were ignorant of protocol, laws, and basic technology, or because they didn't care to keep Americans and our troops safe. Please write to yours, too.

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

It’s great that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing to restrict the use of artificial dyes so that we can be healthier before dying of entirely preventable infectious diseases.

How dehumanizing--"one-offs"?

The thing is not only will DOGE end up costing exponentially more than any supposed savings, it will kill a lot of people, maybe of historic proportions. Could it be that was the real goal all along?

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.