“You Feel Like Your Life is Over” The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...

Report documenting extensive human rights abuses by ICE.

"During another incident, officers made men eat while shackled with their hands behind their backs after forcing the group to wait hours for lunch: “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” one man said."

No Kings protest in Takoma Park

NO KINGS Takoma Park · No Kings Join us in Takoma Park! We will gather on both sides of New Hampshire Avenue between Merwood Drive and Holton Lane, near IHOP. **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a nati...

I’ll be standing up for democracy in my home town. There will be thousands of these all over the US on Saturday. Join one near you, please.

why is she the only one who can just clearly and cogently say the true thing

look how easy this is!

NYU withholds diploma of student who used commencement speech to address Israel-Hamas war The university said the student “lied about the speech he was going to deliver and violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules.”

Do our universities have a policy of mandatory silence about atrocities in Gaza?

Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

Gay Venezuelan stylist Andry José Hernandez was sent to El Salvador's notorious prison without due process based primarily on the assessment of an ICE contractor who allegedly left the Milwaukee police department under a cloud of credibility questions and allegations of misconduct.

I think a lot of people are saying that

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

If the courts have no authority to correct an unjust error, the US shouldn’t be sending anyone there at all for any reason.

Wounded children overwhelmed a Gaza hospital as Israeli bombs fell this week When Israel unleashed a wave of bombardment this week, shattering Gaza's ceasefire, a hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis was overwhelmed with wounded children.

“Just child after child, young patient after young patient,” Dr. Sakib Rokadiya told the AP. “The vast, vast majority were women, children, the elderly.”

Sobering visit this weekend to Gettysburg. After the battle, Lincoln wondered whether a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" could last.

Anyone else heard more about this?

It’s a simple human rights issue, and 100% of the electorate is human. Either every human has essential dignity and basic human rights, or none of us do.

“Demonstrates?” How on earth does a lack of evidence demonstrate anything except that they don’t really know what they’re doing?

Phoebe, did you work with them at one time?

Thank you for your witness

YouTube video by Michael Hunn Bishop Michael Hunn Responds to Department of Homeland Security: Defending Our Border Ministry

#ProudBlue
Episcopal Bishop Michael Hunn is here speaking about the Rio Grande Borderland Mission that the Episcopal Church maintains near the Texas/Mexico border. They are accused by Trump's Dept. of Homeland Security of human trafficking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl4...

This law was a bad idea when Adams signed it in 1798, using it now is much worse.

Anyone know of this is screening in DC?

Veterans protest?

Donald Trump just signed an order gutting seven more federal agencies The order targets the funding for Voice of America, which has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs in recent weeks.

Late last night, Trump signed an executive order gutting seven more federal agencies. The order included what's intended to be a death blow against Voice of America, which he's railed against for years: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Border patrol grabs Venezuelan parents in D.C., despite protected status The arrest in D.C. of a Venezuelan couple with temporary protected status has sparked concerns that the Trump administration is again willing to separate parents from their children.

This is bad: the family had TPS and were following all the necessary steps

How a lot of people are feeling right now

This is terrible, though not sure I follow the Thelma and Louise reference

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.

www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

*longer piece. Stupid autocorrect

FBI takes up EPA probe amid pushback from judge, prosecutors While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation.

I’ve seen a number of links to a short New Republic piece this week, and wondering if it is based on this linier piece in the Wash Post from a couple weeks ago: wapo.st/43GW7Yc

The right’s new embrace of an old idea about race The online right loves talking about “IQ.” Guess why.

Eugenics is making a come back.

Arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be first 'of many to come,' Trump says Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful U.S. resident who was a graduate student at Columbia until December, was detained Saturday by federal immigration agents in New York and flown to an immigration jail in Louisi...

This is the most frightening turn yet, a direct attack on the first amendment