“Mama had died four years earlier and wasn’t around to see me win the best actress Oscar for ‘Cabaret.’”
“As I accepted the statue, I thought of Mama winning [a Juvenile Oscar] for ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘Babes in Arms.’ On stage, I could hear her say, ‘Go, baby, go. Own it!’”
“When Mama died in June 1969, I was crushed,” says the legendary EGOT-winning Liza Minnelli, who turned 80 this week. “I slipped a bracelet off my wrist that we used to trade back and forth and placed it on hers.” www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
They truly hate the fact that people _like us_ can vote.
“The bill could also impact an estimated 69 million married women whose birth certificates no longer match their legal names … Taken together, it would be a sweeping attempt to restrict Democratic voting power in a midterm year where Republicans are terrified about sweeping losses.”
“The anti-transgender provisions are just part of the broader danger. The SAVE America Act would institute mass voter ID requirements nationwide, disproportionately impacting transgender people who often lack identification documents matching their name or gender.”
“Though analysts still say that the votes are not there to do this, the gap appears to have narrowed, and it would not be the first time Republicans ditch historic precedent to pass anti-trans measures.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-pres...
It is so hard to be trans right now, y’all. Like, I can’t speak for everyone but I’m white-knuckling it pretty much constantly at this point. I hope cis people are understanding how much is at stake for us in this moment: It’s literally our right to exist as ourselves that is being stripped away.
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
“The 71-year-old has been accused of bigotry before. In 2023, he was asked by an Alabama radio station whether he believes White nationalists should be allowed to serve in the military. ‘I call them Americans,’ he said.
The senator later backtracked on his comments.”
America’s dumbest senator goes on bigoted tirade against Muslims: www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...
lol. CBS had been trying to get Zohran Mamdani for an interview, but Bari Weiss' deranged tweeting caused him to turn it down
link.vanityfair.com/view/5df1007...
another homocon humiliated
"'Do those Christians who bear grave responsibility in armed conflicts have the humility and courage to make a serious examination of conscience and to go to confession?' the pope asked in a speech to priests."
“Pope Leo took a veiled swipe at President Donald Trump Friday, saying that Christian political leaders who start wars should go to confession and assess if they are following the teachings of Jesus.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“It’s been one year since we watched in horror as planes took off in defiance of a court order and we knew our client Andry was most likely on board,” said @l-toczylowski.bsky.social. “Much of what we feared during the 125 days he was held incommunicado turned out to be true—he was being tortured …”
“The claims also seek to clear the names of the Venezuelan men sent to El Salvador, whom advocates say were wrongly labeled as gang members. For Hernández Romero, the case is about more than compensation. It is also an effort to reclaim a life interrupted and … a reputation unfairly tarnished.”
“One year after the U.S. government deported him to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, gay Venezuelan asylum seeker Andry Hernández Romero is seeking damages, accusing American officials of unlawfully sending him to a facility where he says detainees endured abuse and torture.”
“The Department of Homeland Security shut down because Republicans do not want to accept the accountability and transparency demands that we are making …”
Constituents are asking me, “What’s going on with funding for ICE?”
Let me explain with my favorite treat from the 14th District.
“‘We’ve started to use 100 days as a benchmark for prioritizing cases because so many children are exceeding 20 days,’ said Leecia Welch … who visits Dilley regularly to ensure compliance. In a visit this month, Welch said she counted more than 30 children who had been held for over 100 days.”
“The government is holding many children well beyond the 20-day limit set by longstanding court order.”
"ICE booked more than 3,800 children into detention during the first nine months of the new Trump administration …”
www.timesleader.com/news/1734201...
“One of the biggest misconceptions Americans have about couples like Angela and Carlos is that they have been here for decades and have never tried to change their status, without understanding how complicated the immigration system is …” #AbuseofPowerWatch
Carlos Della Valle has no criminal record and has been living and working in the United States for nearly 30 years.
Angela, a US citizen, “submitted nearly three decades of evidence that Carlos paid taxes and contributed to his community. It didn’t matter.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
📍 𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀:
Angela Della Valle has been crisscrossing the country since August, fighting for the release of her husband of 23 years from immigration detention. In Florida alone, he was transferred about a dozen times to various immigration detention centers. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
“A vote for Markwayne Mullin is a vote for doubling down on ICE and Border Patrol’s lawless violence paid for on taxpayers’ dime.”
Trump has nominated MAGA loyalist Markwayne Mullin to replace Kristi Noem.
The Senate already knows what happens when a dangerous and cruel DHS secretary is confirmed. Tell your senators to vote NO on Mullin and doubling down on ICE’s lawless violence.
Mike Johnson claims the admin is in “course-correction mode” by nominating Mullin, but remember following the murder of Alex Pretti, Mullin disparaged the ICU nurse as a “deranged individual” and falsely claimed he came in to “cause max damage.”
Again, he was holding his phone when he was killed.
Trump has nominated Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace ousted DHS Sec. Noem.
But "like Noem, all indications suggest that Mullin will be the nominal leader of DHS on paper, but on the ground, Miller will continue to run the anti-immigrant show."
More from @tusk81.bsky.social + @yunao08.bsky.social
“The crash means that a total of 12 active service personnel have been killed since the conflict began Feb. 28, when U.S. forces joined with Israel to target senior leaders and military sites in Iran. A 13th died of a medical issue.”
