Jan Kimbrough

Maryland Sues to Stop ICE Detention Center, Escalating Fight Over Secretive Federal Purchase The lawsuit follows an earlier challenge by a Washington County resident who found the government used the wrong address to quietly close a required historic preservation review.

"Maryland’s attorney general has filed a federal lawsuit to block construction of a large immigration detention center in Washington County, escalating the state’s battle against a Trump project critics say was deliberately hidden from public view..."

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Maryland -- suit filed today

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BREAKING

Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

Believe the hype!

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is again flooding the airwaves and social media with snappy videos of himself in a custom Carhartt jacket, warning New Yorkers to stay safe. He is again holding news conferences at the city’s emergency operations headquarters, surrounded by top aides in outerwear bearing agency emblems. And he is again at the helm of a government operation that, by virtue of its complexity and general unwieldiness, can lend itself to people falling through the cracks.

The tone of contempt here, in a news update, is disgraceful. "How dare Mamdani and his team...uh...wear those clothes and use social media to try to prevent bad things from happening when...um...bad things could still happen in a situation like this!" GTFO.

Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose. The institutions and individuals who betrayed democratic principles will bear that mark of shame well into the future.

Susan Rice saw this moment coming. She described it plainly, and she was right.

Now, Netflix must decide which side of history it wants to be on.

The right choice is obvious. The only question is whether Netflix has the courage to make it. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

The difference between January's storm and this one is pretty striking. This is less than an hour ago

Literally impeach every single impeachable person in the entire chain of command, including Trump.

After text messages revealed that Rep. Tony Gonzales pressured a married staffer to send him explicit photos and engage in an affair that led to her suicide, Boebert joins Luna & Mace calling for him to resign and defends it from Republicans concerned about their majority.

This speech set the trajectory of my entire political life.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

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The Surveillance of Ordinary Things – Susan Brunig
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A middle-aged, suburban housewife in the midst of a dark, existential crisis decides to run away and end it all. But when she stumbles upon an unplugged community of creative misfits, she rediscovers the artist she once was. #Scriptsky

Roads To Nowhere – Drama Feature - Jordyn Giddens
A widow and her sister-in-law, secretly in love, agonize over whether to stay or flee the Irish famine as a predatory landlord manipulates their distress to serve his desire. #Scriptsky

Unimaginable – Paula Goldberg
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When a woman who has lost her purpose in life delivers a gift to her estranged father, she suddenly travels back in time to the horrors of the Nazi occupation. There, she confronts the demons holding both their lives hostage. #Scriptsky

Six Letter Word – Feature – Lisanne Sartor @lisannesartor.bsky.social
Zoe is an atypical mom -- young, socially inept, struggling to understand her autistic son. She joins forces with a troubled geneticist and their shared quest forces both of them to deal with their personal demons. #Scriptsky

Well, look at that. Either way, they were gonna rake it in.

Another time to remind everyone that being in the USA illegally is a civil offense, not a felony.

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for 'misconduct in public office,' which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

- The Economist's Matt Steinglass

A 21-year-old Moroccan woman was beaten by her family when they found out she was a lesbian. She sought asylum in the US & Trump tried to deport her to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal.

Sometimes we get distracted by how incompetent our country has gotten, we forget how evil it has gotten.

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) All Eyes on the Senate

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
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The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

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I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

I ate this essay upppp, it was so beautiful

No-filter color pic of cop cars at the far end of a block. I love how snow can make color pics effectively B&W.

Nick Shirley: “30 voters registered at a California UPS store!” 🤔

Paul Mitchell: um, people live above it. Look up, bro. 🙃

As usual this dude’s *reporting* is full of holes

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”