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Good afternoon, Marisa. Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien. Please feel free to direct any questions to them. Respectfully, James Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio • 6h S... Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

One thing people should know is that Choe works for Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk's group, and was at the WH on behalf of that group

Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong.

Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...

@markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov PLEASE don’t be this stupid

Fear and Hope in Venezuela as U.S. Warships Lurk

Article:

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

The Kirk memorial service is set up as a religious revival (his killing has been framed that way by Cardinal Dolan & others). The singer says: "We want the Kirk family to be healed, and we want our land to return to Jesus." Christian nationalism had become part of Kirk's brand - it's on full display

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.

Kirk got full military honor guard to carry his casket aboard Air Force 2 with Vance

The military honor guard was forced to carry Kirk's casket aboard Air Force 2 with Vance.

We don’t even give most vets an honor guard anymore, even when requested.

We don’t even provide enough uniformed members to carry a casket.

But Kirk got a full honor guard.

These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing. Three charter school districts in Texas underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.

Faith Family Academy is one of eight Texas charter school districts on track to be shut down at the end of the year after receiving an “F” rating.

Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.

By @emsimani.bsky.social & Lexi Churchill

Oh you don’t say

Hey @WPLN — if they screen the attendees and it’s sponsored by a corporate lobbyist backed by the Kochs, that isn’t just not “typical”, it isn’t a “town hall” at all.

Please stop helping Pinocchiogles Andy Ogles seem even remotely accessible.

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The Justice Department is compiling the largest set of national voter roll data it has ever collected. They claim their goal is to prove that “troves of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally.” That’s not the real objective.

@markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov

Commentary: Shenandoah County is silencing dissent Free speech is not a privilege. It’s right, and right now, Shenandoah County officials are trampling it.

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This painting is classic Lost Cause revisionism; it was commissioned after Truman ordered desegregation of the military.

Army Secretary Gordon Gray was a nepobaby (daddy was chair of RJ Reynolds) who led the dubious "Gray Board" that yanked Oppenheimer's clearance. Real piece of work all around.

This moment is definitely about Trump distorting the truth in DC, and it’s also about whether we allow an authoritarian rewrite of our nation’s cities, one armed takeover at a time.

We cannot allow this Administration to recast the story of safety and of democracy in America.

Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious” | ACLU Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions

Flock's nationwide license plate tracking system is bad enough, but now the company is also analyzing our driving patterns to determine if we’re “suspicious."

This is a privacy nightmare that will only lead to racial profiling in policing and misidentify people as dangerous.

Sunday Musings Division and the Dysfunctional Family

Authoritarians and empires thrive on family division. Jesus knew that. And he made sure his followers did, too.

Sunday Musings
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

The CDC shooting didn’t even really register in the news and the details are absolutely insane

Luckily there’s a curfew and federal troops to keep him safe from *checks notes* teenagers.

We will have our country back by illegally parking trucks on a sidewalk?

Trumpmenbashi What Central Asia’s spectacular states can tell us about authoritarianism in America.

Here is an article I wrote in March 2016 predicting Trump's rise and rule, using research skills I acquired in programs his admin just defunded. "Trumpmenbashi": web.archive.org/web/20200312...

“Spectacle is not all Trump’s proposed America and the Central Asian dictatorships have in common…a restricted press…totalized control of government through a sequestered elite…wealth with little transparency concerning its accumulation…and paranoid recitation of enemies both foreign and domestic…”