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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered that 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be freed from ICE detention.

Families don't belong in detention.

This Is the End Putinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home. And we chose this path. Why? Because something-something the price of eggs.

"Many people comfort themselves by saying some version of 'Donald Trump is an aberration' or 'This isn’t who we are.' Both of those sentiments are incorrect."

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

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A biotech company says it's brought back an animal that's been extinct for 10,000 years: the dire wolf. Now it's eyeing the woolly mammoth.

Not now, biotech company, we’ve already got a lot going on

The fall of Rome seems so much less exciting now that I realize everyone was kinda just working their regular jobs and paying bills and stuff the whole time

Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”

A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
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We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026.

“This is how democracy dies. Everybody just gets scared,” the Connecticut senator Chris Murphy tells David Remnick. “You make a few examples, and everyone else just decides to comply.”

“People voted for Trump based on their recall of the 2017-2020 economy—stimmy and superdole included—and simply did not encounter and/or believe reporting about his plans to be a dictator” fits the available facts much better than “a plurality of Americans voted for Trump to be a dictator.”

City Council declares Boston a 'sanctuary city' for transgender community The resolution's sponsors said "Boston is not going to back down" amid harmful anti-transgender rhetoric coming from President Trump and the White House.

City Council declares Boston a 'sanctuary city' for transgender community

www.nbcnews.com/news...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

And here we go. First piece on Substack. I will never monetize my work there, feel free to share if you think it's valuable.

This is my not-yet-cooled-to-lukewarm-but-probably-should-have-drank-it-sooner temperature take on the CR bullshit from Friday.

That's that at least

This breaks my heart. We fought so hard to get EPA to look at environmental justice issues in an area of Birmingham called Collegeville hit, faced, massive health challenges. I’m sure there are similar areas all across the country. archive.epa.gov/epa/north-bi...

Kidnapping an activist and jailing him in the middle of the night is a brazen act of authoritarianism.

Punishing dissent by revoking legal status is a dangerous precedent to set.

I am no longer able to donate myself (apparently I don't store enough iron to share!). But I'd be happy to share my experience of donating - where, what it's like, etc.

It's an easy way for most folks to give back and all it costs is some time and maybe a nap after.

For the record, do I think a one-day boycott is going to make much of an economic impact? No. Do I think that a sort of "Baby's First Boycott," performative though it is, might be useful to make some folks aware of the impact of their economic power, and how it might be wielded politically? Maybe.

They Are a Minority Get your mind right.

This x10000000000

“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

OOF

Even though most of us will probably never lead the charge, we all have a vital role to play in this battle before us.

"Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star." ~ MLK