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In a statement in response to a Chalkbeat inquiry and later posted to social media, schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos said, “Our hearts go out to the student who was detained by ICE, and we are deeply saddened for their family. While this incident did not occur on school grounds, we want to reassure our families: we will continue to speak out and advocate for the safety, dignity, and rights of all of our students.” In the five days since he was detained on May 21, Dylan, who suffers from severe stomach issues, has been shuttled between four different states — New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania, according to his lawyers and mom. The rapid moves have prevented his lawyers from making contact with him, since it usually takes several days after a transfer to set up a consultation, according to an attorney from the New York Legal Assistance Group, or NYLAG, which is representing Dylan. Raiza, who has spoken to Dylan by phone, said he has not received medical care and has spent most of the time with his hands and feet cuffed.

A Bronx high school student was abducted by ICE at his immigration court date and has since been disappeared across four states in five days in order to evade contact with his lawyer.

The US is now undeniably a rogue state.

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Why Are They Hiding Their Faces? If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities

After Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed about Palestinians in Gaza, masked, plainclothes ICE agents grabbed her off the street. No one knew who they were or if it was even a real arrest. In a democracy, that shouldn’t happen. And we can’t let it become the new normal.

Courts Handed Trump A Slew of Legal Losses This Week Read more here.

Conservative and liberal judges across the country this week ruled against President Donald Trump in at least 11 different lawsuits challenging his administration’s immigration, elections and anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

THE CONTRACT'S 10 TERMS Religious equality: End "hostility" toward faith by allowing religious expression in public places. Respect for life: End late-term abortions, where allowed; permit states to refuse to use tax funds for abortion, and end tax support to organizations that promote or perform abortions. Crime restitution: Require prisoners to work, pass literacy and drug tests, and pay compensation to crime victims and their families. Education control: Abolish The Department of Education and transfer money and decision - making to school boards, local educators and parents. School choice: Give public money to parents to allow choice of public or private schools. Parents' rights: Free parents from increasinggovernment "interference" in bringing up their children.

You know how Trump says that people have been wanting to abolish the Department of Education for a long time? Well, that's true of *some* people...like the very far right Christian Coalition who in 1995 put abolishing the Dept. of Ed on their list of top 10 priorities.

Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning. Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...

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We are fighting like hell to stop Musk’s staffers. They come into our buildings, forcibly removing us with the FBI, U.S. Marshals, and police. This coup must be stopped.

WTF?!? Elon Musk reposted this on X before quietly deleting it:

“Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.

NEW: In 2021, evangelical pastor Steve Berger set off on an ambitious project: minister to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.”

Now, he is Mike Johnson’s D.C. roommate — living in a home owned by a major GOP donor.

Photo of text from a newspaper article that says “Kennedy advances the lies that vaccines cause autism, increase cancer risk, and result in higher death rates. None of this is true, but Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence showing the safety of vaccines. His goal is to cause fear over vaccines and public health ini-tiatives, which he does for profit Kennedy will promote decreased vaccine uptake, as he did when he influenced government officials in Samoa to stop measles vaccinations; in the resulting measles epidemic, 83 people died from measles, mostly chil-dren. The same will happen here.”

Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.

An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:

“The same will happen here”.

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Beautiful, as always 😍

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…

Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office:
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

We are continuing from this moment to the next step - the establishment is not the answer. #50501movement #politicalrevolution #fiftyfiftyone #ImpeachTrump

They have already accessed the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS), a system used by IRS employees to retrieve account information. Musk software engineer Gavin Kliger is among those accessing the data. Additionally, 15,000 IRS employees are expected to be fired this coming week.

i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

I don’t know how any of us are supposed to fight this when illegal activity is going on and no one is apparently going to even attempt to stop it.

Completely unhinged. Wtf?!

A bright planet gleams in a dark winter sky, with the outline of a leafless tree in the foreground

Grasping moments of beauty

Beautiful!

So glad to some of my favorite creators from Meta platforms moving here. 💗

Yeah….no.

Fact check: Trump litters Oval Office interview with false claims | CNN Politics President Donald Trump littered a Wednesday interview on Fox News with many of the same false claims he made earlier in his first three days back in the White House.

Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24.
Harris beat Trump 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29.
Harris beat Trump 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39.

Trump to Fox: “I won youth by 36 points.”

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Trying to leave meta but waiting for my fave peeps to show up here! Glad to see you here!!! 💗

I don’t think this is a monarchy. I think it’s an autocracy. Possibly we’ll see how things go. We might achieve totalitarian dictatorship.

Keep calm. Conserve your energy. Now is not the time to panic. This will be a long, arduous road.

The future depends on us remembering our history.

2 loaves of crusty white sourdough bread and 2 loaves of seeded wheat, dusted in sesame seeds, both with crackly, golden crusts, cooling on black wire racks.

I had to take a long hiatus from baking when my mom passed, but today, of all days, I need the distraction and comfort of baking. The act of nourishing those around me feeds my soul. I don’t know how to get through these next 4 years, but maybe feeding my community, body and soul, will help.

Ok #booksky, let’s talk.

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