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under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

But in the committee meeting, a major new component was added to the legislation through an amendment, which Rep. Henry Stone, R-Forest City, categorized as related to “teacher and administrator led student protests.” The language, not yet available online, includes a provision stating a school board must extend the school calendar for a district by one day for each day that a student protest occurs at any attendance center in the school district.

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"Good riddance."
"One less fascist."
"He deserved it."

Iowa's new Don't Be Mean to Charlie Kirk bill would strip teachers' licenses for saying any of those things "in any medium accessible to students."

They even try to exempt it from the First Amendment lmao www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...

Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:

‘I almost died trying to get an abortion in Iowa’—a mother of 4 speaks out This Iowa mother of four was heartbroken when her fetus received a fatal diagnosis. Then the pregnancy threatened her life, too.

Appreciate that Jess Djukanovic is speaking out about what she went through trying to get an abortion with a non-viable pregnancy in Iowa:

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Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.

Erasure. Just like the Nazis.

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The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

The U.S. conducted more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific today

We’re tracking the civilian toll @theintercept.com

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Dr. Mehmet Oz urges public to take the measles vaccine as U.S. cases rise “Take the vaccine, please,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator. “We have a solution for our problem.”

"Take the vaccine, please," Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator whose boss has raised suspicion about the safety and importance of vaccines, said of the measles vaccine. "We have a solution for our problem." https://to.pbs.org/4rYdvkn

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

There is power in a union!

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.

Thank you, @donlemonofficial.bsky.social, for your courage in the face of censorship, and for joining us in NYC as our special opening guest.

HRC is proud to stand with you, and will always defend a free press.

Trump: I’m the least racist president you’ve had in a long time as far as I’m concerned.

oh my goodness

So much of ICE and CBP’s violence is just them doing the violence — no even pretense that they’re under threat or that force is justified. They’re using pepper spray and tear gas to express annoyance.

They want to to fire anyone, anywhere, at any time, for any reason. They want a docile workforce of teachers who will sheepishly teach their lies & slop. And they want a populace dumb enough to either not know the difference or not to care. All while they run their grifts in their little fiefdoms.

US military kills two people in latest attack on vessel in the Pacific US says two people were killed in strike on a vessel in the Pacific Ocean, continuing a campaign denounced as illegal.

US says two people were killed in strike on a vessel in the Pacific Ocean, continuing a campaign denounced as illegal.

Sen. Chuck Grassley took $2,500 in 2022.

Rep. Ashley Hinson took $13,500 in 2022, 2024, and 2026.

Bannon (and his buddies) are using an informational strategy called reflexive control that intentionally exploits the reaction of his adversaries (on the left) to inflict damage on their own side. Don't become an unwitting agent in their information operation.

Dairy Queen the top choice for Iowa couples this Valentine's Day, reveals poll.

paging Chuck Grassley

yikes

MercyOne hospital in Mason City laying off 34 employees It's part of 'revenue cycle' changes at parent Trinity Health affecting more than 140 workers in Iowa

MercyOne hospital in Mason City laying off 34 employees

Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.

This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.

Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1)
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The treatment Ms. Rahman suffered at the hands of her own government is absolutely sickening. Elected leaders must pursue accountability to the fullest extent of the law.

Minneapolis Council committee delays liquor licenses for 2 hotels over hosting federal agents The City Council will hold a public hearing on the liquor licenses for the Canopy by Hilton in the Mill District and Depot Renaissance Hotel.

A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.

"The marquee outside of the theater previously read “TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY, YOU MUST KNOW THEM” and “DOES MELANIA WEAR PRADA?”"

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

After Exposing Prison Horrors, Incarcerated Whistleblowers Are Moved to Solitary The incarcerated men who produced footage for The Alabama Solution were abruptly transferred to solitary this month.

"How can a journalist go into a war zone, but can’t go into a prison in the United States of America?” theappeal.org/alabama-solu...

Don Lemon says a dozen agents were sent to arrest him even though he offered to turn himself in Don Lemon said about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him last week, even though his attorney had told authorities he would turn himself in to face federal civil right…

Don Lemon said about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him last week, even though his attorney had told authorities he would turn himself in.