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ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says Video appears to show federal immigration agents trying to coax the man out of his Massachusetts home while asking, "Is that your daughter?"

ICE agents grabbed a 5-year-old girl outside of her home and held her, screaming, to coerce her father, who has been in the US for 22 years, to be detained.

This is cruel, disgusting, and must end. Trump is tearing families apart. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

Today seems like a good day to remind the world that ibuprofen is not considered pregnancy safe.

With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

I legit think about this ALL the time. I don’t understand why every major car company is leaving so much cash on the table and not making cars that are actually nice to look at.

Keezy!!! WTH!

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

The American people built a way to file taxes for free and now they're burning it down to enrich the predatory tax-prep industry who helped Trump get elected. Hail to the thief.

A picture of Neri Alvarado, a young man, standing next to his brother, who is a young teenager. Both are smiling for the camera and wearing matching shirts. Neri has his arm around his brother.

A picture of Neri's tattoo, which is an autism ribbon in rainbow colors with his brother's name "Neryelson" written on it.

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.

Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The incompetence is staggering. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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This has been going for about a year now with new senders & unique numbers for every text. I’ve unsubscribed from at least 75 separate lists.

I often will reply stop, and then that one pac stops but another rises to replace it immediately. ☹️ I’m glad it worked for you though.

Anyone else plagued by nonstop political fundraising text messages, each one from a new PAC you’ve never heard of? I foolishly expected this to slow down post-election but nay. I remain ever entangled in this slow modern torture.

Fair enough! My parents still have their Betamax player but I’ve never seen another one.

Too late to switch to Betamax?

Recent Seattle Aquarium layoffs include devastating cuts to the Beach Naturalist program that has nurtured community engagement with the Salish Sea for 25 years.

There is a board meeting February 26th. Send comments in support of the satff & program to publiccomment@seattleaquarium.org

🧪🦑 #SciComm

HIV infections could jump over 6 times if US support is dropped and not replaced, UNAIDS chief says The head of the U.N. AIDS agency says the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if American support of the biggest AIDS program is dropped.

This is the real life human impact of shutting down USAID.

Millions of people will die because the United States is now absent in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Trump and Elon will be responsible for those deaths. apnews.com/article/hiv-...

Two women on their wedding day. One is me! I’m wearing a white dress and holding a bouquet. My wife is in a green suit.

Happy Valentine’s Day, same-sex marriage forever, fuck the haters 💖

a transgender flag with the words trans lives matter on it ALT: a transgender flag with the words trans lives matter on it

There is NO LGB without the T.

haha fuck you so much you fucking monsters

There’s a place where you can rate the page as “helpful” or “unhelpful” and if you select “unhelpful,” it will ask you for comment. You know what to do, folks.

As a pregnant person, I approve this message.

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

Archival is a political act.

All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Here's all the information you might need. Official website: https://eotarchive.org/ Wikipedia:...

Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive

Let people know, download your own copies.
Don't let this digital book burn continue.

#Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Watching flurries of comments on a popular livestream has a similarly overwhelming effect to me. Like, what are you all getting out of this??

If you are stopped by ICE, even in the bullshit "100 miles from the border" zone, your only response is "Am I being detained, or am I free to go?"

they will try to derail you and ask all kinds of shit, your ONLY response should be: "Am I being detained, or am I free to go?"

TRUMP'S DANGEROUS FREEZE OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL HIRING Washington, D.C. — Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following statements after President Trump froze the hiring of Air Traffic Controllers, among other safety-critical positions. "The bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs the Administration to hire the maximum number of air traffic controllers. That's what the law says, so the Administration must rescind this ridiculous executive order," Ranking Member Larsen said. "Hiring air traffic controllers is the number one safety issue according to the entire aviation industry. Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the Administration is choosing to spread bogus DEl claims to justify this decision. I'm not surprised by the President's dangerous and divisive actions, but the Administration must reverse course. Let's get back to aviation safety and allow the FAA to do its job protecting the flying public." "Our top priority must be the safety of the flying public so an order freezing the hiring of air traffic controllers is a misguided decision and goes against the directives of our FAA Reauthorization bill," Ranking Member Cohen said. "The aviation community will speak with one voice in condemning this short-sighted policy and reaffirm our

the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin