Captain Cliff ⛵🇺🇸 🇺🇦

Is it incompetence or malice? With this administration it’s most likely malice.

Investigators say there are undisclosed detention sites scattered around Colorado, hidden in plain sight between strip malls and office parks.

Secret detention centers. In the United States.

More ICE human rights violations.

People, including children and the elderly, were held for weeks in Colorado ICE hold rooms, without beds, in clear violation of ICE regulations.

And it gets worse…
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Rep. Eric Swalwell gives update on deaf Hayward boy, family deported to Colombia On Monday, East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell plans to provide an update on one Hayward family deported to Colombia.

ICE deported a Hayward family to Colombia, including a six year old deaf boy without his hearing.

@ericswalwell.bsky.social sent staff to Colombia with hearing aids for the boy, and they're working to find a way to bring the family back under humanitarian parole.
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/h...

Trump can walk away from this “little excursion” as he now calls it, but I have a feeling that Iran isn’t going to let bygones be bygones for a few more decades.

A graphic with a photo of Senator Bernie Sanders. The quote from him in white and yellow font says, “It is absurd that a billionaire in America today pays the same amount of Social Security taxes as someone making $184,000 a year. It is time to scrap the cap, expand benefits, and fully fund Social Security.”

Republicans want to cut Social Security’s earned benefits.

We have a better idea: Scrap the cap on Social Security contributions, so that billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump pay in all year long!

Announcement===>

oh AIPAC think we’re WINNING winning huh

reaction to their new ad coming soon 💕

DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days The woman's family said federal agents told them that she was not in custody despite her phone location previously showi

Reminder: DHS is still routinely violating people’s constitutional rights.

Democrats must continue to fight to rein them in.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/sunny-naqvi-us-citizen-detained-dhs-chicago-ohare-airport-sent-broadview-ice-facility-dodge-county-wi-released/18693499/

Strait of Hormuz

Russia, China, and France have reached out to Iran for a possible ceasefire; at the very least to allow their ships to cross the Strait of Hormuz. France is expected to deploy several ships to ensure ship safety. Trump is now threatening to "take over" the Strait of Hormuz.

Measles has sent 120 people in Utah to the ER since June, including 31 who were hospitalized, 3 placed in the ICU.

Health providers across the state have reported measles-induced hepatitis, and aplastic crisis, which results in life-threatening anemia.

No doubt Trump believed whatever lies Putin told him today.

Trump announced the war is "very complete" having replaced the older Ayatollah Khamenei with the younger Ayatollah Khamenei. Mission accomplished, indeed.

So after Taco Trump bails out of his Iran War, is he going to count it as one of the wars he supposedly ended?

In blow to Trump DOJ, judge disqualifies ‘triumvirate’ leading U.S. attorney’s office in NJ The judge said the DOJ's defense of the triad was an "enormous assertion of Presidential power."

🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi violated federal law when she replaced Alina Habba, the former interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, with a “triumvirate” of attorneys, a federal judge ruled Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump Now MoonWalking Away From Regime Change As Fast As He Can Yesterday UN Ambassador Mike Waltz announced that the US was moving ahead...

Trump Now MoonWalking Away From Regime Change As Fast As He Can

John James gets 0% Black voter support in new Michigan governor poll U.S. Rep. John James (R-MI), the presumed Republican frontrunner in Michigan’s gubernatorial race, garnered 0% from Black voters in a recent poll commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber.

John James gets 0% Black voter support in new Michigan governor poll
https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/03/09/john-james-gets-0-black-voter-support-in-new-michigan-governor-poll/

So he’s surrendering without accomplishing any of his stated objectives while declaring victory. Exactly what we said would happen.

I can’t even imagine calling myself a man after glazing someone like this

Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John Ripley will be awarded the Medal of Honor.

www.military.com/feature/2026...
Real heroism at long last recognized!

DoorDash order: 👏🏻

This should end his career.

But it won’t—not in 2026.

Even so—call, complain, speak up, push back.

I wish that Anti-Muslim bigots didn’t belong here.

Study links working while sick to higher risk of future absence

Employees who work while sick have a roughly 30% higher likelihood of later absenteeism than those who don’t.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Press release from Long Term Care Imperative in Minnesota. Seeks to allow long-term care facilities to host happy hours for residents.

All for this. Let Grams and Gramps have a beer.

Iran will probably be more open to a ceasefire if they are handed over Trump and Netanyahu; it would also help create goodwill towards stopping the war completely.

Seems the admin is not all on the same page about this.

Or they're lying to Trump about the state of the war?

Or he can't remember what he said yesterday and doesn't understand what they tell him anyway?

I suppose all of these are possibilities.

'The Military-Industrial Complex Is Winning': While Bombing Iran, Trump Says Weapons Contractors to Boost Production | Common Dreams After meeting with CEOs at the White House, US President Donald Trump said that top military contractors "have agreed t

After slashing SNAP & Medicaid, Trump is using his Iran War to line the pockets of military contractors.

I'm reminded of the words of MLK:

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

Colorado, North Dakota see uptick in measles activity

In Utah, health officials are warning that measles patients are suffering from anemia and liver inflammation.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

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