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writing, editing, UXing | pro democracy, anti fascist | ❤️ rescue dogs she/her

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Donald Trump Reassigns Kristi Noem As Special Envoy—Markwayne Mullin To Take Over As U.S. Secretary of DHS

Donald Trump Reassigns Kristi Noem As Special Envoy—Markwayne Mullin To Take Over As U.S. Secretary of DHS

Kristi Noem is reassigned as “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas,” which will hold its 1st meeting on March 7th with 12 right-wing Latin American leaders. Mullin will start as Secretary of DHS, where he’ll likely take on all of the U.S. in a fistfight.

Read: lataco.com/donald-trump...

05.03.2026 23:32 — 👍 124    🔁 32    💬 12    📌 8
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Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Good speech. Most US press got bamboozled by Bill Barr's scheme. Trump's collusion with Russia was always real, continues to be. www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

05.03.2026 23:02 — 👍 826    🔁 298    💬 16    📌 15
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No doubt Tulsi Gabbard is drafting her resignation letter as we speak.

28.02.2026 10:42 — 👍 4865    🔁 1194    💬 153    📌 59

> Bailey, Kobach, and Labrador argued that mifepristone access would could cause “injuries” to their states because it is “depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers... further injuries as well: The [states’] subsequent ‘diminishment of political representation’ and ‘loss of federal funds'

07.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

technically it’ll be Kitten Halftime but yes

07.02.2026 16:39 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When Your Boss Compares Your Union Drive to 'A Clockwork Orange' Torture After some eye-opening emails came to light, the National Labor Relations Board charged Snøhetta Architecture with violating federal labor law for employing an illegal union-busting campaign.

Snø union, but yes NLRB charges... The NYC office of a Norwegian architecture firm has been accused of deploying illegal union-busting tactics like firing pro-union workers and grilling employees about their concerted activities during and after a 2023 union drive.

07.02.2026 16:31 — 👍 33    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

They just blindly shot through the fucking door.

"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

03.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 4927    🔁 2013    💬 56    📌 71

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?

Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.

And they almost shot some kids in the process.

03.02.2026 23:33 — 👍 8762    🔁 3787    💬 68    📌 63
Article excerpt: In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world. I watched heavily armored federal units roll through quiet neighborhoods. In a grocery store parking lot, angry residents screamed at agents, demanding they leave the city. Masked and armed government agents pointed weapons toward me and some protesters during an encounter in the middle of the afternoon. Curious guests in a hotel elevator wondered why I was carrying around a medical pack and gas mask. Local residents thanked me for being there to witness the situation. A drunk man at a hotel bar cursed at me, saying the media was at fault. The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home.

Article excerpt: In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world. I watched heavily armored federal units roll through quiet neighborhoods. In a grocery store parking lot, angry residents screamed at agents, demanding they leave the city. Masked and armed government agents pointed weapons toward me and some protesters during an encounter in the middle of the afternoon. Curious guests in a hotel elevator wondered why I was carrying around a medical pack and gas mask. Local residents thanked me for being there to witness the situation. A drunk man at a hotel bar cursed at me, saying the media was at fault. The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home.

"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist @cengizyar.com writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home."

More: https://propub.li/4acxEeY

03.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 1028    🔁 451    💬 21    📌 34
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This made me weepy

04.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 1757    🔁 490    💬 35    📌 47

from the leader of the legislative branch 😡

04.02.2026 03:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

how can this not break your heart into pieces

04.02.2026 03:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Americans live under a lawless regime that refuses to obey court orders

04.02.2026 02:59 — 👍 384    🔁 121    💬 5    📌 1
Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building
YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.

This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

01.02.2026 22:14 — 👍 1800    🔁 751    💬 63    📌 78

“Don’t let anyone tell you this isn’t your home. America became the most powerful, prosperous nation on earth because of immigrants not in spite of them.”

01.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Torched So LA doesn't get burned

Hello to everyone sharing this — I have a newsletter called Torched, it's all about LA and megaevents and Casey Wasserman, and you should *really* subscribe

31.01.2026 04:13 — 👍 117    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 4
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Latest Epstein files include emails between Ghislaine Maxwell, LA28 Olympics head Casey Wasserman The latest cache of investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein includes personal emails exchanged between Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA28 Olympics organizing committee, and convicted sex offender Gh...

The LA Times has published a story! Proud of them. They haven't previously reported on the connection between Wasserman and Epstein which, as is noted in this story, was first made in a 2003 Vanity Fair profile

31.01.2026 13:49 — 👍 132    🔁 36    💬 1    📌 1
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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

30.01.2026 12:42 — 👍 2165    🔁 1394    💬 53    📌 111
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Pro-ICE churches should be shamed Cities Church in St. Paul are the persecutors, not the persecuted

Why read past headlines: Far too many centrists and even liberals criticized protesters for peacefully disrupting a church service.

Fuck that. We need more actions like this.

Expose how these Christians reject the teachings of Christ.

www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...

26.01.2026 11:57 — 👍 125    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 1
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Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.

Everyone should be furious at these Democrats for voting to fund ICE, but the real culprit is Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

He refused to pressure his members to vote against ICE. He quite literally chose not to lead. Pathetic.

22.01.2026 22:10 — 👍 1143    🔁 252    💬 46    📌 43

Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

22.01.2026 15:56 — 👍 8831    🔁 1975    💬 109    📌 34

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

23.01.2026 01:30 — 👍 4472    🔁 1383    💬 106    📌 47

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.

What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 9625    🔁 1334    💬 26    📌 57
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‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

WIRED spoke to 10 residents in Minneapolis about what life has been like for them since ICE seized the city. I know there's a lot of coverage out there, but spend time with this heart wrenching piece:

21.01.2026 13:45 — 👍 365    🔁 145    💬 4    📌 6
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Trump Family’s $6.8 Billion Fortune Is Increasingly Tied to Crypto Digital assets added $1.4 billion to the first family's wealth over the past year, making up about one-fifth of their fortune for the first time

“.. The Trumps have generated about $1.4 billion from crypto projects that are new to his second term, a Bloomberg analysis shows. These have gotten a boost from Trump’s own policies ..”

@bloomberg.com #Crypto
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

20.01.2026 13:07 — 👍 276    🔁 126    💬 19    📌 7
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600,000 Trump Mobile phones sold? There’s no proof. No one except Trump Mobile knows the real sales figures.

I appreciate that The Verge keeps chewing on this bone

20.01.2026 11:54 — 👍 760    🔁 148    💬 19    📌 7
screenshot from snopes.com:

Hoax

The claim that Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys militia group, acknowledged he was now an ICE officer after a document leak from DHS is not true. According to the Snopes Archives, the Proud Boys are a hate group that has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Enrique Tarrio has been their chairman since 2018. There is no evidence to support the claim that Tarrio has become an ICE officer. The rumor appears to have originated from satirical sources and lacks any credible backing. As Gay Twitter reclaims #ProudBoys hashtag, Proud Boys change name to "Leather Men" goes into more detail about the Proud Boys and their activities. There is no truth to the claim that Tarrio has joined ICE.

screenshot from snopes.com: Hoax The claim that Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys militia group, acknowledged he was now an ICE officer after a document leak from DHS is not true. According to the Snopes Archives, the Proud Boys are a hate group that has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Enrique Tarrio has been their chairman since 2018. There is no evidence to support the claim that Tarrio has become an ICE officer. The rumor appears to have originated from satirical sources and lacks any credible backing. As Gay Twitter reclaims #ProudBoys hashtag, Proud Boys change name to "Leather Men" goes into more detail about the Proud Boys and their activities. There is no truth to the claim that Tarrio has joined ICE.

except that hasn’t been verified, despite how believable it seems

15.01.2026 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

a good time to reread this www.propublica.org/article/irs-...

15.01.2026 12:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Flashbangs burn hotter then lava.

They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.

*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.

Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:

www.propublica.org/article/flas...

15.01.2026 12:25 — 👍 2051    🔁 1121    💬 15    📌 32