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Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.

President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

Tariffs aren't the biggest threat to international tourism in the US.

The biggest threat is a tourist at any moment without any warning can be kidnapped from the street by masked thugs in unmarked vans, and trafficked to a foreign prison with no way to ever getting back.

📖 OUT NOW

‘The Prison Industry’

By @biancatylek.bsky.social and @worthrises.bsky.social, the leaders in “exposing the immoral profiteering by companies feasting at the trough of incarceration”

Mapping the corp-govt collusion in profiting off over-policing, mass incarceration and mass surveillance

White House floats deporting U.S. citizens. Justice Sotomayor just warned about that. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned potentially deporting American citizens who are violent repeat offenders “if it’s legal.”

OPINION by @jordan-s-rubin.bsky.social:

“Leavitt’s comments thus reinforce the importance of the court’s forthcoming decision in Abrego Garcia’s case, whose consequences could inform just how far this administration will go.”

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We are getting loud in Boise, Idaho!!

You are a hero! Im so sorry this happened.

Caught up in the purge was Dustin Brace, a social scientist at the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products, who spent his days scrutinizing new e-cigarette products, making sure they did not appeal to kids.

“More mistakes may be made because the workload is so much higher," he said.

For more than a decade, Amy Paris worked for federal agencies as a problem solver: retooling overly bureaucratic and cumbersome processes to make them easier for the public to navigate. Last year, she was hired to help reform the nation’s organ procurement and transplantation network, a public-private partnership that connects organ donors to patients in vital need of a transplant. The program had recently come under fire. As thousands of patients were dying on waitlists, some donor organs weren’t even being used. Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley.

Amy Paris was hired to help modernize the nation's donor organ network, which ensures critically-ill people get the organs they need.

She was also let go.

"We had alignment from Democrats and Republicans on the Hill, we had funding, and they were hiring more of us.”

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We're continuing to examine the Trump administration's purge and its effects, and we need your help.

If you work or have worked at a government agency, we want to hear from you.

You can reach me on Signal at 347-549-0332 or reach out to ProPublica's tip line:

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When Arielle Kane last year joined a team working on an innovative federal program to make childbirth safer in the U.S., the mission spoke to her. She could save lives. America has the worst mortality rate among high-income countries for pregnant and postpartum women, and those in underserved communities face some of the highest risks. Their babies also are in danger if their moms can’t access prenatal care or be seen quickly for complications because they live in so-called “maternal deserts” where obstetric care isn’t available or is limited.

Arielle Kane was hired to work on a program at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid that was trying to reduce maternal deaths.

Last weekend, she was let go.

“This model that has a lot of potential is just being gutted. What does that mean for all of the potential impacts we could have had?"

Our voices are getting louder. #resist

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IN CASE OF ICE: CONOCE TUS DERECHOS EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:

DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR. ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge. Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door. NO ABRAS TU PUERTA. ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.

ASK THEM TO LEAVE. If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission. 2 PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN. Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.

REMAIN SILENT. You have the right to remain silent. If the agents ask you questions, tell them, "I wish to remain silent." PERMANECE EN SILENCIO. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio. Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles: "Deseo permanecer en silencio".

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details

Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

White noise is just regular noise that felt threatened by the superbowl halftime show.

A statement from the Kennedy Center

'My Monthly Salary Is $114': Garment Workers on What It's Really Like to Make Your Clothes From poor working conditions to extremely low pay, hear from garment workers in their own words.

GLOBAL: Garment Workers Share What It's Really Like to Make Your Clothes: ‘My Monthly Salary Is $114’ www.teenvogue.com/story/garmen...

Trump said he hadn’t read Project 2025 – but most of his early executive orders overlap with its proposals | CNN Politics A CNN analysis of Trump’s first week in office found that two-thirds of his early executive orders and actions appear closely aligned with Project 2025’s plans.

We read Project 2025.

We spent the last year preparing for this moment.

We're fighting back.

Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Revived Immigration Policies From His Last Four Years in Office, and Went Beyond ProPublica and The Texas Tribune took a snapshot of the blitz of executive orders President Donald Trump has signed since taking office, by tallying nearly three dozen from his first day.

ProPublica and @texastribune.org took a snapshot of the blitz of executive orders President Donald Trump has signed since taking office, by tallying nearly three dozen from his first day.

By @micarosenberg.bsky.social and Perla Trevizo, w/ design by @zisiga.bsky.social

Exclusive: GM, Pepsi, Disney, others scrub some DEI references from investor reports Some companies have announced diversity rollbacks — but many more are deleting or softening language from their investor disclosures, an NPR analysis finds.

NPR Exclusive: Some companies have announced diversity rollbacks — but many more are deleting or softening language from their investor disclosures, an NPR analysis finds.

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel:

“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship.

#BlackHistoryMonth

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