Ally Bittner

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Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

J.D. Vance Heckled With ‘Couch F*cker’ Chants During D.C.... JD Vance was confronted by angry hecklers at Union Statio...

“‘Oh look, it's couch-fucker,’ one person shouted in a video shared on social media. Another added, ‘You gonna fuck a couch, buddy?’ As the heckling escalated, chants of ‘Go fuck a couch, JD Vance!’ and ‘pussy boy’ filled the busy train station.” www.complex.com/life/a/marke...

Long paddle this morning, our turnaround was Diamond Head buoy. Amid the wind & swells we floated for a few minutes to catch our breath.
Earth is staggeringly beautiful.
We have done nothing to "deserve" it, nor do we own "dominion" over it. We are inextricably part of it. Caretakers, if we choose.

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The United States government quite literally disappeared these people. It won't say where they are. We don't know. Their families do not know where they are. And they have essentially no recourse in U.S. courts because there are no records of their whereabouts."

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

I LOVE Vulcans! I, too, choose not to cooperate.

Disgusting. Amoral. Inhumane.

So has the WH actually formally, legally papered the tariff pause or…are they actually still operational?

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

Even though the market rises because of the tariffs pause, the cost associated with the rest of the world realizing they can’t count on us not to be nuts will be immeasurable and far-reaching. 🇺🇸

Trump exhibits classic narcissistic abusive behavior. You don’t know what to expect day to day.

You never know if he’s going to bring you flowers or knock the crap out of you. Either way, he’ll tell you it’s your fault.

Absolutely the day for some library therapy and a comfort bevvie.

had myself a good cry because SHIT IS OVERWHELMING.

then i went to the library and got a library card.

The people of Sackets Harbor—and especially the school administrators and teachers—should serve as an example for us all that resistance can work. You do not need to comply in advance. The Trump administration is powerful, but not invincible. This story is a reminder to journalists that reporting on things happening in the smallest places can have the largest impact. My hats off to the local journalists who first made noise about this miscarriage of justice. I feel fortunate that I could help amplify it, and that we can celebrate this small but powerful victory. And we can rest a little easier knowing the third grader will finally get to see the welcome home banner hung by classmates with love.

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.

I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere. People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.

The message is: crowd large.

Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.

Events like this puncture that delusion.

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

Corey Booker: “IF AMERICA
HASN'T BROKEN YOUR HEART, THEN YOU DON'T LOVE HER ENOUGH." 💙🥹

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

Every person detained in America and sent to El Salvador without due process should return here for due process. This is utterly inhumane, unconstitutional and wrong. Congress must act with every lever.

GOP Plan: Deny MILLIONS of Women the Right to Vote They see the election results, and they know women are a threat to their majority.

The SAVE Act doesn’t save anything. Its main effect is to make it harder for women to vote, especially those like me who changed our names when we married.

Hands Off Her Vote

www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/gop-plan-d...

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

The Trump administration has acknowledged that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father with protected status to El Salvador—but claims that the courts cannot order him back.

A @nickmiroff.bsky.social exclusive:

My grandparents were natural born German citizens. Until they weren't. I have copies of their documents, stamped "cancelled" by the government.

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email The episode, which has not been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration.

A longtime DHS employee inadvertently sent unclassified details of an upcoming ICE operation to a journalist in late January, officials say.

But unlike the case of Trump officials discussing military plans in a Signal chat, the employee was put on leave.

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