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Multnomah County is gutting social services that keep people housed. every program that aids the poor and marginalized. mental health services and county adult special services, all axed. DA Nathan Vasquez is asking for a budget increase

next year Oregon will give back roughly $1.5 billion in taxes

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans Donald Trump is cementing a partnership with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, whose assault on civil rights is being mirrored in the U.S.

"The outcome of this is basically the creation of this transnational penal colony where a president, a head of state, can make a deal with President Bukele and disappear undesirables indefinitely.”

Read my full report here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

Opinion | The grim irony of a convicted felon denying immigrants their right to due process President Trump was afforded due process under the law. Many immigrants caught in his deportation blitz are being denied those same rights.

I wrote for MSNBC about the grotesque irony of Trump stripping due process from innocent people while he himself gleefully exploits it to evade criminal accountability. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Or more plainly, obvious voter suppression

Everyone is at risk in this regime, legal status be damned.

Also needs to be reiterated that lack of legal status shouldn’t diminish the horror of these moves.

Israel's latest war plans: to occupy Gaza and rule Palestinians Occupying Gaza and establishing military rule there would go beyond Israel's stated war goals to end Hamas rule and free hostages captured in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.

Occupying Gaza and establishing military rule there would go beyond Israel's stated war goals to end Hamas rule and free hostages captured in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.

Palestinian deaths in Gaza rise above 50,000 as Israel expands its military campaign The death toll reached the milestone just days after Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza, breaking a ceasefire with Hamas.

The death toll reached the milestone just days after Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza, breaking a ceasefire with Hamas.

They know exactly who will suffer the most from this, and that’s the point.

you can say they're not sane or their arguments don't pass constitutional muster till you're blue in the face. they have the power. they're doing it. And unless they are stopped they will keep doing it.

House Republicans move swiftly to impeach judge targeted by Trump Judge James Boasberg is at least the fifth judge to face a Republican impeachment effort.

Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, House Republicans introduced a measure to do just that.

We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era Taken together, these actions and declarations amount to a significant escalation in Trump’s transformation of his own presidency into an autocracy.

For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

Chilling and expected.

No hero is coming to save us.

Playing by the rules won’t work when all the rules have already been broken with impunity.

Massive collective action by the people is our only hope.

Inside DOGE’s Clash With the Federal Workforce With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back.

Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders:

The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."

Incredibly important thread documenting the many things disappearing from govt websites

Schools, colleges have 2 weeks to ban DEI. An education expert warns it won't be easy The Department of Education told schools to stop DEI efforts or risk losing federal dollars. The president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation warns it won't be quick and easy.

The Department of Education told schools to stop DEI efforts or risk losing federal dollars. The president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation warns it won't be quick and easy.

This is barbaric

The rule of law means nothing to this admin. It’s going to take much more than that to get us out of this mess.

Trump’s DOJ Erases Report On Violence Against Native American Women

Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

US Park Service erases the word 'transgender' from website commemorating Stonewall riot References to transgender people have been removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument.

This move to try to erase transgender people from the Stonewall Monument is cruel, pathetic, and historically inaccurate.

Trans New Yorkers played a critical role in the events at Stonewall and in the movement for equality that it inspired.

apnews.com/article/ston...

Disney scales back content warnings on classic films amid DEI shift Classic films including “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan” will no longer autoplay warnings about racial stereotypes. It comes as Trump cracks down on diversity initiatives.

So now warning viewers about racist content is DEI: Disney becomes the latest company to preempitvely succumb to Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...

Important and appropriate A1 play in the NYT print paper today for the story Kirsten Grind and I did on the 11 federal agencies that had targeted Musk companies for investigations/lawsuit that have now been disrupted in a way that benefits Musk. A free link as well.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

U.S. sending nonviolent, "low-risk" migrants to Guantanamo, despite vow to detain "the worst" there While the Trump administration has highlighted transfers of dangerous criminals to Guantanamo Bay, it is also sending nonviolent, "low-risk" migrants.

I feel like Cassandra who was cursed to prophesize but not be believed.

I’ve been saying for years this is where we’re headed and electeds acted like I was alarmist. I’m from Paraguay, we had fascism. My ancestors are screaming inside of me.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/gua...

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration to allow immigrants they are detaining at Guantánamo Bay to access legal services.

It is unprecedented and illegal for the president to ship people away from the U.S. and strip them of access to a lawyer.

The Fremont, CA city council has passed a homeless ban that outlaws camping on public property and also prohibits "aiding or abetting" homeless encampments.

This could lead to people being arrested just for handing out food or water.

abc7news.com/post/fremont...

So basically, there’s nothing the courts or congress can or are willing to do that can forcibly stop overreach of the executive branch. But let’s not “overreact”

Musk cuts based more on political ideology than real cost savings so far Elon Musk's cost-cutting is targeting agencies disliked by conservatives, not major budget contributors.

The first phase of the rapid-fire effort by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump to make cuts appears driven more by an ideological assault on federal agencies than a good-faith effort to save taxpayer dollars, two veteran Republican budget experts said reut.rs/4jZiqyf