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ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.

SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day.

My report:

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Trump is unleashing economic chaos as he gears up to pass giant tax cuts for the richest Americans.

But don't worry, he's got it all under control — he's heading to Miami to play golf.

I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too.

“Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris

Man, I miss her.

The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words

"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
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Trump/Musk – A Real Life Discussion – Support and Opposition The below is an actual online conversation I had recently – edited for clarity and brevity. Hello Gary, I’m a long time resident and business owner. I’m under the impression since America is …

The below blog piece blew up on FB so thought I’d post it here as well. It’s a piece a wrote summarizing an actual conversation I had recently with a Trump/Musk/Doge supporter. For whatever reason this really has resonated with folks. I suspect you also will relate.
garyhooser.blog/2025/03/22/t...

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

No. 👎

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...

Family values indeed… 🙃

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

Mayday Tribe!!! Who was there!!! We want to hear from you!!! ✊

“When you meet those dying children and look into their eyes and hold their hands and feel faint heartbeats flutter, you can’t bear the gleeful laughter. You see children just like your own and hang your head in shame.”

Absolutely devastating but important read about the cuts to foreign aid.

VOTE NO AND SHUT IT DOWN!!!!

Connect with a local group.

Trump is destroying the Department of Education. Here are three great tips from Red Wine & Blue on how we can fight this right now! social.redwine.blue/s/yCPU2O9L

Protect your public schools.

It's overwhelming how much is going on right now, but we can't let Trump and his people defund and destroy our public schools!! This is something we can fight for - and win - in our own neighborhoods. We have to. Our kids are counting on us! social.redwine.blue/s/g8Hqr6Fu

Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...

ALL of us-Everyone on Bluesky: DEMAND the release of Mahmoud Khalil. Or we will be next.

actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.

Voting with Your Dollars: Grocery Stores If you care about humanity, here are some suggestions on grocery stores worthy (and not worthy) of your dollars.

Read this to learn where to spend your grocery money…

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If you're still posting over on the hellsite, you might just casually mention to the assembled MAGAts that Medicaid pays for the (extremely expensive) nursing home care for 2 out of 3 nursing home residents.

Then you might tell a story about how you're concerned that if Medicaid is eliminated, you

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight.

Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

Adam k’s live Substack is 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪

Indeed. He’s in the wrong public housing.

Really don’t know what to tell people as someone who has written and spoken about the far right and authoritarianism and is in the academic side of this that we crossed the rubicon tonight when Trump declared he and the AG are the sole arbitrators of law.
This is it. It’s here there is no going back

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Married women could be stopped from voting under SAVE Act The act could affect whether married women without passports are able to register to vote.

Tell your Congressmamen to vote NO on the SAVE Act

If they don't, their voters won't be able to vote for them!

#Voices4Victory #NoSaveAct
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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.

@kenmartin.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website “People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

In today’s, you can’t make this ish up news:

The felon outlaws the word felon.

Omg TY!!!!

I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that.

The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct.

What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.