CONFIRMED: ICE is at the Honey Bee Market in Detroit's Mexicantown, Bagley and 17th Street. Eight agents. Please share.
#ICEout
#ICEalert
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
This morning I am reflecting this fact:
So many of the people my team and I are trying to help who have been detained by ICE are seeking legal asylum after fleeing instability or violence. 🧵 1/3
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We're at a pivotal moment.
And we cannot give up our hope that things can change.
#iceoutofourcommunities #momsky #alexfretti #reneegood #keepfamiliestogether
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Here is my op-ed on the inhumanity of the mass deportation and detention effort, connecting the dots between immigration and criminal justice, and urging us all to go deeper.
#reneenicolegood #keepfamiliestogether #iceoutofourcommunities
www.freep.com/story/opinio...
This is what happens when you elect a criminal as president. He keeps committing crimes. Impeach. Remove. Convict.
The Thečhíȟila Collective hoped to buy lots from the Land Bank for its listed price of $7,000. But months after the group expressed interest the Land Bank raised the price of the parcel by nearly 2,000% to $136,500. www.bridgedetroit.com/thechi%c8%9f...
Good advice……
Once drawn to the U.S. as a haven, some int'l students find it is not the bedrock of free speech they expected. “That respect in the American system has kind of faded away and been replaced with this bitter animosity."
w/ the wonderful @holpuch.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
Another media fail. Bribes are factored into the cost of doing business in many parts of the world. In the United States it is illegal and unconstitutional.
Article II, Section 4, makes this an impeachable offense, but since we don’t have a legitimate third branch of government, it’ll just ✈️ by.
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism, has died at age 89, according to his family. cnn.it/43R9Mw7
Since taking office Trump has launched an all-out war on kids, from slashing funding for research into childhood cancers, to proposing cuts that would take school lunches, SNAP support, healthcare, education and more away from children in every community.
Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.
China, Japan, and South Korea agree to “closely cooperate” in response to U.S. tariffs
Right now @booker.senate.gov is filibustering on the senate floor “for as long as [he is] physically able.”
Grateful to see Dems with some fight in them! This part about John Lewis is particularly meaningful.
Check it out and then go find Senator Booker live on every platform!!
Senate Democrats will launch a war room Tuesday dedicated to fighting back against the Department of Government Efficiency's cuts to Social Security.
NOAA’s office of Oceanic Atmospheric Research has had IT and other support contracts canceled in the last day or so that will fundamentally affect its operation. One source there said “It will seriously hurt our ability to improve weather forecasting and climate projections.”
One reason they won’t bring any of these people back is they don’t want them around to testify to what’s happening
Treating American democracy like Publishers Clearinghouse
Household income needed to be considered middle class in the US ranges from $36k (Mississippi) to $200k (Massachusetts), depending on your state
Middle class in this graph is defined as earning between two-thirds and double the median household income. (February 2025)
Why fear death
Be scared of living
[Ophelia Hawke]
Where do you park 12,500 bikes?
In Utrecht, the answer is: underground, right beneath the train station.
The Netherlands leads the world in bike parking infrastructure, treating it as an essential part of the cycling journey.
Trump: ‘I couldn’t care less’ if auto prices rise because of tariffs
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump and Musk have cancelled more than $4.2 million in food assistance for Michigan families—more than 2 million meals.
And our weak and fearful GOP congressmen have just let them, instead of standing up for families in their districts.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
It is utterly fucking bonkers that the VP of the United States held a press conference on the soil of another country, declared his intent to take over that country, and implicitly threatened military force if that country didn’t comply.
This is not the Republican Party of Reagan or Romney. This is the MAGA party.
We need Democratic leadership who understand that, and who are ready to fight back.
