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Showed a clip from a documentary about Korematsu this morning and managed not to yell back during the part where Justice Anthony Kennedy explains that presidents should never be granted unlimited powers or blindly trusted when they say it's an emergency situation.

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

How about that crowd at the Progressives in the Park in Grand Rapids last weekend?

Every day, I try to amplify the message of @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social to 'Never Forget' - and it's always the fate of children like Sonja Martha and Rosaline that touch me most.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

Grateful and sad to see no one posting "History will judge them, blah blah" We seem to be turning a page

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

“The reality is that the court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.”

To understand the Supreme Court's role in Trump's authoritarian project, I turned to the idea of a dual state: an authoritarian regime that keeps up a facade of normalcy

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You're right but who's 'they'?

Where are the NYT op-eds talking about this? 🤣🤣🤣

This made me laugh

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Barf

Trump Is No Longer Denying Support for Project 2025 The President has changed his tune on the conservative policy plan after actively distancing himself from it in the past.

#47 lied repeatedly to the public when he said he had never heard about #Project2025- his former administration (lawyers, including the architect, Russell Vought) worked on it. #47 was mentioned in it 312 times. It was created for him.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #DV1

time.com/7323278/trum...

The Nemean Lion was often seen as a monstrous, chaotic force. By slaying the lion and then wearing its skin, #Hercules turned the threat of death into his own deliverance. Read more»» classicstutor.substack.com/p/esoteric-h...
Coin from Sicily, ca. 405-400 BCE. Hercules strangling the Nemean lion.

Wild fucking scenes here. This is Americaaaaa

Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans.

Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies.

Folks, I think America First might be a scam.

How we get it out of government is our next challenge

The magats have been making empathy a sin

And they don't want accurate information in many cases, like my relatives

For those who DON'T KNOW!!!
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thinking a lot today about the moral cowardice of any nation not following the hard data about Portugal's drugs decriminalisation project. it's the same as data from ubi trials.

"we have found a way to unequivocally benefit people, but it makes my tummy hurt to think about"

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

…and where have we seen this before 🤨

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

Sadly, this is also what we see in the US