Julia Sugarbaker 🇺🇸

Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.

He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
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Tonight, Dec 12, at 9pm ET join @ms.now to watch the conversation I had with Rachel Maddow in Chicago last month.
@maddow.bsky.social

From President Zelensky's official telegram account.

🤷🏼 🎄

Covering up that hand again

The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters

Doing some cute calligraphy

‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’ — Guardian US UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’

Environmental crises are political, economic, & security emergencies. We can’t afford inaction. We have solutions; all we need is courage.

GEO statement:

“Our delegations fully respect every state’s right to safeguard their country’s national interests and rights, but science is not negotiable.”

BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”

People need to boycott the US right now.

Don’t wait for these demands to go into place.

Don’t go for the World Cup. Don’t go for the Olympics.

Don’t go to Disney or Vegas or Broadway.

It’s not safe, and your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism.

Vote with your dollar.

What could go wrong?

Seattle’s World Cup "Pride Match" Pits Two Anti-Gay Nations FIFA faces objections from Iran and Egypt as Seattle keeps its Pride-branded match tied to the city’s Pride Weekend.

Seattle will move forward with its World Cup “Pride Match” on June 26 despite objections from Iran and Egypt over the Pride branding. Both nations asked FIFA to intervene, but local organizers say the plans stand.

From @findoutpodcast.bsky.social : “611,000 Tennesseans are on subsidized ACA plans. The AVERAGE increase will be $16,000 per person per year.”😳

THIS is what @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty just voted to do to you. A policy choice.

Those tree hugging hippies in Hungary now lead the world in the share of electricity generated from solar with almost 25% of their electricity coming from solar in 2024.

A remarkable leap from just 7% five years ago.

The Hoax of Christmas Present Polling and focus group data show voters across parties feel crushed by rising costs, even as Trump dismisses affordability concerns as a “hoax” that contradicts Americans’ lived reality.

"By shouting things like 'our prices are coming down tremendously,' Trump is telling voters to 'reject the evidence of their eyes and ears.' But this is 2025, not 1984, and voters aren’t buying it."

Is Trump’s Embrace of Russia the Greatest Betrayal in American History? Many of us have long suspected or even predicted that Donald Trump would betray America, gut our democracy in favor of a police state, and align us with Russia. You know, the country that the Financia...

"This is a five-alarm fire for democracy, both here and around the world."

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.

I’d like to report a dead body.

Farm bankruptcies are soaring amid low crop prices, while Trump considers bailout of up to $14 billion | Fortune In the second quarter, there were 93 bankruptcy filings, up from 88 in the first quarter and nearly double the 47 at the end of 2024.

They voted for this.

fortune.com/2025/10/04/f...

Sounds like Trump is frantically trying to appease Putin ~

"When power fears the light, truth is the only torch left standing."

We have never seen a presidency as criminal, lawless, and corrupt as the fascist authoritarian Trump regime. No other presidency is even close. 😳👇

Trump Keeps Insisting There's No Affordability Crisis Despite Data Showing Otherwise Americans are watching the prices of groceries, utilities, medical care and housing skyrocket—but Trump says it’s not happening.

Americans are watching the prices of groceries, utilities, medical care and housing skyrocket—but Trump says it’s not happening.

White House raises concerns about Trump’s ‘image’ in lawsuit over sign language interpreters The White House is appealing court orders to restore interpretation services at press briefings.

Are you fucking kidding me? ASL is a foreign language. What are they on about?

"Providing American sign language interpretation in press conferences “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,”

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Trump's mangled right hand was extremely spackled tonight at the White House congressional ball (Alex Wong/Getty)

Masked federal agents walk down the middle of the street

Reminder: Only a few weeks away until California’s mask ban for law enforcement officers goes into effect—

Beginning January 1st, #ICE & other agencies operating in the state will no longer be allowed to use face coverings that hide an officer’s identity

Alex Tabet tracked down U.S. Border Patrol chief agent Greg Bovino in New Orleans and asked him two questions about ongoing immigration crackdowns; Bovino refused to answer.

Eff Rules, Do Good: Towards A New Liberalism Be Super, Man

Fuck norms and tradition. Just do the right thing and help people. www.oliverexplains.com/p/eff-rules-...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...