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Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center

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Thank you to all the Virginia Indivisibles who visited DC to demand our Senators get ICE Out For Good. And thank you to Indivisible NOVA West for organizing this powerful Senate day of Action. We’re grateful that our WofA members stand up for the safety of our communities every single day.

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

Someone please go check on Eugene Levy right now. Bring him some eyebrow cream or whatever he needs

I am currently on my way to another hearing regarding my federal charges for protesting ICE.

When I say our leaders must be willing to put everything on the line, I mean it.

And frankly, I see it as the bare minimum in this moment.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Just found out this dude’s store is called Dreamhaven Books. dreamhavenbooks.com

Scott Galloway: To Weaken Trump, Stop Buying iPhones Pivot hosts Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss why a national economic strike could be so effective.

Pivot hosts Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss why a national economic strike could be so effective.

To Gregory Bovino: This is what brandishing a firearm at a protest looks like.

They targeted not just Black Americans, but Catholics, Jews, and "intellectuals" under the guise of "morality." If that rhetoric sounds familiar, it's because it is. We didn't import fascism; we exported the prototype.

#minnesotashootings #SystemicRacism

The History of the KKK in American Politics - JSTOR Daily In the 1920s, during what historians call the KKK's “second wave,” Klan members served in all levels of American government.

Acknowledging history isn't unpatriotic; ignoring it is. The JSTOR article "The History of the KKK in American Politics" outlines how the Klan evolved from post-Civil War terrorists to a 1920s political machine with millions of members.
#History #USPolitics #ICE

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We need to stop treating fascism as an exclusively foreign import from 1930s Germany. It’s a convenient deflection. The roots are homegrown—deeply embedded in the aftermath of the Civil War and the rise of the KKK. We can’t dismantle what we refuse to claim as our own.

#History #USPolitics #Fascism

Pretti Good reason for a national strike.
#NationalStrike

Happy No Kings Day to all of us who celebrate.

Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz just switched from Republican to Democratic.

“The Republican Party is not the party I signed up with... The marginalization of Latinos and immigrants—many of whom have helped build this country—is not leadership. It’s fear-based politics.”

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."

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YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

Lots of people showing up for these protests today

April 5th 'Hands Off!' protests compilation #HandsOff #Resist

Photos: See demonstrators around the country rally in 'Hands Off!' protests NPR member station photographers documented what they saw at the demonstrations against the Trump administration, from cuts and layoffs to federal departments, to mass deportations.

Photos: See demonstrators around the country rally in 'Hands Off!' protests : The Picture Show

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If they had read some of the books before banning them, maybe they’d have a better understanding of what tariffs really are.

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

Was explaining to David (11) the tariff stuff and what a tariff is and he was like “you mean like what started the revolutionary war?” And I was like; yes exactly.

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two NASA astronauts who unexpectedly spent nine-and-a-half months aboard the International Space Station, said at a news conference that they would fly on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft again.
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Trump has tasked JD Vance to “remove improper ideology” at the Smithsonian Museum and the National Zoo

This is a sad but interesting question. How many grad students will leave and where, if anywhere will they go ?

Why Barclays is the latest Wall Street bank to slash its outlook on stocks Wall Street continues to tighten its outlook for stocks in 2025.

Kinda funny to see some Wall Street executives think the administration cares about “business” and “stable markets.”
This is the Oligarchy, only the selected get rich. 🤑 #econsky

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From Fox’s Chief National Security reporter. Who can’t seem to get any airtime lately. For some reason.

JUST IN: The 9th circuit court of appeals won’t clear the way for the mass firing of probationary employees at six key federal departments, leaving in place a lower court’s order reinstating thousands of terminated workers.