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If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
Hey, fellow Massachusettans: if you haven't called Gov. Healey (and your local reps) yet, take 5 min and do so today. Alleged ICE is violently taking people off the streets in our state, without warrants. That makes ALL of us less safe. Numbers and script below π
12.05.2025 16:23 β π 153 π 58 π¬ 2 π 1The Trump administration wants to kill the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Arts=Unbound Imagination
The Arts=Freedom of Thought
The Arts=Fresh Perspectives
The Arts=Understanding
The Arts=Connection
The Arts=Empathy
The Arts=Love
The Arts=Joy
Everything everything they hate.
Call yr reps.
How about some basic rules?
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the βdeportationβ of a 2 year old US citizen. Itβs NOT a deportation.
Iβm not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
Vast sin-concealing chaos
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< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h β’ Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that thereβs one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
Important to realize that Trumpβs approach to Canada and Greenland is like his approach to Ukraine. Itβs not even simply American imperialism. It is America enabling Russian imperialism. (1/3)
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This student, here legally on a Fulbright, was abducted without charges 2 days ago by Homeland Security for an op-ed that she co-wrote and published in the student paper a year ago. This story isnβt even on the NYT homepage today. #HandsoffMarch April 5 www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Young Flannery O'Connor standing next to painting of her with peacock
βWriting a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.ββFlannery O'Connor (born March 25th, 1925)
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Good news out of Colorado! A Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries. Good work! www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
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Shame shame shame, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social You have an endowment of 14.8 billion dollars and you could not stand up for free thought and free speech, and hold strong against this abuse of power? Your weakness will never be forgotten. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
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