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This photo has stuck with me. I found it to visually convey the despair the families and our community are feeling.

It is "good news Tuesday".

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The Competing Visions to Fix the Country’s Juvenile Justice Crisis Some states keep adding beds in already troubled facilities, while others are trying alternative approaches to detention or keeping some children out of the system altogether.

Children as young as 13 have been held in near-total isolation for days and even weeks at a time, without schooling, fresh air, or basic human contact. Experts say that kind of social deprivation is a “well-recognized” trigger for psychiatric consequences like depression, anxiety and psychosis.

Senator Lisa Murkowski Makes Startling Admission as Trump Wages Retribution Campaign (Gift Article) Lisa Murkowski, a longtime senator from Alaska and an independent voice in an increasingly tribal party, has been the rare Republican on Capitol Hill willing to criticize President Trump’s actions.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

Bring. Him. Home. Our cause is here; our time is now.

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In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.”

This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent.

He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

Now at 712 U.S. measles cases in 2025. Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont & Washington.
Vax the kids.

This is his moment in history. He is stepping up , providing a voice to the people and I love him for it.

Beverly on Substack Everything he takes down, we make viral. This needs to become a thing.

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Five Questions with Olivia Troye Former Pence advisor explains Trump's EO's targeting his own people

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YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported by Trump. He must be brought home NOW.

What the Trump administration is doing to Kilmar Abrego Garcia is despicable — whisking him off to a torturous prison in El Salvador, without due process, while lying through their teeth.

As I told his wife Jennifer, his mother Cecilia, and his brother Cesar, we won’t rest until he’s home.

Today, Congress again passed a budget framework that cuts public services to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

AFSCME members see through their schemes and are ready to fight back. www.afscme.org/press/releas...

This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

Providing healthcare is good for the entire community. It protects all of us from disease outbreaks and it helps us improve the well being of our most vulnerable residents. This is for all of us.

"Judge Jackson is a walking reminder of what the Supreme Court ought to be." @whitehouse.senate.gov

ICE ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say • Source New Mexico “We don’t know what’s happened to these four dozen New Mexicans. They’ve effectively disappeared. They’re gone,” an ACLU attorney said.

ICE ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/i...

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center facility among planned DOGE cuts (ABC News) Despite the deadly storms over the weekend, one of the core government facilities tracking severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, is listed on the website of...

The DOGgiE assholes are so out of touch. We need storm prediction more than ever.
Read "NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center facility among planned DOGE cuts" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-jDAK41H/UI...

Trump to Pick Union-Busting Attorney for Key Labor Law Position The National Labor Relations Board general counsel is a key policymaker shaping labor law. Crystal Carey, an attorney at anti-union firm Morgan Lewis, is the apparent choice.

Got a little scoop here.
The next general counsel of the NLRB will be a virtually unknown lawyer at union-busting law firm Morgan Lewis, whose biggest recent client is Amazon.
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How the Other Half Suffers Affluent ignorance has allowed tuberculosis to flourish, argues a new book.

"It could be only a matter of time before [tuberculosis] reaches our shores with a virulence we haven’t yet experienced."

Greg Fournier on @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's "Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection."

What the…? Why, why, why now I gotta rethink my support

Across America—families are struggling. They are asking us to take a stand and fight back.

They didn’t vote for the reckless & lawless firing of thousands of veterans and military personnel—they want lower costs, a roof over their heads, and food on the table.

That is what we are fighting for!

4 cats die from H5N1 bird flu in US, no link to dairy. First cases in pets w/o cattle connection. #H5N1BirdFluUS https://fefd.link/lKRiS

I completely agree, he is looking to push people, especially people of color, to riot. In Mpls some of the worst damage was from Alt right, white outside agitators. I was in Mpls during the riots-a lot of people were angry, but many were peaceful.

Stack of hard drives overlaid with the caption "What do you mean delete?!" Delete is in all caps and red

💾 Huge thank you to the Data Rescue Project and every archivist and librarian out there saving this country one megabyte at a time

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CDC datasets prior to 1/28/25 here: archive.org/details/2025... & contraception guidelines here: jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-birth-...

Thank you for your integrity. Now perhaps we could talk about Chuck Schumer?

When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

Get up, stand up! Thank you.