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Looking at sign-ups at runforwhat.net this morning - rise & shine, time to get on the ballot for 2026!!

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”

Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

I'll say it a million times before this is all over (if this is all ever over): our most important audience is each other.

‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death "In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"

An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

We do not have to live in a world where children starve while aid sits nearby.

My statement on mass starvation in Gaza.

Wow, look at these guys playing 1D chess 🫠

Image of an large cat walking on top of a long snake, with caption OH LAWD HE TREADIN'

My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today.

#wipolitics

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

This is going to ruin the parade

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On May 2nd, in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained. 1/
#WeFeedYou

Farm workers union says ICE detained worker leaders Members held a rally outside the Batavia Federal Detention Center, claiming they were targeted by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Farm workers union says ICE detained worker leaders

www.wgrz.com/video/news/l...

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

I personally manifested this. Please clap.

USDA cuts $500 million from food aid program impacting FeedMore WNY FeedMore WNY says the recently announced cuts to a federal food bank program will mean "significant loss" for the region — more than 2.1 million pounds of food.

Feeding our neighbors is NEVER a waste of our resources. The program being cut also helps out our farmers.

www.wgrz.com/article/life...

How do you have an entire Wharton degree and not know tariffs are bad? How do you spend an entire career in real estate development, an industry notoriously susceptible to commodity price fluctuations, and not know tariffs are bad? The creation of economic strife is intentional.

Sometimes, capitulation is indistinguishable from complicity.

Becca and Alvaro are two of the smartest, most dedicated public servants I know. This is illegal, a travesty, and a serious harm to our polity.

I can’t help but feel that even those of us who expected the worst (so, our current timeline) have been devastatingly caught on our heels, except for like 4 people. 🫠

Let me ask you to remember a second word: "No." All lawyers want to tell their clients yes. What is much harder is to tell your client no. We all recently learned about two groups of lawyers in the Justice Department. Both groups included Yale Law School graduates. One group was asked by the White House to approve an illegal program, at the hospital bed of the ailing Attorney General. Their answer, and the Attorney General's, was simply "No." A few years earlier, another group of Justice Department lawyers - again including graduates of this school--were asked to write an opinion asking whether American officials could lawfully torture detainees. Instead of saying no, they answered, "here's how." That was the wrong answer. Their job was to say no, what you are asking violates the law, and we should not do it. It is illegal, and it is wrong.

I often think of this excerpt from Harold Koh’s speech to our YLS graduating class:

I know there is a lot going on, but we haven’t had a really good Pride and Prejudice film adaptation in a while and I think we could all really use one. 🥹

Se informa ampliamente sobre la actividad de ICE y la Patrulla Fronteriza en todo el condado de Kern. Conozca sus derechos.

NO TIENE QUE CONTESTAR PREGUNTAS.

Puede decir: Estoy ejerciendo mi derecho a no responder a sus preguntas.

www.rapidresponsekern.com/es/

An army of community volunteers springs into action as LA fires rage "It's wild. There's people out here that have just created a chain," said one woman who showed up to volunteer at a YMCA in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood.

The response from LA’s network of community organizations has been a sight to behold. In these wild times, I hope we take a moment to learn from them because (sadly) our communities will need these skills sooner or later. My heart is with you LA!

www.npr.org/2025/01/11/n...