Not Going Back! MI women for democracy

"Trump is building up a well-funded, poorly trained paramilitary force that could easily take on a life of its own. Once you have a massive moneymaking machine ginned up, it’s hard to reverse course and turn off the spigot."

-Georgetown's Rosa Brooks on Trump and the paramilitary industrial complex

Holding the corrupt accountable instead of putting them in charge of law enforcement, what a concept 🤔 I hope we give that a try soon. Of course, I'd also be ok with womens rage reaching Lorena Bobbit style Justice reform.

DHS confirms ICE agent fatally shot US citizen in 2025 Ruben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.

DHS is only now admitting that one of their agents shot and killed 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen, last March.

Another day, another DHS lie exposed. Congress must rein in this abusive, lawless agency.

Thanks for the words Hakeem. Unfortunately, words are the only tools you and Schumer appear to have. We don't even have a knife in this fight. Time to move over and let the women lead!

He'll be pumped full of the best medicines our tax dollars can buy! What a waste 🤢

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

“As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it.”

Immigrants in Minnesota have been released from detention centers without work permits, Social Security cards, licenses, and other documents that prove their status.

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots.

This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline.

An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION.

Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

Failed their 8th audit, no fraud, waste or abuse here 🙄

Pre-Watergate, when the President acted with ethics and restraint. Oops, I mean when the Republicans still had a spine and cared about corruption within their own party and not just power to follow their corporate overlords every wish.

Trump pardoned, Jared's dad; Charles Kushner, American real-estate developer and disbarred attorney, convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering , serving since 2025 as the United States ambassador to France and Monaco

YouTube video by Katie Phang OMG! Epstein Co-Conspirator DEAD After THREATS to REVEAL IT ALL

Jeffrey Epstein’s close associate, Jean Luc Brunel, was allegedly given immunity back in 2016 to flip on Epstein, but then he went silent.

I walk through the details, incl. the DOJ’s handwritten notes documenting Brunel’s involvement in the global trafficking operation.

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They Haven't Even Started Spending Yet The terrifying math of money in politics.

"Rich people and corporations have not even begun to spend what they are capable of spending in order to buy political influence. If you think that we have too much money in politics now, well, it can get much, much worse."

America’s Top 25 Philanthropists — And The Richest Not On the List MacKenzie Scott was the nation’s top philanthropist in 2025 and ranks third behind Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates in terms of lifetime giving.

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America’s Richest People Are Not Its Most Generous Only half of the 12 richest people in the United States are on Forbes' list of the 25 biggest givers. (It's possible that some—including Dell, Page and Huang—have given additional undisclosed sums through donor-advised funds.) Name Net Worth Estimated Lifetime Giving Percentage of Net Worth Elon Musk $780 bil $0.5 bil 0.06% Larry Page $270 bil $0.1 bil 0.03% Jeff Bezos $250 bil $4.7 bil 1.85% Sergey Brin $249 bil $5.1 bil 2.01% Larry Ellison $241 bil $1.0 bil 0.41% Mark Zuckerberg $213 bil $6.1 bil 2.78% Jensen Huang $162 bil $0.2 bil 0.11% Warren Buffett $146 bil $68.3 bil 31.87% Steve Ballmer $141 bil $6.5 bil 4.41% Michael Dell $139 bil $3.3 bil 2.32% Rob Walton & family $138 bil $0.8 bil 0.57% Jim Walton & family $136 bil $1.5 bil 1.09% Source: Forbes reporting. Note: Data are as of January 16, 2026

The amount Elon Musk has donated over his lifetime is equivalent to the median American donating $75.

Tell me again how giving the richest people in the world more money and more tax breaks will "trickle down," because I'm not seeing it.

The image shows Ukrainian soldiers with a family—including young children—near a military vehicle. It captured a moment in November 2022 when Ukrainian forces liberated Kherson after 254 days of Russian occupation.

The image shows Ukrainian soldiers with a family—including young children—near a military vehicle. It captured a moment in November 2022 when Ukrainian forces liberated Kherson after 254 days of Russian occupation.

The Photograph Context: The photo depicts a Ukrainian soldier carrying an elder while evacuating from Irpin, a city near Kyiv, on March 6, 2022.

The Photograph Context: The photo depicts a Ukrainian soldier carrying an elder while evacuating from Irpin, a city near Kyiv, on March 6, 2022.

"If they try to take our country away from us, our freedom, our lives, the lives of our children, we will defend ourselves. Not attack, defend ourselves. And when you attack us, you will see our faces, not our backs, but our faces."

- President Zelenskyy, 2022. #StandWithUkraine #3E

YouTube video by The Young Turks Epstein Victim’s Diary Reveals HORRIFIC Abuse—and Names Powerful Figures

Diary of 16 year old Epstein victim in latest files Implicates a key financial expert.

#discover #Epstein

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Chakrabarti: We’ve basically created a federal jobs program to terrorize people through ICE. What if we used that instead to actually develop things — to build things people want?

It’s the same with foreign policy. We’re spending all this money dropping bombs in other countries—no one wants that.

It's so mean of him to embarrass Lindsey Graham by telling this story so publicly this way

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

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Everybody still on there convinced that they are a special flower unaffected by propaganda.

Shutting down Direct File was a direct attack on working people.

The Trump administration took something that was free and easy, and is now forcing people to turn to expensive tax prep companies.

This administration only serves corporations and the ultra-wealthy.

Billionaires corruptly poured $2.6 billion into the 2024 election.

The more influence billionaires have on our elections, the more influence they have on policies that benefit their bottom lines at the expense of everyday Americans.

Shameful—but in a way useful. No one should any longer pretend we have a “Department of Justice.” We have a Department of Trump.

FWIW, we reported Bari had made the decision to keep him two weeks ago: www.status.news/p/peter-atti...

How PFAS harm our health — and why they're everywhere - Horizons What do non-stick pans, firefighting foam and many of our couches, carpets and cosmetics have in common? They’re all made with PFAS. The so-called forever chemicals helped spur innovation, but they’re...

PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals," helped spur innovation. But they're also insidious to human health. https://to.pbs.org/4qRXD2m

Which Counties Elect Their Prosecutors and Sheriffs in 2026? - Bolts There are roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff in 2026. Below is our Bolts database of those local elections. Also: read our preliminary overview of these elections, published in January 2026,... Read More

With thousands of counties with different elections calendars, it can be hard to keep track; our new database identifies all counties with sheriff or prosecutor races this year.

In Criminal Justice Elections This Year, ICE Contracts Are on the Hot Seat With roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff in 2026, Bolts reviews the map and early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices.

And that’s not all: We’ve reviewed the list and identified the early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices, from the sheriff’s races critical to immigration to the criminal justice reformers running for prosecutor.