Laura Snodgrass 🫘

A chart showing ICE with twice the funding (nearly $40 billion) of the combined totals for the FBI, IRS-Criminal and Civil Tax Enforcement, U.S. Secret Service, DEA, SEC, and ATF.

Trump’s Tax Scam makes ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the republic. To put that in perspective, here are the sizes of other federal law enforcement agencies:

The real What Democrats Must Do thing is to say, "Trump/the GOP are doing corrupt & illegal things that are killing people, harming your family, & destroying the country. We have one election left to stop this & if you give us power we'll reverse it & make sure people go to jail." The rest is noise.

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.

Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

We The People have very few levers of power:
our votes
our purchasing (boycott)
our labor (strike)
our bodies (protest)

Congress is dysfunctional.
The executive office is a bad actor.
SCOTUS is corrupt.

U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran forced to self-deport from Hawaii Kunia resident Sae Joon Park, a decorated Army veteran, was given three weeks to return to South Korea, after 48 years in the U.S.

Self-deportation isn’t a thing. ICE forced this Hawaiʻi resident to leave the country.

He’s lived in the US for nearly 50 years, served in the military, received a Purple Heart for being shot in combat, but is being forced to leave for a drug offense.

Provisions Subject to a 60-Vote Byrd Rule Point of Order Energy and Natural Resources NEPA compliance. These provisions deem offshore oil and gas projects as automatically compliant with the National Environmental Policy Act, nullifying these projects' environmental review processes. (Subsection 102(b)(4) and Subsection 102(b)(5)) Offshore oil and gas leasing. This subsection requires leases to be issued to successful bidders within 90 days after the lease sale. (Subsection 102(b)(6)) Ambler Road. This section requires the Secretary of the Interior to permit construction of Ambler Road, a controversial mining road in Alaska. (Section 201) Mandatory public land sales. This section mandates the unprecedented sale of millions of acres of public land, including from both Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands. (Section 301)

Renewable energy fees. This subsection removes the Secretary of the Interior's discretion to reduce fees for solar and wind projects on Bureau of Land Management land. (Subsection 303(e)) Geothermal leasing and royalties. These sections require the Secretary of the Interior to hold yearly geothermal lease sales and purport to change how geothermal royalties are calculated. (Section 305 and Section 306) Natural gas exports and imports. This section creates a pay-to-play regime for natural gas exports, allowing natural gas exporters to pay a fee to have their project be deemed "in the public interest," which is a requirement for approval. (Section 401)

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too.

This isn't over, but this is a huge win.

www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.

New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

This is great campaign messaging. No wonder the establishment is so shook.

Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son.

Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice.

From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

This video makes a connection that is understandable but wrong; that the work people do in ICE detention for $1/day is the same kind of work people in prison do (prison labor).

ICE's work program has detainees staff the facility (cooking and cleaning). It's a cost-saver for the prison operator.

Oh.

Also it’s not okay for this to happen to anyone whatever their citizenship status!

If you worked full time at TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AN HOUR, you'd make a billion dollars in... fifty years.

When does all the winning start?

I'm quite comfortable with abolishing deportations and giving every immigrant and refugee a home and food and education and a job and safety, and if you object on the basis that we don't give citizens those things, my answer is simply that we should be giving those things already.

Isn’t it the 19th of April?

These are not detainments—they are kidnappings.

These are not deportations—they are human trafficking.

These are not detention centers—they are concentration camps.

Language matters.

This is fascism.

Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?

Mohammed El-Kurd

Ug, yeah.

Social Security Lists Thousands of Migrants as Dead to Prompt Them to ‘Self-Deport’ By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

I have my money in a credit union. I guess I was just wondering if it was safer from the corrupt government somehow denying people access to their own funds.

Why is a credit Union safer?

So just read, Bloomberg, “the worlds wealthiest people added a combined $304 billion to their combined net worth - the largest one day gain in history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index..” as a result of the stock gains after tariff paused. An awesome reason to sign your strike card?
#generalstrike