Rachel

At least one in five of the men currently being held captive in El Salvador were legal immigrants to the United States.

Not just not "THE WORST OF THE WORST." Literally people who did nothing wrong.

That's life without due process.

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ bans transgender care for Medicaid and Obamacare ‘It's one more example of health care that they're trying to rip away,’ Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, tells The Independent

@ericmgarcia.bsky.social's Independent maybe the only news outlet reporting on the transgender health care ban in this bill right now.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Either we all have due process, or none of us do. There is no middle ground here.

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and the war in Gaza. Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs. He said that while Khalil’s activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine “U.S. policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

apnews.com/article/mahm...

Former FDA commissioner on LinkedIn:

wow he must work very hard in this obvious meritocracy

People who say shit like this about trans people are my enemy. They are my family's enemy. They are dead to me forever. If they run for something in my vicinity I will work to destroy them. Do they understand this story is repeated several million times?

Gavin Newsom can be reached by phone at (916) 445-2841 or messaged here if you'd like to tell him exactly what you think about his transphobic bullshit.

Senators should be holding nominees until they let CFPB operate again. The Senate should be frozen. Your MoC should be doing social content with people who got ripped off and the CFPB got their money back, getting in shouting matches with bank CEOs. Let them know.

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

please stop telling people that x, y, or z "is a distraction." we've been doing this for nearly a decade now.

all the things are the things. theyre all the fights.

its like arguing that japan attacking in the pacific was a distraction from hitler attacking in europe.

its all the war.

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later

Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

Welp, here we fucking go. This is how they’re gonna do the abortion pill ban:

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-indictment-lousiana-new-york-doctor-63ff4d9da8a9b592a7ca4ec7ba538cd3

This is not just “shock and awe” nor a “distraction.” This is end game for a right-wing strategy that has been in the works for decades.

They’ve been clear about their goals, often in writing, and most of their moves have been public—making the supposed Democratic lack of preparedness unbelievable.

Love you, Greg. More kids deserve teachers like you.

This executive order will absolutely result in kids dying. My heart is broken for trans youth and the folks who love them.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

I and many others warned that the anti-CRT, anti-DEI propaganda campaign that so many embraced or down played was always about creating the narrative for and paving the way for a larger attack on civil rights. We are here.

The failure to reckon with transphobia as a currently central motivation of the far right will continue to plague those disturbed by its rise for a decade or more

Rather than standing with trans people many liberals have pursued appeasement and helped the wider shift to the far right in the process

I want to talk a little bit about the Impoundment Control Act that got so much (deserved) attention during this hearing, and why it's so worrisome that a potential OMB director thinks it's unconstitutional despite GAO findings and court precedent supporting it. 1/