DeWayne (now in NH) - #VotingMatters still

Good morning my breakfast crew friends!

Here’s the outrageous part: Legislators are trying to change the rules. They’re trying to put pass a bill (SB 6239) that would force sexual assault survivors into arbitration. This reduces payouts; their stories would be kept in the shadows after they’ve already been brave enough to come forward.
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Federal judge: Masked ICE agents violate Fourth Amendment - Border - The Black Chronicle Federal judge: Masked ICE agents violate Fourth Amendment - The Black Chronicle

Federal judge: Masked ICE agents violate Fourth Amendment

Feb. 19, District Judge Joseph Goodwin ordered the immediate release of Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos, who was “arrested abruptly & without warning by a group of masked men purporting to be” ICE officers.

blackchronicle.com/border/feder...

"It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids.”
Federal District Judge Joseph E. Goodwin (2026)

I used to be reluctant to use the word 'evil' in describing MAGA & the GOP, that has evaporated over the last few years. NOW it is time to admit that this EVIL has been with us all along ... but is more visible because TRUMP and his GOP enablers have given them permission to be visible and act.

The NGA meeting is supposed to be bipartisan; governors from both parties meet to talk policy.

Trump refused to invite two Democratic governors:

• Wes Moore (Black)
• Jared Polis (gay)

Democrats boycotted in response.

When exclusion tracks identity, that’s alarming.

Be aware of which political party wants the American people to vote and will protect our collective right to do so…and which political party wants to restrict that right so that they may remain in power indefinitely.

The difference could not be clearer than at the present moment.

I can answer this one. The president of the United States is dangerously psychotic and no one in his political party will say it, nor will 95% of American media.

ICYMI — “If Donald Trump’s administration really wants to find evidence of foreign interference in Georgia’s elections, then they need look no further than the president’s old friend Elon Musk and his shady super PAC.” newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

#MorningVibe

“The only thing that’s ever changed the world before are these movements of nonviolent protests ... and it will work again,” ~ @annelamott.bsky.social

Find a peaceful rally at nokings.org.

Like digital? Go to DemCast.com.

A border district in Texas is flashing warning signs for Republicans in the midterms We visited Alcazar and South Texas as part of our “All Over the Map” project, an effort to track elections and major issue debates through the eyes of experiences of everyday Americans. That there is ...

Daisy Alcazar is a one-issue voter this midterm year: stopping Trump.

She’s a small-business owner in a border district in Texas who said “I don’t think we are going to survive if we don’t speak up this election. We are on fire. We are being burned down to the floor. Our businesses. Our economy.”

Just because they aren’t extermination camps doesn’t mean they aren’t concentration camps

Nor does it mean that people aren’t dying in them

Because they are

This clip should be in every Dem campaign ad until the day he’s gone and the media is barely talking about it.

There is horrible IRONY in the police assaulting peaceful students protesters in QUAKERTOWN, PA.

When will we hold PEACE officers accountable for failing to protect civilians?

From @theguardian.com:

In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and 5 charged cases still pending. Similarly, In Minneapolis as of last month there have been no convictions.

Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining eight other states with similar prohibitions.

Critics of Maryland’s ban on participation in ICE’s 287(g) program say it will promote violent crime, but data shared by the state public defender’s office show that the majority of people ensnared by the program have not been convicted of any crime.

Federal judge: Masked ICE agents violate Fourth Amendment - Border - The Black Chronicle Federal judge: Masked ICE agents violate Fourth Amendment - The Black Chronicle

Federal judge: Masked ICE agents violate Fourth Amendment

Feb. 19, District Judge Joseph Goodwin ordered the immediate release of Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos, who was “arrested abruptly & without warning by a group of masked men purporting to be” ICE officers.

blackchronicle.com/border/feder...

"It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids.”
Federal District Judge Joseph E. Goodwin (2026)

Trump administration takes down rainbow flag at Stonewall National Monument Activists see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.

ICYMI (like I did). 😡🤬
The outrages continue with Trump & his enablers:

Trump administration takes down rainbow flag at STONEWALL National Monument

"It's mind-blowing that they think they can excuse this and rationalize this." Ann Northrop

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

I used to be reluctant to use the word 'evil' in describing MAGA & the GOP, that has evaporated over the last few years. NOW it is time to admit that this EVIL has been with us all along ... but is more visible because TRUMP and his GOP enablers have given them permission to be visible and act.

FREE USA END IMPUNITY END AUTOGENOCIDE END OLIGARCHY #3E MARCH 28 NATIONWIDE PROTEST ALL CAPITALS, ALL PEOPLE #3E MOVEMENT

CALL TO ACTION: NATIONWIDE FREE USA MASS PROTEST, MARCH 28, YOUR STATE CAPITALS, ORGANIZE, RESIST. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #NoKings

#MorningVibe

Resistance looks different for everyone.
It doesn’t matter how you choose to take action, as long as we come together & bravely make our voices heard.

If you’re able, make a plan for March 28 at NoKings.org.
#NoKingsNoSiege

Months before they murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti, ICE shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez

Kicking off an era of rampant, unchecked lawlessness by Trump’s DHS agents

A kind of sick practice run for Minnesota, if you will

And-for nearly a year-Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi covered it all up

Tennessee have become a MAGA dystopian case study. What has happened to the state that was full of kind, gentle people when I was growing up?

America this is your future if you don't vote Democratic in the upcoming mid-term elections.

Tennessee under GOP control is becoming a MAGA dystopian case study. What has happened to the kind people I knew growing up? America this is your future if we don't vote Democratic in the upcoming mid-term elections.

This dude @rokhanna.bsky.social is out here making sense

The Privacy Act was enacted in 1974 following the Watergate scandal. Rep. Lori Trahan, argues that the statute has not been updated since its passage and does not account for modern data ecosystems or emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

Trahan Calls for Overhaul of Privacy Act Amid Federal Data-Sharing Scrutiny As legal challenges mount over how federal agencies share Americans’ personal information, Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., is calling for an overhaul of the Privacy Act of 1974, arguing the law has not kep...

Rep. Lori Trahan calls for Overhaul of PRIVACY Act amid Data-Sharing controversy.

Something else that is Important to Watch as the GOP wants ICE (& other agencies) to have access to more & more of your personal information.

meritalk.com/articles/tra...

Trump administration takes down rainbow flag at Stonewall National Monument Activists see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.

ICYMI (like I did). 😡🤬
The outrages continue with Trump & his enablers:

Trump administration takes down rainbow flag at STONEWALL National Monument

"It's mind-blowing that they think they can excuse this and rationalize this." Ann Northrop

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

As Apple’s Cook bows to Trump, Microsoft’s Nadella quietly refuses The two powerful tech CEOs are dealing with the economic and political gyrations of the Trump Administration in very different ways.

Only hours after ICE agents murdered Alex Pretti in Minnesota by shooting him in the back 10 times while he lay defenseless on the ground, Tim Cook attended the gala White House screening of the new Melania Trump documentary.

Shameful.
www.computerworld.com/article/4129...