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Inside the scrappy network of volunteers protecting their neighbors from ICE www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Inside the scrappy network of volunteers protecting their neighbors from ICE
On the ground with the Fuerza rapid response team in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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August 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Inside the scrappy network of volunteers protecting their neighbors from ICE www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“You Feel Like Your Life Is Over”
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“You Feel Like Your Life Is Over”
The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...
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August 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“You Feel Like Your Life Is Over”
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"One Trump official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Mr. Musk was widely seen as operating with a level of autonomy that almost no one can control."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies (Gift Article)
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
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February 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"One Trump official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Mr. Musk was widely seen as operating with a level of autonomy that almost no one can control."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Reposted
As long as a copy doesn’t end up on Hilary Clinton’s server then it’s totally fine.
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
February 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
As long as a copy doesn’t end up on Hilary Clinton’s server then it’s totally fine.
Reposted
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
February 2, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
Reposted
EPA, CDC, USAID and other data sites of federal government are all down or being scrubbed of long-term data that WE THE TAXPAYERS paid for. I teach with these tools! Why are our universities saying nothing about loss of access to information and research implications? I cannot believe the silence 🧪
February 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
EPA, CDC, USAID and other data sites of federal government are all down or being scrubbed of long-term data that WE THE TAXPAYERS paid for. I teach with these tools! Why are our universities saying nothing about loss of access to information and research implications? I cannot believe the silence 🧪
“To plea for mercy is actually a very humbling thing to do,” Bishop Budde said. “I wasn’t demanding anything of him. I was pleading with him, like, can you see the humanity of these people? Can you acknowledge that there are people in this country are scared? …
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
The Bishop Who Pleaded With Trump: ‘Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?’ (Gift Article)
Bishop Budde locked eyes with President Trump and made a plea for mercy — and the war over spiritual authority in America was ignited anew.
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January 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“To plea for mercy is actually a very humbling thing to do,” Bishop Budde said. “I wasn’t demanding anything of him. I was pleading with him, like, can you see the humanity of these people? Can you acknowledge that there are people in this country are scared? …
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
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Twenty Lessons On Tyranny open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
From his 2017 book, which he reposted yesterday
From his 2017 book, which he reposted yesterday
Twenty Lessons On Tyranny
From the Twentieth Century
open.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Twenty Lessons On Tyranny open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
From his 2017 book, which he reposted yesterday
From his 2017 book, which he reposted yesterday
"You don't need to have legal papers or be a U.S. citizen to help others," he said. "When you support someone, you strengthen your union with them. When you stop and ask if they could use a hand, they'll remember that."
www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
As Los Angeles burned, Latino immigrants rushed in to put out fires
Many Latino immigrants in Los Angeles worked to extinguish some of the fires with hoses. They aren't firefighters, they were just helping people in other neighborhoods.
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January 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"You don't need to have legal papers or be a U.S. citizen to help others," he said. "When you support someone, you strengthen your union with them. When you stop and ask if they could use a hand, they'll remember that."
www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
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This is what mass deportation will look like: wapo.st/3VTkEol
Trump’s top border adviser says he will bring back family detention
Tom Homan oversaw implementation of the “zero tolerance” policy that separated more than 4,000 children from their parents during Trump’s first term.
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December 27, 2024 at 5:21 AM
This is what mass deportation will look like: wapo.st/3VTkEol
One family's story of living with the threat of mass deportation. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
The Alienation of Jaime Cachua (Gift Article)
His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:15 PM
One family's story of living with the threat of mass deportation. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
"I think that we are shooting ourselves in the foot ... when we create no incentive for people to grow, because they perceive that they will be permanently guilty for having been wrong.... Human nature is to go to the people who are validating you instantaneously."
www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
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Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights
The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:07 PM
"I think that we are shooting ourselves in the foot ... when we create no incentive for people to grow, because they perceive that they will be permanently guilty for having been wrong.... Human nature is to go to the people who are validating you instantaneously."
www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
