A federal judge halted the Trump administration’s plans to deport hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children following a pre-dawn emergency appeal. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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A federal judge halted the Trump administration’s plans to deport hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children following a pre-dawn emergency appeal. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Trump administration could just send Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, which already said it would accept him, the lawsuit said. But the administration chose Uganda “to punish him.”
For Sr. Susan Francois, “the walk felt personal. In recent months, Francois and a few other Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace have been gathering at a privately run immigrant detention center in Newark, NJ, to stand alongside families who face harassment … while trying to visit detained loved ones.”
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
RFK Jr must be fired. He’s too deranged and full of himself to leave voluntarily. So it’s vital to convince Trump that keeping Kennedy around drains his own political power and thus his personal wealth by so visibly endangering the health of everyone in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Israeli forces step up air attacks as the military advances with plans to seize Gaza City and push out 1 million people.
The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
DHS and DC Police detaining a peaceful, unarmed man sitting on a bench at DC's Malcolm X Park.
📝Federal employees will continue to uphold the oath of office they took when they started their positions under all circumstances. We’re happy to support dissent letters of all agencies, and uplift the voices of letter organizers across the government.
Trump said tonight he is going to issue an executive order purporting to require enforcement of voter ID rules: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... The president has no such authority to order how elections are conducted.
Now we’re stopping research on brain cancer in kids? This is a new low. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
You would think that documenting these effects - on farms, in meat-packing plants, in the garment industry, and restaurants would be a popular beat for reporters in MSM.
Why are Democrats so soft on crime?
In 2023, Illinois, Minnesota, and New Mexico expanded who is eligible for parole, with laws that gave people convicted as children new opportunities to petition for release:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemns killing of prominent politician Andriy Parubiy as ‘horrendous murder’.
I have an op-ed at @inquirer.com today. All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked. Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
“Trump signed an executive order Thursday stripping union protections from [more] federal employees. Under the order, several government agencies, including NASA, the National Weather Service and the Office of the Commissioner for Patents, will end their collective bargaining agreements with unions”
The shift away from mass immunization for COVID by making healthy people under 65 ineligible for it without a scientific basis for doing so and outside the normal process has adverse health implications for millions of Americans. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Do not concede any ground to Trump on immigration. Do not say, well, the law is the law. He doesn't care about the law. He cares about punishment. No Dem should be part of that.
They are so low.
TODAY: A Texas court will hear former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s request to temporarily block Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to shutter his nonprofit. Paxton previously sued the organization for fundraising for quorum-breaking House Democrats. Background: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Our hearts break for everyone affected by the horrendous shootings at the Annunciation Catholic School church in Minneapolis. America's moms are horrified, terrified, and enraged by the never-ending shootings taking place day in and day out across our country. #MomSky
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Caught in the political crosshairs of the Trump administration, the program is facing unprecedented upheaval that could shutter child care centers and, as many of Head Start experts who spoke to The 19th see it, fundamentally alter the program.
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Assault with a deli weapon.
Donald Trump can't win the 2026 midterms fair and square - so he's trying to cheat by calling up his cronies in red states and asking for seats. California: YOU have the power to stop him. Vote YES on Prop 50 to defend fair elections and STOP Trump's election rigging.
A 20 point swing toward Democrats. Ready to run for office? @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net
Today, the brave FEMA signers of the Katrina Declaration were put on administrative leave because they dared to publicly call out the harms this administration is inflicting on the America people. We stand with FEMA signers.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
DHS & FEMA have chosen the vengeance route against the public signatories of the FEMA Katrina Letter. Effective immediately, all public signatories have been placed on administrative leave. They have also been ordered not to tell anyone. Whistleblowers are to be protected, not retaliated against.
![FEMA Memo Text MEMORANDUM Date: August 26, 2025 To: All FEMA Employees in the affected regions and all members of the FEMA National Emergency Management Agency. From: Jay Bradley, Chief of Staff, FEMA. Joseph A. ... [rest of name is cut off] ..., Director, National Emergency Management Agency. Subj: Employee administrative leave and a further notice. Effective immediately, and continuing until further notice, you are being placed on administrative leave with pay and all benefits, including retirement, health and life insurance. You will be responsible for your time sheet regarding working and future pay periods. You may use your government issued cellular phone and tablet for personal use, but you will not have access to FEMAEMS facility, connect to FEMAEMS personnel, and like [sic] editor or your official capacity. Failure to comply will result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. You will continue to have access to your personal email, but you will not have access to FEMAEMS information or telecommunication systems including, but not limited to, your e-mail. You will have access to your voicemail, but do not retrieve or listen to any messages. You will have access to FEMAEMS facility, connect to FEMAEMS personnel, and like [sic] editor or your official capacity. Failure to comply will result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. If you need access to a FEMAEMS information or telecommunication systems to perform your duties, you must receive a written directive from your supervisor. You must contact your supervisor via telephone or e-mail only. Any violation of these rules will be viewed as an act of insubordination. You must provide a current home address, a current home phone number, a personal email address and phone number where you can be reached while you access to your FEMAEMS information or systems. You must not contact any FEMAEMS personnel until you receive a written directiv…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:obksvg6m2wchvxqwrqclknbs/bafkreiem7f3vubks2gr76g6wzgy2ptd2fuennzswokvpja3i5p767fjtlu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![FEMA Memo Text MEMORANDUM Date: August 26, 2025 To: All FEMA Employees in the affected regions and all members of the FEMA National Emergency Management Agency. From: Jay Bradley, Chief of Staff, FEMA. Joseph A. ... [rest of name is cut off] ..., Director, National Emergency Management Agency. Subj: Employee administrative leave and a further notice. Effective immediately, and continuing until further notice, you are being placed on administrative leave with pay and all benefits, including retirement, health and life insurance. You will be responsible for your time sheet regarding working and future pay periods. You may use your government issued cellular phone and tablet for personal use, but you will not have access to FEMAEMS facility, connect to FEMAEMS personnel, and like [sic] editor or your official capacity. Failure to comply will result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. You will continue to have access to your personal email, but you will not have access to FEMAEMS information or telecommunication systems including, but not limited to, your e-mail. You will have access to your voicemail, but do not retrieve or listen to any messages. You will have access to FEMAEMS facility, connect to FEMAEMS personnel, and like [sic] editor or your official capacity. Failure to comply will result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. If you need access to a FEMAEMS information or telecommunication systems to perform your duties, you must receive a written directive from your supervisor. You must contact your supervisor via telephone or e-mail only. Any violation of these rules will be viewed as an act of insubordination. You must provide a current home address, a current home phone number, a personal email address and phone number where you can be reached while you access to your FEMAEMS information or systems. You must not contact any FEMAEMS personnel until you receive a written directiv…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:obksvg6m2wchvxqwrqclknbs/bafkreig7ebtholwj7wchjcwxpcmd6dsh3cr26wpgjjqlg6hmy7edtoe3r4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
⚡️Iowa Dems just broke the GOP senate supermajority by flipping a Republican seat on a special election in a district Trump won by 11 points in 2024. (This is why Trump is stealing seats) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
BOOM! This is a huge win by Dem Catelin Drey in a district Trump won by 11 points. More than a 21 point swing… in Iowa.
Exactly. But only if we’re organized and not numbed by those preaching the “there’s no point” sermons.
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
Around 20 workers working in the cauliflower on CAs Central Coast. It was damp and windy, so they have plastic bags tied around their waist as aprons to keep from getting their legs wet. Harvesting cauliflower is hard because you have to bend down constantly. #WeFeedYou
Thank you to our our dissenting neighbors over at FEMA, your transparency is extremely brave and needed ! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
URGENT: If you have ANY information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and/or the process to send him to Uganda, PLEASE message me on Signal: marisakabas.04 Your anonymity will be fully protected. I know it’s scary to speak out, but this is a man’s life.
Columbia cancelled my class, but I'm continuing to teach anyway. Enrollment for the fall sessions of my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 are now open! Last time, we sold out 500 spots in 48 hours. Don't miss out! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
you can see, of course, why the area needs military policing ...
THE DETENTION CAME ONLY THREE DAYS AFTER HE WAS FREED FROM CUSTODY IN THE CRIMINAL CASE THAT WAS FILED AGAINST HIM IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT IN NASHVILLE.
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
Trump’s calling Greg Abbott and red states to rig the 2026 election by redrawing Congressional lines. California’s fighting back. 🗳 On November 4th, Californians will vote in a special election to protect your voice, uphold fair representation, and stop Trump’s power grab.
When Trump tries to rewrite the rules, Gavin Newsom moves to protect the outcome: fair elections and real democracy. California will help save our country from Trump Rule this November. LET'S DO THIS, fellow Californians!
Last week someone made this point, a lot of money people (including tech) made a very clear, very calculated decision that authoritarianism, even a corrupt kleptocracy, was better for them financially than risking Dems doing a wealth tax/tax fairness etc. It was an eyes-wide-open choice.
Happy Independence Day, Ukraine 🇺🇦 Ukraine will defeat the terrorists and emerge victorious. Our history will never be rewritten, our identity cannot be erased, and Ukraine will never bow to tyrants. Слава Україні 💙💛
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is freed from Tennessee jail so he can rejoin family in Maryland to await trial https://loom.ly/dkfK5jA
Farm workers from Lamont CA sent us this photo today from where their crew was harvesting vegetables. They told us at 9:33 AM the temperature was already at 88°F. The high today is supposed to reach 108°. #WeFeedYou #calor
Been waiting for some analysis that explores whether the worst-case GOP gerrymandering scenario would present an insurmountable obstacle for Dems in 2026, and now we have some. The answer: Yes, Dems can absolutely still win the House. Via @gelliottmorris.com. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-will-r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...
When you try to gerrymander the lines in Texas to perpetuate a deeply unpopular majority in Congress, California fights back. Don’t poke the bear.
This is fascism This is fascism This is fascism This is fascism This is fascism This is fascism This is fascism and it's also really fucking racist
I'm mid on TX Dems on the best of days, but a real fact is that our state lawmakers work part time for hilariously low pay; it's part of why you get monied fuckos doing whatever the hell they want while people with Real Jobs do #txlege work and real work. There's a reason this whole thing is fucked!
TOMORROW: Join Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, a coalition of partner organizations, and brave officials from across the country to learn how state and local leaders can fight Trump’s takeover and defend the rule of law. RSVP now to discuss unmasking ICE, redistricting, and more:
But use a VPN
Yes, radioactive shrimp is a direct result of Trump’s DOGE cuts. Here’s why. 🍤 Sources at the link in the 1st comment.
A growing number of GOP-led states are restricting student voting access, from banning campus polling places to making it harder to prove residency. Earlier this yar, Indiana banned student IDs for voting. boltsmag.org/indiana-bann...
Amen!
🚨 PLEASE SHARE THIS STORY 🚨 Police and ICE in DC ran down a delivery worker on his moped. Sobbing, he asked to call his family. Multiple vehicles arrived with 20 armed agents. Can somebody PLEASE explain how paying 20 agents to arrest a delivery worker is supposed to help the economy???
🚨 Call and demand the release of Rep. Nicole Collier (D). Texas Republicans TX have locked her inside the chamber for refusing to sign a “permission slip” authorizing 24/7 police surveillance. This is fascism in plain sight. Shame on the TX Democrats for not standing with her against this #TXLeg 🧵
I can't believe that nobody is talking about the optics of a bunch of mostly white, mostly male Republicans locking this woman up and refusing her freedom to walk out the door without a police escort to make sure she complies.
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
Workers built this country and we’re taking a stand against the billionaires this #LaborDay! Be part of the movement in #Savannah #GA 📅 Monday Sept 1 🕚 11 am 🌳 Emmet Park #LaborDay #WorkersOverBillionaires #MayDayStrong www.mobilize.us/mobi...
Let’s do this, fellow Californians!
An L.A. high school senior was walking his dog. Then immigration agents grabbed him
One of Trump's many dipshits left behind sensitive documents about the Anchorage summit on a hotel copy machine -- including: names and numbers of U.S. and Russian state leaders, schedule and room locations. Yet another major national security breach. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
But tell me again how the republicans are the party that “supports families and veterans.” This is fucking evil 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
The courageous Texas Democrats have called for a national day of action on Saturday. Join (or start) an event near you to protest Trump’s effort to rig congressional maps and steal the 2026 election.
“To see so many people who frankly give a shit about their country, it really warms my heart. I’m trying really hard not to cry.” “Why this fight is so important is because there’s only one thing left for them to take, and that is our power.” - Texas House Democratic leader Gene Wu
BAY AREA: ALL EYES ON GAZA! 🇵🇸 Tues, August 12th 🇵🇸 6PM 🇵🇸 Union Square, San Francisco
.@ProPublica and @texastribune.org sued for public records after the 2022 Uvalde shooting that killed 19 children, two teachers. After much legal wrangling three years later, the district released its records and the county following. Texas DPS continues to fight www.texastribune.org/2025/08/11/u...
DC: ‘Freedom Cities’ Test Kitchen There’s a lot of talk about this so let’s dive in. Not to excuse, but let’s be clear — Trump isn’t the mastermind in D.C. He’s the puppet. And even if he’s gone, the machine keeps running. 🧵
Great job Annals of Internal Medicine!! Keep telling this heroin brain damaged trust fund deadbeat ambulance chaser to pound sand.
Paying attention to public officials and reporting what they say simply because they're public officials is a good journalistic norm that has usually served us well and we need to have abandoned it yesterday
"I wish you didn't ask me that question" - GOP Senator responding to his own constituent on an Epstein-related inquiry Voters aren't letting this go, and Republicans are being hounded for it even in the safest of safe spaces. Truly a PR crisis of their own making. www.notus.org/congress/gop...
Another must-read from Jen Rubin of the @contrariannews.org DHS isn't safeguarding anything. They are thugs in masks terrorizing residents. contrarian.substack.com/p/dhs-is-a-m...
Trump lying with every sentence as he brings troops to DC, all to distract from Epstein
Actual convicted felon president says it is Dems who are weak on crime.
✊🇮🇱 This Israeli government is unacceptable We are the antidote. We must be more vocal than those fascist Jewish supremacists in Netanyahu's government; we are the majority. Join and support the Israeli and Jewish resistance wherever you are.
".. three and a half billion dollars in Presidential profits — even though my accounting is necessarily approximate — is a dizzying sum. .. he treats his public office as personal property, as an asset that is his to exploit as if he owned it."
"Trump has unveiled ... moves aimed at cutting drug prices in recent months, but he has yet to move the needle on reducing costs – much less slashing them by 1,500%, which is mathematically impossible, experts say." CNN is afraid to do basic math on its own, so it attributes it to "experts say."
Tomorrow, Newsom v. Trump goes to trial in a California court with Trump’s power to deploy National Guard troops nationwide despite the Posse Comitatus Act at issue. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
BREAKING via AP Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, the Prime Minister says. Australia's decision to recognize a Palestinian state will be formalized at the United Nations in September. Australia joins France, Britain, and Canada in announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state.
⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza. A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted. He was reporting until the moment of his death. The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out: “Silence is complicity.”
![Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAISharifo • Translated by Grok Relentless bombardment... For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City. [video of an missile exploding in the darkness]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreibhpbb35bdqm7iogoq5hidys6jsizv2s5d4dexib7orwfcfhmm7ry@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The historical scope of the changes we are living through are genuinely mind boggling. I’m so head down on solving persuasion problems and writing tactical shit but like - the VRA is about to be torpedoed. Holy shit. The Death of the Fourth American Republic www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
"The collapse of American democracy is like the pandemic: Whatever you say at the beginning will sound alarmist – but likely prove inadequate by the end." Stuart Stevens
On Sundays we do dread less Sunday where we share fphotos of anything that brought us a feeling other than dread, unless dread is needed! Here’s our contribution, and if you want, add your dreadless photo in the comments or do your own post and tag us! #dreadlesssunday
For our colleagues and friends at Roybal - if you have equipment at Roybal campus that you left behind and need to get but do not want to be on campus (or want a buddy to walk with you), please DM us for help. (Or reach out via signal at altCDC.99 or email altCDCtips@proton.me) #YouAreNotAlone 🫶
The small liberal arts colleges are much less dependent on these grants than big research universities. Look to them for leadership here - and demand it if you're an alumn.
Trump is turning the FBI into an East German-style Stasi. In front of our very eyes.
PALANTIR EMPLOYEES: Destroy your company from the inside, or live in shame for the rest of your lives for the evil things you are complicit in.
The most corrupt US "president " ever. Hopefully and ever will be. Lock Him Up.
How convenient. All of a sudden money is not free speech anymore.
This comes the same week as a lawsuit was filed to block the courthouse arrest policy.