AlysiaJG
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Multnomah County is gutting social services that keep people housed. every program that aids the poor and marginalized. mental health services and county adult special services, all axed. DA Nathan Vasquez is asking for a budget increase
next year Oregon will give back roughly $1.5 billion in taxes
next year Oregon will give back roughly $1.5 billion in taxes
May 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Multnomah County is gutting social services that keep people housed. every program that aids the poor and marginalized. mental health services and county adult special services, all axed. DA Nathan Vasquez is asking for a budget increase
next year Oregon will give back roughly $1.5 billion in taxes
next year Oregon will give back roughly $1.5 billion in taxes
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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
www.rollingstone.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
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"The outcome of this is basically the creation of this transnational penal colony where a president, a head of state, can make a deal with President Bukele and disappear undesirables indefinitely.”
Read my full report here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read my full report here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans
Donald Trump is cementing a partnership with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, whose assault on civil rights is being mirrored in the U.S.
www.rollingstone.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"The outcome of this is basically the creation of this transnational penal colony where a president, a head of state, can make a deal with President Bukele and disappear undesirables indefinitely.”
Read my full report here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Read my full report here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
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I wrote for MSNBC about the grotesque irony of Trump stripping due process from innocent people while he himself gleefully exploits it to evade criminal accountability. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The grim irony of a convicted felon denying immigrants their right to due process
President Trump was afforded due process under the law. Many immigrants caught in his deportation blitz are being denied those same rights.
www.msnbc.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I wrote for MSNBC about the grotesque irony of Trump stripping due process from innocent people while he himself gleefully exploits it to evade criminal accountability. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Or more plainly, obvious voter suppression
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would require voters to prove they are US citizens. The sweeping order attempts to prevent states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day and seeks to take away federal funding from states that do not comply reut.rs/4j3b9fd
Trump signs election order calling for proof of U.S. citizenship to vote
The sweeping order also would seek to take federal funding away from states that do not comply.
reut.rs
March 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Or more plainly, obvious voter suppression
Everyone is at risk in this regime, legal status be damned.
Also needs to be reiterated that lack of legal status shouldn’t diminish the horror of these moves.
Also needs to be reiterated that lack of legal status shouldn’t diminish the horror of these moves.
WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS.
He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check.
Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check.
Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
March 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Everyone is at risk in this regime, legal status be damned.
Also needs to be reiterated that lack of legal status shouldn’t diminish the horror of these moves.
Also needs to be reiterated that lack of legal status shouldn’t diminish the horror of these moves.
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Occupying Gaza and establishing military rule there would go beyond Israel's stated war goals to end Hamas rule and free hostages captured in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
Israel's latest war plans: to occupy Gaza and rule Palestinians
Occupying Gaza and establishing military rule there would go beyond Israel's stated war goals to end Hamas rule and free hostages captured in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
www.npr.org
March 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Occupying Gaza and establishing military rule there would go beyond Israel's stated war goals to end Hamas rule and free hostages captured in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
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The death toll reached the milestone just days after Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza, breaking a ceasefire with Hamas.
Palestinian deaths in Gaza rise above 50,000 as Israel expands its military campaign
The death toll reached the milestone just days after Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza, breaking a ceasefire with Hamas.
www.npr.org
March 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The death toll reached the milestone just days after Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza, breaking a ceasefire with Hamas.
They know exactly who will suffer the most from this, and that’s the point.
BREAKING: Flanked by students and educators, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to essentially dismantle the federal Department of Education, making good on a longstanding campaign promise to conservatives reut.rs/4kNfaq7
Trump signs order aimed at dismantling US Department of Education
Flanked by students and educators, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order intended to essentially dismantle the federal Department of Education, making good on a longstanding campaign promise to conservatives.
reut.rs
March 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
They know exactly who will suffer the most from this, and that’s the point.
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you can say they're not sane or their arguments don't pass constitutional muster till you're blue in the face. they have the power. they're doing it. And unless they are stopped they will keep doing it.
In the 2000s, the Supreme Court ruled time and again that even suspected terrorists captured in war zones overseas were entitled to due process.
In no sane world does Rubio's position pass constitutional muster.
In no sane world does Rubio's position pass constitutional muster.
Rubio’s position seems to be:
- We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us.
- Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges.
- After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.
- We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us.
- Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges.
- After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.
March 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
you can say they're not sane or their arguments don't pass constitutional muster till you're blue in the face. they have the power. they're doing it. And unless they are stopped they will keep doing it.
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Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, House Republicans introduced a measure to do just that.
House Republicans move swiftly to impeach judge targeted by Trump
Judge James Boasberg is at least the fifth judge to face a Republican impeachment effort.
www.axios.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, House Republicans introduced a measure to do just that.
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For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.
We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era
Taken together, these actions and declarations amount to a significant escalation in Trump’s transformation of his own presidency into an autocracy.
slate.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.
Chilling and expected.
One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.
'Move Fast': Inside Team Trump's Furious Defiance of the Courts
Donald Trump's advisers are attacking judges for daring to “control” him. Trump wants the one objecting to his deportation plans to be “IMPEACHED!!!”
www.rollingstone.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Chilling and expected.
No hero is coming to save us.
Playing by the rules won’t work when all the rules have already been broken with impunity.
Massive collective action by the people is our only hope.
Playing by the rules won’t work when all the rules have already been broken with impunity.
Massive collective action by the people is our only hope.
SCOOP: House Democratic leadership is "very unhappy" with those who went beyond traditional protest tactics, such as outfit coordination and refusal to clap during Trump's speech to Congress.
Scoop: House Democratic leaders privately confront Trump speech disruptors
Roughly a dozen Democrats were called into what one source described as a "come to Jesus" meeting.
www.axios.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
No hero is coming to save us.
Playing by the rules won’t work when all the rules have already been broken with impunity.
Massive collective action by the people is our only hope.
Playing by the rules won’t work when all the rules have already been broken with impunity.
Massive collective action by the people is our only hope.
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Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside DOGE’s Clash With the Federal Workforce
With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s programmers seized control of a key personnel agency; ‘rogue bureaucrats’ fight back.
www.wsj.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders:
The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."
The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders:
The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."
The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."
Incredibly important thread documenting the many things disappearing from govt websites
A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned
Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Incredibly important thread documenting the many things disappearing from govt websites
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The Department of Education told schools to stop DEI efforts or risk losing federal dollars. The president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation warns it won't be quick and easy.
Schools, colleges have 2 weeks to ban DEI. An education expert warns it won't be easy
The Department of Education told schools to stop DEI efforts or risk losing federal dollars. The president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation warns it won't be quick and easy.
www.npr.org
February 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Department of Education told schools to stop DEI efforts or risk losing federal dollars. The president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation warns it won't be quick and easy.
This is barbaric
The Trump administration has told organizations that provide federally funded legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children to halt the service.
Legal organizations told to stop federally funded work for unaccompanied migrant children
A stop-work order by the Interior Department halts legal work for children who crossed the border without their parents.
www.nbcnews.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is barbaric
The rule of law means nothing to this admin. It’s going to take much more than that to get us out of this mess.
A judge last week ruled that the freeze on foreign aid must be reversed. But Trump's USAID team responded that many contracts give them the right to halt funding.
Trump officials will not restart most foreign aid despite court order
A judge last week ruled that the freeze on foreign aid must be reversed. But Trump's USAID team responded that many contracts give them the right to halt funding.
www.npr.org
February 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The rule of law means nothing to this admin. It’s going to take much more than that to get us out of this mess.
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Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Trump’s DOJ Erases Report On Violence Against Native American Women
www.huffpost.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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This move to try to erase transgender people from the Stonewall Monument is cruel, pathetic, and historically inaccurate.
Trans New Yorkers played a critical role in the events at Stonewall and in the movement for equality that it inspired.
apnews.com/article/ston...
Trans New Yorkers played a critical role in the events at Stonewall and in the movement for equality that it inspired.
apnews.com/article/ston...
US Park Service erases the word 'transgender' from website commemorating Stonewall riot
References to transgender people have been removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument.
apnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This move to try to erase transgender people from the Stonewall Monument is cruel, pathetic, and historically inaccurate.
Trans New Yorkers played a critical role in the events at Stonewall and in the movement for equality that it inspired.
apnews.com/article/ston...
Trans New Yorkers played a critical role in the events at Stonewall and in the movement for equality that it inspired.
apnews.com/article/ston...
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So now warning viewers about racist content is DEI: Disney becomes the latest company to preempitvely succumb to Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...
Disney scales back content warnings on classic films amid DEI shift
Classic films including “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan” will no longer autoplay warnings about racial stereotypes. It comes as Trump cracks down on diversity initiatives.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
So now warning viewers about racist content is DEI: Disney becomes the latest company to preempitvely succumb to Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...
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Important and appropriate A1 play in the NYT print paper today for the story Kirsten Grind and I did on the 11 federal agencies that had targeted Musk companies for investigations/lawsuit that have now been disrupted in a way that benefits Musk. A free link as well.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Important and appropriate A1 play in the NYT print paper today for the story Kirsten Grind and I did on the 11 federal agencies that had targeted Musk companies for investigations/lawsuit that have now been disrupted in a way that benefits Musk. A free link as well.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...