"Remind yourself constantly that no one gave you your identity, truth, or power, and no one can take them away without your permission." ⤵️

This is unacceptable! Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, reporting that Navajo citizens in Arizona and New Mexico have faced “negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences” with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants after Trump’s recent immigration orders.

Musk and his team have hostilely taken over OPM. Tonight’s email to fed employees mirrors the “Fork in the Road” message sent to Twitter (now X) staff after Musk’s 2022 takeover. He is working with the Trump administration to build profiles on federal workers based on loyalty (political standing).

1,179 people arrested total. 566 people arrested "were only detained because they lacked legal authorization to remain in the U.S." When ICE claims they are only arresting "criminals," they are trying to redefine "criminal." Which is kind of the point of the category: it can hold anyone disfavored.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we must recommit ourselves to educating each other about the horrors of the Holocaust — and fight back against authoritarianism.

There isn't "too much focus on past guilt."

There's a blatant attempt to rewrite the atrocities of the past.

hats. Most small newspapers that still exist are down to skeleton staff. After being laid off from BIT, I am now using my skills at a non-newspaper business.
The consequences of news “deserts” is that no one is covering local government meetings, so local leaders can basically do whatever they want

“The chairman of Israel's official Holocaust memorial has accused Elon Musk of insulting the victims of Nazism and endangering Germany’s democratic future after the billionaire addressed a rally for Germany’s far-right party on Saturday.”

Americans voted for cheaper groceries. Less than a week on the job and Trump's already managed to get us into a trade war that will drive up the cost of coffee and be a gut-punch to American farmers and manufacturers, all because Colombia hurt his feelings.

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Big news from Chicago today, as ICE began raids.

A story in Bolts a few days ago on how immigrants rights groups in Chicago worked to shore up sanctuary protections heading into this week and build up support among city leaders: boltsmag.org/chicago-immi...

Maria Moe had been held in a low-security women's facility with no disturbance, complaints, or disciplinary record. Trump has held her in solitary confinement for the past four days and plans to send Moe, who transitioned at 15, to a men's prison where she risks facing abuse, assault, and rape.

NEW: Dozens of Native American residents of sober living homes and addiction recovery facilities in Arizona died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people.

By @maryhudetz.bsky.social & @azcir.org's @hannahbassett.bsky.social

Excellent post

The central core of Trumpism is voter suppression and election subversion. Too many people only pay attention to this right before elections and forget it once elections are over.

We must take this threat literally and seriously if we want to have free and fair elections in the future.

NEW: Multiple data analyses show that the voters whose ballots were targeted by a North Carolina Supreme Court candidate are disproportionately Black, Democratic and young.

These are some of those voters’ stories.

By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

The people whose safety is most likely to be immediately impacted by Trump's order are trans women in federal custody—the order instructs the federal Bureau of Prisons to move them to men's facilities. No reason to think BOP would delay that. (Also: please reach out if you have a tip on this.)