Kevin Courtade
@kevinwritesthings.bsky.social
Finding an 'excuse' to use the powers of the government on an individual's speech is an affront to every person's 1st and 4th amendment rights. It's not what I or others have to hide that I fear, it is these people's definition of wrong.
Meghan McCain Urges Trump to Hire Laura Loomer to ‘Research Foreign Students All Day and Find an Excuse to Block Them’
"I would love to research foreign students all day and find an excuse to block them from coming into our country based on their radicalism,” Loomer wrote
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May 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Finding an 'excuse' to use the powers of the government on an individual's speech is an affront to every person's 1st and 4th amendment rights. It's not what I or others have to hide that I fear, it is these people's definition of wrong.
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Breaking news: New civil rights division chief said more than 100 attorneys have left their jobs, in many cases because they disagreed with the office’s new focus on combating anti-Christian bias, transgender athletes in women’s sports, and “woke ideology.”
Civil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shifts
Civil rights director Harmeet K. Dhillon redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias and what she calls “woke ideology.”
www.washingtonpost.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Breaking news: New civil rights division chief said more than 100 attorneys have left their jobs, in many cases because they disagreed with the office’s new focus on combating anti-Christian bias, transgender athletes in women’s sports, and “woke ideology.”
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there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
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one other way to think of this is that it is a massive program of upwards redistribution to wealthy business owners who can skimp on worker, consumer and environmental safety to juice profits for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
one other way to think of this is that it is a massive program of upwards redistribution to wealthy business owners who can skimp on worker, consumer and environmental safety to juice profits for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/wO...
"Trump just signed an EO to wipe out every environmental/wildlife protection act of the last hundred years."
Conservatives don't actually want to conserve anything. They are just corrupt fascists trying to make a buck by ridding guarantees of safety for Americans.
"Trump just signed an EO to wipe out every environmental/wildlife protection act of the last hundred years."
Conservatives don't actually want to conserve anything. They are just corrupt fascists trying to make a buck by ridding guarantees of safety for Americans.
From the 50501 community on Reddit: Trump just signed an EO to wipe out every environmental/wildlife protection act of the last hundred years.
Posted by HumusSapien - 1,639 votes and 133 comments
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April 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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"Trump just signed an EO to wipe out every environmental/wildlife protection act of the last hundred years."
Conservatives don't actually want to conserve anything. They are just corrupt fascists trying to make a buck by ridding guarantees of safety for Americans.
"Trump just signed an EO to wipe out every environmental/wildlife protection act of the last hundred years."
Conservatives don't actually want to conserve anything. They are just corrupt fascists trying to make a buck by ridding guarantees of safety for Americans.
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Reagan was wrong, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to hurt" is actually much more terrifying
April 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Reagan was wrong, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to hurt" is actually much more terrifying
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Your rights are not protected by the paper they are written on, they are protected by the strength of your resistance. Join a protest near you. #3E #fiftyfiftyone
April 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Your rights are not protected by the paper they are written on, they are protected by the strength of your resistance. Join a protest near you. #3E #fiftyfiftyone
www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/p...
When people resign in protest, it's usually because they're saying: "These people just suck. I can't work with people who would do this."
Yea, they kinda suck.
When people resign in protest, it's usually because they're saying: "These people just suck. I can't work with people who would do this."
Yea, they kinda suck.
Acting IRS commissioner resigning after agency reaches data-sharing deal with immigration authorities | CNN Politics
Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Melanie Krause informed her staff Tuesday she is leaving the agency amid internal chaos and the exodus of several senior IRS officials, according to two cu...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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When people resign in protest, it's usually because they're saying: "These people just suck. I can't work with people who would do this."
Yea, they kinda suck.
When people resign in protest, it's usually because they're saying: "These people just suck. I can't work with people who would do this."
Yea, they kinda suck.
It is unconscionable to ship any American to be jailed in a foreign nation. If we are to curtail a person's liberty for the public's safety, it is our responsibility and duty to care for them ourselves; not subject them to imprisonment in a land unknown to them, and out of jurisdiction of our laws.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It is unconscionable to ship any American to be jailed in a foreign nation. If we are to curtail a person's liberty for the public's safety, it is our responsibility and duty to care for them ourselves; not subject them to imprisonment in a land unknown to them, and out of jurisdiction of our laws.
So I'm listening to an EDM remix of Messy, by Łaszewo, and the 11 a.m. test of the tornado siren just fit perfectly into the track. Just needed to share that with someone.
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
So I'm listening to an EDM remix of Messy, by Łaszewo, and the 11 a.m. test of the tornado siren just fit perfectly into the track. Just needed to share that with someone.
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" - Some expert on the topic.
It is time to start calling spades, spades.
It is time to start calling spades, spades.
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" - Some expert on the topic.
It is time to start calling spades, spades.
It is time to start calling spades, spades.
Sometimes I write to formalize my thoughts. This was a thought I was having a few mornings ago that I needed to write down while I was thinking of family members and friends impacted by the current mass firings in the public sector.
February 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sometimes I write to formalize my thoughts. This was a thought I was having a few mornings ago that I needed to write down while I was thinking of family members and friends impacted by the current mass firings in the public sector.
This is just one issue among many facing us.
Instead, let any who would question one's birthright have theirs questioned in return.
Instead, let any who would question one's birthright have theirs questioned in return.
February 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is just one issue among many facing us.
Instead, let any who would question one's birthright have theirs questioned in return.
Instead, let any who would question one's birthright have theirs questioned in return.
People are losing access to needed health information because of Republican culture war politics. This will cause real harm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
People are losing access to needed health information because of Republican culture war politics. This will cause real harm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...