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With the citrus harvest at peak, farm workers are hard at work in the Bakersfield, CA orchards.

Claims that farm workers are staying home simply are not true. There is anxiety around chaotic immigration sweeps, but they continue to feed America. #WeFeedYou
January 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Trump is not king. We have a Constitution and laws in this country. Trump's illegal freeze potentially impacts a wide swath of vital programs that allow parents to work, children to thrive, and our economy to run. Add your name: action.momsrising.org/sign/trump-illegal-funding-freeze/?source=bsky
January 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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President Trump’s order freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans sent officials at schools, hospitals, nonprofit organizations and many others into a frantic scramble to understand the extent of the directive. Here's what to know.
Order to pause federal spending creates deep uncertainty for schools, nonprofits and companies.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"The orders significantly increase the chance that officers will engage in more indiscriminate enforcement tactics or face accusations of civil rights violations as they strain to meet quotas, according to current and former ICE officials."
Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests
The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained.
wapo.st
January 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Cruelty to migrants is NOT a policy solution — and never will be.
January 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM