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"They released their insane asylum population into our country" -- Trump still thinks that people who make political asylum claims come from insane asylums
July 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"They released their insane asylum population into our country" -- Trump still thinks that people who make political asylum claims come from insane asylums
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FEMA is preparing to distribute $608M to the states for the construction of new immigrant detention facilities. The funding is part of the Trump admin’s broader effort to "expand the nation's capacity to detain migrants, amid heightened immigration enforcement and surging border apprehensions".
July 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
FEMA is preparing to distribute $608M to the states for the construction of new immigrant detention facilities. The funding is part of the Trump admin’s broader effort to "expand the nation's capacity to detain migrants, amid heightened immigration enforcement and surging border apprehensions".
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Today, in the age of Donald Trump, we face a government which is indeed willing to directly terrorize people in this country with the threat of torture (even if in a distant land).
The Trump Administration Is Reviving Institutionalized Torture
The ambient threat of torture is a form of social control, encouraging everyone else to comply with and bow down before the regime.
www.thenation.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today, in the age of Donald Trump, we face a government which is indeed willing to directly terrorize people in this country with the threat of torture (even if in a distant land).
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The DOJ lawsuit against LA for not helping with federal immigration policy violates the 10th Amendment, which provides that powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states as independent sovereigns.
bit.ly/44l4kBu
bit.ly/44l4kBu
Federal Efforts to Punish Sanctuary Cities Are Unconstitutional
While states and cities can choose to help enforce federal law, the 10th Amendment means that the U.S. government can’t force them to do so.
www.brennancenter.org
July 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The DOJ lawsuit against LA for not helping with federal immigration policy violates the 10th Amendment, which provides that powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states as independent sovereigns.
bit.ly/44l4kBu
bit.ly/44l4kBu
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Truly sickening story about a father who was actively in the process of leaving the country to start a new life with his family in Spain and instead was sent to the concentration camp in Florida
A Miami Dad Was Leaving the U.S. He Ended Up at Alligator Alcatraz.
"My dad is not a criminal," Carla Artese, a 19-year-old living in Miami, says.
www.miaminewtimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Truly sickening story about a father who was actively in the process of leaving the country to start a new life with his family in Spain and instead was sent to the concentration camp in Florida
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While Trump's fascist budget cuts the funding for Medicaid, SNAP, and education, he and Nazi Noem used $200M for TV commercials thanking Trump for his immigration policy.
Noem said Trump directed her to issue the ads thanking him.
That's $200 million of our taxpayer money for this propaganda bs.
Noem said Trump directed her to issue the ads thanking him.
That's $200 million of our taxpayer money for this propaganda bs.
Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea
Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he instructed her to make ads that “thank me for closing the border.”
www.rollingstone.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
While Trump's fascist budget cuts the funding for Medicaid, SNAP, and education, he and Nazi Noem used $200M for TV commercials thanking Trump for his immigration policy.
Noem said Trump directed her to issue the ads thanking him.
That's $200 million of our taxpayer money for this propaganda bs.
Noem said Trump directed her to issue the ads thanking him.
That's $200 million of our taxpayer money for this propaganda bs.
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The incompetence of this administration is stunning.
Two days after the floods in Texas, FEMA failed to answer two-thirds of incoming calls. Contractors were laid off on July 5th, and Kristi Noem didn’t renew their contracts until five days later.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
Two days after the floods in Texas, FEMA failed to answer two-thirds of incoming calls. Contractors were laid off on July 5th, and Kristi Noem didn’t renew their contracts until five days later.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The incompetence of this administration is stunning.
Two days after the floods in Texas, FEMA failed to answer two-thirds of incoming calls. Contractors were laid off on July 5th, and Kristi Noem didn’t renew their contracts until five days later.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
Two days after the floods in Texas, FEMA failed to answer two-thirds of incoming calls. Contractors were laid off on July 5th, and Kristi Noem didn’t renew their contracts until five days later.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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Cannabis farmworker in California dies after chaotic federal immigration raid
The manager of one farm, Edgar Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and had his arm twisted behind his back after he asked to see a warrant.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The manager of one farm, Edgar Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and had his arm twisted behind his back after he asked to see a warrant.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Cannabis farmworker in California dies day after chaotic federal immigration raid
The manager of one farm, Edgar Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and had his arm twisted behind his back after he asked to see a warrant.
www.nbcnews.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Cannabis farmworker in California dies after chaotic federal immigration raid
The manager of one farm, Edgar Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and had his arm twisted behind his back after he asked to see a warrant.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The manager of one farm, Edgar Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and had his arm twisted behind his back after he asked to see a warrant.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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We do have a secret police in the United States now. Unidentified agents, without accountability, serving an autocrat and targeting law-abiding people who present no threat.
🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car.
They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.
Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.
(🎥 ABC 7 News)
They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.
Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.
(🎥 ABC 7 News)
July 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
We do have a secret police in the United States now. Unidentified agents, without accountability, serving an autocrat and targeting law-abiding people who present no threat.
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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Kristi Noem and Donald Trump delayed FEMA for 3 DAYS in Texas. The Trump administration’s consolidation of power means the government won’t be there for you when you need it.
July 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Kristi Noem and Donald Trump delayed FEMA for 3 DAYS in Texas. The Trump administration’s consolidation of power means the government won’t be there for you when you need it.
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"A government does not pass a bill designating a record amount of money for secret police without sweeping intent."
~ @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
~ @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"A government does not pass a bill designating a record amount of money for secret police without sweeping intent."
~ @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
~ @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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Trump now has his own Gestappo in the form of ICE. His own army.
Who stops them?
I really dont know.
Who stops them?
I really dont know.
July 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump now has his own Gestappo in the form of ICE. His own army.
Who stops them?
I really dont know.
Who stops them?
I really dont know.
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America is under attack by an authoritarian faction of far-right radicals who have seized the Republican Party. They don’t care about the country or its Constitution or institutions, and want to convert the US government into a weapon against their racial and cultural enemies
July 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
America is under attack by an authoritarian faction of far-right radicals who have seized the Republican Party. They don’t care about the country or its Constitution or institutions, and want to convert the US government into a weapon against their racial and cultural enemies
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Praying in the House, while preparing to vote away benefits for seniors, children, and the sick. Hypocrisy at its finest.
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Praying in the House, while preparing to vote away benefits for seniors, children, and the sick. Hypocrisy at its finest.
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When they announced "Alligator Alcatraz" the only follow up question should have been: "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
July 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
When they announced "Alligator Alcatraz" the only follow up question should have been: "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
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DOJ was broken before Trump got in. It is, in fact, *how* Trump got in: DOJ started investigating him in 1973 but refused to prosecute, instead maintaining a decades-long corrupt collaboration. Beware any podcaster/pundit/pol who told you to trust DOJ over the past decade. That was a propaganda op.
Trump’s demand for fealty to him, rather than to the law, has broken DOJ. Federal judges across the country are taking notice. contrarian.substack.com/p/as-doj-law...
As DOJ Lawyers Face Alarming Pressure to be “Trump’s Lawyers,” Judges Are Sending Up Flares.
Trump’s demand for fealty to him, rather than to the law, has broken DOJ.
contrarian.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
DOJ was broken before Trump got in. It is, in fact, *how* Trump got in: DOJ started investigating him in 1973 but refused to prosecute, instead maintaining a decades-long corrupt collaboration. Beware any podcaster/pundit/pol who told you to trust DOJ over the past decade. That was a propaganda op.
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Fascists talk about feminism to destroy trans people.
They talk about equality to destroy diversity.
They talk about fairness to destroy justice.
Stop extending to fascists any benefit of the doubt, and withdraw it from any who insist on extending it. They are just two arms of the same beast.
They talk about equality to destroy diversity.
They talk about fairness to destroy justice.
Stop extending to fascists any benefit of the doubt, and withdraw it from any who insist on extending it. They are just two arms of the same beast.
June 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Fascists talk about feminism to destroy trans people.
They talk about equality to destroy diversity.
They talk about fairness to destroy justice.
Stop extending to fascists any benefit of the doubt, and withdraw it from any who insist on extending it. They are just two arms of the same beast.
They talk about equality to destroy diversity.
They talk about fairness to destroy justice.
Stop extending to fascists any benefit of the doubt, and withdraw it from any who insist on extending it. They are just two arms of the same beast.
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ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
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Even with everything else going on, I am still fixated on this obscenely terrible and dangerous headline from the Washington Post.
Do they really believe that Democrats are looking to be politically targeted, manhandled, handcuffed and arrested or are they sucking up to their billionaire owner?
Do they really believe that Democrats are looking to be politically targeted, manhandled, handcuffed and arrested or are they sucking up to their billionaire owner?
June 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Even with everything else going on, I am still fixated on this obscenely terrible and dangerous headline from the Washington Post.
Do they really believe that Democrats are looking to be politically targeted, manhandled, handcuffed and arrested or are they sucking up to their billionaire owner?
Do they really believe that Democrats are looking to be politically targeted, manhandled, handcuffed and arrested or are they sucking up to their billionaire owner?
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1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people.
Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.
Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.
June 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
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I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.
June 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.
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The New York Times making it sound as if the United States is just about to join a super-prestigious club, when it's really slipping (slipped?) into the company of countries ruled by extrajudicial despots.
June 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The New York Times making it sound as if the United States is just about to join a super-prestigious club, when it's really slipping (slipped?) into the company of countries ruled by extrajudicial despots.