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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1329 comments

Check the dates. It brings me no joy to say this but I've been vindicated once again.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

WATCH THIS. He gets it right Nottoway Plantation: the so-called “White Castle”, burned down. With it, a monument to whitewashed brutality. We don’t need romanticized nostalgia for slavery. We need truth. Let this be the end of pretending these places were anything but what they were: crime scenes.

submitted 3 days ago • 394 comments

The truth about the South African "refugees" from a South African....

submitted 8 days ago • 98 comments

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

submitted 11 days ago • 567 comments

Members of an immigrant family in Worcester, Massachusetts were targeted, terrorized, and seized by ICE agents this week. The father was taken into custody by ICE on Wednesday, and agents returned to the family’s home Thursday to execute an arrest of the mother — without a warrant. Worcester…

submitted 12 days ago • 740 comments

"We are now in a position in which Republican colleagues are not allowed to say whether or not they support or oppose an amendment" -- bizarre scenes at the House Committee on Natural Resources as Republicans refuse to engage with Joe Neguse's questions & instead sit in silence

submitted 14 days ago • 350 comments

This is what inspiration looks like. At Republican Rep. Mike Lawler’s town hall, @emilyjaynef.bsky.social was forcibly removed by law enforcement. The specific reason for her removal remains unclear. As she was carried out, the crowd chanted “Let her stay” in protest ✊🏼🔥

submitted 16 days ago • 54 comments

😳 what's going on here 🤷‍♂️

submitted 31 days ago • 816 comments

JUST IN: Lawyers for Venezuelan nationals say they’re being loaded onto buses this hour in anticipation of a new wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations, w less than 24 hours notice. They’re asking Judge Boasberg for an immediate restraining order requiring 30 days notice.

submitted 32 days ago • 81 comments

Another woman who would have made an awesome president

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Dang! The Chinese on TikTok aren’t taking any days off. 🤣🤣🤣

submitted 35 days ago • 484 comments

Without due process, this could be you. It could be me. It could be any or all of us. It doesn’t matter who you voted for. Or the color of your skin. You must understand what is truly at stake here. All tyranny needs to thrive is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

submitted 35 days ago • 1017 comments

Funny fact about a cage, they're never built for just one group So when that cage is done with them and you still poor, it come for you The newest lowest on the totem, well golly gee, you have been used You helped to fuel the death machine that down the line will kill you too (oops)

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

submitted 38 days ago • 274 comments

Former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer testified before Congress on Monday, accusing her former agency of “corruption and abuse of power.” She claimed that armed U.S. Marshals were sent to her home to deliver what she described as a “warning” from the DOJ, cautioning her about the risks of testifying.

submitted 43 days ago • 149 comments

No, you didn't lose money, Trump just robbed you.

submitted 43 days ago • 72 comments

Where is our humanity?

submitted 44 days ago • 1821 comments

This week has been heavy. Hope this makes y’all laugh for a little. #MomSky

submitted 46 days ago • 35 comments

#50501 Boston today #handsoff

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

Tell me again why we’re letting a 78 year old, legit smelly, odorous, frail, loser old man who bankrupted a CASINO bankrupt the country? Congress? Any answers?

submitted 46 days ago • 2925 comments

You know things are going downhill quickly when your protest signs from 2 weeks ago are already irrelevant.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

All schools should be required to teach skills that benefit individuals & the nation. How to prepare taxes. How to change a tire / spark plug. How to bake bread. How to successfully charge and prosecute a white man for crimes. Etc.

submitted 47 days ago • 98 comments

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

submitted 47 days ago • 235 comments

Wooooooooboyyyyy!!!! Democratic House Rep. Stephen Lynch goes off in the hearing on cybersecurity about the breaches by Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Mike Waltz, etc. "I am offended!" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 49 days ago • 358 comments