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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been released after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey pix11.com/news/local-n...

submitted 19 hours ago • 299 comments

Please spread the correct information about Mayor Baraka's arrest. He had apparently been trying for a few days to visit the ICE prison and was rebuffed. Then the members of Congress tried to visit today and were made to wait in the waiting area for 90 minutes. Then 20 ICE Gestapo showed up...

submitted 22 hours ago • 86 comments

Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?

submitted 1 day ago • 908 comments

Check this out

submitted 22 hours ago • 35 comments

UPDATE: The govt gives Judge Farbiarz four more historical examples from the 1990s of the secretary of state invoking foreign-policy reasons to deport a noncitizen—predictably, none sound anything like Mahmoud Khalil's case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

when you see a Black person on social media naming racism, as a white person your response should be: let me listen to this person who has some historical insight into the identity i’ve been socialized into so that i can break from it and become a righteous actor in history.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Pillow magnate Mike Lindell has asked a court to delay his trial over his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, on the grounds that his lawyers are now busy dealing with the judge's wrath over a pleading they filed that appeared to cite nonexistent cases made up by an AI.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

Stealing kids and secretly shipping them to a foreign country is the definition of child trafficking, isn't it.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

The trackers (Flights and Disappeared persons) are updated every 1 to 2 days even if not posted. The Disappeared Tracker includes the 3 Citizen Children (2,4, and 7) deported to Honduras in the past few days among others. The Flights Tracker is out of beta and working properly /1

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Please don’t let Bernie Sanders within two feet of Shady Vance.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Insanity. Sheer insanity.

submitted 18 days ago • 288 comments

The world stands with Ukraine. We reject Russia and its Trump regime puppet government in D.C.

submitted 17 days ago • 135 comments

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

submitted 18 days ago • 3271 comments

I keep wondering if there's a secret Project 2026 that House Democrats have in place. If there are elections and they win the House, what are they going to DO immediately.

submitted 21 days ago • 67 comments

This is just the beginning. They will not stop.

submitted 21 days ago • 147 comments

19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez was arrested just steps from his apartment in the Bronx. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.’”

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments

If you are facing an investigative #polygraph examination in federal govt, reach out to me for guidance. I've been handling examinations for over 25 years.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

#Cowards

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

On today’s episode of “He’s Tearing This S**t Up”—Trump plans to dismantle NOAA, shutting down climate research and weather labs. In Texas, that means fewer hurricane warnings, less drought data, & more risk to our communities. This isn’t just a budget cut—it’s a threat to our safety.

submitted 29 days ago • 249 comments

This is the way.

submitted 29 days ago • 98 comments

#MomSky I hope you understand this message!

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Wow! The US is adopting bad 80s parenting tactics as an international relations strategy. How long until they threaten a country with “you just wait until your father gets home”?

submitted 29 days ago • 61 comments

I’ve long said that if rule of law ceases to exist such that the president can get away with deliberately ignoring court orders, the country is no longer a democracy by definition. That’s currently being tested in the US—and it’s up to the judiciary to not back down.

submitted 29 days ago • 44 comments

Also, @abovethelaw.com has put together a #Biglaw Spine Index And they are looking for tips abovethelaw.com/2025/04/bigl...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

That’s an interesting and quite clever approach that lets you incorporate changes in tariffs as they come

submitted 31 days ago • 53 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

submitted 32 days ago • 822 comments

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

submitted 32 days ago • 1205 comments

An app called “Habeas” that when you say “Siri, Habeas” it transmits your location and an emergency ping to a volunteer network of lawyers and a designated emergency contact with a pre-filled petition.

submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments

IMPORTANT: Sotomayor, in the dissent, emphasizes that all 9 justices believe that the Trump administration cannot do what it wants to do: shove people onto a plane with NO due process. They openly told the DC Circuit they were going to do that if they won. On that issue, they lost.

submitted 32 days ago • 112 comments

So torn rn bc I thrive on Jamie Dimon suffering

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I highly recommend you watch this in its entirely. Imagine this was you or your loved one when you listen to the last quote. Absolutely chilling.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

One of these students was thrown into a detention center where they've now been detained for 10 days. Beyond unconscionable.

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

submitted 33 days ago • 329 comments

Fired Justice Department employee reveals that Trump officials tried to send armed officers to her home to intimidate her and her family: “I will not be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power.”

submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments

As an introvert, I LOVE this one. #MomSky

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Woke For @rawstory.com

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 32 days ago • 85 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 32 days ago • 527 comments

Sure you’ve lost your life savings but hey at least you can say all the slurs you want in the break room of the job you no longer have

submitted 33 days ago • 28 comments