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Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers. The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration. Always follow the money.

submitted 26 days ago • 78 comments

Take your time with this one…

submitted 49 days ago • 128 comments

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submitted 57 days ago • 395 comments

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

submitted 57 days ago • 1372 comments

"A new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism" 😳

submitted 63 days ago • 618 comments

This government report from 1973 encapsulates America's then-emerging fears about the US government cross-referencing databases to engineer social policy absent due process, and tendency of governments to categorize people deemed "high risk" www.justice.gov/opcl/docs/re...

submitted 62 days ago • 15 comments

Bill stripping child labor protections in Florida to allow minors to work without breaks and before 6am and after 11pm on school nights just passed its final House committee. Public testimony was limited to one minute. Same bill DeSantis said is meant to replace migrant workers.

submitted 63 days ago • 199 comments

“RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans *** In addition, a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism...” (Given the Trump administrations many ties to associates of Palantir [co-founded by Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale], this concerns me.) 1/

submitted 63 days ago • 98 comments

Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

submitted 69 days ago • 1017 comments

He wants to deport US citizens...

submitted 70 days ago • 300 comments

Read this 1941 Harper’s piece by the inimitable Dorothy Thompson and tell me where she got her crystal ball for “Mr. D” harpers.org/archive/1941...

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My God. ICE wrongfully arrested a man while his 5-year-old autistic child sat in the backseat—and shipped him off to an El Salvador prison. No due process. Now the Trump administration claims they can’t get him back. How many more? THIS NEEDS TO BE A BIGGER STORY.

submitted 84 days ago • 441 comments

😡😡

submitted 85 days ago • 766 comments

The past week has been another horror show, and I share your anxiety and sleeplessness. But the past week also reveals the utter incompetence of Trump and his regime. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought

submitted 86 days ago • 40 comments

The greatest threat to Donald Trump’s authoritarian dream is not the courts — it is free and fair elections. While the courts can stand in the way of his twisted vision for America, they can never completely halt it. Trump knows this. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 85 days ago • 160 comments

"Two US officials said Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including on Russia/Ukraine and on military operations. They declined to say if classified information was posted in those chats." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 85 days ago • 466 comments

As we all suspected: "Two U.S. officials also said that Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations."

submitted 85 days ago • 159 comments

Republican Congresswoman Victoria Spartz just claimed at a town hall that people in America are not guaranteed the constitutional right to due process: “You break the law, you don't have due process.”

submitted 85 days ago • 1032 comments

Democracy Docket does not sit where Donald Trump tells it to and it will never fete him at a lavish dinner. If you want to support news that is fiercely independent and uncompromisingly pro-democracy, sign up for Democracy Docket now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 85 days ago • 27 comments

This is literally all that matters to the atmosphere. It doesn't give us points for producing more renewable energy, or walking more. All it cares about is whether we Actually Cut Fossil Fuels that crank out carbon, and stop chopping the old growth forests that capture it.

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

submitted 85 days ago • 70 comments

THE SHIRTS ARE BACK IN STOCK worldwithoutcaesars.com

submitted 97 days ago • 700 comments

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

submitted 95 days ago • 165 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 96 days ago • 3306 comments

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

submitted 98 days ago • 274 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 98 days ago • 1026 comments

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

submitted 114 days ago • 3442 comments