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young men don’t need a “left Joe Rogan” they need sports betting regulation

submitted 13 hours ago • 42 comments

Chair Comer denied our request for an official trip to El Salvador to advocate for due process and the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pretty shameful. Good thing I don’t need Comer’s permission to get on a plane.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1290 comments

@raskin.house.gov: “We learned from the last century that you cannot appease fascists and authoritarians… The reason Franklin Roosevelt said ‘There's nothing to fear but fear itself’ is he knew that people had to feel afraid, but then keep going. And that's what courage is.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

BREAKING @theassemblync.bsky.social spoke w/ families of two N.C. fathers legally in the U.S., apprehended by ICE & deported to CECOT in El Salvador. The families think its b/c: 1 They're Venezuelan 2 They have tattoos 🖊️ @jeffreybillman.bsky.social & me #ncpol www.theassemblync.com/politics/tru...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

He's running

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Another story of 1. Admin sends fascist order 2. Media reports on it 3. People are outraged, say no 4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake” Lesson is defy fascist orders kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

submitted 20 hours ago • 298 comments

Hoppy Easter! 🐇

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Tesla takedown in Boston today

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Locked in! 👻

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Stop disappointing your hair stylist by asking for "just a trim" every month. Next time bring in this picture and ask for the Tessa - flowing snowy white mane with bold black streaks. 💅

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Easy to say we're good at tactics / bad at strategy but the problem is elected officials who need to be ignored or replaced. Operatives with modern, conflict-based, attention-driven vision can't impose strategy on rich people and party leaders who disagree with us. www.fwiw.news/p/democrats-...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I've covered Van Hollen since circa 1999. He's actually not a "grandstander." In his first Congressional bid, he was the workhorse vs the showhorse. He out-hustled Mark Shriver who had far more money and had been on the cover of Time Magazine as a next-gen Kennedy. He won with an army of volunteers.

submitted 2 days ago • 169 comments

Van Hollen really deserves a look in 2028 if he wants it and keeps up the good work. Really appreciate @vanhollen.senate.gov treating the American public like we're adults who deserve information and can handle uncomfortable truths. Thank you, Senator!

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Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

This is going to sweep up U.S. citizens, too. Dragnets always do.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Let's fucking goooooo.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is happening at the Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, TX and appears to be in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Supreme Court's ruling requiring notice "afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief." It's been <24 hours.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

“'Every day I worry they could take my mom,' Ximena, 11 — who was born in California & whose Mexican mother has lived in the United States for decades — said before breaking into tears." Nine million children live in a U.S. household with at least one noncitizen adult. (📊: Kaiser Family Foundation)

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

"Trump’s determination to use immigration power as a limitless weapon to intimidate and imprison his enemies is not just a manifestation of his character. It is the most frightening element of his administration’s plan to crush liberal democracy itself." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I saw some pretty insane stats a while back, the jobs-protected-to-cost-to-everyone-else ratio of tariffs is almost always insane, and that's just as a first-order effect. That's not even taking into account opportunity costs and other second-order considerations.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

submitted 2 days ago • 517 comments

This is one of the biggest things I took away from journalism school. "300 deported illegally" is a statistic and people can't connect with it. "omg look at this poor man who didn't even do anything wrong!" is an emotional narrative that shows what those numbers mean

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Good morning. Take a breath. We have a long way to go.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Wrote about the virality of the Pride & Prejudice hand flex www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/m...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In Mahmoud Khalil's letter from ICE detention in Louisiana, he cites Japanese American incarceration and Mitsuye Endo, who was incarcerated in the Tule Lake concentration camp, and whose case before the Supreme Court led to the closing of the camps. Read his letter here: t.ly/A04cc

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The anti-immigrant animus comes also from David Shor, who's been using 'data' to drive it. Two of the most toxic people in the Democratic party in years.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Covers for @uaw.org film catalogs, circa 1950s. Long before YouTube, the union sent educational film reels across the continent so union locals could host showings for rank-and-file members. Topics ranged from The New Deal to civil rights. From the UAW Publications at @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.🎞️

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

There is no deep popular opposition to immigration, just a successful scapegoating campaign. Now revulsion at what anti-immigrant measures mean in practice, creates an opportunity to shift the conversation in favor of immigration. Excellent from @ryanlcooper.com. prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

🚨News: A prominent author reached out to me about how the Trump administration tried to denaturalize her father-in-law and end his social security benefits and Medicare. Her family speaks English and was able advocate for him. But what about those that can’t?

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 798 comments

NEW: A deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move. Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

submitted 3 days ago • 678 comments

Trump’s dumb trade war has left millions of Americans afraid for their jobs and futures. Instead of enabling him, Congressional Republicans need to end his tariff chaos. I’ve got a bill to make that happen.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

It's like they looked at individual bureaucratic errors and thought "how can we use technology to bring this to scale?"

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

It's getting very hard to avoid the conclusion that a major problem with the Democratic Party right now is that its consultancy and other agenda-defining members more or less agree with Republicans on immigration

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

First post here on Blue Sky! Foreign aid is foreign policy. When the U.S. treats it as disposable, it loses a key tool of influence and credibility. My latest on how aid has been used as leverage—and what’s at stake when that leverage disappears: #foreignpolicy #foreignaid #uspolitics

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