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Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

Nutlick just threw the truth in Trump’s face, & it’s a mess he doesn’t want to hear: his tariff "plans" are full of shit. The White House is scrambling to clean up the mess, but Nutlicker’s comments show the chaos behind the facade. The trade fiasco keeps spiraling, & Trump’s ego won’t save him.

I’m loving Chinese manufacturers airing luxury brand’s dirty laundry on TikTok. [Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRMTmyP/ ]

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

Read this. It's hard to believe it was written in early 1940, months before Walter Benjamin committed suicide... www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/CON...

Yet they claim Biden’s FEMA wasn't doing squat. Compare and contrast to their wanting to getting rid of the agency completely and it all makes sense. Or does it?

If you’ve never heard Whoopi Goldberg tell the story of how she came to be cast in the film adaptation of Dr. Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” you should definitely watch this. This right here. This Black Culture. This is Community. We are truly a remarkable people. 🖤🖤

@booker.senate.gov: "For a guy who spends the weekend on his golf course and brags to the media about him winning a tournament while the struggling-- this is the kind of gross arrogance of a Marie Antoinette saying, "let them eat cake" ... Screw him for telling people to accept pain."

www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

Learn about our local book banning fight and the movement nationwide to attach students’ freedom to read!

This is scary. Book banning has moved to collegiate level. #MomSky

Pleased to see NYT gave the military academy book banning front page treatment. (for those who have asked, not at my institution, not yet at least)

even Republican NYT wondering if the selective Republican book banning may be a little too much.

"So what if we remove titles from schools, you can still get them in public libraries" "It's not book banning if we remove them from public libraries. You can still get them on Amazon." "The government is demanding Amazon remove these books."

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

As Interior Secretary, I oversaw several law enforcement agencies. We worked to protect communities & increase trust between law enforcement & those they serve. Flashback Friday to my trip to the Mescalero Apache Nation where I met with officers & honored those lost in the line of duty.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

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i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

Your assignment this week is to read a book that some “Mom for Liberty” would bring to a school board meeting and cry about.

lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

@booker.senate.gov: "Are we a nation that is going to tolerate this, or a nation that's going to stand up? As the great Frederick Douglass said, 'the limits of tyrants are prescribed by the people that they seek to oppress.' How much will we endure before we say enough is enough?"

i think about this photo a lot

WATCH LIVE: Fighting Oligarchy Tour with AOC And Bernie Sanders in LA

Hope BlueSky will remain true to its values unlike Meta youtu.be/i9T2RKmWg80?...

#OTD in 1968, days after my father was assassinated, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act. It outlawed housing discrimination and redefined what justice looks like. But 57 years later, the racial homeownership gap is wider than it was then. We must turn promises into policy.

NYT page one: @nytimes.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=61aa...

ALL OF CALIFORNIA'S NATIONAL FORESTS. LET THAT SINK IN... www.latimes.com/environment/...

This really just happened.

Whose America Is This Anyway? open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Timothy Snyder: Fomenting Antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

Alina Habba has launched a criminal probe into New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy over "ICE obstruction." Immigration control is the responsibility of the federal government. States can’t be compelled to assist ICE under the 10th Amendment. It's amazing this failed lawyer passed the bar exam.