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lenpar.bsky.social
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This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

@alsobrooks.senate.gov Disappointed in your support of theS.1582 - GENIUS Act.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/fi...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

submitted 19 days ago • 1734 comments

www.nokings.org

submitted 18 days ago • 972 comments

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months. “I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.” With @sltrib.com

submitted 20 days ago • 71 comments

Stand up to him, get rewarded. Try to placate, he'll just demand more. The way is clear

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma. www.eenews.net/articles/elo...

submitted 22 days ago • 36 comments

Remember when republicans said we couldn’t have gun control because the real solution was mental health services?

submitted 23 days ago • 40 comments

Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

submitted 28 days ago • 84 comments

😳 what are we doing? gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

submitted 31 days ago • 266 comments

NEW: In a news release published Monday, the City of Hyattsville Police Department said: “At no time did any member of the HPD identify or file any reports classifying Abrego Garcia as a member of any gang,” HPD’s statement read. This contradicts DHS' claim. www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

submitted 30 days ago • 291 comments

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

submitted 31 days ago • 155 comments

It’s elementary. If only one side is pushing it will get a lot of its way. The only workable remedial action is to make clear to all relevant parties that there are two sides pushing. And act accordingly.

submitted 31 days ago • 52 comments

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The United States government quite literally disappeared these people. It won't say where they are. We don't know. Their families do not know where they are. And they have essentially no recourse in U.S. courts because there are no records of their whereabouts."

submitted 31 days ago • 242 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 33 days ago • 311 comments

and there is more of this for democrats to do! demand to see the other people renditioned to this prison! conduct on camera interviews with people who have lost social security, veterans benefits and medical care because of DOGE, hold rallies against the administration’s lawlessness!

submitted 35 days ago • 74 comments

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

submitted 35 days ago • 1071 comments

BREAKING: New York State Attorney General Letitia James breaks her silence, responding to Trump's retaliation against her and hands him his ass. Letitia James is a fearless woman. Must-watch:

submitted 35 days ago • 274 comments

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

submitted 35 days ago • 2482 comments

The photo of the delegation for reference:

submitted 36 days ago • 80 comments

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

In this valuable article by @noupside.bsky.social she reminds us of the value of responding to bad-faith political theater with your own strategic, subversive spectacle. Langston Hughes is my hero for being brave and brilliant at this. Called before the HUAC, he filibustered. 🧵

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

This is a lie. Here's how Mr. Abrego gets back. 1. Bukele releases him from CECOT. 2. The US gives him humanitarian parole as part of the court order requiring them to facilitate his return. 3. His family buys him a plane ticket. 4. He flies home. THIS ISN'T HARD.

submitted 39 days ago • 177 comments