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United States Disappeared Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.

Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.

It really is critical that people accept this. You don’t have to understand it, just accept it. The point is literally for kids and people to die. Now, is it foolish that they think THEY are the genetically superior? Sure. But eugenics is definitionally narcissistic and dumb.

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

THE ONLY PUBLIC EVIDENCE of any "wrongdoing" by Rumeysa Ozturk is an *op-ed* urging Tufts to *follow student resolutions* to recognize the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel

Palestinian, Turkish, Indian, Iranian, Gambian-British, Korean — they’re coming after all in a real way. Black, brown, Asian, Muslim or not, this is a story of rounding up, kidnapping, people of color. If you are a member of these groups or an ally, and you’re a citizen, you need to fight back.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

God save universities from their Business Schools.

The President does not have the constitutional or statutory authority to dictate the content of voter registration forms. This EO is an incredibly dangerous power grab. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

"agents apparently seeking her searched two residences on the Columbia campus with warrants that cited a criminal law known as the harboring statute, aimed at those who give shelter to noncitizens present in the United States illegally" she has a lawful permanent resident card! first word is LAWFUL

Yunseo Chung is: – a legal permanent resident – a high school valedictorian – a Columbia student who merely participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations And ICE wants to deport her. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"

The person working full-time making burgers at Burger King should be able to pay for rent, groceries, a car payment, and have some left over with their paycheck alone.

“State data shows nearly 90% of students enrolled in Ohio’s voucher program this year are not low-income qualified, a dramatic turnabout from the program’s stated initial purpose.”

Who could have predicted this other than everyone

Outright lie from Bondi, whose on Department of Justice submitted a sworn declaration that “many” of the people sent to El Salvador had no criminal record of history in the United States at all.

trump believes he is the boss of america and that it is our duty as his subjects to show him endless respect and deference. anything less than groveling is to be punished by the state.

Conjuring up the idea that we're at war also helps form a narrative explaining the hardships he creates for his supporters. The regime says, yes, everything's more expensive, and life is hard, but we are at war with your enemies, defending your future and your dignity, and that fight is costly.

We simply cannot forget this guy was a mid-level stooge just a few weeks ago who was promoted to the top after he helped DOGE and bragged about it in one of the most deranged LinkedIn posts ever written.

WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.

10,000 postal workers. The folks who worked while all of us stayed home waiting on package deliveries during COVID.

The annual State Department human rights report “will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and the disabled as well as sections dedicated to discrimination against indigenous people and corruption in government.” www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...

Rubio was unanimously confirmed. People love to ask well what do you think should democrats should do. NOT CONFIRMING THIS FUCKING GUY WOULD HAVE BEEN A SOLID START

Title 1 schools? That’s the Department of Education. Pell grants? That’s the Department of Education. IEPs? That’s the Department of Education. We need to improve education system, we do not need to eliminate the Department of Education.

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

I disagree that this moment is different from Columbia’s response to student protests. We’ve witnessed the destruction of every school and university in Gaza, which is directly related to Trumps efforts to disrupt higher Ed funding here.

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.

so, a trans teacher is getting death threats because she’s being bullied by a sitting member of congress on Xitter and this has been happening for days and not a single mainstream news outlet has even covered it

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

This is a US court of law, refusing to bar illegal actions of the Executive branch out of an explicit concern that its agents will react with deadly force.

The @chronicle.com publishing this racist’s work without comment on its historic inaccuracy, clear biases, and overall lacking in humanity is a testament to their blatantly biased “journalism”. This man shouldn’t have a moment of peace for his efforts to further institutional racism.

Again, today would be an excellent day for Ivy League, Big Ten, & all the other chancellors & university presidents to start speaking loudly & collectively against the all-out existential crisis that this assault on US higher ed represents. The silence is deafening. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

2000+ Jewish professors, staff, and students circulating a letter on Trump-Vance's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."

a court has officially ruled that transgender people can have warrior ethos

REPORT: Information from the Ministry of Health database reveals that 73% of those killed in Israeli strikes today are children, women, or the elderly.

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

Clearest proof yet that the Trump admin uses "DEI" to mean "nonwhite people doing something impressive and getting credit." Navajo Code Talkers made a big difference in WWII. The Axis had more trouble translating their language than cracking codes. And it's not like the Navajo owed the US anything.

The Department of Justice was created in 1870 with an explicit mission to protect civil rights and enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alone. How about restoring *that* focus?

During the pandemic my teen boys started following fitness influencers recommended by Minecraft gamers. I slowly started hearing my sons say things like: “women places should be at home with their kids, right?” I was a SAHM, and so I would say “women places should be whenever they choose to be”

I think we need less white men in politics. Especially if they’re going to consistently ignore their constituents and vote in favor of a fascist rapist abuser in chief. You’re a failure to the country

Ranjani Srinivasan was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship. She taught at NYU and had a Master’s in Design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Per Axios her crime was not disclosing two court summons for obstructing traffic and failing to disperse during a protest.