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From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans

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Thank you @sojo.net for sharing my latest story

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NEW: The SSA is moving all communication with the press and public to X and cutting its regional office workforce by close to 90%. "Things are going to break, and they're going to break fast," a regional commissioner told managers this week. This is from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

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From Luigi Mangione stans to J6ers. There's a lot going on in our next episode of MisinfoNation. Sunday 8p ET CNN

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“The customs official canceled Ms. Petrova’s visa on the spot and began deportation proceedings.” One way to understand Trump effect in govt: an ever widening circle of people, like low-level customs officials, get to make categorical decisions abt lives of others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

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NEW on @npr.org: A DOGE staffer working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing questionable claims about noncitizens voting — apparently using data that court records suggest DOGE shouldn't have. More on the claims and the latest in DOGE access concerns:

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The administration’s cuts to HHS are cuts to Texas programs. San Antonio and Bexar County providers are making cuts to services for Texans struggling with Substance Abuse and Mental Health disorders after losing grants this week. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social @expressnews.com @sacurrent.bsky.social

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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis. A new series explores how climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy. grist.org/health/expec... #Pregnancy #Fertility #Health #Reproduction #Climate

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The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans, including married women, to vote.

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"Federal agencies are carrying out executive orders from President Donald Trump that all share a common goal: removing transgender and nonbinary people from public life wherever possible."

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For 30+ years, Camins Bretts has lived publicly as a man. Now he's been given a passport that says he’s a woman. It’s a valid passport, but he's been detained at the border enough times to know how U.S. officials react to these kinds of inconsistencies. And for him, this new normal feels familiar.

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The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name, your bank account number, the student debt you hold and more. President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to connect these records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before.

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Ekko Astral’s Liberation Weekend aims to fight eroding support for the community, even as some companies “don’t want to be associated with this.” www.vulture.com/article/libe...

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ICYMI: Man deported after visiting family grave in Mexico is has returned to Kansas City Cortez Martinez will now have an opportunity to resolve the re-calendaring of removal proceedings in Kansas City’s immigration court, said Sharma-Crawford.

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For 30+ years, Camins Bretts has lived publicly as a man. Now he's been given a passport that says he’s a woman. It’s a valid passport, but he's been detained at the border enough times to know how U.S. officials react to these kinds of inconsistencies. And for him, this new normal feels familiar.

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Such an important story, from of course the brilliant @oriion.bsky.social @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

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“All of this feels familiar to Bretts. It reminds him of how Jewish people were kept from accessing legitimate travel documents when Nazi Germany was in power — leaving Jews across multiple countries unable to flee rising violence.” — @oriion.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

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“All of this feels familiar to Bretts. It reminds him of how Jewish people were kept from accessing legitimate travel documents when Nazi Germany was in power — leaving Jews across multiple countries unable to flee rising violence. It reminds him of what happened to his family” Via @19thnews.org

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I really enjoyed getting to share my thoughts here about why us cis folks need to be even louder now. This is the time for us to use our privilege when others can't.

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As the Trump administration targets migrants and transgender people, Jewish Americans increasingly feel that history is in danger of repeating itself. Trans passport restrictions & hinderances on traveling freely, without harassment, are a key concern. Read more in my latest story for @19thnews.org

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SCOOP from @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social DOGE is being audited www.wired.com/story/gao-au...

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"'Not having access to a passport, not being able to renew a passport, lands as particularly terrifying for people who carry that story...' Vital reporting, thank you:

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Yeah this is exactly what I keep saying and thinking and feeling very very deeply. We have seen this movie before.

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While RFK Jr. is promoting vaccines against measles ... he's also highlighting treatments that medical experts say do not prevent or treat the virus. My latest for @19thnews.org looks at the mixed messaging for parents and caregivers: 19thnews.org/2025/04/rfk-...

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News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity." Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.

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RFK Jr and the “MAHA” movement are wrong about health and disease at the most fundamental level, and their “strategy” to achieve a healthier country won’t just abandon the most vulnerable; it will target them. Read my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

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As the Trump administration targets migrants and transgender people, Jewish Americans increasingly feel that history is in danger of repeating itself. Trans passport restrictions & hinderances on traveling freely, without harassment, are a key concern. Read more in my latest story for @19thnews.org

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Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for decades to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...

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The US government holds a tremendous amount of data about US citizens. Now, The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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In which I argue that the Trump administration risks taking us back to the 19th century when it comes to food safety. Which will not end well.

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Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

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An autistic young man loses his caretaker as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown expands to permanent U.S. residents convicted of minor crimes years ago.

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The CDC sent a forecast for the measles outbreak to HHS for approval, but it has not been publicly released. And there are more ways this federal response to measles is unusual. Gift link: wapo.st/4i3sKmn

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"The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages."

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This is the most popular story on @rollingstone.com today. Hope takes wing...

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that her boss is exploring the legality of “deporting” U.S. citizens to El Salvador, where the Trump administration has already arranged to house deported immigrants in a notorious prison facility.

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John Oliver's segment about trans athletes is a must watch for anyone who genuinely has "concerns" (and isn't just using that as cover for bigotry) www.readtpa.com/p/send-this-...

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I’m sure the tariffs aren’t helping but in this specific case it might be more because we’re locking tourists up in detention centers

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The person who runs the Libs of TikTok account says she "arrested some criminal illegal aliens" with Kristi Noem this morning in Arizona and promises some "exclusive" social media content "coming soon." She's also wearing a badge in this picture.

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"This current administration is doing something that no administration has done — they are attacking attorneys," Makled said, stressing lawyers from big and small firms alike are being targeted. "This is a different type of threat to the rule of law that I see."

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I wrote about wartime eggless recipes and made an absolutely disgusting mayo substitute with evaporated milk www.eater.com/24394692/war...

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gender all the way down

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Kennedy attending the funeral for a child, the second from that community to die from measles, is particularly shocking. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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