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The court got it wrong. Denying transgender youth the health care they need solely because they’re trans is discriminatory, and we will keep fighting.

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

Breaking: Transgender people lose Skrmetti, SCOTUS rules that Tennessee's law banning gender affirming care is not subject to heightened scrutiny. I'll be reading and reporting more fully today. Terrible day for transgender people. Full decision here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 4 hours ago • 85 comments

Adriana Smith didn’t give birth. She died. And her body was used as an incubator until a severely underweight baby was extracted from her. people.com/brain-dead-w...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

submitted 6 hours ago • 959 comments

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

submitted 17 hours ago • 578 comments

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

submitted 21 hours ago • 50 comments

Andry cried for his mother as guards shaved his head. Andry is not a threat. He’s a gay artist seeking his American Dream. This is cruelty disguised as policy. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

It would be so great if Democratic Party elected officials would start acting as if they’re living under a government that will lawlessly kill or arrest them for the crime of political opposition.

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 1 day ago • 1141 comments

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

submitted 1 day ago • 2248 comments

Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

ICE just abducted a leading contender for the New York City mayorship for asking to see a warrant. I need everyone to understand that they are not a law enforcement agency — they are Donald Trump’s secret police.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Transphobia is never ok. Even against problematic transgender women. This goes for cis and trans people. I promise that pedaling transphobia will not make things better for the trans people in your life you care about.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

🚨 Friends, a newly introduced bill in the Ohio House aims to circumvent the Reproductive Rights Amendment that YOU overwhelmingly voting into our Constitution to completely ban abortion, IVF and some forms of birth control. Yes, you read that right. They continue to come for our rights.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Sen Mike Lee & the silence from Republicans made it clear: decency is in the rearview mirror. After he mocked a political assassination, Ed Shelleby, a senior staffer to Sen Tina Smith, wrote to Lee’s top staffers. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com read it on-air, and honestly everyone should hear it.

submitted 1 day ago • 191 comments

In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him disclosing he had a legal firearm. Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 230 comments

Thou shalt expel Mike Lee from the Senate and banish him from society, for he mocked and celebrated the murder of a political opponent.

submitted 1 day ago • 362 comments

THIS x 1,000,000. Honestly I don’t know who this person is (this clip popped up on social media) but I would vote for them tomorrow.

submitted 2 days ago • 213 comments

It is totally unacceptable that not even cops can tell if an assassin is impersonating an officer. Meanwhile, citizens are being asked to accept the authority of masked men in unmarked cars. Totally untenable.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Politics is not something you can simply watch or ignore and expect democracy to thrive. Criminals thrive when we ignore politics. Criminals decide your present and future. Elections are every year and local elections decide YOUR fate. Wake up.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

This is what the death of expertise looks like; the people in charge hear a number, run with it, interpret it wrong, and then issue orders demanding that no one correct them.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

We are devastated by the loss of Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman—a principled, passionate, and powerful leader whose fierce advocacy helped shape a Minnesota where reproductive freedom, gender equity, and LGBTQ+ rights are respected and protected. (1/5)

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A young girl in Mississippi is sobbing after her parents are taken by ICE. She bravely tells her story through tears and how she feels terrified her innocent parents are gone. Where will she sleep, who will feed her, where are her parents. This is not who we are.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

This is a harbinger of unrest; it blesses Stephen Miller’s decision to force ICE to hit insane quotas. The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are not criminals, they are hardworking people trying to make a better life for their families with no way to “fix their papers.”

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

submitted 3 days ago • 804 comments

I know there are so many extremely horrible bills Democrats are fighting right now But thank you @raskin.house.gov This Bipartisan Bill is dear to my heart The BARK ACT Let's help Shelter Animals

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Patriot Front crashed Springfield, MO Pride festival. Driving a Penske truck. U-Haul banned Patriot Front from renting their vehicles. It’s time for people to tell Penske to do the same.

submitted 2 days ago • 1894 comments

Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”

submitted 2 days ago • 2116 comments

Melissa Hortman just days before her tragic assasination

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submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

Californians: If you’re protesting today, protect one another and hold the line for peace. There’s no place for violence in our democracy. If you see agitators, alert law enforcement and look out for your fellow citizens. Stay safe. Stay peaceful.

submitted 4 days ago • 597 comments

Today is June 14th and here is a photo of Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States #Obama #aRealPresident

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

The Minnesota assassinations, the attempted arson at Governor Shapiro's home, and the violent arrest of Senator Padilla are all straight out of the Jim Crow terrorism playbook. Same goes with cops aiming for journalists covering the ICE protests. None of these are new tactics, just a new iteration.

submitted 4 days ago • 113 comments

In case anyone missed it, the National Guard has arrived in San Antonio, Texas. More military troops also arrived in McAllen, Texas. This while ICE was raiding an elementary school.

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

😡😡😡😡

submitted 4 days ago • 404 comments

Shameful.

submitted 4 days ago • 644 comments

This hits hard! An L.A. protest in the 1930s, pushing back against illegal immigration raids. During the Great Depression, thousands of Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born kids were deported. Racism and economic fear drove it then, just like now.

submitted 4 days ago • 114 comments

If everyone knew their history

submitted 4 days ago • 120 comments

Lay the proud usurper low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! - Robbie Burns

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

All the J6 criminals Trump pardoned are organizing RIGHT NOW to obstruct tomorrow's PEACEFUL No Kings protests by inciting violence so they can frame them as riots. Fucking deplorable!

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

The way the ICE officer, who looks like a middle-aged guy who's probably been doing the job for years, just casually tosses off that line... My guess would be that he felt he was doing her a favor; he was being reasonable within the bounds of his orders. But it's the orders that are unreasonable.

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

Due to ICE raids, warrantless detentions of legal migrants & US citizens, and a now-deleted CBP post (below), the Seattle Reign issued the warning below to fans. ICE confirmed it will be at the FIFA Club World Cup opener in Miami on June 14.

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

No f*cking kidding! I live in the occupied city of Los Angeles, and we can confirm this to be true. 🚨 ICE detentions of non-criminals rise 800% under Trump

submitted 4 days ago • 95 comments

Trans people deserve the freedom to control our bodies and lives.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

“President Donald Trump’s administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data -- including the immigration status -- on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown.”

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment