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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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Trump recently announced a contract to build new border walls in Hidalgo County, TX. How are the old border walls in Hidalgo County working out, one might ask? This from this afternoon:

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AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

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Because the U.S. brought Agent Orange to Vietnam, the cleanup program is more akin to restitution than charity. The project is why the U.S. has “an extraordinary relationship” with “a country that should by all rights hate us,” one official said.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

Would like to report some gang tattoos.

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.

submitted 6 days ago • 259 comments

Historically, law enforcement determinations of who is or isn’t in a gang has been some of the most entrails-of-a-sheep subjective voodoo bullshit in the entire criminal justice system. So now if a neo-Nazi is wiling to call you a gang member you are summarily deported.

submitted 6 days ago • 150 comments

Homan is a fascist.

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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 9 days ago • 6058 comments

Indeed.

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Trump is slashing half of the Department of Education's workforce, but pretending that this won't impact educational attainment in the U.S. If their financial aid is cut low income students will not be able to enroll in college. That will decimate colleges that serve low income populations.

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The Trump Justice Department recently removed this from its website. Wonder why?

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Our top story: The governor's state of disaster has been continuously renewed for four years. In this time, the Texas Legislature has allocated more than $11 billion to fund the sprawling tentacles of Operation Lone Star.

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X engineers clocking in this morning

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❤️‍🔥

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Friday will see the opening reception of an exhibition of my art titled Palimpsest at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, TX. Feel free to drop by.

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RIP U.S. Department of Education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon introduced herself to department employees with an email calling on them to join her in a “historic final mission” to downsize the agency and shift control to the states.

submitted 19 days ago • 772 comments

Hot off the University of Arizona Press comes Walled, including my chapter on the waiver authority that has been used to ignore laws that might limit the damage and desecration inflicted by border walls. Big thanks to @andybissonnette.bsky.social and @elisabethvallet.bsky.social for this.

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On Friday March 7 an exhibition of my drawings titled Palimpsest will open at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, TX. Y'all should go.

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There are fewer migrants than soldiers (not Border Patrol agents, even: active-duty _soldiers_) at the border now. (NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u... CBS: www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal...)

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Such a remarkable chart (just updated). The result of states' legalization/regulation of cannabis, obviously.

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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Trump wants to sell off public lands so he can build a sovereign wealth fund. What am I bid for Yosemite? Yellowstone? The Grand Canyon? www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

submitted 27 days ago • 491 comments

“There are tens of thousands of federal workers in UT..these career staff – who live and work in both rural and urban parts of our state – have dedicated their lives to a mission of service on behalf of the common good: America’s federal public lands. suwa.org/suwa-stateme...

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another Nazi salute at CPAC

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As soon as Trump took office border wall construction fired up, using appropriations remaining from his first administration. This swathe was bulldozed alongside the Rio Grande. Both photos are the same place on the same day. There is no invasion, no excuse for this devastation.

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The right to seek asylum does not exist at the U.S.- Mexico Border. The Trump administration has made the U.S.-Mexico border a zone that is overtly hostile to human rights and displays utter disregard for the humanity and dignity of people on the move. Our briefing, out now 👇

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On Friday March 7 an exhibition of my drawings titled Palimpsest will open at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, TX. Y'all should go.

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 31 days ago • 1475 comments

Does it count as a DUI when Musk is this baked and driving the United States off a cliff?

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Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office: • 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students • 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence • 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

submitted 33 days ago • 55 comments

“There’s no lower-hanging fruit than immigrants following the rules.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

submitted 33 days ago • 792 comments

Breaking News: The U.S. Department of the Interior and HHS ordered lawyers hired to represent unaccompanied children to stop working. TPR reviewed the stop work order sent to attorneys under a contract with Acacia Center for Justice, the prime contact for unaccompanied minors’ legal services.

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😬

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Congress is going to give Trump $billions$ for new border walls, at the same time that Musk is firing park rangers and cancer researchers in the name of govt. efficiency and cost savings. Keep the rangers & researchers, and ditch the useless & destructive border walls.

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President Musk is tearing down the U.S. government and looting the remains.

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Crews are bulldozing land in S Texas in preparation for Trump's new border walls. Important to remember just how useless and destructive his old ones (like this one) have proved.

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Last September, when the FAA proposed fining SpaceX $633,000 for alleged violations, Elon Musk threatened to sue the agency for “regulatory overreach.” Now, as DOGE chief, he may control his regulators’ fate. By @heathervogell.bsky.social

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A week after his J6 insurrection Trump stood beside this border wall that he had run through a wildlife refuge and claimed that he had saved the nation from an imaginary invasion. He signed a commemorative plaque which was then slipped out of its holder and is now probably hanging in Mar-a-Lago.

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The fact that Trump is so senile and listless makes be both less concerned about any sort of durable authoritarianism surviving him and much more concerned about an acute catastrophe happening

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