My worst fear is that we have barely scratched the surface of what ICE has been doing.

"but the second amendment protects against tyranny--" Oh really? Well, where are you people, while ICE agents are storming people's homes without a warrant?

people who would sacrifice the human rights of others will get people already in the tent killed

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They rounded up Americans. They separated American families. They put flex ties on children which are plastic handcuffs. They destroyed their homes. They and their children are traumatized. Enough.

Timeline cleanse 🎉🎉🎉 (Because the world will take awhile to fix and we need to embrace the moments of JOY so that we can last the journey) (And also, it’s ok to enjoy the simple truth that she makes him mad)

words: what the fuck do they mean?

A reminder, the GOP can re-open the government anytime they want to. They just have to change Senate rules on appropriations votes, something they did on confirmation votes just about a month ago. They are choosing not to do so, and choosing to keep the Government closed.

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

This is not pro-family. This is not what's best for kids.

I hope 50 years from now some kid gets extra credit on a history test for correctly answering the super obscure 10-point question "who was the widely discredited law enforcement practice known as a 'Kavanaugh stop' named after and why"

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

👏👏👏👏👏👏 It really is just so curious that male political consultants aren’t out there suggesting that men give up any of THEIR OWN bodily autonomy to get democrats elected. Why do you think that is? 🤔

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Dear @apnews.com The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once. Fix your headline.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

The news was depressing me, so I stopped doomscrolling and donated to our local food pantry. And I felt better. Just a reminder (to me, too) that you are not powerless. Even if you can’t fix everything, you can help someone. And that matters.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

the court is a solvable problem if they have the courage

My kid asked me today if everyone has a home and if every kid has a home and I really hate the point in parenting when we have to tell them that the world isn’t as perfect as they imagine it. 💔😭

Sometimes my children fight and sometimes, like tonight, I walk in on the older one trying to explain division to the 5yo. 😆

ICE was created post 9/11 to combat terrorist threats. If they aren't combatting the number one terror threat to America - Domestic Violent Extremism and white supremacists - then they don't need to exist as an agency.

Coup d'état, someone says jokingly, at a time when nothing is a joke anymore.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

I would not recommend any man tell a pregnant woman to “tough it out” about anything

So I DON’T want AI to do my paralegal’s job poorly, but I DO want it to scrub the dog and kid dirt off my walls and baseboards. How can we make that happen?

The Tylenol/autism thing is going to justify funding more research on pain relief for women and pregnant women, right? RIGHT?! Oh. No, women should just suffer in silence? Got it.

i am simply asking them to bring the same energy and rhetoric to sending innocent people to foreign slave labor camps that they are bringing to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

it is not lost on me that the democratic party proudly activated in unison against fascism for the first time with real threats of investigations and repercussions when a single rich famous white dude was the one impacted

This is the correct analysis. Also, the 8th amendment, especially in states that require carrying a nonviable pregnancy to term.

“Thought leaders” 🤡 An individual can hold whatever position they like about their personal relationship to abortion. An elected official who seeks to legislate antichoice positions is a part of the authoritarian project of the right and has no place whatsoever in the Democratic Party.

"CDC staff weren’t in the room; instead, they watched from a separate livestream due to safety concerns directed at them by some ACIP members. That’s where we are right now in the U.S."

Essay: Child psychologist Ellen Braaten often does media appearances, trying to reassure parents and kids in the wake of school shootings. She used to tell her audience that the adults in their lives do everything they can to keep them safe, but she doesn't say that anymore. We haven’t. We don’t.

Re pregnant people and Covid vaccines discussion at ACIP, I can't help but think about this story. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

here’s the clip of someone saying “you’re an idiot,” as Levi — one of RFK Jr’s handpicked vaccine advisers — suggests other scientists are being overconfident about vaccine safety data

there are children’s lives on the line, and this is how they treat that responsibility

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Only person happy with RFK F’ing with vaccine access is my mother-in-law, who is now going to get an annual fall visit just so that we can all get seasonal vaccines. Sigh. 😒

ah, well

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I saw that I’d missed a call from a pharmacy this morning and got exited that maybe my Dr had reconsidered. Nope, just getting an automatic refill of my dog’s meds. 😂 We are better at providing access to preventative medicine to pets than humans.

You need a Rx in my state to get a 💉 So I messaged my Dr for a Rx. But they want to see me again first and my last visit was 11 months ago so insurance won’t pay for another visit for a month. And still that wasn’t actually a promise for a Rx. 🤬 Healthcare in America is going great, thanks.

ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now

US military just killed 3 more people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly "transporting illegal narcotics" from Venezuela. No evidence presented. No due process. Understand this fact:—this is a precursor to what he will do to US citizens.

Question: When in the actual fuck, as a country, did we decide that our government gets to demand that we mourn someone in some particular way?

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”