Vicente Ventura, detained by ICE, missing for 6+ weeks after medical emergency. "Disappearance underscores how much harder it has become for friends & family to keep track of those detained in what immigration lawyers & advocates call a disorienting, hostile environment". www.ms.now/news/immigra...

More assaults of journalists this year than the last two years combined, our interview with deported journalist Mario Guevara, and more in this month’s Tracker newsletter by managing editor @kamccudden.bsky.social:

RIP Queen

Everyone remembers "umbrella man" right? Its not just cops, it's the bigoted brotherhoods (who have also infiltrated law enforcement) ... www.npr.org/sections/liv...

79 yr-old US citizen with heart condition, Rafie Shouhed, "violently slammed... onto pavement" held in detention "for nearly 12 hours without medical attention" had to temporarily close "business after employees, incl' US citizens, became too afraid to return to work". abcnews.go.com/US/79-year-u...

Vetted immigrant reporter with "no criminal history and has been issued a work permit.. still in ICE detention and faces removal.. to silence him." ICE argues he "presents danger to the community because he livestreams, records and publishes" his reporting of ICE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bride traveling back home from honeymoon "shackled by the hands and legs as she walked through the airport... not given a reason for her detention" and would have "been taken to the Israel border" although she's never been there and arrived to the USA at 8 years old. abcnews.go.com/US/newlywed-...

Job-creating, award-winning immigrant considered a "fixture" of community is put in chains and taken away. A week before "another employee was also taken" by masked men who "didn’t identify themselves.. didn’t even say anything.. started trying to open the doors". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Virginia! It's time to re-elect Delegate Michael Feggans. He's served Virginia's 97th House District well, protecting women's rights, supporting teachers and public schools, protecting the environment, and more. Let's keep the momentum going! Re-Elect Michael Feggans Virginia's 97th House District

Amazing overview of the LA No Kings protest, this is huge! They even brought the baby Trump inflatable balloon. 😂

👀PHILLY SHOWIN UP!!!!! #NoKings

From Sen. @padilla.senate.gov's office: Padilla “is currently in Los Angeles exercising his duty to perform Congressional oversight of the federal government’s operations … He tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed.”

By "handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings" a routine speech turned into an apparent political rally rife with "partisan invective, goading jeers..." demonizing "perceived political opponents". www.military.com/daily-news/2...

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Immigration officers "arresting unsuspecting asylum seekers trying to follow the law... creates perverse incentive," not to "go to court... get picked up and kicked out". www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Sanctioned groups linked to terror pay X for verification, "several" regained access, giving them more visibility, for "amplification of propaganda" and fundraising capability. futurism.com/elon-musk-tw...

Former Uruguayan president José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, the quiet revolutionary, dies at 89. The former guerrilla fighter and symbol of the Latin American left has died after a long battle with cancer. He captivated the world with his steadfast commitment to frugality and simplicity. ►

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been released after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey pix11.com/news/local-n...

A federal judge in Vermont released Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Tufts University student who was detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb.

Hundreds showed up for a #TeslaTakedown with @riseandresist.bsky.social at a Manhattan Tesla showroom. ✊🏽 Eight people were arrested, who have since been released. Keep RESISTING in every way you can! Join the resistance! Every voice matters. Every action counts. #stopthecoup #weresist

#attention Pittsburgh Rally, May 3 2025 Indivisible.

The 52-46 vote delivers a key victory to the fossil fuel & petrochemical sectors that had lobbied against the regulation. It also marks the 1st time in the Clean Air Act’s 55-year history that Congress has scaled back protections under the landmark law. Beat the paywall => archive.ph/Pu14v

Picture gallery of today's #MayDay protests www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

Historical records from 1780-1820 strongly suggest 'invasion, predatory incursion,' referred to "military forces... the Constitution itself references 'invasion' on two occasions, both in a military context.. [thus] 'invasion' requires [military] 'armed hostilities' & does not include immigration"

Migrant Dies In ICE Detention In Florida Marie Ange Blaise, 44, had been complaining of chest pains on Friday her blood pressure was recorded at 156, she was given medication and told to lay down, The detainee said they saw her trembling and screaming, "My chest! My chest!" #News #New&Politics

Trump took credit when the market went up under Biden, and blamed Biden when it went down under him.

Judge "blocked immigration authorities from transferring Mahdawi to a detention facility in a more conservative judicial district," however, order "does not end the admin’s effort to deport Mahdawi; it simply allows him to remain free while his case proceeds" #Resist www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Encourage your children to start a banned book club 📕 💙 ❤️

As the federal govt considers “investigating” ActBlue, I can report that i sat through meeting where they literally patterned their version of it, called WinRed as identical. They even follow me (screenshot for when they unfollow in a panic soon:

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

Well...maybe we'll find out what muskrat wanted with ALL OUR PRIVATE INFORMATION ON RECORD! This was a Datamining hit job. Probably the biggest theft of personal records in not just our history, but in the history of civilization. What did they really want ALL OUR RECORDS FOR??

They close the doors of the rotunda and said it was a police line, and they arrested a delegation with Reverend Barber, praying in our rotunda, the peoples rotunda.

The Jewish Chronicle is perhaps the only paper in British history where we are not allowed to know who owns it, or why. Its refusal to run an ad critical of Netanyahu makes this untenable, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

South of Pavlohrad, on the regional border with Zaporizhzhia, 500 animals were killed when an agriculture business was hit by a drone. The livestock died after the impact and fire in the village of Verbkivske.

NEW: VPD Interim Chief Steve Rai: • 11 confirmed fatalities, dozens injured, # of dead could rise • Most critically injured transported to 9 hospitals • No evidence of terrorism • Person in custody has significant interactions w/ police & mental health care pros • "Darkest day in city's history"

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation... Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Trump moves to start deep-sea mining in international waters - At a time when most countries are still negotiating rules on how to ensure mining is done safely and without potentially massive environmental destruction! www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Corp. "overbilled FL $67 mil for Medicaid" then settled w/ FL gov who "directed about $10 mil" for wife's project who sent $10 mil to dark money groups, then $8.5 mil went to a committee "and $1 mil to the gov’s own PAC". www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinio... www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

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"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

#ProudBlue #DemsUnited #DemVoice1 We were excited to hear Bernie & AOC in Folsom. We couldn't see them, we were way back in the crowd of 25,000+. We knew parking would be hard, then we faced a line more than a mile long to get in! We were lucky to get in, many in the streets outside. Big energy!

NEW: Judge James Boasberg finds probable cause that the Trump administration acted in contempt of his temporary injunction to turn around deportation flights while the matter was litigated. Details TK

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters have gathered outside the Maryland courthouse where Judge Xinis is holding a hearing regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia

New Haven, Connecticut Tomorrow and Thursday, April 16 and April 17