Remember the monthly child tax credit in 2021 that was a basic income for 40 million families for six months? One of the results of that policy was that fewer parents sold their blood plasma.

@jreinermd.bsky.social #medsky

"When ICE's ordinary operations require protection from the law rather than obedience to it, abolition is not a radical slogan but a rational conclusion."

This man doesn't just run the world's largest far right incubation chamber. He holds DOD contracts, has privileged access to government databases, and possesses a high-level security clearance. No sane administration would allow this.

Paid at least in part from the seized assets of the perpetrators. Liquidate corecivic and every contractor and enterprise participating in this abomination

Mandatory that reparations to the victims of this administration's atrocities are part of the party platform

A very clear problem is outlined here. It is as clear as the day is long.

This is what already exists and describes the politics that it made it so, such as the Southern Strategy (see Atwater, Lee). It may not be carried out well in this example but the idea is good propaganda: "You're the Victim, and we will protect you and yours from THEM."

Insofar as we can parse the political views of independents, Republican-lite doesn't work on a big enough scale because many of them do like rampaging law enforcement, a militarized border, and segregation and they know where to get the real thing, even if they don't like Trump personally.

Imagine the nerve, clarity, and resolve that it took from Stanislav Petrov to not end the world due to a flock of birds in Soviet airspace. Now ask yourself if any of these people have that ability.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

This is true institutionally, and it's a monumental tragedy, but we've still got the goods. Every bit of good culture that this country produces comes from the melting pot and its political and historical circumstances. This is another moment that will produce great art.

Sums it right up. web.archive.org/web/20210115...

Every sentence is its own horror story

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Voter fraud is yet another "issue" that isn't an issue at all. Through countless studies, systematic voter fraud has never been found to exist. Voter suppression is real, though, and there are libraries full of data.

Hard to understand how anyone takes the tough-guy, no-nonsense businessman schtick seriously. Skin thinner than tissue paper.

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs. This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless." www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

Sowing and reaping.

It is entirely unethical for anyone, let alone a Democratic-led state, to work with Elon Musk.

Someone survey the jackbooted ICE thugs about their political beliefs. I bet a many of them identify as libertarian.

The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.

is this the point

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

The "Is it fascism?" question seems like an open-and-shut case to me.

“They started beating me right away when they arrested me” apnews.com/article/immi...

If you’ve rightfully raised your voice for Liam and the kids in immigrant detention centers, please raise your voice for vulnerable adults. LGBTQIA folks face overwhelming danger.

Not how the rule of law works. Precisely the opposite, in fact.

This decision puts even more pressure on plaintiffs and district courts outside the 5th Circuit. Unless the habeas is filed before a person is transferred to the 5th Circuit, a person may remain locked in appalling conditions, never even allowed to ask for bond.

Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi are already black holes for detention. Now obtaining release will be more difficult than ever. As more and more people are locked up, ICE will increase the pressure on those who are detained to give up. The goal is an assembly line of coercion with no day in court.

it is absolutely wild that random people on the internet have kept thousands and thousands of minnesota families housed this month my friend and followers helped pay around maybe 130-140 people’s rent in the past 6 days? like. so much of it was just you guys. it is insane to me, this platform.

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

FWIW this is more or less how white conservatives destroyed multiracial democracy after emancipation. That & paramilitary violence, but of course they would never... oh yeah they're doing that too.

OK, *ongoing* thread of books to read on Palestine. Some recent, some not at all so recent.

HOLD UP. This headline from the @wsj.com is dead wrong - No one at the actual opening ceremonies thinks the US team was being booed. Come on! The CBC broadcasters & people in the stadium are all crystal clear that JD VANCE WAS BEING BOOED, not the team.

Trump Defends Racist Video As Racist

That's a good statement.

AIPAC went big in the New Jersey’s 11th congressional district to replace Mikie Sherill and lost big. While the winner isn't clear yet, at this point progressive Analilia Mejia is ahead. In any case, the AIPAC-backed candidates were decimated. newrepublic.com/post/206238/...

There’s a great Nova episode on the International Space Station. In it, they talk about how something as small as a grain of sand can cause massive damage to the station. And all the billionaires are putting massive amounts of crap in the sky. We need to send them all one-way to Mars.

So incredibly racist. Would be a huge scandal for any president where everyone in the world didn’t already know he was a horrible human being with no moral compass.

if the whole genocide thing wasn't enough for you, another good reason to get AIPAC money out of democratic politics is that the organization now exists to move republican donor money into democratic races to sow chaos and get the most republican-friendly democrat elected

Due to a trump executive order the national parks service has removed signage at the little bighorn battlefield that amplified the broken treaties and the assimilationist american policy of "kill the Indian save the man" that led to the reeducation 1/2

Yes! Gerrymander me Virginia Democrats.

They want us to be as cynical and demoralized as possible.

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

I think this is the first time I've seen an elected official acknowledge poverty among Shoah survivors.

Now we're talking.