CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

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Many people picture a democracy becoming authoritarian as a single dramatic event, like the Bolsheviks capturing the Winter Palace in 1917. But often, especially in the 21st century, there never is one. It's more gradual, a process in fits and starts. Good explanation of that here:

Exactly

I agree with Ben but have a small editing suggestion

This proves five things: 1. The protests in LA were peaceful 2. The National Guard and Marines were unnecessary 3. ICE officers lie 4. DHS stats on ICE agent assaults are overblown 5. You can not, in fact, indict a ham sandwich if you have no case www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WCK can use your donations. They are on the ground in Gaza, doing what they can in the face of a staggering and ongoing crime against humanity.

This was the order of events: 1. Paramount acceded to Trump’s extortion by paying a bribe. 2. Stephen Colbert calls his employer out for doing that. 3. Paramount fires Stephen Colbert for being honest about Trump. 4. Proving Trump’s bribe worked.

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I have never once, in my entire life, regretted a decision to act kindly.

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

ICE now has over 70 billion dollars to build more concentration camps. Just in time for Independence Day. God damn you, America.

Community group leaders say they will be left to “pick up the pieces” as President Donald Trump’s bill, which passed Friday, rolls out cuts to Medicaid and the SNAP food assistance program. buff.ly/yAJFGrX

Sometimes it’s permissible to hate.

Imagine this is you. You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Unbearable and important:

the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.

It makes sense - I think it's starting to dawn on normies that ICE is going to become Trump's political police, and that mission creep from immigration enforcement to general policing is a feature and not a bug.

#HappyPride for the next 335 days, too.

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We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.

I don't care that the Supreme Court says, for now, it's okay for the administation to have ICE abduct immigrants, and send them, without due process, to other countries. It isn't. It's not okay. It's wrong.

In the end they will try to lock up every brown person in the country, whether they are a citizen or not. He will sign an executive order declaring himself president for life and the Supreme Court will uphold it 6-3. They will leave you no choice. They think so little of you.

@paulapoundstone.bsky.social I was at your show at the ALA conf (it was fantastic!) & you have no idea how deep the patron v customer discussion goes- there’s also a 3rd option: “user” which is understandably not popular 😆📚

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cats don't obey in advance and no one else should, either

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

A major insight of the work of brilliant scholars as disparate as James Scott, C. Thi Nguyen, & @kjhealy.co is that we live in a society governed by metrics, simple countable vessels for making abstract values concrete. Maximizing metrics is something states can do very well, even unto catastrophe

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I have done this. Get on it now!

We'll have more to share in the coming days. But what can you do right now? Call Congress. Call your state and local officials. Tell them exactly what's at stake if the President's order stands: the future of America's libraries. It's time to Show Up #ForOurLibraries: bit.ly/ALA-LibraryStoryIMLS

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders. Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

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