“the US government did not recognize Human Rights Day this year” speaks volumes. I wanted to scream out all of the virtues declared in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the universe while reading this🫩🩷

not ok

devastating to know how many new infections & deaths will result from the rapid destruction of USAID💔 this World AIDS day i remember the stacks of wooden coffins lining the road my first trip to Kampala 2005. i am hopeful for the amazing promise of new treatments. we have not forgotten

i have also contacted senators’ alsobrooks & van hollen offices directly & ask other marylanders to do the same @indivisiblemd.bsky.social all of the disappeared need our voices to rise up

We invite you to read this article in the post below. ”Almost every problem we treat as an inevitable feature of American democracy has been solved somewhere else.“

I went to immigration court in Seattle to observe the kids docket. These children, some as young as three years old, are expected to understand complex legal processes and represent themselves in court. That’s not due process.

i love this so much. i purchased a blender for a young man who wants to make healthy smoothies & soups. i am thrilled that he is going to get something he wants for christmas that supports his goals

No…degrees were not “removed” from a list of “professional degrees.” It’s not about mandated reporters, either. The media is getting it wrong, and it is snowballing out of control. Here’s three videos about what’s going on and why we NEED to get this right if we want to stop it:

The earnings test is SINISTER. It’s in the Big Beautiful Bill…but they don’t want us to know.

OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever!

virginia federal workers & all who fought so hard for the outcome of the elections last week, hope you are unrelenting as you give @kaine.senate.gov a piece of your mind today

hope at least it was a pinky promise you cowards gave in to 🙄🙄🙄 shame on the senate democrats who are putting their own self interests above the pleading, sacrificing, & very clear mandate of the people you represent. you clearly don’t know how to read the room after the elections last week

If the sandwich stayed whole, the defense meets its goal

Obama: I believe in an America where we don't fear each other. But look out for each other. And if we want that story to continue. If we believe in that better story. We need leaders who believe in it too.

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

I included Emmanuel in my article about ICE being a mass disabling event. Not only are they kidnapping and abusing disabled people, their actions are causing additional disability. They’re carrying out a eugenics agenda: www.disabledginger.com/p/disabled-p...

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody. He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back She’s not allowed to visit him. They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

i have spent time with women in uganda & the circumstances of this woman’s journey are very familiar. i love this story so much!! also, ugandan coffee is amazing

If only we had some national, government funded health agencies to work on this disease.

the measure of our society rests on how we treat people with disabilities. denying the rights of children who qualify for special education services does not bode well

shame on them for firing everyone & using AI to lazily identify grants that have words they don’t like. it has lifelong impacts on children & families. when you put someone previously in charge of the WWE, who knows nothing about education, in charge of education. open.substack.com/pub/sharonmc...

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent. Will you? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

ProPublica and @theassemblync.bsky.social found that in some North Carolina counties, homeowners with the highest incomes received two to three times as much FEMA housing assistance as those with lower incomes after Hurricane Helene. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and Ren Larson

Please understand, the noise is not meant to distract. It is meant to steal your will to act. As far as I'm concerned, they've stolen enough.

and the DOJ www.justice.gov/doj/webform/... i did not fill out my name or email & it submitted without them

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

On Sept. 25, a federal judge in Arizona granted a preliminary injunction protecting 69 unaccompanied immigrant children from Guatemala and Honduras in government custody in Arizona from being summarily repatriated from the U.S. without having the chance to present their case to an immigration judge.

“Everything we say matters. But beyond politics, this is about being human and about choosing kindness over harm, compassion over division, and empathy over selective outrage. Words can kill but they can also heal. And the choice is ours.” open.substack.com/pub/malyndah...

Watch one thing today: THIS. “Despair is not an option. Giving up is not acceptable.”

👩‍⚕️CDC and Disability Rights 🦼 Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has been speaking out in defense of his city, including in a sit-down interview this week with Mother Jones video correspondent Garrison Hayes. “These cities, these people, these communities—they aren’t a political pawn,” says Scott. Read more: https://bit.ly/4m15Ga4

We filed a lawsuit on behalf of 53 children including a 12-year-old girl with chronic kidney disease who needs dialysis to survive. Another is 17 and pregnant. A 10-year-old boy begged not to be sent back, telling us he has no family in Guatemala.

Late Saturday night, with little to no notice, the US government sent private transportation contractors to shelters housing unaccompanied immigrant children with the intent to take away and illegally repatriate our child clients to Guatemala against their wishes.

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.

www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p... We are deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s escalated targeting of unaccompanied immigrant children. Children seeking protection in the U.S. have rights, and this process violates those rights. We call on the Trump administration to abandon this plan now.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

It’s official. September 6th. From all across this nation. We march in D.C. Join us.

In the first half of 2025, Baltimore had the fewest homicides ever recorded – 62% decrease compared to this time three years ago. But we can’t rest. In every community, we must continue to confront violence and do all we can to keep Marylanders safe.

A barnburner of an article drilling down into the cruelty of the Trump Administration and how they attempt to justify it. jackiewolf1.substack.com/p/justifying...

President Trump's decision to mobilize the National Guard to conduct municipal policing in D.C. lacks seriousness and is deeply dangerous. We await outreach from the White House if they want to have a serious conversation about public safety. But we won’t hold our breath.