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I recently saw the play "Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground" at the Barrington Theater in Pittsfield, MA (terrific, btw). Our 34th president laments his place in history, as measured by a group of historians in 1962 (#22 fwiw).
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Rachel Maddow
2 days ago
stopthecampsmaryland.com
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Maryland Coalition to Stop the Camps
NO CAMPS in Maryland
https://stopthecampsmaryland.com/
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Kevin M. Kruse
6 days ago
Just so we're clear here, Trump installed his own defense lawyer as the Deputy Attorney General and had him lead the purge of the federal prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.
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Indivisible āš
7 days ago
There will be more protests on Saturday than any other day in American history. Please join us.
#NoKings
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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible
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Indivisible āš
7 days ago
Not sure whether you should show up on Saturday?
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
(an expert on authoritarianism) explains why historic protests like No Kings Day really matter.
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davidrlurie
10 days ago
ICE has, predictably, become Trump's all purpose internal intimidation force. As I discussed last summer, when the GOP funded this massive Praetorian Thug Guard, Americans can't accept it.
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Patrick De Klotz
14 days ago
Trumpism in a nutshell: I want other people to be more miserable than me.
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The New Republic
14 days ago
ICE agents detained a Texas father trying to deliver milk to his infant daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit, disregarding his status as a DACA recipient.
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ICE Seizes DACA Recipient on His Way to Visit Baby in NICU
ICE knew he was a DACA recipientāand detained him anyway.
https://trib.al/BOeMew3
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Timothy Snyder
16 days ago
No Kings. March 28th. Make a plan for where you'll be and bring your family and friends.
www.nokings.org
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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
https://www.nokings.org
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Justin Baragona
16 days ago
Our government is run by extremely serious and sober people.
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Jenn
19 days ago
ICE agents in Oregon testified under oath that they used a custom-made app to identify neighborhoods and people to target & had daily arrest quotas they sought to meet during operations āļø
@theguardian.com
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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ātargetsā
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/ice-agent-court-testimony-oregon
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Politico
19 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth not to gut the offices that limit risk to civilians. He ignored them. The decision faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike on an Iranian girlsā school that killed hundreds of children.
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Hegseth ignored military officials when he slashed offices that limit risk to civilians
The Defense secretaryās decision to cut offices that mitigate civilian harm faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike that killed hundreds of Iranian children.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/military-leaders-warned-hegseth-not-to-gut-offices-that-limit-risk-to-civilians-00827722
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Indivisible āš
20 days ago
Before you hit the streets on March 28, make sure you know your rights. Join an
@aclu.org
training to learn more about your constitutional right to protest and best practices for staying safe at No Kings events.
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Know Your Rights: Protest Rights and Safety Practices (for all No Kings Attendees) Ā· No Kings
In this ACLU-led training, participants will learn about the Constitutional right to peacefully protest and about best practices for reducing risks when attending protests like the upcoming No Kings m...
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/911730/?utm_source=indivisible
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The Tennessee Holler
20 days ago
āIāll never forgive Trump for the mentality heās given the people I love.ā š Country singer
@bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social
talks to Tennesseeās own Trae Crowder &
@coreyrforrester.bsky.social
about the Trump mentality and small town America, where he was raised
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404 Media
20 days ago
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by
@acls1919.bsky.social
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@modernlanguage.bsky.social
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@historians.org
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Kyle Griffin
22 days ago
BREAKING NYT: An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SVA.JiYr.jGCtKfV8eklu&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Project Salt Box
22 days ago
By "innovative" "end-to-end operational hubs," it sounds like ICE are trying to CONCENTRATE their operations in a CAMP-like environment, no?
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Indivisible āš
27 days ago
There are currently 2,200 No Kings Day events planned in all 50 states, DC, and a dozen countries. Find your local event (or start a new one) and join us on March 28 for the largest protest in American history:
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
#NoKings
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Rachel Maddow
27 days ago
"Demand is so great that programs to mentor attorneys to file habeas cases are emerging... āIām on all these listservs where people are saying, who can help me in Arizona, who can help me in Mississippi, and people are stepping up and helping each other...ā
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Aaron Rupar
27 days ago
PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell? COLBY: Defer to you R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war' C: Defer to you R: That was actually you
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Taniel
27 days ago
NEW: As we've seen the raids & ICE surges, everyone has had so many questions.Ā 'what can states do?' 'what can cities do?' 'what can one ask a sheriff, governor, zoning board, to do?!' you sent us a lot of your questions. we just answered 9 of them. i learned a ton myself, i think you will to.
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How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
The violence of Trumpās immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to... Read More
https://boltsmag.org/how-state-and-local-leaders-are-responding-to-ice-your-questions-answered/
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Adam Serwer
28 days ago
Weird how this keeps happening!
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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āNazi heavenā: Inside Miami campus Republicansā racist group chat
The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article314928484.html
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Chris Hayes
28 days ago
Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.
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George Conway āļøšŗšø
29 days ago
Nah. The real debate in America is between people who know Trump is evil and say so, and the people (like Laura!) who know Trump is corrupt and evil and lie about it for personal profit.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
29 days ago
This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else: āWhat do we do?ā said one ICE officer, to which another replied āWeāre going to take him with us anyway.ā
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Philip Bump
29 days ago
Took that leaked database of proposed changes to the historic presentations at national sites and mapped them.
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Hereās where National Park material is under review
A leaked database of proposed revisions, mapped.
https://www.pbump.net/o/heres-where-national-park-material-is-under-review/
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Kyle Cheney
30 days ago
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy."
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."
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Chris Murphy
about 1 month ago
I want to walk you through why itās nearly certain Trumpās Iran War is going to be a massive, deadly, trillion dollar failure. And why you should be furious heās set us on this path.
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
Trump 2.0: -Bombed Iran (twice), Venezuela, and Yemen -Allowed Israel to repeatedly violate a ceasefire and kill civilians -Ripped healthcare and SNAP away from millions -Deployed masked ICE agents to terrorize American cities The "Peace President."
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Rachel Maddow
about 1 month ago
After considerable local pushback from Tennesseans and officials of both parties, ICE confirms to us -- (with just one minor typo) -- that they have abandoned plans to build a new Trump prison camp in Lebanon, Tennessee:
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Chris Murphy
about 1 month ago
I'm heading to the Senate floor in a few moments to lay out the detailed story of ICE abuse - teargassing schools, murdering American citizens with impunity, disappearing legal immigrants. And why we should not fund ICE until they stop terrorizing our communities.
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Lora Kolodny
about 1 month ago
Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead.
@news4buffalo.bsky.social
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Rachel Maddow
about 1 month ago
āToday, the people of Merrimack and all of New Hampshire proved that organized, local voices are more powerful than a federal agencyās ruthless expansion,ā she said. āThis is a victory for us and all of New England but it is not the end of the fight.ā
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/24/m...
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Plans for proposed ICE facility in Merrimack, N.H., wonāt move forward, governor says - The Boston Globe
āWe can breathe easy again,ā said the chair of the Merrimack Town Council, which had opposed the warehouse.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/24/metro/merrimack-nh-ice-facility-plans/
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Gallego: "They're going and racially profiling people and rounding up Americans until they can prove their citizenship. That money came from kicking millions and millions of Americans off Medicaid. It was the same bill. They cut Medicaid to expand ICE."
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Joyce White Vance
about 1 month ago
The agency eliminated 240 hours of āvital classesā from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants.
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Former ICE instructor testifies that agency slashed training for new officers
A former instructor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement told congressional Democrats the agency has cut āvital classesā from mandatory training for recruits.
https://wapo.st/4aS06mU
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Rachel Maddow
about 1 month ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIws...
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Community rallies after students run from bus stop as ICE raid happened nearby
YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIwsSXCvMJ4
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 month ago
So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding? Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.
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Rachel Maddow
about 1 month ago
"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government. āGod answered our prayers,ā the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...
www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...
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Warehouse owner wonāt sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center
The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2026/02/16/warehouse-owner-wont-sell-dallas-county-property-to-ice-for-migrant-detention-center/
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Kyle Cheney
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez
about 2 months ago
President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
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āI Have Been Here Too Longā: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICEās Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters
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Gwynne Hogan
about 2 months ago
ICE officials, under a judgeās order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today:
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ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/26-federal-plaza-jail-conditions-ice-judge-kaplan-ruling/
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Acyn
about 2 months ago
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are buildingāand have builtāa black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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Tim Dickinson
about 2 months ago
You don't fight this hard to hide nothing
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Prisonculture
about 2 months ago
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
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Pockets of Republican Pushback to ICE Facilities Point to MAGA Fissures
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/politics/ice-detention-centers-republicans-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFA.Hd8m.laLHM-R3bgPE&smid=url-share
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Joanne Freeman
about 2 months ago
Folks: This is important. SHEARāthe Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)āis tracking examples of the regime erasing history. More at the link below.
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The New Yorker
about 2 months ago
Is ICE leading us into a constitutional crisis? Isaac Chotiner spoke with the law professor Ryan Goodman, who has been cataloguing the Trump Administrationās defiance of court orders since the start of the Presidentās second term.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_97ltB
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Is ICE Leading Us Into a Constitutional Crisis?
A conversation with the law professor Ryan Goodman, who has been cataloguing the Trump Administrationās defiance of court orders since the start of the Presidentās second term.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_97ltB
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Radley Balko
about 2 months ago
It is not illegal to watch, record, follow, or track immigration officers. It *is* illegal to threaten, punish, or point a gun at them when they've done nothing illegal. If all these people were doing is observing, this is a crime. As are all the similar videos. We can't let this become normal.
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Will Stancil
about 2 months ago
This is insane. ICE is out of control here, still. They must leave.
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Indivisible āš
about 2 months ago
Itās time to turn up the pressure on Republicans who are complicit in enabling the regimeās brutal lawlessness. Weāre contacting voters in key states and connecting them with their GOP senators to demand ICE Out For Good.
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ICE OUT For Good Indivisible Phone Bank Ā· Indivisible
Masked federal agents are terrorizing our communities. Theyāre teargassing babies, kidnapping our neighbors, shooting clergy in the face with chemical projectiles, and killing innocent people. **But ...
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/894386/
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