this is illegal

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

Millionaires Don’t Flee States Over Higher Taxes inequality.org/article/mill...

dana hovey pears, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1932

Of note: three major prison healthcare companies have gone bankrupt in recent years, each time letting them avoid having to pay out lawsuits against them for insufficient care. Yes, private equity is playing a role here too. These issues, bad as they are in ICE detention, are not unique.

ICE has its own Health Services Corps, which it operates in 17 large detention centers, but an increasingly large majority of people are held in private detention centers where the healthcare is operated by contractor or subcontractor, where ICE basically just manages the insurance claims.

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

It's about the private prison contracts And the racism In the context of U.S. capitalism Racism and 💰💰💰💰 are always intertwined

“Disturbing… they had put in a ton of work and gone through every step of the process… they were pulled out of line steps away from swearing an oath to 🇺🇸…” BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES It was never just about illegal immigration

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... 👇👇👇👇 this this this👇👇👇👇

Trump's DOJ has been ordered to embark on a sweeping crackdown on "left-wing domestic terrorism." Civil liberties experts warn it could lead to a level of politicized FBI surveillance of Americans not seen since the era of J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO. Our story today: wapo.st/3L9lpr4 (gift link)

"Federal law established the Center as a memorial to President Kennedy and prohibits changing its name without Congressional action."

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. Thursday for unfettered access to the states’ voter registration records. The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C. This is a developing story...

Today, the Trump administration announced plans to ban gender-affirming care for young people, and to target hospitals providing this care. Health care decisions belong to patients and families, working with providers they trust - not the federal government.

The unanimous vote thing is also a lie. But you probably kinda knew that already.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

"The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law," former Rep. Joe Kennedy said. "It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says."

President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted on Thursday to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., to the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House announced.

It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Look at all these assholes.

The guy in front of me is eating pudding on the bus.

Sunday marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, signaling the start of astronomical winter.

Stairway to heaven #PalacesAndGardens #WinterWonderland #ArtAdventCalendar #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

Oh my god…

Wow. I was already impressed with the interview earlier today. Now I am in awe. Gift link wapo.st/49ixYtq

The photographer on that boat was Christopher Anderson, who, 25 years later, snapped the famous photos of the Trump administration for Vanity Fair.

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

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Yes

In fact, polling consistently shows that around 80% of Americans hold medicare in high esteem, are eager to be on the system, and view Republican attacks on the system as crazy talk. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“It’s clear from this data that the government is being extremely aggressive and charging for things that ordinarily wouldn’t be charged at all. They appear to want to chill people from protesting against the administration’s mass deportation plans.” Juries are more than merely skeptical.

Vaccination rates are plummeting across the country, as part of a larger, troubling trend of growing vaccine hesitancy that is fueling a resurgence of preventable diseases, an NBC News and Stanford University investigation found.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Well, since this pay walled, I will just assume it is not too good to be true and gorge on cheese.

Irony

This is now the third time this year the Cowardly Speaker has sent the House home early when things weren't going his way.

When an Omaha mother discovered high levels of lead in her son’s blood, she looked up EPA soil tests and discovered potentially harmful levels of the metal in her yard. City officials said her home didn’t qualify for a government-funded cleanup. With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

He's lying. How do we know? Because they released the Sept 2nd video already!! Just not the part where they illegally killed the survivors. There's nothing "top secret" about the second strike if there wasn't anything top secret about the first one.

ICE put these rules in place to keep members of Congress from doing our jobs. The courts have just told ICE that these rules can’t stand. Rightly so—ICE can’t be allowed to operate in the dark.

This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

I thought MAGA was a crystallization of many long-existing illiberal/authoritarian energies in US political culture from the moment Trump rode down that escalator. But seeing this on the streets of Portland in August 2018 convinced me that “fascism” was the word for it. bsky.app/profile/seth...

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a colored pencil piece I did in 2021.

What could possibly go wrong?

Trump’s meandering primetime address raises new questions about Joe Biden’s press conferences.

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.