DACA recipient speaks out after being wrongfully deported by the Trump administration: "They handcuffed my feet. They put a chain around my waist... We're not human beings at that moment. We were items to them."

Host: Hopeless and humiliated. That is how one DACA recipient described the moment she was handcuffed by immigration officers and told she was being deported and separated from her daughter, a U.S. citizen. Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez was deported to Mexico and remained there for more than a month

Less than a week after the Colorado House passed a resolution recognizing farm workers for Farm Workers Day, the Colorado Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources committee voted yesterday to decrease overtime protections for farm workers. How did your Representative do?

Over the past few weeks, the UMD Bulldogs, Merrimack Warriors, Wisconsin Badgers, Texas Longhorns, and Santa Clara Broncos, all flew their teams on this particular jet - Eastern Air Express's N808TJ. Today it flew shackled ICE detainees between Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Louisiana. 🧵

This has kept happening since it happened to Linda Tirado, and it happened before that - police know they aren't supposed to aim them at people's heads and are doing it anyway despite that. End qualified immunity.

Erika Arhuiz Vega died after suffering severe medical neglect at Core Civic’s privately owned ICE detention center in California City and being deported back to Peru. This isn’t the first case like this either and we fear that there is and will be more. @lataco.bsky.social

So the Dem tent can apparently include people who: •Mock DV survivors •Use the N word •Fund and then deny genocide •Demonize Muslims •Oppose abortion access •Dehumanize LGBTQ people •Oppose voting rights •Support killing civilians But the line is Hasan Piker??🤔 www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-hasan-...

From December 13, 2024, to June 4th 2025, Korea had six different presidencies. Cuz when they ain't fit for the job, they lose it.

if you feel like making enemies with your local utilities, one of the most fun ways is to get a law passed that utilities cannot pay for lobbying using money collected from ratepayers 😃

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

the best time to get off substack was years ago. the second best time is now.

Hey here’s my book for free. It’s a punk rock horror comedy about grave robbing, necromancy and friendship called boneheads. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s2wyu...

These billionaires pay their workers so little that many of their workers need public assistance. Meanwhile, their companies just got another round of tax cuts from a bill that gutted the public assistance their workers have to rely on to get by. Trickle-down economics is a sham.

More than 2 million low-income Americans, overwhelmingly women, access birth control and STD screening through Title X programs.

Your April Fools' Day Reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.

"There is really no contest—fiscal year 2026 is on track to be the deadliest year ever in the history of ICE," said @immcouncil.org’s @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social. “Things are dramatically worse this year. We are seeing more deaths than ever.”

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

As millions protest at No Kings this weekend, the Trump regime is violently cracking down on people exercising our 1A rights. As a human rights lawyer, I share 13 things you can do to better protect yourself and your community from Trump's goons. No paywall. Please share.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

This is persecution. It's a moral and even religious-tinged word that may be off-putting for some but the description fits here.

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

In support of this post, here are some extremely negative things that I expect to happen as a matter of course because of this.

I love this new project that @transqueerfem.bsky.social is starting -- giving us not just hopeful news but examples of fighting back and WINNING. Hailey is an amazing person and she's having a rough time right now. Can you spare $5 or $10 please? <3

Hey so now's a good time to remind everyone to support @transnews.network, which is completely reporter-led.

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The Family Resource Center received a grant of $497,987 to provide emergency food assistance in Mississippi, including through food banks and pantries. But the organization never got to use the money. Instead, Christi Webb testified, it all went to Ted DiBiase Jr., at the direction of John Davis.

The GOP has found ways for unlikely bills to pass before. Call your reps and tell them NO, regardless of where they currently stand!

It was not enough for Elon Musk's minions to gut the Social Security Agency. An ex-DOGE engineer allegedly took SSA's master databases of personal information to a job in the private sector. DOGE was never about fighting fraud. It was about exposing Americans to more of it.

Disabled And Here’s third Possible Future was drawn into being by @dooberlane.bsky.social, as a time and place where teleportation could be accessible and bring friends together more often. Meet the illustrator, Michelle Zhuang: affecttheverb.com/2026/michell...

I love the idea of future technology being a mere tool that fosters more community and access.

An unholy alliance of AIPAC, Crypto, and DraftKings are buying Illinois' primary elections, stop progressive candidates, and install MAGA aligned conservative Democrats. If they win, they'll deploy this playbook across the 45 states that have upcoming primaries. Read more in today’s article:

“‘My husband died due to medical negligence. For days he was asking for help and they never paid any attention to him,’ said Martinez, her voice breaking. Gutiérrez was born in Veracruz, Mexico and emigrated to the United States in 2001, earning a living working in construction.”

“For-profit prison corporations make money by cutting costs. In detention facilities, that means reducing spending on food, staffing, medical care and living conditions, which are the very services detainees rely on for survival.” sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...

You know when you have a meeting and it's like 70% red flags from the other party and you start thinking how quickly you can part ways with this group because they don't know what the hell they're doing, but you've been paying them money??

People link before the post disappeared:

NEWS: The Trump administration is forcing transgender inmates to detransition by implementing a new policy that would withhold their medical treatment in a way that puts clinicians in conflict with ethics and patients in danger. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.

"Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has accepted over $790K from corporate, pro-war, anti-Palestinian, and anti-immigrant special interests supporting the Trump Administrations agenda, including: ICE contractors, weapons industry interests and Israel lobbying group AIPAC" More here:

Millionaires stopped paying into Social Security for the rest of 2026 today. Billionaires stopped paying in on January 1st. You're going to pay in for 298 more days. This makes zero sense. The wealthy should pay in all year like the rest of us. Scrap the cap.

One, they wanted the content. Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people. Three, they wanted to install loyalists.

“All of the same arguments, the same talking points, the same propaganda to justify the same mass casualty war.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social warns that the “Gaza playbook” is now being repeated in Iran zeteo.com/p/will-the-u...

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

The Hennepin County Attorney said it’s already probing more than a dozen incidents—including one involving disgraced Border Patrol official Greg Bovino 👇🏽

The US and Israel have apparently attacked another elementary school in Iran, this one in Tehran. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...