ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents. Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time. He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone. Houston, Texas

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization

NEW: Houston has made it illegal to sit or lie down on a sidewalk at any time. This is a 24/7 ban on trying to survive in public. It's not camping ban; it's a pure homeless ban. We will never arrest our way out of homelessness. buff.ly/nH2VUqt

Father, grandfather Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado dies in ICE custody. They murdered him through denial of proper food and medical care.

NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives. Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:

BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

"would you like to rate your experiences" no duo, I'd like to look at my hw stfu

Today EPA chief Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is rolling back 31 regulations. He's taking aim at mercury, soot, and toxic pollution restrictions, and federal protection of wetlands. The EPA will also rewrite rules limiting pollution from fossil-fuel plants and cars, and more.

BREAKING: DOGE is considering no longer letting senior citizens file Social Security claims over the phone, and requiring them to do it online or in person. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Republican Congressman David Schweikert has introduced a bill to begin the process of letting AI prescribe drugs. Instead of investing in the U.S. healthcare system, this bill paves the way for doctors to be replaced by AI.

Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

In Indiana, 16 and 17-year-olds can now work the same hours as adults and are no longer restricted by school hours and days. They also can work overnight without an adult and perform hazardous agriculture jobs. Many 14- and 15-year-olds can now work during school hours as well.

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

American planes are crashing almost every day and the Secretary of Transportation is visiting the Daytona 500 and tweeting at Pete Buttigieg.

A bill has been introduced in Congress that would let landlords evict tenants on only three days’ notice or less. The legislation aims to roll back the 30-day notice landlords are currently required to give renters.

BREAKING: RFK Jr. was just confirmed HHS Secretary 48-52.

The Fremont, CA city council has passed a homeless ban that outlaws camping on public property and also prohibits "aiding or abetting" homeless encampments. This could lead to people being arrested just for handing out food or water. abc7news.com/post/fremont...

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

One place our government could save a lot of money is the billions given to Elon Musk's companies every year. abcnews.go.com/US/musk-work...

BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.

"’America's competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound,’ Owens says. ‘We urge NIH leaders to rescind this dangerous policy before its harms are felt by Americans.’” www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are trying to repeal the Biden administration’s rules that require all of the country’s lead pipes to be replaced and aim to reduce the amount of lead in water. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Part of the overall project with these systems in addition to eliminating critical thinking, is to water down anything transformative or radical.

BREAKING: Donald Trump's HUD nominee Scott Turner just said he supports private equity in the housing market. Turner was asked if "private equity investment" is a bad solution to our housing problem. He responded by saying: "the more capital the better."

"humans forget the problem which caused the solution" you mean me w my sleep schedule??

Indiana is considering dissolving public school districts — including Indianapolis, with almost 50k students. A GOP proposal says that if more than 50% of students are enrolled outside public schools, that district will be replaced with a charter system. www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

the progression of AIDS treatment in my lifetime, from how terrifying it was as a child in the 80s to stories like this 40-odd years later, is genuinely one of the human race’s most awe-inspiring scientific achievements. it was a nonnegotiable death sentence for SO LONG

What's even more fucked once you read the full story is that the doctor insisted on an extra ultrasound AFTER the fetus was already declared dead while the mother was on the brink of death because they wanted documentation to cover their asses in case of a lawsuit. Heinous beyond words.

New: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments From birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes, these are just some of the belongings cities take when they clear homeless encampments.

Where "parental rights" ends up: "The complaint also says that each of the states is 'the legal parent or guardian of many minor girls of reproductive age'...And as parents, they claim, they have a right to consent to their children’s medical care" IE, denying them abortions.

There's horrific video of the IDF burning refugees outside a hospital alive circulating on Twitter. This is what we're materially defending.

"House Speaker Mike Johnson will not be calling the House back early to vote on emergency hurricane relief."

I keep listening to the radio out of Asheville and hearing a person calling in to locate folks and another calling back to say they just went and checked on them because they’re nearby and no they don’t know them but they’re okay—we do not need cops after disaster, we do need community radio

"While the State’s interest in protecting 'unborn' life is compelling, until that life can be sustained *by the State* -- and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work -- the balance of rights favors the woman."

These Quiverfull fuckers deliberately ignore the nightmarish toll pregnancy takes on the body. These people scream “it’s natural, we’re built for it, doing it for thousands of years!” Bitch, let’s talk fetal/maternal mortality in this the Year of Our Lord 2024. 🧵/1

The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams. This was murder.

The hits just keep coming www.erininthemorning.com/p/11th-circu...

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

Trump in New Jersey vowed to deport pro-Palestinian college campus protesters if he returns to power

We’ve taught these kids that if someone is shooting irrationally, it’s up to them to interpose their bodies between themselves and their shooter because even if they die, it might save someone’s lives. Of course they’re fucking doing it.

The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states