ICE abducted Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco, a workers’ rights organizer well known in Minnesota for fighting wage theft and labor trafficking. “I don’t know when I’m going to be seeing my dad again.” @sarahlazare.bsky.social reports with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/work...

Rep. @reprashida.govpeeps.us : “A whistle and a cell phone — that’s all our residents are using to protect themselves in the streets… they’re making money off our babies being imprisoned.” (H/T @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social )

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Wowsa. That was an amazing half time show. I didn't understand a word of it but I loved every minute of it.

For all that’s written about right-wing billionaires and democracy right now, their deep hostility to public education is under-covered. The through-lines are shared hostility to: local government that citizens encounter each day, emphases on equity (both racial and economic), labor unions.

🎥 NEW: Trump is more desperate than ever — and he’s getting serious about taking over elections. @marcelias.bsky.social breaks down Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures and the real plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities. Watch it now👇

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

How fitting that this happened at Morrill Hall, named after the 1862 act giving stolen Native American land to land grant universities like UMinn to promote settler colonialist agriculture and its extractive practices. Another colonizer institution perpetuating racism and ignoring its own history.

In this episode, I explain Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures, and the real plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities. Watch and share. youtu.be/ODU-tIrb4iA?...

Trump will not attend the Super Bowl because he can’t take being booed mercilessly. He has canceled the F-22 flyover because if he can’t be there so he’s taking his toys and going home. Meanwhile, the Pedo Bowl is being projected on buildings.

A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.

James Baldwin understood what truth requires. Writer. Essayist. A voice that confronted power and named the danger plainly. Black History. Always. 🖤 #SheShed #Voices4Victory

This vector of attack worries me a lot more than the wandering ICE goons on Election Day.

Get this man out of office.

Just a day after Trump pushed for Republicans to “nationalize voting,” Steve Bannon said Republicans are “going to have ICE surround the polls come November.” The statements add onto growing concerns that the president and his GOP allies are plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms.

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

It wasn’t a mistake. It wasn’t done by a staffer. It’s not a funny meme. There are no gorillas in The Lion King. Trump is showing you who and what he is. Believe him. Don’t use ableist sanist language. He’s a racist bigot. He’s always been a racist bigot.

seems that when the cryptobros were running amok yelling “have fun being poor!” a monkey’s paw curled

Read it all please.

This is the way.

Wait! The public face of nationwide immigration enforcement, Gregory Bovino, said in a newly discovered email that his boss wasn’t the head of CBP. He reported to Corey Lewandowski instead. He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.

Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling complications after measles outbreak trib.al/YRnKgEt

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If you were a journalist or creative that was laid off by the Washington Post and you want to work for an independent, pro democracy news outlet, Democracy Docket is hiring. bit.ly/45Qaw4K

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I’m not a Texan, but it’s hard to ignore what’s happening in the Democratic Senate primary in the state. We’re all clocking it, right? Let’s start with what should be obvious: whoever wins the Democratic nomination, we Dems should support him or her. 🧵

I hope every Democratic member of the House and Senate reads this and factors it into whatever funding bill gets agreed to. We have seen what ICE can do to U.S. Citizens in the streets, imagine what they will do at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

USAID fraud - no arrests Medicare fraud - no arrests Social security fraud - no arrests Election fraud - no arrests If MAGA didn’t have the collective IQ of a moldy peanut butter sandwich, they’d realize they were being scammed by now.

This from Kate is exactly right. Remember: Bannon is literally the guy who said the strategy is to flood the zone with shit and that the media is the real enemy.

The team was also present for the absolutely brutal and wanton gassing of a majority Black Minneapolis neighborhood that happened on January 14:

Read the article here: federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

"'The idea that they want to protect people’s freedom to worship and yet sit outside and specifically target their churches in the sixty days since they’ve been here goes against their argument.'" That's a nicer way to say it than they deserve.

The president had his DOJ raid an election office and seize ballots. Now he is threatening to take over elections. Sadly, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day. I founded Democracy Docket because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

The bored whims and futuristic fantasies of billionaires now shape how and where you live and work. They are remaking the country in their own decadent and extractive image. Welcome to the American Oligarchy.

Believe all these guys when they act like they’re in a war against America. They think they are.

Miller clumsily deployed an army of masked goons to commit crimes across the nation and, in the process, destroyed Trump's best-polling issue and sent his approval plummeting to an all-time low. But sure, this was a "rare misstep" and not part of a larger pattern of incompetence

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Please take the time to read this. Charlie Angus has really hit the nail on the head here. Why is our news media going down the same road that led to Trump getting elected TWICE!

🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow. Read the full story below. 🖇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Here’s the clip of Melania promoting her movie minutes before she denied promoting her movie

My disdain for Lizzo has grown exponentially every time Lizzo herself speaks.

THE dumbest guys on Facebook are proud to say they graduated high school. And they are experts on literally everything.