The Chicago Police Department by the end of 2025 had fully complied with 25% of the court order that requires CPD to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights.
https://to.wttw.com/4cJVdOM
You cannot shout "fire, fire, fire! the house is on fire!" in other words fascism/authoritarianism/DANGER and then do nothing to put out the flames or get the people out. What you do in always a louder message than what you say.
The conservative Cato Institute is accusing the Trump admin of carrying out the largest fraud in the history of the immigration system — totaling $1 billion dollars.
The scheme allegedly involves taking processing fees from immigrants, then never providing the promised services.
$200 billion could entirely repeal the SNAP cuts with money leftover
$200 billion could fund the ACA Premium Tax Credits and help lower health care costs for 6 years with money leftover
$200 billion could permanently expand Medicaid coverage to people in states that have refused to expand coverage
the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do
call me old fashioned but I don’t think anyone should have to trade for “no deporting US citizens”
we should get that one for free you know
More than 2,000 people in U.S. history have served in the Senate. Only 14 of them have been Black, and only nine of those 14 were directly elected.
Unequal representation by state and the winner-take-all structure of the Senate severely undermine Black representation
Treating an offer to not illegally deport US citizens as a concession is so 2026 I can't even. This country is so fucking fascist.
again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing
The House version of this bill has a committee hearing on Thursday morning!
Submit a witness slip and call your state representative. ESPECIALLY if they’re on this committee www.ilga.gov/house/commit...
PLEASE y'all, file witness slips in opposition of this ILGA bill that would require OPERATING SYSTEM-LEVEL AGE VERIFICATION.
This is a bad bill on privacy and a bad bill on rights and a technical nightmare with terrible implications. There is no implementation of this that would be good.
They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage
Another word you might use for it is "looting".
"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
We need reparations for ICE victims.
Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.
Pie chart showing that there are 34,000 confined youth in the U.S. Most are held for non-person offenses.
➡️ Juvenile courts detained & committed nearly 2,000 more youth in “residential placement” facilities. This was the second year in a row that we’ve seen an increase in youth confinement after 2 decades of steady declines.
Pie chart showing that almost 88,000 people are confined for immigration reasons in the U.S.
➡️ Expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report.
Since last year, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day has grown by nearly 60%.
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
Recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “Well, they’re killing people in the streets. I don’t like to say I told you so, but I saw this coming years ago, and they said I was being too alarmist. But it’s consistent with what the United States is as a country.“
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
War crime upon war crime upon war crime
It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
Welp. The internet had a nice run.
Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.
"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.
Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social