Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

No more outsourcing from abroad—the US will now cultivate its own tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free domestically.

“By acquiescing, they are legitimating these assertions of authority. They are suggesting, We agree, we're in the wrong... And that is itself problematic... Make them fight for all of the illegal, inappropriate, abusive, authoritarian things they want to do. Don't give it to them for free.”

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It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now—

—While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

@60minutes.bsky.social investigated the 238 individuals deported to El Salvador:

75% - no criminal record found
22% - criminal record found, but the vast majority were nonviolent offenses (shoplifting, trespassing, etc)
3% - unclear

This is wrong. Full stop.

P.S. Don’t buy the narrative that the individuals deported to and imprisoned in El Salvador are hardened criminals or gang members.

Screenshot of quote that reads: “First They Came Pastor Martin Niemoller First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me.”

I’ve shared this before, but it bears repeating.

Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison | CNN Politics The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because ...

And we’ve already seen that they won’t try to fix mistakes:

“The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because he’s now in Salvadoran custody.”

He’s now explicitly saying he would be happy to send American citizens to prisons in foreign countries. We knew this wouldn’t stop with immigrants. He will continue to remove anyone he decides is problematic or inconvenient or expensive.

ELIE MYSTAL: “This is what fascism looks like. I don’t know what y’all expected it to look like… People are being abducted and disappeared from our streets. These people haven’t even been charged in court.” 🇺🇸

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

Rep. Chris Smith's disapproval resolution on DC's Insurance Regulation Amendment Act is a fumbled attempted attack on DC home rule, coming too late to have any effect.
 
The congressional review period on the DC law, as governed by the Home Rule Act, has already expired.

A photo of a quote in gray letters on an off-white wall. It reads: “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) Lutheran Minister and early Nazi supporter who was later imprisoned for opposing Hitler’s regime.”

I’m far from the first to make this argument. A more eloquent version hangs on the wall of the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

And it won’t matter that you worked hard to build a life for you and your family. It won’t matter that you were law abiding and always paid your taxes and went to church. It won’t matter that you voted for him and were loyal to his vision. It won’t matter that it’s unfair.

But eventually they’ll shift the blame to you. And you’ll feel the injustice because this must be a mistake. You aren’t bad or wrong or illegal. And surely there are laws to protect you from this kind of mistake. But they don’t care what the judges think. They know what’s best for America.

They’ll tell you all your problems are someone else’s fault. And you’ll want to believe them because there must be someone to blame. Life is hard & eggs are expensive. We’re all just trying our best. And maybe they know something you don’t. It doesn’t impact you directly, so you look the other way.

When they are done with immigrants, have no doubt that they will turn next to some other disfavored group… Muslims, queer folks, people with disabilities, academics, and so on. This will not end when Homan reaches his deportation goal. The admin will just shift elsewhere.

Ignore all the DJT a$$-kissing and focus on the “I don’t care what the judges think” part of this statement from Border Czar Tom Homan. When this administration has decided that you are wrong or bad or inconvenient or whatever, they will ignore judicial process to get rid of you. They don’t care.

What the Republican CR does to D.C. is undemocratic and un-American. I will fight it in the Senate. YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

The House CR has lots of problems, but a big one is that it restricts how the District of Columbia spends its OWN money. This doesn't save a single federal tax dollar—it just treats DC residents like pawns.

It's undemocratic and un-American. I will fight it on the Senate floor.

Hundreds of D.C. residents, including parents, teachers, and union members are lobbying Senate offices today against the spending bill that would slash more than $1 billion from D.C.’s local budget.

Learn more about DC’s budget and what a $1B cut will look like for DC children and families — from Councilmember Henderson @cmchenderson.bsky.social

The GOP has a majority in the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. They hold the White House. If they can’t manage to keep the government open when they control all 3 branches, that’s on them. I simply cannot understand how any possible shutdown could be blamed on Dems.

The 11th-hour CR creates unnecessary chaos, prevents the orderly operation of DC government, and runs roughshod over the fundamental principle of self-governance.

It ignores that the District’s balanced FY25 budget is supported by DC's local tax base.

This is not how to make DC safer and stronger.

A quick 🧵: The news of Congress potentially blowing a $1.1 billion hole in D.C.'s budget has certainly riled up a lot of people. But it's part of a larger trend of how Congress's years-long budget dysfunctions have bled into D.C.'s municipal government.

👏TY @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social for supporting truancy prevention efforts. As Senior Policy Attorney @daniellerobinette.bsky.social shares: by relying on less harmful measures, OAG is tackling the root causes of absenteeism in DC & helping students overcome barriers to regular school attendance.