Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.
What did I write Thursday, about Van Hollen and Wilkinson? “Thursday was a day for seeing why standing up matters — and can make a difference.” www.lawdork.com/p/abrego-gar...
Graph from the Brennan Center article above labeled "Prison System Growth (1950-2016). The population stays around 200,000 until a steep rise begins in the late 1970s, culminating in a peak in excess of 1.6 million in the late 2000s.
"But the prison population truly exploded during President Ronald Reagan’s administration. When Reagan took office in 1980, the total prison population was 329,000, and when he left office eight years later, the prison population had essentially doubled, to 627,000."
how the presidency became an authoritarian monarchy — in NYT headlines
fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration.
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THIS is the point beyond basic humanity. Due process must always be the precedent—or we all can be targeted regardless of facts even just for having an opinion. The bill of rights dies without sacrosanct due process .
The damn Supreme Court knows this —and they’re being defied too. 🚨🚨🚨
The replies in this thread are insane. You are cheering him for filibustering zero. There is no legislation on the floor of the Senate. Typical Democrat. All performance. No record to stand on. No desire to fight for the working class and the poor. Staying home in '26 & '28.
Me- *talking years ago about how Gavin Newsom was scum for how he treated homeless people and how he only acts in his class interest and will throw anyone who gets in the way of that under the bus*
Gavin Newsom- *betrays the trans community*
Dems- WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS!?
People are upset there are Teslas at the White House.
People should be this upset that the Trump administration is taking a stance against the First Amendment, that 68,000 Americans die each year due to lack of healthcare, that 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
never question the ACAB people again when they say cops exist to protect property, not you. A fucking car store. There's like 2 fucking cars in there, too.
would cops ever do this for a woman reporting domestic violence?
Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species.
What are we even doing here.
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I'm sorry, but the Democratic party leadership needs to go.
Do you ever feel like half the terminology we use in our everyday life now has a double meaning depending on who is using it?
Like, for example, when someone is talking about “leftist purity tests” are you talking about leftists terrible habit of holding each other to ridiculously high moral standards while offering no opportunity for grace, or do you just mean “leftists keep asking for civil rights and it’s annoying”?
Those in power from both parties who couldn’t find the courage to stand up to Netanyahu will not find the courage to stand up to President Trump and the oligarchs.
Mass terminations of probationary workers also swept through the National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-autonomous agency within the Energy Department that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons.
They did a mass firing of staff at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. These are the people who handle the safety of our nuclear stockpile. This is so catastrophically bad.
Read this, and read it again.
The field of geology is quite ugly diversity wise. I was told don't do oil field work not safe. I went to grad schl at Carleton University & my first day found my supervising prof was homophobic & transphobic. One of her students attacked me from behind one day & she protected him. No M.S. for me.
We won't have a free and fair election in 2026. They don't understand the game they're playing.
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu.
If they can't speak up when core functions of one its premier schools at the medical school over issues of funding, they won't speak up when members of the Harvard community are directly targeted. It's an exercise in cowardice that protects no one.
Harvard enacted a institutional neutrality principle last year after October 7th but reserved the right to make statements that about issues that affect university functions. The deafening silence in the wake of the NIH blowing a budget hole of hundreds of millions of dollars is stunning.
So how does Trump plan to force these 1.8 million people out of Gaza? He going to send American troops in?
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Thank you @mikefrompa.bsky.social for clueing us in on your stream today. 🤬🤢🤢🤢
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The democratic party attacked the Green New Deal offered by Bernie Sanders with all the same fury that the Republicans did.
Nothing is going to get better unless we go after corporatist centrist democrats with the same fervor as we do Republicans.
It’s almost unbelievable that every single thing the left was saying about the nature of centrist democrats as handmaids of the far-right is coming true.
Unless, of course, you read history and know it will repeat.
Those in power will always try to convince you the world is not beautiful so they can sell you a “solution” to your unhappiness.
If you accidentally mention in front of your children that Elon Musk has a 19 year old named “Big Balls” working for him and now that kid has access to sensitive federal systems it is almost guaranteed that the parents of every child in the school will know about what Elon is up to by tomorrow.
“nobody saw this coming” = “we considered everyone who saw this coming a nobody”