🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!

The Greatest DEI Disaster Ever Democratic Senators--especially the women--shed a glaring light on a sketchy, uninformed nominee who has no business lording over the Pentagon

“Is the Trump administration running a DEI program for incompetent, unqualified, and/or ethically compromised Whites?”

So funny and so true. @jenrubin.bsky.social woulda never got this thru at the Post! Right at home @contrariannews.bsky.social

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Old enough to remember when Supreme Court opinions day did not automatically send me headlong into a pit of existential despair

Historian Heather Cox Richardson provides historical context to the news A plea to read what she writes this morning

Fight the Fire's Mike Sorrell has an excellent suggestion: Set aside the news for a few moments to read the historical context provided by Heather Cox Richardson this Jan. 6th. You'll find the link in his piece below.

U.S. Senator John Kennedy dropping some Kennedyisms at a press conference about the New Orleans mass casualty attack, which is being investigated as a terrorist attack. Usually these quips are reserved for Fox News appearances and congressional hearings.

Worst press conference I have ever seen

Congrats to Time’s Person of the Year!

@schumer.senate.gov WTF are you waiting for ???? Bring to the floor the Social Security Fairness Act BEFORE the Christmas recess & BEFORE Dems lose control of the Senate. Let Biden sign this into law before the end of his presidency!

And if you're willing to, you ain't no friend of mine.

Dear Democratic leaders: Just because Trump won the election doesn't mean you should be silent or look for common ground. You told us Trump was a FASCIST threat. Now you are silent. Trump is still a threat. Time to be even louder!!

Seems like a good cause.

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I often hear conservative view points on NPR , but they are thoughtful unlike some rantings on other sites. I disagree with a lot of where my tax money goes, but we live in a society with a duty to address the needs of all something. I think you often forget .

NPR is one of the few places to find thoughtful commentary

NPR is one of the few places one can find real news

Listen to librarian Amanda Jones opens up about the personal toll of book bans, the threats she’s endured, and the difficult decisions librarians now face when choosing which books belong in schools on @viewpointsradio, available on your favorite podcast platform.

Just a quick note 🤷🏻‍♀️

That Librarian by Amanda Jones review – one woman’s brave fight against book banning A small-town US librarian’s lively account of her battle with a group of far-right censors reveals the toll it took on her health Amanda Jones’s story is awful – and important. A school librarian for 23 years in her home town of Watson, southern…

That Librarian by Amanda Jones review – one woman’s brave fight against book banning

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Yeah, we know! Tuck Frump!

This 👇🏼

Amanda Jones Will Not Be Silenced The librarian, anti-censorship advocate, and debut author weighs in on the threat posed by book banners today.

“I’ve been told that I am brave for taking a stand, but I do not think I am brave. I am simply doing what I was raised to do: love thy neighbor as thyself. And….this experience has also afforded me a platform. And I intend to use it.”
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The main reason we are slouching to dystopia

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Mists of Avalon

Thank you