"Ms. Ross-Mahé, age 86, was greeted at the airport by her three adult children. She was still dressed in her prison wear — orange shoes, sweatpants and a gray sweater — covered in stains and holes...
"She was in a state of physical shock...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
Breaking News: The FCC approved the local TV giant Nexstar’s $6.2 billion acquisition of a rival company, Tegna, consolidating 265 stations.
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said it chose to honor Twin Cities residents “for risking their lives to protect their neighbors and immigrant community members from an unprecedented federal law enforcement operation."
WELP
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Here is what is going on in court:
Active Voting Rights Cases: 165
Active Redistricting Cases: 50
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 91
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 71
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 32
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This is amazing news! The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul are being recognized with one of the most prestigious civic honors in America. The JFK Library Foundation announced today that the people of the Twin Cities will receive a 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their resistance!
Pete Hegseth is using the deaths of American servicemembers to push his own political agenda. A Gold Star father explicitly says he never told Hegseth to “finish the job” in Iran, despite Hegseth’s claims. Exploiting grieving families with lies is a disqualifying lack of integrity.
Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"
In Stalin's Russia the rule was “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding!"
In Trump's cabinet, the rule is to wear the oversized, wrong-sized shoes Trump picked out for you.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/who-...
Heard this morning on @marketplace.org ’s Morning Report:
Penn Wharton Budget Model — a nonpartisan initiative that analyzes the fiscal impact of federal policy — estimates the daily cost of Trump’s war at roughly $800 million.
Yes, DAILY.
Every time the news pisses me off, I sign up for a new postcard-writing campaign for voter registration and turnout. This weekend I wrote 200 postcards to eligible voters in Wisconsin and Virginia about upcoming local elections.
Defeating this regime means getting out the vote. 🗳️
Marco Rubio: "We went proactively in a defensive way"
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
A former ICE lawyer is warning that the agency has scaled back training hours for recruits and is instructing them to violate the Constitution. https://to.pbs.org/4cPOW4s
Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.
I called my representative and asked that he: 1) insist the DHS funding be voted on as a standalone bill (and not bundled with other stuff that would be good to pass) and 2) vote NO.
United States Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121
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The House is scheduled to vote on a new Senate-approved appropriations bill this Thursday, January 22. (The Senate is in recess this week.)
The legislation includes an increase in funding for DHS—on top of the already-huge amount they received through the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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We have been trying to analyze the Trump health “plan” but I worry that unless Congress puts something real together we are analyzing air. Big Q’s such as are pre-x protected are impossible to answer from their Fact Sheet. What we do know: it partly captured a news cycle.
PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.
Noem should resign.
DHS’s funding for ICE (the biggest line item in the 2025 OBBBA) should be clawed back.
Congress must snatch back the power of the purse and demand oversight.
Human lives are at stake.
@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Before we can ever tackle reasonable immigration reform, we need to put an end to federally sanctioned—and incentivized—violence.
Equally damaging is the administration’s rush to spin its narrative after every tragedy—even before a comprehensive investigation.
