Meanwhile, on Earth, the president of the United States posts: “A whole civilization will die tonight.”

“Experts are dubious”

It’s not just Ms. Rachel.

The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention.

Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

9-year-old who pleaded to go to spelling bee released from ICE detention Deiver Henao Jimenez told children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel that he wanted to leave Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas in order to go to his state spelling bee.

NEW: The 9-year-old who begged Ms. Rachel for help getting out of ICE detention so he could attend his spelling bee has now also been released from Dilley.
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Activist who pushed 2020 election fraud claims convicted of election fraud Investigating voter fraud claims, Harry Wait requested the ballots of Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Mayor Cory Mason without their consent.

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Senate Republicans believe they have a solution to reopen DHS and end airport chaos The proposal would fund almost all of DHS while leaving ICE and deportation operations for a separate filibuster-proof bill, in which Republicans would also try to pass pieces of the SAVE America Act.

Emerging GOP plan to end DHS shutdown might include funding for new election oversight, per my colleagues:

“One idea is to provide financial incentives to states to implement voter ID laws; another idea is to send money to DHS to ‘monitor elections’ and conduct election security, the source said.”

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Nonverbal 5-year-old who met Ms. Rachel over Zoom is released from ICE detention His parents, asylum-seekers from Colombia, said their son’s physical and emotional health deteriorated during the weeks they were held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.

“No child should be here, regardless of their condition,” Gael’s dad told me from Dilley last week. “Even for us as adults, it’s hard.”

Now they’re on their way back to El Paso.

Ms. Rachel had called for their release after meeting the family over zoom this month.

Thank you, Marisa!

Quietly wanting to learn more about the gorilla

This morning at the Phoenix airport, ICE is scanning IDs and manning the TSA posts where the job is to tell you to take out your laptop, please keep your shoes on and ask “got any water in here?”

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Nonverbal 5-year-old who met Ms. Rachel over Zoom is released from ICE detention His parents, asylum-seekers from Colombia, said their son’s physical and emotional health deteriorated during the weeks they were held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.

UPDATE: A 5-year-old nonverbal boy whose plight in a South Texas immigration detention center drew national attention after a video call with Ms. Rachel has been released with his family.

Coms days after NBC News detailed the family’s experience.

Who can afford to get ahead in America? The rich are getting richer, while others can't keep up. Here's why the top 1% is doing so well and why many Americans are struggling financially.

Who can afford to get ahead in America?

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America's wealth gap is growing, and Trump's policies are making it bigger President Donald Trump has cut programs helping lower-income households while advancing policies benefiting the wealthy and corporations.

My colleague @spettypi.bsky.social has a new project out this morning for @nbcnews.com documenting in clear, vivid, empirical detail how the wealthy are growing richer while most everyone else is struggling — a decades-long trend that has intensified under Trump.

More great work from you and your colleagues, Mica. Well done!

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
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Headline: Ms. Rachel sparks firestorm with ICE comments and campaign to close detention center

This DailyMail headline says my reporting on Ms. Rachel sparked a “firestorm.”

The evidence: The article quotes three anonymous social media comments.

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Ms. Rachel aims to help 'close Dilley' ICE facility after speaking with kids in detention there Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.

"If being political is what it takes to bring Gael home, or to get Deiver to his spelling bee, Accurso said, then her conscience leaves her no other choice."

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“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention.

“It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

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Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.

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“It’s cruelty, it’s child abuse and neglect.”

Listen to part of my conversation with Ms. Rachel as she discusses what it was like to speak to two children trapped at the ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas, and her latest humanitarian cause: to help “close Dilley”

Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.

“Treating a child this way is a crime,” Ms. Rachel told me. “It’s neglect and child abuse.”

Read my story about her new humanitarian cause: Helping close Dilley and return kids like Gael to their communities.

Here’s Ms. Rachel slipping into character while trying to comfort Gael, a non-verbal 5-year-old who’s being held in ICE detention with his parents.

I spoke with the boy’s family yesterday. They say he’s been hitting himself.

“No human being should ever go through this,” Gael’s dad told me.

Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.

“We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee,” Ms. Rachel told me. “I just never thought those words would go together.”

Read my story on Ms. Rachel’s new mission to help shut down Dilley and free kids trapped there — starting with two she met over Zoom last week.

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside.

On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors.

She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.