What to know about the crisis in Lebanon #Refugees

Protection Cluster Alert: South Kordofan, Sudan (18 April 2026) #Refugees

#MayDayHigherEd is about building a healthy society, not about tearing it down

DACA protections are important to voters like me.

Dreamers are here through no fault of their own. They grew up here, went to school here, built their lives here. They are part of our communities, and they deserve protection.

This is where Xavier Becerra actually did the work.
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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump.

The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.

Sudan: Le Canada annonce une nouvelle aide pour répondre à la crise humanitaire au Soudan #Refugees

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Montana is aiming to limit which foods low-income families can purchase with SNAP. Researchers say many of the costs for SNAP waivers fall on grocery stores, and that the restrictions don’t help improve health outcomes for low-income people.

Emmanuel Macron et Léon XIV estiment que l’action pour la paix est « un devoir et une exigence » Accompagné de son épouse, Brigitte Macron, le président français a rencontré, vendredi, Léon XIV au Vatican, près d’un an après l’élection du pape américain qui, comme lui, s’est démarqué de la rhétorique guerrière de Donald Trump.

Emmanuel Macron et Léon XIV estiment que l’action pour la paix est « un devoir et une exigence »

The Capitalist Hellscape AMAZON SPENT MORE THAN $26 MILLION ON ANTI-UNION CONSULTANTS IN 2025 SOURCE: US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR @AWKWORDISTHIS

Unprecedented: Amazon spent $26+ million on anti-union consultants in 2025. This expenditure marks a new record, surpassing the company’s previous high, and is believed to be the largest such amount spent by a US employer on anti-union consultants in a single year.

[source: US Department of Labor]

Bind of freshly harvested mandarin oranges

"Rosi", a mother of two, is picking mandarins in the Orosi, CA area. She gets paid $55 per 900-pound bin. She works as fast as she can and usually manages to fill two bins in 6 hours. "I worry if emergencies with my kids happen, as this barely pays my bills." #WeFeedYou

Snelling goes on to incorrectly cite the Trust Act, which he correctly says doesn't ban federal immigration enforcement, just bars state and local police from cooperating.

He's still talking about the wrong law though! (tbf I think us reporters got the laws mixed up too in the heat of things).

That law does exist btw, here it is, here it is right here. Here's the part that bars civil arrests, i.e. immigration arrests, of people attending state court proceedings.

It's called the Court Access, Safety, and Participation Act, HB1312 (yes, really).

legiscan.com/IL/bill/HB13...

Good evening from Thomas Kelly High School in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood.

A special meeting of the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability is set for 6:30. CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling is slated to attend to discuss CPD cooperation with federal immigration agents.

Before and After the Pelicot Trial | Los Angeles Review of Books On Manon Garcia’s new book about the recent case, and what it tells us about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and the complicity of men in general.

Recommended: lareviewofbooks.org/article/gise...

The State Department is actively instructing consular officers NOT to tell applicants they're banned, even as those applicants pay fees and attend interviews.

Cubans are the most affected: nearly 1 million blocked applications totaling $543 million in fees. Venezuelans follow with 239,000 applications and $138 million. Nigerians, Afghans, Haitians, and Iranians round out the top groups.

Sponsoring a spouse costs US citizens up to $2,675 in fees alone, $675 to petition, $1,440 to adjust status, $560 for a work permit. The government is cashing those checks and then doing nothing. That's fraud not delay.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

(Another) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

@nytimes.com #reinstitutionalization
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

VA announces forced guardianship plans for homeless vets that could put them in mental health facilities There are nearly 33,000 veterans experiencing homelessness in the U.S., according to government data

King Trump is seeking to have homeless vets placed under guardianship so they can have a person appointed who will force them into congregate or institutional settings and can also force into involuntary treatment for mental illness and drug addiction.

Chilling warning as Trump admin quietly hands itself new weapon to lock up homeless vets The Department of Justice and Department of Veterans Affairs just quietly handed themselves a troubling new weapon, analyst Steve Kennedy wrote Thursday in Slate. They announced a partnership allowing...

Chilling warning as Trump admin quietly hands itself new weapon to lock up homeless vets

www.rawstory.com/homeless-vet...

Chilling warning as Trump admin quietly hands itself new weapon to lock up homeless vets The Department of Justice and Department of Veterans Affairs just quietly handed themselves a troubling new weapon, analyst Steve Kennedy wrote Thursday in Slate. They announced a partnership allowing...

Chilling warning as Trump admin quietly hands itself new weapon to lock up homeless vets

www.rawstory.com/homeless-vet...

VA announces forced guardianship plans for homeless veterans There are nearly 33,000 veterans experiencing homelessness in the U.S., according to government data

VA announces forced guardianship plans for homeless vets that could put them in mental health facilities

Disturbing and systemic-not minor, temporary or limited

A Gaza, Amnesty International s’alarme de l’impact sur les femmes de l’effondrement du système de santé L’organisation dénonce, dans un rapport, une hausse « exponentielle » des pathologies maternelles et néonatales touchant les Palestiniennes face à des infrastructures médicales exsangues, des souffrances exacerbées par les déplacements de masse, le manque de nourriture et les restrictions israéliennes de l’aide humanitaire.

A Gaza, Amnesty International s’alarme de l’impact sur les femmes de l’effondrement du système de santé