Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.”

www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls. A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force...

NEW: “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” said Christy Lopez, who spent years investigating law enforcement misconduct at the DOJ. “In no scenario is it OK to be pepper-spraying people as you're leaving the scene.”

w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Images of food being served to sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli, published by USA Today. Supplies "are going to get really low" and "morale is going to be at an all-time low," one sailor messaged his mother

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

ICE terrorized children at the Whittier public library last year then peed all over the building when librarians wouldn’t let them in. Mayor Joe Viniateri loves ICE so now he’s out of a job.

We love to see it!

Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.

JUST NOW: Bernie’s effort to block military aid to Israel FAILS with 40 votes

@MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty voted to sell more bombs and bulldozers to Israel — along with the rest of the Republicans and 7 Dems… including @SenSchumer 🤔

Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.

It's reverse Robin Hood.

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.

Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.

Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.

Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

Minnesota county investigates federal agents’ removal of US citizen from his home as a possible kidnapping | CNN Officials in Ramsey County, Minnesota, on Monday announced a criminal investigation into the arrest of ChongLy Thao, a US citizen caught in a viral photo as immigration agents walked him out of his ho...

Minnesotans will continue to demand justice.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/13/u...

Canadian mother held by ICE with daughter, 7, speaks out on families ‘suffering greatly’ in detention Tania Warner and her daughter were detained in Texas facilities deemed ‘unsafe and degrading’

"She is from British Columbia but moved to Texas in 2021 when she married her American husband.

The family was driving home from a baby shower when they were stopped at a border patrol checkpoint. She and Ayla, who has autism, were fingerprinted and detained..."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Held in Federal Custody, a Baltimore Man Injured in an ICE Arrest Has Gone Eight Days Without Treatment Lawyers for Ever Alvarenga Rios say his wounds have gone untreated since his release from a hospital into federal custody.

www.projectsaltbox.com/p/held-in-fe...

We are not legal experts — is this what innocent people do?

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

BUTTIGIEG: The strait was open before they started this

KERNEN: They were close to having 11 nuclear weapons!

BUTTIGIEG: We had other ways of dealing with them

KERNEN: Like what? Obama's way?

BUTTIGIEG: That worked

KERNEN: That didn't work!

BUTTIGIEG: Did they get a nuclear weapon under Obama?

As ICE detains parents, children take on adult burdens When ICE detains parents, children take on adult roles and face lasting trauma. Minnesota families share how they cope with separation and fear.

After 16-year-old Ariel’s dad was abducted by ICE at his construction job, he became his family’s breadwinner. “Ariel works for the same construction company as his dad … As the summer progressed, he took over his father’s construction job, managing a team of workers and making sure they were paid.“

ICYMI: “The federal government plans to automatically register eligible men for the military draft, according to a proposed rule published last week.” 🤔 nypost.com/2026/04/08/u...

So we can automatically register them for the draft, but we can’t register them to vote?

A federal agent allegedly fired a projectile at an 18-year-old Tucker Collins, a freshman college student, while he documented the Los Angeles No Kings protest in LA last month.

Tucker lost his eye due to the attack.

The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.

When the Trump administration cut off food aid to one of the world’s largest refugee camps, it left hundreds of thousands of people to starve.

This is the story of one mother’s daily battle to keep her three young sons alive.

(Published Dec. 2025)

Average U.S. gas prices per gallon on April 7, per AAA:

• Regular: $4.14 (⬆️ $1.16 since war in Iran began on Feb. 28)

• Premium: $5.02 (⬆️ $1.16 since war began)

• Diesel: $5.65 (⬆️ $1.89 since war began)

Liam Conejo Ramos constantly worries about being detained by ICE again, his parents say: "My boy is very different" Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old whose detention by ICE sparked global outrage, constantly worries about being detained again, his parents told CBS News in an exclusive interview.

Liam Conejo Ramos' father says his son now regularly sees a psychologist.

Liam's mother, Erika Ramos, said he's been exhibiting signs of psychological trauma, including hypervigilance and isolation.

This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.

If you were wondering whether the President’s weekend bender helped or hurt the long-term interest of American business, futures markets just opened, and delivered their verdict.

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour.

The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

We told you.

ICE wants to build detention mega-sites across America. Even Trump country is saying no. | Arizona Mirror Republicans are pushing back against ICE plans to build immigrant detention warehouses in communities across the country

azmirror.com/2026/04/03/r...

Hegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officers The defense secretary’s efforts to block or delay promotions to general or admiral for some officers has raised concerns that he may be targeting them because of race, gender or affiliation with the B...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

NPR: “The Trump administration ignored warnings from policy experts when they changed a major policy at the Department of Veterans Affairs — and the result is a wave of foreclosures against veterans.”https://www.rawstory.com/trump-veterans-2676654225/

The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."

FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."

hmm