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Amber Glenn, the three-time reigning U.S. Champion and the first openly queer woman to compete for the U.S. Olympic team, is being besieged by death threats.
Why?
Because she dared to open her mouth publicly about the current state of affairs for queer, trans, and other marginalized folks in the U.S.A.
medium.com/prismnpen/queer-oly…
Many Americans say U.S. democracy needs major change. One solution: proportional representation, where more than one representative is elected for each district, and seats are distributed according to votes for a party.
Portland, Oregon, adopted it in 2025, and its new city council is already more diverse by gender, race and neighborhood representation.
theconversation.com/proportion…
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‘Proportional representation’ could reduce polarization in Congress and help more people feel like their voices are being heard
The electoral system used by many global democracies eliminates gerrymandering and has been shown to give more equal representation to minorities and women.The Conversation
A federal grand jury declined to indict 6 members of Congress after prosecutors tried to bring criminal charges against them.
It’s a reflection of the Trump administration’s remarkable loss of credibility with judges and the citizens who make up grand juries, says Dickinson College President and former federal judge John E. Jones III.
conservatives in 2024: the woke left is trying to install a secret pedophile cabal into power
conservatives in 2026: the woke left is being mean to the secret pedophile cabal we installed into power
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court.
The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
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Immigrants Who Say Their Detention Is Illegal Have Filed More Than 18,000 Cases. It’s a Historic High.
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Trump’s first term.cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
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ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
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The Children of Dilley
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.Anna.Donlan@propublica.org (ProPublica)
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
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ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.Anna.Donlan@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Following Trump's threats to their Haitian community, a statewide day of action and solidarity was announced in Ohio yesterday.
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It's important to realize this is a mainstream #GOP approach to the legal situation surrounding #ICE actions, and responses to it.
Confirmation bias is running rampant in the #Republican party that has lost all intellectual rigor, and that is now lead by sportscasters and other shallow thinkers.
The people of Minnesota are fucking marvellous.
They're deliberately putting Mexican flags on their cars so that CBP/DHS waste time chasing them. They're calling it ICE fishing 🤣 ✊
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BREAKING NEWS
TRUMP / PUTIN PARTNERSHIP
President Zelensky says Russia PRESENTED a $12 trillion economic plan to the Trump regime, called 'Dmitriev package.'
Zelensky described it as a proposed framework for large-scale U.S.-Russia economic cooperation.
As the world turns its back on working with the murderous Putin, Trump embraces Putin!
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"Should I warn my students they're about to be disappeared?"
"No, Trump might sue us"
FFS.
Collaboration should NEVER be forgotten.
Kid Rock's song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl halftime show
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Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl show
The song has a verse about liking girls underage and 'statutory' being 'mandatory.'Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.com (pennlive)
The clash between federal immigration agents and local officials in Minneapolis shows how federalism works in practice — not by stopping federal power, but by forcing it to face resistance, scrutiny and accountability.
theconversation.com/federal-po…
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
State resistance to federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota illustrates how federalism keeps authority divided and disputed.The Conversation
The Supreme Court is considering a case challenging Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — and it’s expected to overturn it, a change that legal historians say would make it easier to dilute Black voting power and roll back decades of political gains.
theconversation.com/the-suprem…
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The Supreme Court may soon diminish Black political power, undoing generations of gains
The Supreme Court appears poised to abolish a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It may draw on a constitutional amendment that empowered African Americans.The Conversation
This has long-been the depth of argument in mainstream #GOP thought with a few outright calling to start a war because, well, they're saying mean things.
They really are children.
And reference to the article, The President Who Never Grew Up
CNN in Minneapolis: "We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.
I've covered many protests, especially in New York City. And I have to tell you, I've not seen a crowd like this before. It is eight degrees out here. It feels like five. It is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people." ✊
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"I was just a nerdy gamer guy but until we get ICE out of Minnesota - and hopefully abolished - I'm gonna continue fighting. It's gotten to a point where empathy needs to win over those on the fence where it's not affecting them now."
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Businesses around Minneapolis are keeping their doors locked, hosting "warm areas" and offering free drinks to protesters and observers.
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ICE arrests 58 year old man working at McDonalds outside of Minneapolis. His teen son takes his dad's life-saving heart medication to the detention facility and ICE agents laugh at him.
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A large Anti-ICE noise demo took place outside Graduate Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis on Wednesday night. Police protected the building and the nazis inside, arresting numerous protesters.
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Twin cities rapid responders continue to innovate. If ICE occupiers want to continue moving rapidly through town, they will have to pass through a maze of checkpoints set up by neighbourhood defenders, run for and by community volunteers.
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Judge Patrick Schiltz cancelled a contempt hearing set for today, where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in the last month"
The whole lot are really worth reading.
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Savannah Thissen, a Minneapolis healthcare worker, told Matt Lavietes of NBC this is why she was protesting on Sunday night.
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Tom Morello and others are holding a solidarity concert in Minneapolis today.
rollingstone.com/music/music-n…
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Tom Morello Plans Renee Good, Alex Pretti Benefit Concert in Minnesota
Tom Morello will host the 'Concert of Solidarity & Resistance' benefit show in Minnesota with proceeds benefiting families of Renee Good, Alex Pretti.Larisha Paul (Rolling Stone)
A U.S. citizen, who was illegally assaulted and illegally detained by ICE agents, says that while an agent had his knee on her neck, he said:
“You don’t feel so tough now, bitch.”
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"I cannot support the national GOP’s stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
Chris Madel, MN GOP gubernatorial candidate.
He has withdrawn from the race.
Full Minnesota Star story quoted below:
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"Hate Has to Scatter When Minneapolis Arises"
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Protesters gathered outside Governor Tim Walz's office on Tuesday:
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'Do Your Job!': Protesters Gather Outside Walz's Office to Demand Criminal Charges for Trump's Killer Agents
“Minnesotans are asking, ‘Are we safe here anymore?’ and they need actionable leadership, not half-measures,” said a spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Minnesota.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
“Power stands with the people.”
At a press conference on Wednesday, representatives from New Justice Project MN, Movement for Black Lives and CAIR-MN explained why they are joining the nationwide shutdown today.
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Nurse colleagues from Alex Pretti's intensive care gathered at the memorial in front of the hospital in Minneapolis. They had to be out there, because the hospital is federal ground and refused to let them congregate on the premises.
A vigil was also held at the site of his murder on Wednesday.
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Volunteer vets have also formed a network to look after animals needing treatment at homes where people are scared to go outside.
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Nurses across the country held vigils for their union comrade Alex on Wednesday, vowing to join today's strike.
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Hannah Drummond from Mission Hospital Asheville said: "I cannot believe, but I also can believe, that we live in a time in America where a government is actively lying to us"
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“We Will Not Stop Until ICE Is Abolished”: Nurses Hold Week of Action Following Murder of Alex Pretti - Workday Magazine
Nurses say Alex Pretti was upholding his oath to advocate for and protect his patients and community, and they are demanding the abolition of ICE.Amie Stager (Workday Magazine)
A nurse on the picket line in San Diego said: "This should light a fire under everybody that we need to come together against this regime."
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"Capitalism is a very finite game. And at some point, you've got to flip the board."
From the healthcare workers picket line in Oakland.
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