Here’s the latest news today out of Pennsylvania: Lou Barletta, the Republican Party’s Donald Trump-endorsed nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018, is running for governor of Pennsylvania. Barletta, 65, becomes the most prominent figure to enter a 2022 governor’s race that Republicans have won every time in the past half-century...
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Texas really is full of dumb GOP fuckers: x NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton left the state during the deadly power outages last week to meet with his counterpart in Utah. Paxton's spox did not answer Qs about when he left or returned and why the trip was not postponed....
Detainees at two different ICE detention centers were threatened by ICE agents that they would be exposed to inmates with COVID unless they submitted to a transfer. The guard made the threat clear, Clovis Fozao, one of the detained men, told The Intercept: If the detained migrants didn’t submit, they...
Received this e-mail yesterday from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth’s (D. IL) re-election campaign: Put simply, our military is made stronger by our immigrant servicemembers. That’s why, for over 200 years, Congress has provided an expedited path to citizenship through service in our military. But under the Trump administration, many of...
Something strange is going on over undocumented immigrants. President Biden’s acting secretary of Homeland Security, David Pekoske, issued a memo on January 20 halting almost all deportation proceedings for 100 days: Review of and Interim Revision to Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies and Priorities [PDF] I’ve gone over the...
Don’t make funeral plans for you or your family because of Trump’s lies and incompetence. I appreciate the POC vote. I appreciate the seniors who are flipping to Biden. I appreciate Veterans and Act Blue. I do not speak Spanish but I have a Puerto Rican friend and activist helping get...
Cadet Bone Spurs's campaign can't help itself, it is like the candidate, lewd and crude, but it looks like there’s more to the iceberg. What is obvious is Trump’s ultimate obsequiousness to the military, even ex-KGB officers, accompanied by a passive-aggressiveness revealed by his comments. The Trump campaign flunkies are...
Ok, so we know about Trump’s “executive order” on the coronavirus stimulus relief package: President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Saturday in an effort to bypass congressional negotiations and extend financial relief to tens of millions of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. One order would extend enhanced unemployment benefits at a...
“Quit being so emotional, Elaine, it’s not about the people, it’s about the money.” Mick Mulvaney to Elaine Duke, acting director of Homeland security in 2017. Of course, he did. Some news outlets stated that he was joking, where have we heard that canard before? If we have learned anything...
“Quit being so emotional, Elaine, it’s not about the people, it’s about the money.” Mick Mulvaney to Elaine Duke, acting director of Homeland security in 2017. Of course, he did. Some news outlets stated that he was joking, where have we heard that canard before? If we have learned anything...
Received this e-mail today from Slate Magazine’s The Slurge that highlights seven U.S. Senate races to keep your eye one: 1. Kentucky The national Democratic establishment gets its way in Senate primaries. It’s a rule. Democratic primary voters aren’t like Republicans. When Republican voters hear that Mitch McConnell has recruited...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin’s (D. IL) re-election campaign: Big news: the Supreme Court just granted 700,000 young people in America a new lease on life, ruling against the Trump Administration's cruel attempt to end DACA. I first introduced the Dream Act in 2001....
We already knew that the Trump regime is the vilest administration this country has ever had to endure, but this raises his evil to another level. Central American leaders have pleaded with Trump to stop removals and end deportations that would spread the virus to their impoverished nations that have...
In the final days of World War II, when the Allies were surrounding Germany and even landed in France, Hitler diverted critical and increasingly shrinking military resources to accelerate the deportation of Jews to concentration camps. The hatred he had for them overruled any kind of logic. Incredibly, targeted raids...
Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by categorizing these actions by policy areas and scoring their relative impact, we have attempted to understand how the Administration operates and measure where it’s done...
Progressives around the country strongly urge the 2020 candidates to take bold and fearless stances on several policy issues from immigration to a Green New Deal to Medicare for All. The results are in! In recent weeks, MoveOn sent a 2020 National Presidential Survey to tens of thousands of MoveOn...
Sometimes you can tell something about a politician by their supporters. Oh, I am not necessarily talking about the every day voter but the big time movers and shakers. Take for instance economist and former Obama Administration official Austan Goolsbee. It appears that Goolsbee is a Pete Buttigieg supporter. Why...
Certain personal attributes are not transferable. Joe Biden attempting to channel Trump shows why he is incompatible with a Democratic Presidency. Joe Biden has a way of showing a disregard for minority concerns in practice. Many will point to him being part of civil rights type legislation which is important....
Since the Trump Presidency began back in January 2017, we have endeavored to maintain a comprehensive listing of all the administrations misdeeds in the Everything Awful The Trump Administration Has Done Omnibus (full list here), and have attempted to categorize and score them accordingly. Today is October 20th, which means that as of...
Marina Amaral is an artist from Brazil who adds color to historic photographs. To my mind the above is one of her best works, along with her text, but you can explore it all here. Ellis Island Immigrants, 1907 “Between 1892 and 1954, Ellis Island served as an immigration inspection station for...
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. 1600. Backed a Catholic Highschool on firing a gay teacher...
TRMS last night: Trump admin targeting families of ailing children for deportation Anthony Marino, immigration legal services director of the Irish International Immigrant Center, talks with Rachel Maddow about the frantic legal effort to protect families being kicked out of the United States despite being dependent on life-saving medical treatments...
Received this e-mail today from CREDO Action: While Donald Trump attempts to use the El Paso and Dayton massacres to supercharge his anti-immigrant agenda, Republicans are breaking Senate rules to institutionalize xenophobia and hate.1 Sen. Lindsay Graham just abused his power as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee to jam through a...
Stephen Miller is behind all of the carnage we are facing. We have known Trump is a puppet and I read and reread Miller’s biography and I wonder why Mueller did not interview him. The House should start immediate investigations on Stephen Miller. Based on this, I believe he is...
that, when one considers as well his packing of the judiciary from District courts to the Supreme Court, that screams out from the Constitution. It is found in Article I, Section 9, Clause 2, and note the word I have bolded: The privilege of the write of habeas corpus ahll...
The dumbest argument that I heard in the last Democratic Debate was the notion (and attack on Joe Biden) that fmr. President Obama should have reduced the number of deportations. As the NYT summarized: Other Democrats, siding with Mr. Castro, joined in piling on Mr. Biden, the front-runner. Mayor Bill...
and yes by using ALL CAPS I am SHOUTING No, I am SCREAMING. By now everyone knows about the improper/illegal arrest of an American born citizen by ICE who even when documentation was provided to prove he was totally legal and a citizen was held for well several weeks. But...
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1458. Revoked an Obama era rule that cut off...
Et tu, Highlights? Et tu? This pretty much leaves Guns & Ammo, Boys’ Life, InfoWars, and Fox News all alone in the “patriot” camp. x At Highlights, our core belief is that children are the world's most important people. In light of the reports of the living conditions of detained...
She’s not mincing words, folks. Nor should she. The statement: “The President’s new threat of a mass deportation dragnet is an act of utter malice and bigotry, designed solely to inject fear in our communities. This plan revives the horror of the President’s family separation policy, inflicting its inhumanity on...
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1359. Began sending immigrants to sanctuary cities 1360. Attempted...
Normal, healthy people can all agree that you don’t torture children to punish adults. You don’t rip children from their parents to serve as a deterrent or warning to others. Yet Trump followers aren’t normal. Last year, government officials and random followers told Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo to just shut...
Most people can agree that you don’t torture children to punish adults. You don’t rip children from their parents to serve as a deterrent or warning to others. Yet Trump followers aren’t normal. Last year, government officials and random followers told Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo to just shut up and...
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1313. Said wind power doesn't work because “wind only...
x Dearest Emily,The sadness in the woman's eyes beggared the imagination. With desperate heart, I seized her hand. “Do not despair, friend! For we shall outlive these horrors!”“Sir,” she responded with infinite kindness. “This is a Wendy's drive-thru.”#NotesFromNationalEmergency â Mike Sell (@mike_sell) February 17, 2019 x #NotesFromNationalEmergencyEven now hundreds, if...
“Congress must not give into Trump’s demand for increased funding for a wall, his deportation machine, or border militarization in the next round of this fight” WASHINGTON, DC — Moments ago, Donald Trump announced a deal with Congress to end the government shutdown and reopen the federal government for three...
Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by categorizing these actions by policy areas and scoring their relative impact, we have attempted to understand how the Administration operates and measure where it’s done...
photo: PDA Activists In Solidarity With The Women’s March Say:Healthcare is a Human Right / We Need Medicare For All In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Janis, Deb, Dan, Dr. Bill, Kim, Bryan, and Shayna—your PDA National Team Congress: Open Government With No Wall This is a long email,...
Join DREAMers Saying “Build Bridges Not Walls!” In solidarity, Debra Schrishuhn and Dan O’Neal for Alan, Mike F., Mike H., Janis, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, Bryan, and Shayna—your PDA National Team Tell Congress To Oppose Trump’s Wall! Progressive Democrats of America fights for comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship...
What, oh what is a fledgling dictator to do when the masses won't just blindly obey what he orders?!? The Trump administration is caught between a rock and a hard place on family separation, and to fix it, they're very quietly trying to kill yet another Trump promise with a...
Contra Costa County, across the Bay and northeast from San Francisco, will not longer be keeping ICE detainees in its jail facilities. In particular, the West County jail, in Richmond, CA has been a holding facility for ICE detainees and for the past several weeks has been the scene of numerous protests...
x The moment Ricardo Mercado of Oakland sees his daughters, who had no idea he had been released on $5,000 bond from ICE custody after 9 months. He is still fighting to stay in the U.S. https://t.co/B9VxlezA88 pic.twitter.com/ieno9EZypa— Lisa Fernandez (@ljfernandez) May 4, 2018 If that doesn’t bring you to...
x Protesters form a giant human chain outside ICE office in San Francisco, denounce immigration raids. Video: https://t.co/t0Blc0KCQ3 pic.twitter.com/zBte4DFxsRâ Sara Bueno (@TVwebproducer) February 28, 2018 Hundreds of people have gathered outside of ICE in San Francisco (630 Sansome St), beginning at noon today, Wednesday, February 28th, in immediate response to...
x BREAKING: #DACA recipients can start applying for renewals. Follow @NILC_org for guidance soon! #ProtectDreamers https://t.co/eRiDWsF1tw â Marielena Hincapié (@MarielenaNILC) January 14, 2018 Jan. 13, 2018, Update: Due to a federal court order, USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA. Until further notice,...