So, this is new: on March 17th, some loon amended the SAVE America Act to eliminate most mail-in voting altogether, plus add in some crazy unrelated anti-trans stuff. “A State shall require an individual to vote in person,” with very limited exceptions. 1/2 www.congress.gov/amendment/11...
www.congress.govI’m also reposting the second part of @jennycohn.bsky.social ‘s summary, because it’s important to know that the SAVE Act requires states to submit voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security, which can apparently purge anyone they want by claiming they haven't proved their citizenship. 1/3
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This was posted about a month ago, but I just ran across it now. Since Minneapolis isn’t as front-page at the moment, it seems like a good idea to post a reminder of what’s still going on in ICE detention/deportations, much of which is illegal.
MdDoogie3I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
Hate the Trump ballroom? We all have until noon (EST) March 4 to submit a written comment to the National Capital Planning Commission. They need to hear from the public. More info here—please take action. savingplaces.org/public-comme...
Public Comment Period Open: White House Ballroom Proposal | National Trust for Historic PreservationThe National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom additi...savingplaces.orgAn ICE lawyer says the agency has stopped training cadets in the legal use of deadly force, among other terrible decisions. He resigned so he could speak up.
Rachel BitecoferBREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
Good. And I hope someone did some careful documentation of the images locals added to the empty spaces (see photo in article) while we all waited for the TrumpAdmin to fix what they broke.
The Associated PressWorkers began restoring an exhibit on the lives of the nine people once enslaved by George Washington at the former President's House in Philadelphia amid a contentious legal fight between the city and the Trump administration.
🧵1/2 - TrumpAdmin is ordered to restore the info panels they took down from the historic President's Residence. The judge, a G.W. Bush appointee(!), cited Orwell's "1984" and referenced nine people who were brought to the site as slaves (two eventually escaped). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US judge orders Trump administration to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibitIn ruling, judge cited quote from Orwell’s novel 1984 describing process by which authoritarians rewrite historywww.theguardian.comIf you’re anywhere near Baltimore, you still have a little bit of time to see some of these in real life (Walters Art Museum, through Feb 22, 2026) thewalters.org/exhibitions/...
Paws on ParchmentThis paws-itively adorable exhibition explores how medieval people thought about, engaged with, and admired cats in books from the period.thewalters.orgMuseum of Twitter