labor lawyer & movement idealist in Oregon; against the genocide of Palestinians and all violence against civilians; the rule of law and human rights matter; big fan of education; Abolish ICE is the moderate position
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In MI-08, an R+1 district with a Dem incumbent, the GOP candidate Trump endorsed is losing by double digits to a guy who'd dropped out last month.
While Trump and Republicans in Congress move on, tens of millions of Americans are stuck with the bill — literally. A family of four with student debt now faces $4,000+ in added costs a year. My latest on @ms.now: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | America’s student loan system is a mess. Along comes Trump to make it worse.Randi Weingarten and Mike Pierce: Ballooning student loan payments are Trump's latest contribution to the affordability crisiswww.ms.now
FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
when people talk about how anti-trans sports policies harm *all* girls this is exactly what they mean
Gillian BranstetterAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
The government had accused David Hearn of ripping a piece of sealant after a $14 million renovation. Hearn has repeatedly said that he simply touched the water in the pool out of curiosity last month. n.pr/4fwMK31
Prosecutors move to dismiss Reflecting Pool vandalism case, saying 'botched installation' to blameThe government had accused David Hearn of ripping a piece of sealant after a $14-million renovation. Hearn has repeatedly said that he simply touched the water in the pool out of curiosity last month.n.pr
Union journalists at 3 WA newspapers are continuing their contract fight after a multi-day strike, demanding higher wages & AI usage guidelines. Workers say Adams MultiMedia's proposal would leave even veteran journalists earning less than the living wage. https://ow.ly/ejfC50ZurZy
"more teachers departed public school classrooms in Texas than at any point since at least 2007, the earliest year with state data...From 2020 to 2025, the state lost 35,000 teachers who would have stayed in the classroom...That’s equivalent to nearly 10% of the current teacher workforce."
Anne Lutz FernandezThis new data compiled by @mattbarnum.bsky.social is invaluable. It makes clear that worries about the teacher shortage, downplayed by contrarians, were and are warranted. Importantly, it raises a largely ignored factor affecting student mental health, behavior, and academic success.
If you're wondering what party will help you keep your Social Security benefits and which one is trying to take them away, this is a Republican on the Senate floor TODAY:
One weird trick to literally destroy America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After GraduationThe proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.www.wsj.com
"In the sweltering Alabama heat, where a trailer home can feel like an oven during each new heat wave, Esther Calhoun’s electricity bill has doubled in recent years. On a fixed income of about $1,300 a month, the 63‑year‑old Calhoun now pays roughly $350 monthly for electricity in rural Alabama."
Data Center Surge Worsens Electricity Costs for Black FamiliesTrump promised to cut power bills, but instead nearly 100 million households are behind on utility payments, with Black households holding the most debt.capitalbnews.org
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John WashingtonI’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilitieswww.theguardian.com
Happening now: Chicago immigrant advocacy groups are holding a presser outside the city's immigration court to address "mega master" hearings: These are first appearance hearings where 1 immigration judge can address 100s of cases at a time, as part of the Trump admin's push to rush deportations.
The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.
Some really encouraging Senate polls… 📍Georgia 🔵 Jon Ossoff: 56% 🔴 Mike Collins: 43% 📍North Carolina 🔵 Roy Cooper: 53% 🔴 Michael Whatley: 44% 📍Ohio 🔵 Sherrod Brown: 53% 🔴 Jon Husted: 45% 📍Iowa 🔵 Josh Turek: 50% 🔴 Ashley Hinson: 46% Keep organizing. Keep fighting.
Massive coverage loss in SNAP, and even more massive losses in Medicaid, will be among the *eligible*. Congress designed a dystopian set of administrative requirements that, by design, will make it practically impossible for eligible individuals to access coverage.
Kathleen Bachynski“Experts worry that the litany of unanswered questions surrounding medical frailty will lead to more vulnerable people getting kicked out of the program. Preliminary estimates from the Congressional Budget Office suggest over 7 million people will lose coverage in coming years.”
"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.
NEW: Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate The request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after @wbur.org and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit operators.
Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is AccurateThe request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after WBUR and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit ...www.propublica.org
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli ValleyDystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...