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Author of WHEN THE BAND PLAYED ON, THE LIFE OF RANDY SHILTS, AMERICA’S TRAILBLAZING GAY JOURNALIST. 2025 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Minneapolis MN. www.AuthorMGLee.com πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Rep. Eric Swalwell gives update on deaf Hayward boy, family deported to Colombia On Monday, East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell plans to provide an update on one Hayward family deported to Colombia.

ICE deported a Hayward family to Colombia, including a six year old deaf boy without his hearing.

@ericswalwell.bsky.social sent staff to Colombia with hearing aids for the boy, and they're working to find a way to bring the family back under humanitarian parole.
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/h...

09.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 270 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
Courtesy ONE Archives at USC

Courtesy ONE Archives at USC

On a drizzly March day in 1970, Morris Kight took the lead spot at a Gay Liberation Front protest over securing permits for L.A.’s first Gay Pride March. Unlike most of his fellow activists, he was not young: he was already a veteran of multiple political and social movements.

πŸ”Š bit.ly/mgh-kight

09.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is an escalation by DHS.

Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines.

Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.

09.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 5219 πŸ” 1873 πŸ’¬ 95 πŸ“Œ 58
Pictures of ICE agents in Minnesota 

in Iran, he should deploy these guys.
They've spent months in.American cities cosplaying elite military forces.

Let's see how brave and courageous they really are. They can even wear their masks! Now is the time.

Pictures of ICE agents in Minnesota in Iran, he should deploy these guys. They've spent months in.American cities cosplaying elite military forces. Let's see how brave and courageous they really are. They can even wear their masks! Now is the time.

Send ICE to Iran.

09.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 323 πŸ” 128 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 10
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The moms risking arrest to protect gender-affirming care for trans youth The government wants to ban the care nationwide. Hospitals are shutting down treatment. Parents just want it all to stop.

Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.

She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.

09.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 566 πŸ” 223 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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With evictions looming, city leaders take a stab at solutions - MinnPost Lacking the dollars to address rent relief in the wake of Operation Metro Surge, advocates hope hard for a financial boost from the state.

Eviction researchers and tenant advocacy organizations say that while it’s hard to predict what could happen months from now, families’ needs are immediate. www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/0...

09.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr.’s HHS proposes scrapping protections for LGBTQ+ kids in foster care The policy change was announced in a notice of proposed rulemaking.

Do you know how wicked a person has to be to *punch down* on CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE?????

Get this man out of office, NOW.

@housedemocrats.bsky.social CO-SPONSOR THE ARTICLES.
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www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

09.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6

"[M]oderate Democratic voters are fully in line with the growing economic populism in the party and actually want more of it. And on social issues, they aren’t as worried about a Democratic Party that strongly defends transgender people and abortion rights as many centrist pundits are."

09.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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How Minnesota’s Voter ID Amendment Was Defeated Minnesota voters defeated a ballot initiative that would have required voters to present a photo ID in order to vote. This was the latest in a string of victories for voting rights, and the final verd...

Minnesotans rejected strict voter ID requirements back in 2012 at the same time our state rejected a ban on same-sex marriage equality.

We should be proud of our state’s election systems and voter participation; not working to undermine them.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

09.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

It's so infuriating that the party that is moving to prevent SNAP from buying birthday cakes is just fine with this level of grift from one of history's dumbest assholes.

08.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 233 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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True…and depressing

06.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Tell your Members of Congress to take action immediately and call for the release of Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention - email/call tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

08.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Women at a protest holding a sign that says

THE ENEMY DOESN'T
ARRiVE BY BOAT HE ARRIVES BY LiMOUSiNE

Women at a protest holding a sign that says THE ENEMY DOESN'T ARRiVE BY BOAT HE ARRIVES BY LiMOUSiNE

08.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

A study by the Center for American Progress has noted that the daily cost of the war on Iran could provide SNAP food benefits for two million Americans for a year.

08.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

I don't understand why we aren't connecting narcissistic personality disorders to being impaired. It is impairment. He can't process shame, pathologically. That's REALLY bad. It means he is incapable of effective leadership, pathologically.

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This quote from Mayor Her broke my heart.

08.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools β€” purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration β€” to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools β€” purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration β€” to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

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DHS deports deaf boy, 6, after preventing him receiving his hearing aid, lawyer says The child, his younger brother and mother, asylum seekers from Colombia, were detained in California earlier this week

Every person who works for DHS that had any involvement in deporting anyone WITHOUT due process should be deported to a country they've never been to, with no money, no phone, no shoes, and with no knowledge of the language spoken in that country.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

08.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

They're putting anti trans slogans on the trans flag so that they can say their anti trans messaging while making it like trans rights supporters are doing the violence here. It's intentional.

08.03.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 812 πŸ” 189 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0
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"All the President's Men" was a warning Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay.

β€œAll the President’s Men” was a warning

Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay
www.salon.com/2026/03/07/a...

07.03.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 3203 πŸ” 893 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 36

Billionaireism is the disease we are all suffering from.

08.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

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The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

07.03.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 4273 πŸ” 890 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 20

100% in a desperate attempt to get Americans behind his illegal war.

07.03.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Punk rock show tonight at Moon Palace Books - a fundraiser for rent funds.
Sensor Ghost (from D.C.), plus locals Time Room and Makin Out.
7:30 doors
$10 - $20 suggested donation

07.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"In 1933, a circle of Wall Street financiers allegedly hatched a plan to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt. They didn’t want to kill him.
They wanted to keep him in his chair, smiling for photographs, while a puppet official β€” controlled by the men who paid for the operation β€” ran the country."

07.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Former staff show how Trump acted to upend EPA's mission and "make America sicker." Their new report details relaxed restrictions on dangerous chemicals in food, consumer products, water and air.

The report details how recent EPA decisions have relaxed restrictions on harmful chemicals in food, consumer products, water and air, increasing Americans’ exposure to 12 of the most dangerous and ubiquitous pollutants.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

07.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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😑

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