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House lawmakers advanced legislation that would ban any state government entity, including public schools, from recognizing Pride Month and from displaying LGBTQ+ pride flags. The bill along party lines despite concerns it would harm and minimize LGBTQ+ Oklahomans.
via @oklahomavoice.com
From @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social in @statnews.com: Someone asked if, given the consequences, I now regret my choice to speak up. I would, without question, make the same choice again. In the words of a fellow Bethesda Declaration signer, “You can get another job; you can’t get another soul.”
Freedom for Immigrants is launching an interactive map designed to help families locate detained loved ones, find legal and community resources, and better understand the expanding U.S. immigration detention system.
SCOOP: WIRED has learned the identity of the DOGE operative at the center of a whistleblower complaint about social security data www.wired.com/story/john-s...
by @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social
This is about the population of Iowa.
Imagine every resident of Iowa being displaced within the span of a few weeks.
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It is interesting to me* how this total military, geopolitical, & economic omnishambles is not being covered in the press with remotely the same fierce EPIC DISASTROUS FAILURE urgency that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean withdrawal from 🇦🇫 was covered 🤔
[*It is not remotely interesting to me]
Want a break from bad news? @bspears.bsky.social covers this young activist's push for legislation ending animal cruelty in cosmetics testing wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/03/11/w...
Shrapnel wounds. Brain injuries. Burns.
Trump is throwing our troops into unjustified foreign wars while gutting our VA and making it harder to get the care they earned when they come home.
The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
In South Burlington, Vermont, protesters are being tear-gassed by ICE and local police as they attempt to prevent a kidnapping.
For anyone outside of Minnesota who has been wondering why progressives & leftists absolutely despise Jacob Frey, here is a very clear cut example.
ICE detains Marlborough 14-year-old, apparently as ‘hostage’ to target her father, Rep. Trahan says #news
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/03/11/ice-detains-marlborough-14-year-old-uses-her-as-hostage-to-target-father-rep-trahan-says/
Congrats to both @themarshallproject.org and @reemakkad.bsky.social. This is a very promising pairing.
White House tells House Republicans to stop talking about "mass deportations" and instead focus their messaging on "removing violent criminals" even as ICE kidnaps 5-year-olds, locking them up in concentration camps www.axios.com/2026/03/10/w...
Again, Elon Musk & ~everyone else involved in this unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crime needs to go to jail for the rest of their lives.
The ICE detention center purchases appear to be money laundering:
Again, the people involved in this, from Elon Musk on down to the lowest level recruits, need to go to jail for a very long time.
This is amazing.
When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.
That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.
Hey cis women, the anti-trans push is coming for your menopause and abortion meds, your ability to use the bathroom without bounty hunters spying on you, your ability to play sports without genital checks, and your ability to wear “non-feminine” clothes. You might want to stand up for ALL women now
Hey folks? Please maybe don't print a picture of SC Justice Rebecca Bradley, who is neither Maria Lazar nor her opponent, with this story?
man had the guts to speak it, leak it, testify. rest in peace and having made a massive impact.
Iranian National Dies in Mississippi - 17th ICE Related Death Since December 31 By Izzy Ramirez
Fifty-nine-year-old Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi is currently the 11th person to have died while in ICE custody this year that we know of, and the 17th ICE-related death since the killing of Keith Porter on December 31, 2025.
Story lataco.com/iranian-ice-...
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
Breaking NYT:
Two teenage brothers and mariachi stars who visited the White House last summer were just released with their family from ICE detention centers in South Texas — immediately following the visit of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who pressed for them to be freed.
6/ Secretary Marco Rubio has repeatedly said no one has died as a result of cuts to foreign aid. Our reporting proves that isn’t true.
Read our full series about the fallout of dismantling USAID here: www.propublica.org/series/the-e...
ICYMI, @thecoalition.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org filed a new First Amendment lawsuit earlier today challenging the Trump admin's denial of visas to tech researchers, tech workers, fact-checkers. Here's a post explaining why we're suing. mailchi.mp/knightcolumb...
Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.
Take the damn money and leave me alone.
This dude's👇 always on the money.
