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Blue dot in red state. Interested in libraries, instructional technology, care for others.

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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

www.archchicago.org/en/statement...

08.03.2026 14:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We could just build housing.

07.03.2026 01:24 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1

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26.02.2026 15:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ICE has killed 9 people so far in 2026.  Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Keith Porter, Heber Sanchaz Dominguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nenez Caceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos. They all deserve remembrance.  They all deserve justice.

ICE has killed 9 people so far in 2026. Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Keith Porter, Heber Sanchaz Dominguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nenez Caceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos. They all deserve remembrance. They all deserve justice.

Elizabeth Warren is completely correct.

Silence is complicity.

Nobody will forget that most of the R's have done nothing to stop the ICE abuses which resulted in the cold blooded murders of American citizens, Alex Pretti & Renee Good in Minneapolis + 7 others.

FUCK ICE.

28.01.2026 20:40 👍 85 🔁 33 💬 6 📌 0
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Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

27.01.2026 00:55 👍 23839 🔁 5865 💬 266 📌 324
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

The story www.propublica.org/article/vide...

13.01.2026 22:21 👍 2265 🔁 1058 💬 26 📌 48
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Tuberville hid from the Jan. 6 mob. Now he calls them ‘great American patriots.’ Senator attempts to filibuster reality.

You can’t filibuster reality, but Tommy Tuberville will try.

www.al.com/news/2026/01...

08.01.2026 18:41 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 1

TUBERVILLE blocks resolution condemning the 1/6/2021 attack.
He claims w/o evidence that 1/6 was actually a "coup" by Democrats, Nancy Pelosi and the Deep State against Trump, claiming tampering with election results & said they infiltrated the crowd to stir up trouble. "This has all been proven."

06.01.2026 23:03 👍 182 🔁 75 💬 30 📌 31
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130,000 Alabamans are about to lose their health insurance as a direct result of the “One big beautiful bill”, and a Florida man is tweeting like it’s some kind of win.

If you live in the state, call Sen. Tuberville and tell him what’s on your mind: 202-224-3121

06.01.2026 00:42 👍 5428 🔁 2432 💬 365 📌 114
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Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.

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05.01.2026 15:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.

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05.01.2026 15:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ends  don’t justify the means
Ends don’t justify the means YouTube video by Fr David

A very important message today from Father David. For those that don’t know, Father David previously worked as a lawyer, prosecutor and judge.

Please listen carefully to his very important words! ⬇️⬇️

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

youtube.com/shorts/38jlZ...

03.01.2026 20:33 👍 83 🔁 62 💬 3 📌 2

Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.

27.12.2025 12:22 👍 659 🔁 280 💬 11 📌 16
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Number of people in ICE detention hits record high, data shows ICE held more than 68,400 people as of 14 December, breaking previous high set at beginning of December

There are now more people in ICE detention than ever before — 68,440 people.

Most have never committed a crime. Many are being held in facilities with horrific conditions. It’s cruel and inhumane, and it must end. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

24.12.2025 23:02 👍 200 🔁 94 💬 13 📌 8
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University of Alabama alumni offer to fund shuttered student magazines The Alice and 1956 magazines focused on women's issues and Black student issues.

www.al.com/news/2025/12...

05.12.2025 14:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rep. Salinas visits Tacoma ICE facility.
Rep. Salinas visits Tacoma ICE facility. YouTube video by Congresswoman Andrea Salinas

I’ve heard many stories of how ICE is not following the law or honoring due process.

I'm at the Tacoma ICE facility to come see for myself and hold ICE accountable. From my visit, it was abundantly clear that ICE is lying.

25.11.2025 22:37 👍 1869 🔁 866 💬 74 📌 27
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Sesame Street saved? Alabama Public Television extends contract with PBS until 2026 If APT ultimately chooses to disaffiliate from PBS, they will be the first network in the country to do so.

www.al.com/news/birming...

18.11.2025 21:25 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...

18.11.2025 15:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Faith under attack: More clergy arrested at ICE facility protest - Salon.com Assaults and arrests of religious leaders in Chicago protests reflect a pattern of ICE escalation against clergy

"Clergy representing Catholic, Jewish, Episcopal and interfaith coalitions gathered Friday morning to demand an end to workplace raids and mass detentions."

"Organizers say at least one of the arrestees was a 72-year-old priest who has participated in immigration vigils for more than a decade."

16.11.2025 21:39 👍 223 🔁 131 💬 13 📌 1
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‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

09.11.2025 16:38 👍 7362 🔁 3846 💬 249 📌 173
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Alabama Public Television weighs future of its PBS partnership Alabama Public Television may end its PBS partnership, risking funding loss and programming cuts.

www.alreporter.com/2025/11/06/a...

06.11.2025 17:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Alabama Public Television may drop PBS programming | Alabama Reflector Alabama Public Television Executive Director Wayne Reid told the Alabama Educational Television Commission PBS programming could be dropped.

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29.10.2025 13:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Remember when the GOP backed voting rights? It happened. And not so long ago. One picture shows how far things have regressed.

25.10.2025 12:26 👍 117 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 1

BREAKING: Over a sharp dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan & Jackson, the Supreme Court will not stop Alabama from killing Anthony Boyd tonight.

Sotomayor tells the reader to count to four minutes on their phone. "Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating."

23.10.2025 20:55 👍 548 🔁 203 💬 23 📌 19
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Fewer students attending Alabama public schools The State Board of Education said districts are seeing fewer students in the classroom this year. It is the largest reduction in 40 years.

The State Board of Education said districts are seeing fewer students in the classroom this year. It is the largest reduction in 40 years.

20.10.2025 23:42 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

18.10.2025 17:30 👍 26101 🔁 5853 💬 408 📌 236
A woman holding her head in her hand while sitting in a wheelchair. People are lined up next to her holding signs saying Free speech not fascism and Hate never made a country great

A woman holding her head in her hand while sitting in a wheelchair. People are lined up next to her holding signs saying Free speech not fascism and Hate never made a country great

Annie Pearl Avery, a long time civil rights activist, with her head in her hand after speaking at a “No Kings” protest at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Oct. 18, 2025. Avery told the small crowd that people have the power. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector)

18.10.2025 19:33 👍 574 🔁 119 💬 2 📌 7
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Alabama Arise announces new policy priorities for 2026 After tallying votes, Arise announced it would focus on seven policy areas next year, including health equity and justice reform.

Alabama Arise has unveiled its legislative priorities for 2026 as the organization continues looking to affect change across the state.

13.10.2025 16:40 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0