Margaret Storey

Kristi Noem is out Writing her political obituary

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/kristi-noe...

This is the company that Substack chose to partnership with.

VP Vance is falsely claiming the Trump Admin somehow has the “inherent” authority to just unilaterally withhold from MN mandatory federal #Medicaid funding to which the state is entitled.

Well, now that we've gotten through THAT, here's the truth:

This is America and no matter what Trump wants you to believe, the power belongs to the PEOPLE.

A more hopeful future for America is possible when we all speak out and stand up for what we believe in.

HERO 🔥

And I don’t want to hear shit about a censure vote against this man.

Rep. Al Greene was ejected from the State of the Union for the sign — “Black People Aren’t Apes.”

UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out • The Austin Chronicle On Monday, the Chronicle spoke with Lisa Moore, who has served since 2023 as the chair of UT-Austin’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department – a department that is now being collapsed with ...

University of Texas Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out
Lisa Moore defends the value of ethnic and gender studies...

After UT, dissolves and consolidates all enthnic and gender departments...

www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head...

the old sack and pillage trade

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

The first step to dealing with Trumpism is to ignore everything they say and only watch what they do.

Gov. Pritzker's letter to Donald Trump demanding a refund on tariffs.

Cut the check, Donald Trump.

Excellent explainer.

DHS axed its civil rights staff—and opened the door to a major lawsuit The agency is now barely pretending to follow disability law. Its former civil rights head says that makes ICE vulnerable.

A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Honored to be part of this special issue!

My essay, "Empathy, Humility, and Good Faith: Studying History in Times of Crisis," explores the ways I have been thinking about this question both as a historian and teacher, and as Josie's mom and advocate: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic....

Incredible.

Donald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting."

My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I started Democracy Docket as a critical tool in the fight for free and fair elections. Support its work by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

No US War on Iran: An Open Letter to the UN Security Council | Common Dreams The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiation of negotiations that had already succeeded.

“No country is safe if the United States can make brazen threats against Iran and indeed several other states in recent weeks, including Cuba, Denmark, and others.”

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.

🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”

Somewhere back there is the White House

Kalshi in court over 19 federal lawsuits. What's the future of prediction markets? Apps that let people wager on current events have experienced explosive growth in Trump's second term. But one of the leading markets is tied up in lawsuits that cloud the industry's future.

"Donald Trump Jr.... is now an advisor to Kalshi and Polymarket, which was forced out of the U.S. under Biden but is now staging a U.S. comeback. The president's social network, TruthSocial, is also planning to launch its own prediction market service."

Scam site for scammers.

Shut 'em down.

There's case after case now where you get quick charges, almost certainly demanded from political appointees. Discovery producers evidence that rules out guilt. Prosecutors usually aren't willing to hide that evidence. Charges dismissed.

BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Impeach. Her.

"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

Rep. Melanie Stansbury: "[Ghislaine Maxwell] used this opportunity to not only campaign for clemency as she has been doing but also to send a direct message…to POTUS that her silence can be bought through clemency."

Trump’s New Tax Law Saved Amazon Billions Breaks for investment and research lowered the company’s payments to the U.S. government.

Trump said he would fight for “forgotten Americans.” I didn’t know that meant Jeff Bezos.

Despite making $89.5 BILLION in profits last year, Amazon paid just 3.1% in taxes.

This is what Republicans’ SNAP & Medicaid cuts were for.

Guess that ‘Melania’ doc really paid off.

The Trump regime will never forgive or stop trying to punish people for the cruelties it has already committed against them.

She has been fairly anti-progressive in the past. But off to a great start as governor.

Is It All Just Envy? The sides of the inequality debate continue to talk past one another, as Don Boudreaux's recent criticisms demonstrate.

“Smith was deeply concerned not simply with how money is earned. He was concerned about that money’s effect on the character of the rich, on social relations, and the tendency of the rich to dominate the political agenda.” www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-all-ju...