Nice shout-out for @irisct.org from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social whoโs doing extraordinary work on behalf of all Americans! @magsmitchell.bsky.social
Nice shout-out for @irisct.org from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social whoโs doing extraordinary work on behalf of all Americans! @magsmitchell.bsky.social
BREAKING: The United States is officially in multiple trade wars. I break down all the developments, discuss what products will be impacted, and preview what's to come. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Stating the obvious: tariffs are a regressive tax on the poorest Americans.
A company pays the tariff, and raises their prices to get that money. That price is paid by the consumer.
Duh
"I want to speak directly to Americans," says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "This is a choice that will harm Canadians...but will have real consequences for you."
The premier of British Columbia, whose province is home to nearly 6 million people, huge ports of Vancouver and Victoria, and the highway connecting Washington State to Alaska.
WATCH ๐บ: "What Are The Costs of Trump's Immigration Crackdown?" @jeremyrobbins.bsky.social discusses the aftermath in-studio today with CBS News and Major Garrett: immcouncil.co/42w1okR
#QuoteOfTheDay / #QOTD, 1/27/2025
#Quote by: @magsmitchell.bsky.social, executive director of IRIS,
speaking to Emma Wulfhorst for Fox 61's "The Real Story"
#ImmigrantsWelcome
Many great orgs cited including mine, irisct.org
Also, IRC & Inspiritus www.csmonitor.com/USA/2025/011... #refugees #immigrants
The argument over H-1B visas exposes a fissure in the MAGA alliance that helped elect Trump. @hannarosin.bsky.social speaks with @alibreland.bsky.social and Rogรฉ Karma about the growing rift between the nativist right and Silicon Valley:
President Biden is walking alongside former president Jimmy Carter's coffin, which is draped with an American flag. Photo by Erin Schaff/The New York Times.
Former President Jimmy Carter was remembered on Thursday as a humanitarian who put service to others above his own ambitions during a state funeral in Washington. His coffin is being flown to Georgia, where he will be buried next to his wife, Rosalynn. nyti.ms/3DL1R8m
Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
On the tens of millions of American Christians who are embracing a charismatic movement which seeks to destroy the secular state
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
After months of delay, President-elect Donald Trump is set to become the first U.S. president to be criminally sentenced.
Follow live updates.
Shiu Ka-chun, a former social worker and pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong who devoted his last years to helping protesters imprisoned after a crackdown on dissent, died Friday in Hong Kong. He was 55.
What an #immigration conversation!! Drama-, hysteria-free. #factsmatter podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter, tells a story about his grandfather when he first got a cell phone.
So funny and so relatable!
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What happens to the Alawite community now, Hussein Ibish writes, will say a great deal about whether post-Assad Syria will cohere into a stable, pluralistic nationโor descend into further sectarian chaos.
NEW Nearly half of the 1.4 million people in the U.S. immigration system with final deportation orders cannot be sent back to their home countries, according to internal ICE data. Itโs one of several obstacles Trumpโs mass removal plan will face www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The House โcannot collude with the president to deprive the Senate of its constitutional power to advise and consent on appointments. That would make a mockery of the Constitutionโs text,โ Akhil Reed Amar, Josh Chafetz, and Thomas P. Schmidt write: theatln.tc/qmOHkWFK
A company controlled by Goldman Sachs has made millions of dollars from sewage sludge sold to use as fertilizer, which has been linked to โforever chemicals.โ Now the company is part of a major lobbying effort to limit the ability of farmers to sue to clean up fields polluted by the fertilizer.
Freedom from Assad at last. Real peace & security to follow? One Syria, or many parts? Many questions. And yes, joy as Assadโs political prisoners are freed & families are reunited.
14 years of horror. Half a country of 24M people dead, disappeared, or displaced.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
HTS leader Ahmad Al-Sharaa (Jolani) gives a glimpse of what the opposition is planning for Syria in the aftermath of Assad's collapse. Has also ordered troops to protect all Syrians no matter their ethnicity, sect, or religion. Says regime troops that stay, surrender, or defect will be safe.
Our institutions donโt defend themselves, we do. Don't be distracted by Trump's chaotic appointee picks, focus because there's a long fight ahead.
Bashar al-Assadโs biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
Rebels are within 6km from Assad's palace. Locals are tearing down Assad images & signs 15 minutes from the Palace. Russia is fleeing Tartus port and Iran is evacuating forces. An emergency meeting to be held between Turkey, Iran, Russia, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. #freeSyria
City Prepares For Trump II Deportations
Source: New Haven Independent โ IRIS hosted.
โFrankly, as a community, weโre gonna have to make some difficult decisions,โ Mayor Elicker said. โโThere will be an intentional push to divide our values. That will be something we have to go through together.โ
โYou may not be aware that โฆaccording to data from your countryโs Customs and Border Protection (CBP), encounters at the Mexico-United States border have decreased by 75% between Dec 2023 and Nov 2024.โ Mexicoโs Pres Claudia Sheinbaum
Rightly ๐ our drug consumption fueling crossings & violence.
Through my activism, Iโve realized itโs organizing, not public protesting, that forces lawmakers to act. So Iโm not alarmed that people arenโt in the streets (yet). The most effective resistance isnโt en masse, but undergroundโand it starts in communities.