Trump regime argues judge can’t order return of man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
Your United States government is claiming the power to abduct lawful residents and send them to a foreign prison without due process and without oversight. Is it ‘woke’ if that seems worrisome?
#507
April 6, 2025
If you’re planning a visit to America, cancel it for god’s sake
Excerpt: … The majority of the women were from Latin American countries, but some were from India, China, Iran, Afghanistan and Gaza. “Most of them were asylum seekers, but there was this handful of new people who had come in recently who did not know why they were here.” Lewelyn joined the dorm a few days after Becky. She had just returned from visiting her family in the Philippines; she had been living in the US since 1976, working as a lab technician at the University of Washington hospital’s cancer centre. “She’d had a visa issue that had been resolved many years ago, but now it was flagging on the system again.” Kseniia, a Russian woman who had been working for two years in a California nail salon, had permission to work in the US but was handcuffed while waiting for her husband to come out of an Ice interview. “She was so confused. She kept saying to me, ‘I’ve got a work permit.’”
There were other tourists, too. Bana, from Romania, was on holiday in Canada and visited Peace Arch park, on the international boundary between the US and Canada. She told Becky she had been taking selfies with her husband when a US border official told her they had strayed into American territory without the right visa and took her into custody…
DEMOCRACY GOING, GOING, GONE…
Excerpt: “By changing the rules of the game after it’s been played to potentially disenfranchise as many as 60,000 voters, this court has gone where no court has gone before,” said Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer who was national counsel for the Bush-Cheney campaign during the 2000 election and recount. “Until this decision, courts facing challenges to ballots cast in compliance with past practice and election administrators’ instructions had uniformly sided with the voters.”
Me again: This is yet another example — there are so many, every damned day — of courts and media taking Republicans’ ludicrous claims seriously.
Do you know anyone among the 65,000?
‘Everyone is terrified’: Business and government officials are afraid to cross Trump on tariffs
DHS officials ask IRS to illegally use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants
US Supreme Court is cool with Trump unconstitutionally freezing teacher-training grants
GIVE US YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, SO WE CAN IMPRISON THEM
Visas revoked for all legal visitors from South Sudan
Mom, 3 kids jailed in ‘cruel,’ ‘horrifying’ ICE dairy farm probe in New York
Trump regime cancels dozens of international student visas at University of California, Stanford
The Austin-area teen Trump disappeared to El Salvador
DACA recipient and Kansas City father of 3 deported to Mexico despite valid documentation
In Alien Enemies case, many with open asylum claims allegedly removed
United States Disappeared Tracker
ONLY THE RICH HAVE RIGHTS
Social Security Administration outlines new plan for stricter ID-proofing options
Excerpt: … SSA is seeking these changes to reduce fraudulent payments. …
Me again: Social Security has historically been about the cleanest, most fraud-free agency possible. Over 99% accuracy. Claims of rampant fraud are rampant Republican lies, and when repeated as fact like this article does, it’s the Federal News Network lying to you.
Outside a Social Security office, fear, lines and misinformation
TO HELL WITH HEALTH AND SAFETY
House Republican proposal seeks to exempt many toxic “forever chemicals” from review
Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs
RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis
Trump gets FEMA out of the ‘preparing for disasters’ business
SCREW SCIENCE
Trump regime rescinds NIH policy designed to shield federal scientists from political interference
US weather agency websites to vanish under planned contract cuts
AND I SAY TO MYSELF, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
China ‘trying to replicate’ scrapped USAID programs in Africa, AFRICOM commander warns
‘DOGE’ eyes cuts to Peace Corps
Shocker! Video contradicts Israeli account of ambulance attack
CRUELTY IS THE POINT
Trump’s VA is ending a rescue program that’s saved 17,000 military veterans’ homes
Woman arrested for washing hands in ladies’ room
Trump picks golf dinner over dignified transfer of US troops’ bodies
GOOD NEWS
New York schools tell Trump administration they won’t comply with ‘DEI’ order
More than 80 ex-staffers of top law firm have had enough
Judge awards $6.6 million to whistleblowers who reported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to FBI
After massive public pressure, Georgia cops drop charges against 24-year-old who miscarried
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DYSTOPIA
Texas bill threatens $500,000 daily fines for museums displaying ‘obscene’ art
Chemical industry asks Trump for exemption from pollution limits
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to attend latest measles victim’s funeral
USDA announces policy to begin logging national forests
AND ALSO
Filmmaker Paul Schrader accused of sexually assaulting personal assistant
STUPID PEOPLE
Trump fires 6 NSC officials on 9/11 wingnut Laura Loomer’s say-so
As markets melt down, Trump touts $5m gold card for wealthy immigrants (featuring his face)
OUR FRIENDS, THE DEMOCRATS
Notably absent: The Democratic Party, and ActBlue.
Holy Crap! Obama emerges from hibernation, sees his shadow, declares himself “deeply concerned”!
MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN
“Stop the Oligarchs” is a winning message
What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked
And that’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives.
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, Toad’s Lily Pad, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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