Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #ethics #corruption #maga #ice
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature partner to ICE,” and how Palantir is addressing empl…Joseph Cox (404 Media)
To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.
The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.
Angry constituent here: "It’s very hard to get people to believe that anyone is trying to end research into finding cures for diseases that affect everyone. The richest people get #cancer & #Alzheimers & #Parkinson’s. . . . & yet it is happening. Quite simply, until elected officials start hearing from angry constituents in town halls who are pissed that their futures & the futures of their loved ones are being lit on fire for no reason, then nothing matters."
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This post isn’t quite a post in the way I normally do them, more jotting down some of my brainstorming over the weekend. Universities are a core pillar of civil…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Read this, weep, refuse to comply, & don't be paralyzed by the evil.
"I understand that we have an immigration problem. I do," Riggs said. "I understand that our country cannot harbor every single person that crosses its borders. I understand that there are really bad people that we have to find." But starting w/a 73-year-old grandfather who has a #heart condition & who is the primary caretaker of his wife w/#dementia is not the solution, she said.
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The Lafayette man was detained outside of a gas station on his way to work, and his family posted a video begging for prayers and help to bring him home.The Advocate
Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., is speaking and planning to hold the Senate floor for as long as he can. "I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble.MSNBC
THIS IS IMPEACHABLE!!!
President Bystander: Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House
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#BystanderTrump #EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Confronted with key questions about life-or-death issues, Donald Trump looks like a bystander, offering the public a lot of shrugged shoulders and blank stares.Steve Benen (MSNBC)
Thank you, Bishops! He's a threat to the entire world.
More leaders: STAND UP!!!!
'The President is a dangerous threat': Lutheran bishops take a stand
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#EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Who gets to decide what is Christian? What does religious liberty look like today? With so much unsettling and destabilizing news coming from the new administration in Washington, DC, it’s hard to keep up with and keep track of everything.Wisconsin Examiner (Alternet.org)
And so, here we are #canada #cdnpoli
A version of this @ #globeandmail
“What’s the probability of this kind of scenario? Ten per cent, 5 per cent, or 1 per cent? No one can say for sure. But it’s certainly not zero. And given the existential cost to Canada, we’d be stupid not to take it seriously. In game-theory terms, we need to pursue a strategy of “minimax regret” – to minimize, as best we can, the possibility of worst-case outcomes.”
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Cascade Institute Executive Director Thomas Homer-Dixon urges Canada to bolster its defenses against the growing threat of an authoritarian and imperialist U.S. regime.nicole (Cascade Institute)
The Department of Education being closed is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Most #maga supporters want it as #trump and #doge convinced them schools were federally funded, and they were going to overhaul and fix it.
They're too uneducated to know that it's already funded by states, and The Department of Education exists to fill gaps in resources, especially for #disabled and disadvantaged children.
Which red states need THE MOST.
Family members of Venezuelan migrants who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador as part of a rapid US #deportation operation over the weekend are struggling to get more info as a legal battle plays out.
Advocates have launched a WhatsApp helpline for people searching for family members, while #immigration attorneys have tried to locate their clients after they went dark.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #CivilRights #USpol #Trump #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct
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The public comment period for the transphobic bullshit on US passports ends TOMORROW! (Monday)
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.The General Strike
A friend of mine, Amy Paris, has decided to speak out after being fired from DHHS, where she oversaw the safety of organ donations across the US. As a high-performer and one of the highest-ranking trans people in the US government, it’s hard not to see this as politically-motivated.
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#USPol #transgender #trans #19thNews
I had to learn a lot about parliamentary government when studying for Canadian citizenship so I have all the passion of the recently-converted but I think we're all getting a lesson on which is the superior* approach right now.
*Not perfect, of course. And I'm still holding my breath for the Canadian election.
The public comment period is currently open for a proposal to remove NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) regulations. Please share this with your networks and add your thoughts: federalregister.gov/documents/…
#Trump claimed that his #trade policy will be “great” for the American #farmer because they won’t have to compete w/foreign producers.
Actual #farmers point out that the #US #agriculture industry produces far more corn, soybeans, pork, chicken, cattle etc. than Americans could possibly consume. Farmers say they need foreign markets, but other countries impose #tariffs on their goods in #retaliation for Trump’s tariffs. That cuts them off from the foreign customers they need.
#Trump trashes the federal work force for not being at work in person since the pandemic, & says those who “resist this change will be removed from office immediately.”
The days of being ruled by “unelected bureaucrats” are over, Trump says.
#Democrats scoff & point up at the gallery where #Musk is sitting.
#Trump falsely stated that #DOGE has found “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.” DOGE has claimed to have cut $9 billion thus far.
Trump is talking about firing federal workers & “reclaiming power from bureaucrats.” His efforts to expand presidential power by firing workers and removing independent agency leaders have been largely blocked so far in federal courts.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus [#CBC], including Illinois Rep #LaurenUnderwood, plan to wear black to the speech to "capture the party's somber mood," according to her & to reports from Axios.
Other members are planning to wear blue & yellow to show solidarity with #Ukraine, just days after #Trump ordered a pause on military #aid to the country.
Tonight, at #Trump’s speech, members of the #Democratic #Women’s Caucus — will be dressed in a bright pink.
New Mexico Rep Teresa Leger Fernández, chair for the 96-member caucus, explained to Time that the pink is meant to “signal our protest of Trump’s policies which are negatively impacting women & families.”
[it’s also the color of the #WomensMarch]
#USpol #tyranny #MaleSupremacy #sexism #Rapist #SexualAssault #law #accountability
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Dozens of Democratic congresswomen will wear pink to President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress Tuesday night, organizers tell TIMENik Popli (Time)
"At least 146 measles cases have been ID'ed in W TX, incl. 20 hospitalizations & 1 death.
"MX has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to TX & 7 states due to a measles outbreak."
"Thanks to vaccines, #Measles was declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Anti-vaxers hosting measles parties are sending their own kids to the hospital."
-J Cabellero
The US has a #PublicHealth crisis.
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Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.Salvador Rivera (BorderReport)
I'm thinking German tourists are not really going to want to visit the US, with ICE and the tendency of our National Parks of killing them on vacation.
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#tourism #germany #ICE #politics #USpol
A German tourist is fighting to get released from an immigration detention center after she was denied entry at the San Diego border and taken into custody by ICE last month.Austin Grabish (ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV)
Biking on the wrong side of the road. Crossing the Rio Grande on foot. Shoplifting at Target.
These are some of the arrest records for 178 Venezuelan migrants detained in #GITMO this mo. Others seem to have no record at all.
Of 18 cases, found: 6 of the migrants appear to have no previous record, 5 only charged with illegal entry -sentenced to time served. Several were detained during scheduled appts with border authorities for those seeking asylum...
#Immigrants #USPol
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Let me just say that this is fucking disgusting.
‘Trump gold card’ to offer rich foreigners route to US citizenship for $5m
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#ArrestTrump #ArrestMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
US president says new visa program would be open to Russian oligarchs, some of whom ‘are very nice people’Ed Pilkington (The Guardian)
"A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st US state."
Interview: "Federal workers are staging mass protests to Save Our Services"
“They’re trying to immiserate the working class, & they’re doing it through the federal workforce.
"It’s about gutting the services that create a safety net... because the more miserable we are, the easier it is for them to exploit us.
“The whole public sphere is at stake.”
~Chris Dols
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#USPol #SaveOurServices #Trump #Musk #Oligarchy #GeneralStrikeNow #ResistFascism .
Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs, are fighting back.Democracy Now!
Their phony “statistics” aren’t just an attempt to justify DOGE’s destruction of the government. Trump and Musk’s goal is even more duplicitous and shady.
Trump and Musk Keep Spouting Bogus Numbers to Hide Their Real Agenda
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#ImpeachDonaldTrump #DonaldKrasnov #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Some countries are willing to stand up for what's right:
Report: The US threatened to cut aid to South Africa unless it withdrew its case of genocide against Israel, & South Africa's foreign minister said, "No chance”.
"Standing by our principles sometimes has consequences, but we remain firm that this is important for the world & the rule of law" ~Ronald Lamola
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#SouthAfrica #ICJ #GazaGenocideNotWar #USBullying #USAid #USPol .
South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said there was “no chance” of withdrawing the ICJ case against Israel despite the US's actions.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Poll result: Who loves Elon in government?
On the question of who wants "Musk to have less influence over government spending & operations," nearly half of respondants said yes.
However, "nearly three-quarters of Republicans surveyed said Musk & DOGE should have 'a lot' or 'some' influence."
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#DOGE #Musk #Trump #USPol #PollResult #CapturedState .
Imagine that: Americans don't want an unelected billionaire running the government.Mother Jones
Second judge orders temporary halt to Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship
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#StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #Immigration #MassDeportation #BirthrightCitizenship #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Judge said no US court had endorsed Trump’s reading of the 14th amendment and her court ‘will not be the first’Alice Herman (The Guardian)
Interview: I Was Fired by Trump in his Anti-DEI Purge, Gutting of Agencies
Karla Gilbride from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was fired by Trump along with two commissioners at the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the workplace.
The EEOC was created as part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and is tasked with investigating discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex & other characteristics.
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#TrumpPurge #Musk #BoughtGovernment #USPol .
We speak with Karla Gilbride, the former general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who was fired by President Trump in late January along with two commissioners at the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the wo…Democracy Now!
#Musk says he's working to shut down #USAID as employees told to stay home
Musk does not have the authority to shut down a government department and the legality of such a move is in question.
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The international aid agency's website is down and security officials were put on leave, US media reports.Kayla Epstein (BBC News)
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.Ezra Klein (The New York Times)
