To commemorate my father’s 95th birthday, I want to remind Spock fans that dad’s parents were Ukrainian immigrants which shaped my father in many ways. Four years of Putin’s war has brought death and destruction to our people, our homeland. LLAP. #standwithukraine#ukraine
A chilling story leading the Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning this morning. ICE agents followed Minnesota Democratic lawmakers who had been critical of ICE in the state, stopping multiple times to take pictures of their houses. This is what a police state does
Call me a radical, but NO.
We should not be replacing teachers in America with robots.
We should attract the best and brightest in our country to become teachers and pay them the decent wages that they deserve.
Elizabeth Banks explains why the SAVE Act is all about voter suppression: “The SAVE Act? You gotta stop it. It’s unconstitutional. We are not gonna require people to go get a passport to vote. This is a right enshrined in the Constitution. Stop making it harder for people to vote. Start making it easier. We know who benefits and who doesn’t”
🚨BREAKING: The 9-year-old who pleaded to go to his state spelling bee, is released from ICE detention.
But, the fact that this headline even exists is the problem.
This child, Deiver Henao Jimenez, and his family, are asylum seekers with a pending case.
They were following the process, showing up to a routine immigration check-in… not hiding, not accused of any crime…
But, they were thrown into the Dilley Detention Center anyway.
A 9-year-old CHILD… a strong student who qualified for his state spelling bee… was sitting in a detention facility telling Ms. Rachel on a video call, “I don’t want to be here anymore… nothing is good here.”
A child… begging to get out of what is essentially a concentration camp… so he could go to a spelling bee.
And his family didn’t get out because the system worked…
They got out because people saw the video.
That video call with Ms. Rachel is the reason this child is not being held in this terrible facility…
And to make this all even worse…
After the videos went viral, CHILDREN had their ability to video chat taken away. The moment the public saw what was happening, ICE shut it down.
And let’s talk about why this is even happening… because detaining families like this isn’t about safety….
It’s about a system that profits off detention, where holding people, even children with pending asylum cases, generates money for private contractors and those at the top.
It took public pressure, media attention, and a child pleading on camera to fix something that never should have happened.
And that’s the point… this wasn’t normal before.
We did not used to detain elementary school kids with pending asylum cases like this, then silence them when people started paying attention.
Yes… he’s free now.
But the fact that a 9-year-old asylum seeker had to go viral, by talking to Ms. Rachel on camera, just to get out…
Should tell you exactly how cruel this administration is.
"What if a drug addict used your tax dollars to get SNAP benefits?"
The government uses my tax dollars to bomb villages, arm warlords, fund coups, and trafficks children through proxy states. If a "junkie" eats because of me, that's the most moral thing my taxes have done.
There will be more than 3000 separate protests this weekend in what could likely go down as the largest protest in US history. 5 million for No Kings I. 7 million for No Kings 2. I bet we can make this one at least eight figures.
Walz: They weren't qualified to be here in Minnesota. They're not qualified to be at the airport, and they are dang sure not qualified to be anywhere near a polling station
BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen just announced that his band will be doing a tour in effort to fight back against Donald Trump's authoritarian overreach. The Boss is back!
Trump has 5 kids with 3 women he cheated on. Elon Musk has 14 kids with 4 women he cheated on. Pete Hegseth has 7 kids with 3 women he cheated on. RFK Jr has 7 kids with 3 women he cheated on. The Republican Party protects pedophiles. Family values - my ass.