I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
BREAKING: CNN’s Laura Coates completely dismantles Trump’s horrible response to posting the racist Obama video and his failure to take any sort of accountability. She tears him apart. You have to watch this.
🚨HUGE: Lady Gaga just used her stage in Japan to condemn ICE before the entire world.
“My heart is aching for the children, the families, who are mercilessly being targeted by ICE.”
This is how you use a platform.
When Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis, he says he was detained and shackled for hours.
“We're turning into something that I can't even begin to respect, and something that I literally went to war—or they told me I went to war—to fight against,” he says.
Since he was arrested, he’s continued protesting. Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie spoke to Austin outside the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE is based.
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."