This is sick!
It’s been over one week since ICE detained 4 members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe—who are U.S. citizens by law and by treaty.
Tribal citizens are not “aliens.”
DHS must release them NOW and end these racist, unlawful arrests.
"There is nobody more American than American Indians! We are America, how can you possibly target Native Americans? It's legally impossible!"
ICE needs real reform now. That means real training (not 47 days), actually going after people with convictions, no more “show me your papers,” practicing de-escalation, and agents clearly identifying themselves. This isn’t radical—it’s basic accountability.
My wife passed in March. Forty-two years of marriage, and then just... silence.
The house felt wrong. Too quiet. Too still. My daughter kept saying I needed "something to care for." I kept telling her I was fine.
I wasn't fine.
One Sunday, I drove to the Arizona Humane Society just to walk around. No intention of adopting anything. Just needed to be somewhere that wasn't my living room.
The volunteer stopped me near the senior wing. "These two have been here eleven months. We waived their adoption fee last week. Still no takers."
Pepper was solid black with a grey muzzle—eight years old, arthritis in his back legs. Salt was pure white with one brown eye and one blue, deaf as a post, same age. Brothers from the same litter, surrendered when their owner went into hospice care.
Eleven months. In Phoenix. In a concrete run with no air conditioning half the year.
"Why won't anyone take them?" I asked.
The volunteer shrugged. "They're old. They're pitbulls. They come as a package deal. People want puppies."
I watched Pepper slowly lower himself onto the cool concrete. Salt curled up right next to him, pressing his white head against his brother's black shoulder. They fit together like puzzle pieces. Like they'd been doing this their whole lives.
Like me and Lorraine used to sleep.
"How much is the fee?" I asked.
"Sir, I told you—it's waived. Nobody wants—"
"I want them."
She stared at me. "Both of them?"
"You think I'm gonna separate two old brothers who've already lost everything once?"
That was four months ago.
Now Pepper sleeps on Lorraine's side of the bed. Salt sleeps on mine. The house isn't quiet anymore—it's full of snoring and the click of nails on hardwood and two grey-muzzled faces waiting by the door when I come home from the grocery store.
They lost their person. I lost mine.
We found each other.
Credit - Thomas meade
Democracy is not just voting in elections; it's not just institutions and laws.
Democracy is a spiritual practice.
It requires a deep love for our neighbors — especially our neighbors with whom we disagree the most.
No one should be treated like this. No one and nowhere. Legal or illegal, American or foreign, young or old, rich or poor. Everyone's life is sacred and everyone deserves respect.
CUBAN ON KIMMEL: “Nexstar & Sinclair don’t know they’re digging their own grave.”
@mcuban tells @Kanew caving to government censorship means what airs on broadcast TV will suffer, hurting them in ways they don’t yet realize.
Full interview: https://t.co/L9jGWAaxRx
And now we are on the brink of WWIII.
I'm a 3 time Trump voter and a Constitutional Conservative.
I worked his presidential campaign.
I now regret all of the above, as from Epstein to Israel he has completely betrayed us all.
God help us.
We've been played.