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The Greatest Danger is MAGA and those who are dumb enough to keep voting Red.

Someone who has visited this city on many an occasion and who has been welcomed by previous mayors. I want to make it very clear that welcome ends with me. I will not be welcoming Benjamin Netanyahu or any other war criminals when they come to this city”

Todd Blanche Denies Telling Dem Senator Trump’s Slush Fund Was ‘A Mistake’ - HuffPost

Trump must divulge financial details about businesses in $10bn BBC lawsuit - The Guardian

From Houston to Biddeford, Maine to St. Augustine to rural Georgia, ICE is leaving plenty of blood on the streets this month. And from the individual agents to the institution itself, no one is being held responsible for it. It’s unacceptable. And we’re not going to stand for it.

This Saturday, the Disappeared in America coalition (which includes Public Citizen, the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, The Workers Circle, Detention Watch Network and the League of United Latin American Citizens) is holding a national day of action, demanding justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, justice for Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, and justice for all the victims. We’re bringing folks together to demand transparent, independent investigations; protection for the witnesses detained in ICE facilities; accountability both for individuals and institutions; and real steps to stop these killings from happening over and over. We want ICE out for good and our neighbors safe.

🪧 Vigils are already scheduled in more than 175 communities nationwide, and we’re still growing. Let’s find one near us to attend here, and we can find tools to host or register our own actions here. 🪧

ACTIONS NEAR US

HOST OUR OWN

END THE ICE AGE KICKOFF

The work to abolish ICE will go far beyond this weekend. The Detention Watch Network, Immigrant Defense Project, and Immigrant Legal Resource Center are launching a new campaign to “end the ICE age,” providing roadmaps to take action at the local, state and federal level to shut down the detention centers, get these masked thugs out of our communities and redirect their funding to strengthen families and neighborhoods instead of breaking them up. ✊🏻 They’re holding a kickoff call for this effort TONIGHT at 8PM ET. Let’s sign up to join them here. ✊🏾

ABOLISH ICE - CALL @ 8PM ET

MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR THE FAMILIES LEFT BEHIND

Finally, we need to show up for the folks most directly impacted by these tragedies. We’ve previously encouraged folks to support the families of Lorenzo and Johan, but there are plenty more people who need our help.

The eyewitnesses to ICE’s murder of Lorenzo, including his brother Victor, Daniel Tirado Pantoja and Jose Trinidad Rojas, are being held by ICE. They have managed to get their stories out to the public, but they remain in danger of being deported or retaliated against. 💵 Let’s donate to help their families navigate the process and pay the bills with their breadwinner gone – we can support Daniel’s family here and Jose’s family here. 💵

SUPPORT DANIEL'S FAMILY

SUPPORT JOSE'S FAMILY

Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva died while being transferred between ICE camps in Georgia last week, the 22nd person to lose their life in their custody this year. His sister has said agents did not provide him with necessary medications, in what would be an all-too-frequent episode of medical neglect. His family is seeking funds to return him to be buried in his birth country of Venezuela. 💵 We can donate to support them here. 💵

BRING JESUS MANUEL HOME

Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran died when he was hit by a tractor-trailer while fleeing ICE in St. Augustine, Florida. He was legally in the country on a work visa and according to his wife planned to return home to Mexico on Saturday. His family is also asking for support for repatriation and funeral expenses, as well as to help care for the two children he leaves behind. 💵 We can find details on how to donate here. 💵

BRING JUAN HOME

The deportation machine is also rolling over those who fight it. Last week GEO Group employee Bandon Booth shot an activist named Emma Landis at a protest outside an ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado. In a rare occasion of fast accountability, he has been arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and felony menacing, and thankfully Emma is recovering well – she’s even returned to protest. But she’ll be out of work while she recovers and the medical bills are piling up. 💵 We can donate to support Emma on the road ahead here. 💵

AID EMMA'S RECOVERY

Also in today’s List:

- We have our presumptive pick against Susan Collins, now let’s volunteer to get Troy Jackson to the Senate

-  On Capitol Hill: Record $1.5 trillion war budget heads to House floor, Federalist Society extremist set to be confirmed to Sixth Circuit by Senate

-  Tracking candidates getting money from the AI industry

-  A Know Your Rights comic

- Join VoteRiders to reach at-risk voters! Virtual letter-writing session TOMORROW at 7PM ET

- Trump administration to withhold an additional billion dollars in Medicaid funding from California, Minnesota - urge state officials to put standard debt collection tactics to work to stop them from hijacking these funds

- U.S. measles cases surpass last year’s total, reach level not seen in 35 years - join American Families for Vaccines to help turn the tide

- Justice Department reportedly investigating Rep. Cory Mills - help unseat him

And so is Pakman. He represents the extreme both-sides are valid "pragmatic" economic conservative center which gave us the shit we have for an American government.

Democratic Party leadership is so out of touch with the economic and social crisis in America, it creates space for grifters. In a similar mass social phenomenon, the same mechanism gave us Trump, a rapist, a felon, a corrupt fascist sympathizer, as our president.

Raising the profile of these people just legitimizes them. In general, I don't subscribe to the "be nice to Nazis, invite them to the table" philosophy. No one should subscribe to this. It is OK to cancel Nazis and other whack jobs, really it is. Shame on anyone who thinks these people deserve our attention.

I am watching young people (I am older) foolishly get spun up over internet personalities who market in absurdity, yet can't muster a drop of concern over the fact that the Democratic Party cannot even agree to ban insider trading (and I mean completely ban it). Or denounce funding an obvious genocide focusing on women and children. Or agree that corporations don't have our nation's best interests in mind. Or term limits.

I measured 102F in PNW yesterday. Every year it is measurably worse, yet data centers are popping up everywhere like weeds, each one taking hundreds of acres, robbing power and water from rural areas. We can't do anything to help the homeless who are displaced by a revolution in tech bro gentrification and multi-national private equity putting up $800K condos, also like weeds.

We are in an existential crisis and everyone wants to be a snark lord on the internet.

Fuck Hasan, Fuck Hasan, Fuck that shit. Follow the money. We know the problem comes from within the Democratic Party who is laughing at your snarky, clever internet comments which offer no solutions, offer no acknowledgement of the problem, and do nothing to help anyone.

Democrats don't know how to recognize and solve difficult problems.

I see no reason for optimism. We are fucked because people just don't have the courage, attention span, or personal motivation to imagine better. We'd rather snark about "lefties" on the internet which only helps the status quo.