ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻
Babcia; retired Director - IT; amateur musician (clarinet); here to connect w/ others on culture, politics & news. Access to insulin is a human right. #insulin4all
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
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View full threadReposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻The goal is clear; mass deportations over due process. An order of removal does not become "final" until the Board of Immigration Appeals denies an appeal. After that, ICE can deport the person unless they file ANOTHER appeal to a federal circuit court AND get an emergency stay.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻The federal government is just disappearing children.
- These 2 kids detained last week were brought back to MN today. But school officials say many others from the Columbia Heights district are missing. They're not sure if they're in ICE detention or have moved away with their families. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻I am running out of ways to convey how disconnected from reality Trump's judicial nominees are. They can't say that Trump lost the 2020 election, they won't say that the January 6 insurrection happened, they don't acknowledge any fact about anything if Trump hasn't authorized them to believe it
- I’ve done both and learned so much about the voting process. It is inspiring to help and support people who vote.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻I can now report that Judge Blackwell did not grant Julie Le’s request for a nap, and also noted that, as overwhelmed as she may be, the people who the Trump administration is detaining in violation of court orders have it worse ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻I'm sure if Alford's wife were to be kidnapped & hauled into a van by a half-dozen guys wearing ski masks with the word "police"slapped on their backs he'd be perfectly fine not knowing who they are.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻It's no accident that in reiterating his calls to "nationalize" elections, the president focused on Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta. A core tactic of the president and others seeking to undermine elections has been to target cities with lots of voters of color.
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Top Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻NEW: Native dancers held a jingle dress healing ceremony at the memorials of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis — prayer, culture, and solidarity. This is a movement! Share so everyone is aware!
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻…more. What has been coming out of the state and twin cities area is nothing short of breathtaking, historic, and inspiring. It is brave, tho that feels too slim a word for what the people there have done. It’s reasonable to expect even an ounce of the same courage and moral clarity from leaders…
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.” share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Kyiv survived through a horrible night today as Russia launched a massive drone&missile attack Since sleep was already out of the question,several Kyiv residents chose to welcome the frosty dawn with a cup of coffee on Saint Volodymyr Hill. Kyiv is so beautiful.I love this city 📷elena_semenchenk0
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻As I've written, this isn't a frivolous argument. But if you're litigating this before a judge, and this is your argument, you go in fully expecting to lose. My posts on this: (1) On Abel: reason.com/volokh/2026/... (2) On Lucas: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻If anyone was laid off at The Washington Post and wants to promote their latest venture, newsletter, blog, etc, just let me know. I'll try to create a running thread here. Also, if you wanna hop on with me and promote it to our subscribers, let me know. I'll try my best.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Scientists just discovered a key brain network affected by Parkinson’s disease. The finding could change how doctors understand symptoms and lead to better treatments. 🧠 bit.ly/4qdpLMf
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Striking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)
- Vast camps are central to Trumpism. Stephen Miller has long been very excited about them. Backlash is another sign that opposition to Trump/Miller runs deeper than revulsion at ICE. There's real resistance to the whole ideological project of mass deportations. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Also: 2,300 ICE agents is still almost exactly the number of local police officers from the ten largest police forces in Minnesota COMBINED. As such, can report there's been no change on the ground today in my community.
- This Homan presser is completely incoherent. He started by announcing a drawdown of 700 agents (good!) but then pivoted to whining about "rhetoric" (bad) and suggested there will be more bloodshed if it doesn't stop (grim). Not clear to me that anything is actually changing on the ground here in MN.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻something i would like to know is what, if any, role jeff bezos is playing in the trump administration's acquisition of giant warehouses across the country.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻I don't often wear political t-shirts, but I'm proudly sporting this one today. I'm an immigrant. I teach American (and international!) college students, research the U.S. economy, consult with policymakers, write books, raise my kids, pay taxes, and try to make this a better place.
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- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Tax billionaires out of existence. Expand Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻One problem with billionaires is that they're so rich they no longer have rational incentives. To someone like Bezos, the financial performance of WaPo is wholly irrelevant, and so the only "incentive" is to satisfy emotional urges, such as breaking something just to show he can.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻I don't know what it is about idiots who buy newspapers without understanding why they exist or what their business is, but I think gutting books coverage is some kind of canary in the coalmine. These jackasses don't read books, so they assume no one else does either.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻January 6 was the worst day of my life. But the threat of Donald Trump didn’t end when the mob left the Capitol. That’s why I’m running for Congress: to defend this country, with the full constitutional authority of Congress. I’m Harry Dunn. And I’m ready to finish the job.
- Reposted by ReneeJ 🇺🇸🇵🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
