Tell Trump: NO immigrant concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay!

Trump says he'll send migrants to Guantanamo Bay hours after idea floated on Fox & Friends
President Trump declared that the US will create a 30,000-person detention center at Guantanamo Bay, a facility that was previously used to extrajudicially incarcerate and torture hundreds of mostly innocent Muslims, including children, during the George W. Bush presidency. Trump said that the prison would be used to hold "the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people." He continued, "Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them," indicating that their detention would be indefinite. It's a human rights nightmare in the making, and seeing as Trump's deportation raids have already swept up innocent undocumented migrants and US citizens, you can bet your bottom dollar that the qualifications of "worst criminals" will not be adhered to. Make no mistake: this is a concentration camp. Seeing as the detention centers on *American soil* are already dehumanizing sexual abuse factories, we shudder to think of what might go on at a camp outside regular US legal jurisdiction.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: RFK Jr. caught lying during disaster confirmation hearing
In a normal world a nominee to head up Health & Human Services wouldn't lie during a confirmation hearing. Hell, in a normal world a nominee to lead Health & Human Services wouldn't be an avowed anti-vaxxer. But we don't live in a normal world, and within minutes of being sworn in during his Senate confirmation hearing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was spinning tales left and right and trying to distance himself from...himself. What a not-normal world.

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Earthjustice holds the line against corporate polluter onslaught
Earthjustice: The inauguration of Donald Trump officially marks a new threat to our environment and our public health, but Earthjustice knows how to use the power of the law to keep defending and protecting our planet. Their team of over 200 expert lawyers is ready to take the Trump admin to court to protect the public and our environment from their anti-climate agenda — and they have a 85% win rate against the prior Trump admin to back it up. Our clean air, our clean water, and our sustainable future hinge on Earthjustice's legal team winning big fights behind the scene. Will you chip in to help support their mission?

American Airlines jet with 64 aboard collides with Army helicopter at Reagan Airport near DC
A jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members en route from Wichita, Kansas, to the nation's capital collided Wednesday night with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River. Three soldiers were onboard the Blackhawk helicopter, an Army official said. Passengers on the American Airlines flight included a group of American figure skaters, their coaches, and family members who were returning from a development camp held after the national US Figure Skating Championships in Wichita. Officials in Moscow confirmed a pair of former champion Russian figure skaters were also on board. Less than 30 seconds before the collision, air traffic recordings show controllers asking the helicopter if it had the plane in sight and instructed it to pass behind the landing aircraft. A crewmember on the helicopter replied that "the aircraft is in sight" and requested "visual separation" with the incoming plane, allowing it to fly closer than may otherwise be allowed if the pilots didn't see the plane. The controllers approved the request. Seconds later the two aircraft collided. Officials say there were no survivors.

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RFK Jr. told his second wife it was her fault he cheated on her 37 times in newly revealed secret recordings
Kennedy, Trump's cockamamie pick to lead the Dept. of Health & Human Services, secretly taped conversations with his then-wife Mary Richardson Kennedy and made at least 60 recordings, some of which were recently obtained by Mother Jones. In one recording from 2011, Kennedy claimed he'd cheated on Richardson — who committed suicide the following year — 37 times with different women for more than a decade because he was "being abused at home." At least one recording appeared to have been made when Kennedy was in California, a state that requires both parties to consent to a recording. In addition to being a crackpot, anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist, roadkill collector, serial philander, and longtime heroin addict, Kennedy apparently also has no problem breaking privacy laws. Unqualified is an understatement.

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Elon Musk lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management
MAGA sugar daddy Elon Musk’s takeover of the former US Digital Service — now the United States DOGE Service — has been widely publicized and sanctioned by one of Donald Trump’s many disastrous executive orders. But WIRED reporting shows that the far-right ketamine enthusiast's influence extends even further, and into an even more consequential government agency. Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government — are now controlled by people with direct connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was literally set to start college last fall. For a cool quarter-billion dollars — a drop in the bucket for the world's richest man-toddler — Elon has managed to burrow his way into the West Wing and seat shady allies in powerful positions elsewhere in the Trump administration, all while conveniently having tens of billions of dollars in active federal contracts. What could possibly go horribly wrong?

Meta will give Trump $25 million after he was banned from platforms
Mark Zuckerberg is in the midst of one remarkably humiliating contortion act for the ages, bribing his way back into Donald's good graces after Meta rightly banned the convicted felon from Facebook and Instagram following his failed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Meta will reportedly pay Trump $25 MILLION to settle a lawsuit stemming from the ban — $22 million will help fund Trump’s future presidential library, while the remaining $3 million will go to legal fees and several other plaintiffs who were also part of the case. Trump first sued Meta in 2021 after the social media giant banned him, saying at the time he had violated its rules against inciting violence, because, well, he most certainly did. The MAGA cult leader's accounts were suspended for about two years, but were reinstated in January 2023 with what were meant to be "new guardrails in place." What a difference two years and an election make. We are witnessing one of the truly great and shameful white-washing campaigns in modern American history, folks, and all in the name of maintaining even the appearance of access to power.

BTC leads collective of progressive creators with plan to take back the internet from Joe Rogan and the right-wing machine
Chorus: This election has made it painfully clear that Democrats' messages are just not getting through the tsunami of right-wing propaganda and lies flooding through social media, and we have no real answer to a Joe Rogan or a Ben Shapiro...until now! Chorus Collective is a new collaborative founded by creators like Brian Tyler Cohen, Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl), Roland Martin, David Pakman, Elizabeth Booker Houston, and Adam Mockler, who are bringing their audience of 40 million people together to create a new infrastructure to scale their voices and build support for more creators like them. Chorus aims to not only amplify progressive voices but also uplift new creators and build a left-wing social media ecosystem that supports its voices ALL the time, not just in the months leading up to an election. Will you chip in to help Chorus get off the ground and help break the right-wing stranglehold on social media?

With leaked footage from the inside, Sundance doc shows horrifying conditions in Alabama prisons
Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers. The result is "The Alabama Solution," which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and will soon hit HBO's platforms later this year. Filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman first gained access to the restricted grounds through a visit with a chaplain during a revival meeting held in the prison yards. There men pulled them aside and whispered shocking stories about the reality of life inside: forced labor, drugs, violence, intimidation, retaliation, and the undisclosed truths behind many prisoner deaths. This process eventually led them to incarcerated activists Melvin Ray and Robert Earl Council (also known as "Kinetik Justice") who had for years been trying to expose the horrifying conditions and deep-seated corruption across the system. They helped feed dispatches to the filmmakers with contraband cellphones. While the details described are certainly shocking, exactly none of this is surprising, and it certainly isn't unique to prisons in Alabama.

Florida reading, math scores fall to lowest mark in more than 20 years on nation’s report card
We were told that banning books, censoring curriculum, and ostracizing LGBTQ kids was the key to a great education. Guess not. Great job, Ron!

Trump threatens funding for schools that accommodate transgender children
This may look like Trump instituted a national policy to federally bully trans kids, because, well, he did, but it's also a convenient excuse to defund public schools so for-profit charter schools can replace them. You know the famous saying: "The children are our future profit margins."