“The number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the nineteen-eighties; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained significantly longer than the rest of the population. Today, the nation’s three largest mental-health providers are New York’s Rikers Island, L.A. County’s Twin Towers Jail, and Chicago’s Cook County Jail.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/21/starved-in-jail
#USpol #MentalHealth (4/4)
I had always thought it was Reagan who decided to close residential mental-health facilities and effectively put ill people on the street, on their own.
Today I learned that I was wrong, and that things started much earlier.
#USpol #MentalHealth… (1/4)
A few excellent points, chief of which is that the DoJ's case is FAR weaker now than it was before.
There is a LOT more to learn now
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NpfgtXwnDug&si=tA_SGzEwK4z03N0R
I would like to go back to a time when I could not agree with anything said by Bill Kristol or David Brooks.
#uspol
Trump’s FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr accused Comcast of "news distortion" because its subsidiary NBC isn't parroting the Trump administration narrative on the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
"Comcast knows that federal law requires its licensed operations to serve the public interest. News distortion doesn't cut it," Carr wrote in a post on X yesterday.
@paleofuture.bsky.social bukele is not thinking ahead to what if Trump is impeached or 25th amendmented. And even if not, the midterms or next election may put El Salvador - and him personally- in a not so favorable position. Assuming the US saves democracy. #Bukelee #USPol #Trump
@raymondpert meaning he will backtrack on this disaster he has created for the American economy and trade and pretend he has achieved something. Trump is a fraud and a fool who has no idea what he is doing. He has a limited playbook based entirely on his small experience of running his family business like a two bit thug. #USPol #tariffs #Trump
Credit to #Slyngstad @slyngstad
#USPOL #Trump #Krasnov #nazis #asskissers #cultists
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American-born doctor receives DHS email telling her to leave U.S.
"U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia.
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800
David Brooks is calling for an uprising of civil society….
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak8.Jln7.JZF9RLpQBUXc&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #uspol #trump #resistance #resist
you know shit's gone completely sideways when david fucking brooks is openly calling for a people's revolution
I hope we can give #SenVanHollen what we can, if anything, to his campaign. A msg of thanks too.Phone: (202) 224-4654
#USPol #AbregoGarcia
Protect Trans Kids (WTFIWWY) - Evan Greer & Ryan Cassata
https://evangreer.bandcamp.com/track/protect-trans-kids-wtfiwwy-with-ryan-cassata
H/t @evangreer
Resources:
Trans Youth Emergency Project: https://southernequality.org/tyep/
Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NjY0OTc
Sylvia Rivera Law Project: https://srlp.org/donate/
Trans Asylum Seeker Support Network: https://linktr.ee/transasylumsupport
Black and Pink: https://www.blackandpink.org/DONATE/
FR: "„Wie in Russland“: Trumps Vorgehen gegen #Harvard stammt aus 'Handbuch eines Despoten'."
https://www.fr.de/politik/wie-in-russland-trumps-vorgehen-gegen-harvard-stammt-aus-handbuch-eines-despoten-zr-93689410.html
Who will be the first brave corporation (or group of corporations) that simply refuses to pay the illegal tariffs and sues? The US Constitution is extremely clear that only Congress can impose tariffs, and they didn’t, so…
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