WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR? |
- "Previous estimates showed the US economy generated 584,000 jobs in 2025, the first year of Trump's second term, which was deeply discouraging.
Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."
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(MaddowBlog)
- "Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the "erasure of white culture". Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views."
(Chris Murphy shares OMG video of Jeremy Carl's confirmation hearing)
- "Flint Development is involved in another property deal with ICE, in El Paso... Flint Development recently stripped information about its executive team from its website; those details were available as recently as December, before its dealings with DHS became public..."
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"In Hutchins Texas, ICE reportedly bought a former Amazon property for $80 million. The broker's contact on the listing was Majestic Realty, a Los Angeles–based firm owned by Ed Roski Jr, a Trump campaign contributor who is a partial owner of the L.A. Lakers..."
Real Estate Brokers Are Profiting From Warehouse Sales to ICE
(Jacobin)
- "A jury in Florida found the man guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16...
"He tried to silence one victim by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for Jan. 6 defendants..."
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump convicted of child sexual abuse
(USA Today)
- ""ICE is an affront to Torah, ICE is an affront to God," Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T'ruah, a rabbinic human rights organization, told the crowd.
Jacobs, whose group helped organize the rally, told USA TODAY that rabbis have protested during ICE surges in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis. But the Feb. 11 protest was the "first mass, broad Jewish community protest against ICE."
The hundreds of rabbis, cantors, and other Jews waved signs stating "resisting tyranny since Pharaoh" and "looking more like Nazi Germany every day," as they protested the government's mass arrests and removal of immigrants."
(USA Today)
- Beth Rubin, 67, said she attended because she sees ICE on a path toward what her family fled in the 1930s.
"What is happening today to immigrants, to citizens, to innocent people...to the undocumented and the documented is very similar to what happened then."
(Sarah D. Wire shares her USA Today reporting)
- Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas confirms Trump prison camp purchase called off, and vows to ensure that no other site in Kansas City gets one either.
KCUR story about "Platform Ventures" no sale: [link]
Mayor's confirmation from instagram - [link]
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(Rachel)
- Look!
"News of a potential immigrant detention center in Kansas City sparked fierce public backlash over the past month. At rallies and protests, many people called on Platform Ventures to not sell the building to the federal government..."
And now:
Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts
(KCUR)
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