Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It’s been six months since ICE captured Alma Bowman, a disabled immigrant who already spent thirty months in ICE custody during the first Trump regime.

On March 26th, 2025 she arrived at her immigration check in with her lawyers.

She was taken into custody and has been held ever since.

Alma is the daughter of a Navy veteran who’s lived in the US for nearly 50 years.

She has a valid claim to citizenship which is currently before the courts.

She was following all the rules, so why is she back in custody?

Retaliation.

When she was released the first time she worked as a whistle blower to help close down the Irwin Detention facility.

She exposed atrocities such as forced sterilization and various abuses of women in custody.

She fought tirelessly for immigrants and disabled people.

She fought to improve the conditions in these camps.

She’s paying dearly for it and deserves whistleblower protection.

Justice for Alma.

#uspol #ice #abolishice #immigration #disability #ableism #fascism #eugenics

A word on burnout & feeling strung out because "I can't save all the things that need saving."

Democracy is supposed to be a mosaic and a relay race. We never have to take care of the whole ourselves.

In fact if we do, it kinda stops being democracy.

"This position is hybrid with an expectation of at least four days per week in the Boston office."

...that's not hybrid. That's in-office with a perq.

A rare bit of good news: right-wing media companies Nexstar and Sinclair decided the advertising money the Kimmel show spins off is more important than doing Dear Leader's bidding. This is a loss for Trump, at least for the moment.

https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-sinclair-affiliates-40489e9058a609029ebcb2ef894221e9

"Why Winning Is Bad for Democrats by Anonymous Democratic Consultant"

- Sadly on-point satire by Francesca Fiorentini for The American Prospect.

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-26-why-winning-is-bad-for-democrats/

#ZohranMamdani #Dems #DemsSuck #Ratfucking

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 56,045:

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy

@geosocialcoop

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- Journalist Mario Guevara, facing deportation, deserves same energy as Kimmel
- How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE
- Drop charges against Cincinnati journalists
- Plus, what we're reading...

https://freedom.press/issues/mobilize-for-mario-guevara-like-you-did-for-jimmy-kimmel/

They whined their way to the White House (again) and these pissbabies are still complaining. Get a hobby! https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

ByteDance (TikTok owner) valuation is north of $300 billion. Trump "deal" to give it to his oligarch supporters is "valued" at $14 billion, says Vance.

So correct me if this is wrong: They're essentially nationalizing a foreign company and giving it to cronies who'll pay pennies on the dollar.

Trump regime has disappeared billions of dollars of taxpayers' money -- not even Congress has been able to trace what it's being spent on, and who's getting the loot.

Congress isn't barely trying -- Republicans are complicit and the Democrats are not just powerless but incompetent.

Some journalists from smaller organizations are trying. They don't have subpoena power.

Given Trump world's epic corruption, the unaccountable billions are plainly that way by by design.

https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/billions-taxpayer-dollars-virtually-untraceable-appropriations-trump-omb-russ-vought

Trump is adding a 100% tariff to branded pharmaceuticals made outside the US.

This move could be devastating to the disability community.

It will likely drive costs up and create more supply chain issues at a time when we’re already seeing unprecedented medication shortages

#uspol #trump #tariffs #disability #chronicillness

Pay attention to who is actually calling for violence. Arizona Republican Fascist Representative John Kingman calls for WA Representative Jayapal’s hanging. https://azmirror.com/2025/09/25/john-gillette-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-democratic-congresswoman-to-be-executed-for-urging-trump-protests/

Increasingly common use of "AI" in workplaces is "not proving to be that useful, has not resulted in widespread productivity gains, and often ends up creating messes that human beings have to clean up."

https://www.404media.co/email/641a2175-ca49-431e-b070-4c3e121d2bd8/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Solid roundup from 404 Media, one of the best new journalism orgs...

From Teen Vogue, which is doing some of the best journalism about the extremist cult now in charge of the U.S. government:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dressed-as-ice-agents-to-assault-immigrant-women-horrifying-trend

We need to assume that every masked person kidnapping people off the street is a criminal, whether employed by the Trump regime or not.

For technical details:

There's a guest worker visa (H-2A) for people to come work on farms in the US.

It turned out to lots of "whoops there's slavery going on" problems.

DOL put in anti-slavery controls to clamp down on it in 2024.

Trump got rid of them in June.

https://cdmigrante.org/trump-dol-rolls-back-h2a-protections/

EFF at the movies! 📽️ Come hang with us at the Roxie Theater for a screening of 1984. We'll be in the lobby before the show so stop by and say hi! https://www.eff.org/event/eff-roxie-theater-1984-showing

This week's comic now up on Daily Kos
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Jimmy Kimmel and Strike Force 5!
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/25/2345215/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-unleashes-Jimmy-Kimmel-and-Strike-Force-Five

Is JREG the most astute political thinker of our time? Probably not, but he's still got some cogent observations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B46WaJOfls