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Angel Padilla
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NWLC and NWLC Action Fund. Formerly at ACF/HHS, Indivisible, NILC. Comments my own.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.

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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.

When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.

The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
"They had done nothing wrong. They were not protesting. They were not chasing ICE vehicles. They were simply shopping."

Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test

Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."

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U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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sorry,
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The IRS announced today that it plans to take the unprecedented step of denying tax credits to work authorized, lawfully present immigrants home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

This is absurdly unprecedented and cruel discrimination
Treasury Moves to Prevent Abuse of Refundable Tax Credit Benefits by Illegal Aliens
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced today that it will issue regulations concerning the treatment of certain refundable individual income tax credits under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). Treasury will issue a forthcoming notice of proposed rulemaking to clarify that the refunded portions of certain individual income tax credits, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Additional Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit, and the Saver’s Match Credit, are “federal public benefits” within the meaning of PRWORA. Accordingly, illegal aliens and other non-qualified aliens would no longer be able to receive these benefits funded by the American taxpayer.“Under President Trump’s leadership we are enforcing the law and preventing illegal aliens from claiming tax benefits intended for American citizens. Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy and the Internal Revenue Service have worked tirelessly to advance this initiative and ensure its successful implementation,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “Their diligence and professionalism reflect this Administration’s determination to uphold the integrity of our tax system. We will continue to ensure that taxpayer resources are directed only to those who are entitled under the law.”The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel recently issued an opinion adopting this interpretation. Treasury plans to promptly issue a notice of proposed rulemaking that accounts for the Department of Justice’s legal analysis, and Treasury's final regulations are expected to apply beginning in tax year 2026. This action represents a victory for President Trump’s commitment to enforcing our immigration laws and preserving taxpayer-funded benefits exclusively for those who are legally entitled to receive them.To view the Department of Justice opinion click here.
home.treasury.gov
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
From an actual, sitting member of Congress, and appropriator:

"I had rather Congress have authority and the power of the purse."
An important piece of reporting. Even congressional Republicans wanted to include appropriations-bill language to protect Congress's power of the purse. But Russ Vought has pressured them to cut the language, and the House Republicans rolled over. www.notus.org/congress/mar...
A Top Republican Wanted to Reclaim Congress’ Spending Authority. The White House Stopped Him.
Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, a top appropriator, tried to add guardrails from ‘pocket rescissions’ in an appropriations bill. But then Office of Management Budget Director Russ Vought talked to him.
www.notus.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Listen, Linda. It’s pretty simple—you don’t have the power to do that.

This plan gets an “F” from me.
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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It seems worth noting that the things Summers admitted to doing in an email dialogue with a famous sex criminal is considerably worse than anything Gay was accused of when it was the single top priority of both Summers and the New York Times to get her fired
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Thousands of attorneys have left the Trump Justice Department this year. We talked to 60 about what alarmed them most.
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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NEW: With the support of @democracyforward.org and Professor Deborah Brake, today we filed an amicus brief in two cases at the Supreme Court challenging state bans on trans women and girls playing sports. nwlc.org/what-the-sup...
What the Supreme Court Sports Ban Cases Could Mean for Trans Students and Gender Justice  - National Women's Law Center
Early next year, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in two cases about transgender students participating in school sports. Depending on what the Court decides, students of all genders across ...
nwlc.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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With talk of absurd GOP proposals to replace Marketplace tax credits with HSA contributions & require people to buy health services directly, this is just like a Project 2025 proposal to eliminate #Medicaid coverage & convert funding to vouchers/HSA contributions: ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/06/17/p...
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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This Donald Trump post says the government shutdown is one of the reasons Republicans are losing today’s elections.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Is Trump blaming himself and his GOP for the shutdown?
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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It’s official: We just added a Democratic trifecta in Trump’s backyard! This win puts a big obstacle in front of Trump & his MAGA minions. Now it’s up to Governor-elect Spanberger and the new Democratic majority to keep building on that mandate and protect Virginians from their problematic neighbor.
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again.

Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM