Why We Resist
Medical decisions made for Kitsap, but without our voice
“Less than halfway through the meeting, the SMMC President, Chad Melton, left the room and chose not to return to continue the discussion. For those of us who had spent weeks trying to secure that meeting and have an opportunity to sit down and be heard, that moment was hard to overlook. The meeting continued, but his absence underscored how little space there was for open engagement.”
Bogus charges against Southern Poverty Law Center mark Trump’s latest attack on progressives. For months, President Donald Trump and his allies have vowed to destroy progressive nonprofits, falsely claiming that they fund and support political violence and terrorism in the U.S. But this week, Trump loyalists in the Department of Justice (DOJ) took a major step towards carrying out the president’s promised campaign of repression: They pressed fraud charges against the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the storied civil rights organization that for decades has monitored and exposed white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other extremists.
From Surveillance State to Kill Machine: Has the Line Has Already Been Crossed?. What began with data collection is rapidly evolving into something far more dangerous: systems that can decide and act to kill people here in America… Ever think a drone could chase you down the street or fire a bullet through your living room window because you pissed off Trump, Miller, or their ICE thugs? If the answer is “that’s science fiction,” please read on: that reality may be only a few months away, and every single part of the spying and death-dealing infrastructure needed to make it happen has been quietly assembled by the Trump regime over the last fourteen months.
ICE
Bremerton man detained by ICE, 30 years after a teenage crime
Bounpone Morisath, who goes by Boun, pronounced “Boon,” was detained after arriving for a regular check-in appointment on March 11 with immigration authorities in Seattle, according to his wife, Emily Hassakonburee, and his attorney, Nicolas Olano of Anchorage, Alaska. Morisath, who was born in Laos and immigrated to the United States with his family from a refugee camp in Thailand as a 5-year-old child in 1980, has made regular visits to federal immigration offices for years, part of a complicated legal arrangement that stems from a 1994 arrest in Alaska, when he was just 18.
Read more about Boun’s story here
Wars – We can’t keep up with the madness
Iran War Has Drained U.S. Supplies of Critical, Costly Weapons
White House officials have refused to estimate the cost of the conflict so far, but two independent groups say the expense is staggering: between $28 billion and $35 billion, or just under $1 billion a day.
The Epstein Files – No need to explain further
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