The Dreamers didn't break any laws
The Civic ConscienceThe Dreamers didn’t break any laws. Adults brought them here. Isn’t “intent” an issue when convicting a person of a crime? Children who were brought here by adults could not be...
View ArticleTrump ends DACA in latest anti-immigrant, pro-nationalist outburst
This morning the Trump administration announced that DACA, the Obama-era executive action to protect undocumented immigrants brought into this nation while they were still children, had been revoked....
View ArticleThe Dream Act Would Be Law But for 5 Democratic Senators who Filibustered.
In 2010, the Dream Act passed the House and went to the Senate. Had it passed the Senate, President Obama would have signed it, there would have been no need for DACA, and today would not have...
View ArticleBad Timing; For Sure, Mr Trump. As they say in NJ,"No Way, Jose." #Not 1 More!
September 15th To October 15th, Is, National Hispanic Heritage Month x YouTube VideoDeferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Informational Videos Youtube♥The DREAM Act, We Won't Give Up♥The Dream...
View ArticleObama slams Trump's DACA repeal, 'contrary to our spirit and to common sense'
President Obama has offered his thoughts on Donald Trump’s cruel decision to rescind the DACA program that protects 800,000 hardworking immigrants who came to the United States as children and know no...
View Article"Are We Going To Be Breaking Doors Down In The Middle Of The Night?" Trump...
Javier Palomarez of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and a member of Donald Trump’s White House Diversity Council resigned on the air during an interview with HLN’s Carol Costello earlier...
View Article15 states and District of Columbia sue Trump to protect DREAMERS
NBC News and CNN are reporting that Bob Ferguson, Washington state’s attorney general, announced that along with D.C., he and 14 other states would be filing a lawsuit in New York against President...
View ArticleEnding DACA is cruel and un-American - Edwin Santana VA-01
My video statement can be found here.
View ArticleTrue Compassion vs. Rank Hypocrisy
Folks, the Democratic Congressional members did us proud today.I watched the dueling DACA pressers this morning with Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, and Michelle Lujan Grisham (chair of the...
View ArticleTop Comments: the Multi-Modal transit edition
A look at a growing trend (multi-modal public transit centers) after the jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across...
View Article'We are unafraid. We are here to stay. We will never stop fighting'
What happens to a dream deferred? Following Donald Trump cowardly ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and leaving the lives of 800,000 immigrant youth and their families up...
View ArticleTears for fears
If anyone had told me I’d be spending my mid-sixties fighting for the same things I fought for in the mid-60s, I’d have said, “Oh, no. We’re making a difference here. We’re changing the world, and...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleIrma crosses Keys, Naples likely to take first hit on mainland, extreme storm...
11 AM EDTLocation — 80 miles SSE of Naples, Florida Maximum sustained winds — 130 mph Movement — north northwest at 9 mph Minimum Central Pressure — 933 mbExpected Storm SurgeCape Sable to Captiva — 10...
View Article"I'd vote for you, but... Nancy Pelosi."
It was an unseasonably cool morning for September in central Virginia; starting in the 50s, and never rising above the low seventies, it was perfect canvassing weather- another day of hitting doors and...
View ArticlePA-Sen: Maggie Hassan (D. NH) Helps Bob Casey (D) Get Ready To Defeat Trump's...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D. NH) in support of U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr.’s (D. PA) re-election campaign: Rep. Lou Barletta (R. PA-11) Lou Barletta, who has been...
View ArticlePoll: 73 percent of Americans, including 68 percent of Trump voters, want...
An overwhelming majority of American voters not only support legislation allowing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to stay in the only country they’ve ever known as home, but...
View ArticleTRUMP: 'Does Anybody Really Want to Throw Out' DREAMers? YES, You Do! (VIDEO)
Within the past twenty-four hours Donald Trump has surpassed his ordinary level of chaotic confusion. And that's saying something. It began with the news that he had met with Democratic leaders Chuck...
View ArticleBFSkinner, Briefly
Call the reinforcements, BFSkinner’s in-hospital doctor is calling reinforcements to see BF in his room in the step-down unit: Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, ENT, GI, Immunology. Maybe I missed one....
View ArticleRepublicans seize the Trump moment, plan to gut the Americans with...
Campaign ActionThis will not shock you. House Republicans are advancing legislation, H.R. 620, the so-called ADA Education and Reform Act of 201, that would gut the landmark law that has allowed...
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