Pepper Mint
More of a lurker and collector of memes and news snippets. Therapist. Advocate.
- Reposted by Pepper MintTear off the masks when they show up. Take their photos. Get them on video. Expose them. Out them. Name them. They need to be made into pariahs where decent people gather. We cannot allow them to terrorize us. Eyes open. Phones on.
- Reposted by Pepper MintNEW: The Trump administration is looking into suspending people’s right to challenge their incarceration in court, to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, White House aide Stephen Miller said Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Pepper Mint“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.” $1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
- Reposted by Pepper MintYou and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
- Reposted by Pepper MintA gift to the NRA.
- Donated to my local @npr.org affiliate today for the first time. I wish I could afford more, but I did what I could. I hope anyone else reading this will do the same. Their local programming is some of the best.
- Reposted by Pepper MintWith nearly 40 years of legal practice, lawyer Abbe Lowell has represented many powerful people. Now he's starting a new law firm to represent those who have drawn the ire of President Trump. By @carriejohnson.bsky.social
- Reposted by Pepper MintPlease highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
- Reposted by Pepper MintHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all of the staff that had distributed $1.7B annually in Social Services Block Grant funds, which many states had depended on for their child welfare, foster care and adoption systems.
- Reposted by Pepper MintNEW: Crowd now growing at the Capitol where Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the steps. Is this building into something? If you’re in DC, they’re encouraging folk to come down there & support. #Resist (📸 Sen. Brian Schatz)
- Reposted by Pepper MintAt least three medical journals have received letters from U.S. Department of Justice that questioned their editorial practices and standards, prompting several journals to push back and assert their independence.
- Reposted by Pepper MintHarvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
- Reposted by Pepper MintNo meat inspection No milk inspection No keeping track of child/domestic abuse No keeping track of women dying in childbirth No funding of head start No childhood cancer research No vaccines No affordable housing Minimum wage 7.25 LETS HAVE A BABY!
- Reposted by Pepper MintICE is unlawfully detaining Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk over a thousand miles away from their families and communities, simply for their political advocacy. We went to Louisiana with members of Congress to demand answers.
- Reposted by Pepper Mintthey want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- Reposted by Pepper MintAlmost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Reposted by Pepper MintCarl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
- Reposted by Pepper Mint😳🤬"A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it: The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure."😳🤬
- Reposted by Pepper MintThirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
- Reposted by Pepper MintThis is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason
- Reposted by Pepper MintI’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
- Reposted by Pepper MintI can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
- Reposted by Pepper MintI want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
- Reposted by Pepper MintTrump orders government to stop tracking cancers in U.S. firefighters. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by Pepper MintAny Democratic politician who doesn't understand Nayib Bukele's grave offense against the sovereignty of the American people and constitutional order and say as much publicly should have no future in elected office. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bukel...
- Reposted by Pepper MintMohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
- Reposted by Pepper MintThe number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the 1980s; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained much longer than the rest of the population. Sarah Stillman reports on a crisis of care in county jails across the nation.
- Reposted by Pepper MintWould men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.
- Reposted by Pepper MintPerioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.
- Reposted by Pepper Mint‘It is time for you to leave the United States’: Ukrainians receive erroneous email from Department of Homeland Security tps://www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/politics/homeland-security-ukrainians-email-parole-program/index.html
- Reposted by Pepper MintDonald Trump is trying to gut the Department of Education — the agency that makes sure that students with special needs are supported in our public schools. So I asked: How has the Department of Education supported a student with special needs in your life?
- Reposted by Pepper MintBREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. We're calling on the Senate to reject this legislation.
- Reposted by Pepper MintThe U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Pepper MintSickle cell disproportionately affects Black people sp this tracks
- Nearly half of CDC's developmental disabilities and birth defects center is now off the job Secy Kennedy's layoffs included entire team working on sickle cell disease www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cut...
- Reposted by Pepper MintThey fired Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield—not because she couldn’t do the job, but because she wouldn’t hang up pictures of Trump and Hegseth. This ain’t about merit—it’s about ego.
- Reposted by Pepper MintThe courts *should* put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process. They may not do that. But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.
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- Reposted by Pepper MintDon't Roll Your Eyes at Due Process www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...
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- Reposted by Pepper MintWASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
- Reposted by Pepper MintForced to work beyond plantations, enslaved women’s labor was leased to factories, universities, & government buildings, while some institutions outright owned them. This reflects how institutions were complicit in slavery. 144 days until Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD
- Reposted by Pepper MintWhen people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
- Reposted by Pepper MintThis energy right here.
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- Reposted by Pepper MintPlease welcome PRESIDENT @barackobama.bsky.social to BlueSky,,, working in my Flaverification,,,
- Pam Bondi looks like withers.
- Reposted by Pepper Mint“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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- Reposted by Pepper MintThe US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.
- Reposted by Pepper MintThis is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
- Reposted by Pepper Mintthese are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions
- Reposted by Pepper MintThousands out in NYC today to demand that DOGE… STOP THE CUTS!
