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Here is my latest Substack article. This one is about the FEMA camps nationwide and how the government might use them to house MAGAs and people who refuse the "jab."

UW Center for Human Rights supports collaborations between faculty, students, and on-the-ground community partners—resulting in research that aims to make real-world change. Watch UWCHR research in action as Senator Patty Murray cites UWCHR findings on use of solitary confinement at the Northwest Detention Center during a recent Senate Appropriations Committee hearing with Department of Homeland Security's Alejandro Mayorkas. Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/g-fQqcSm "University of Washington researchers found that over the last five years, half of the ten longest placements in administrative segregation across ICE's national population were at that facility [Northwest Detention Center]. I want to stress how concerning it is that ICE continues to use this practice so frequently for so many individuals and reportedly does so without consistent, accurate documentation of its use. What steps has ICE taken to make sure that its contractors are following ICE policy on the use of administrative segregation?"

2022 United States Government Departments And Agencies

2022 United States Government Departments And Agencies

The first BGR Group Quarterly Outlook of 2024 is here! In the January 2024 report, we cover #political and #policy recaps and predictions for #appropriations, #healthcare, #commerce and #infrastructure, #financialservices, #defense, #international, #stateandlocal advocacy and the 2024 #election as well as key dates and upcoming events. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eT2Uh3Sg

Today, AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse - Nepinak and AFN Regional Chiefs met with federal Cabinet ministers in Ottawa to discuss renewed priorities under the AFN-Canada Memorandum of Understanding on Joint Priorities. Topics discussed include closing the infrastructure gap, citizenship, economic reconciliation, and policing, among other issues critical for advancing First Nations needs and interests. #fnpoli

Topics include the 2024 election, FY2024 budget negotiations, Medicare and Medicaid, tax package, SEC rule proposals, AUKUS, global elections, artificial intelligence, state budgets and legislation - and so much more. In short, everything in you need to know for the first quarter of 2024!

President Biden has issued a sensible and long overdue executive order to assist immigrant families, and, as expected, there is outrage by xenophobes whose only goal is to sabotage immigration reform. Republicons are constantly screaming about an "invasion", which is nonsense. They're telling us that countries on the "terrorist watch list" are sending people to attack the US when the reality is that right-wing domestic terrorists were responsible for all the mass shootings in 2022(look it up). Then you have the neo-fascists, like the 3%ers, Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, who are promoting FALSE TALKING POINTS about "whites being replaced by immigrants." That, along with T-DUMP'S deranged rhetoric provokes more lies from the cultist noise machine. Time for a fact-check. Wisconsinwatch.org is just one of many reliable sites, along with the ACLU and Politifact. When you hear this garbage, be sure to set them straight.

Great piece in POLITICO looking at what steps governors across the country are taking to ease the #housingaffordability crisis. In each state profiled, NAHB's state and local associations were key to developing and delivering policy solutions: https://lnkd.in/eFfZNxJh