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Maine Med nurse released from ICE detention
August 6, 2026
GREAT NEWS! Debora Kapisha, the Maine Medical Center nurse who was detained by ICE at Logan Airport, has been released from detention and is on her way back to Maine! Thank you to EVERYONE who stood up, spoke out, and worked so hard to make this happen. To anyone who says Debora deserved to be deported because she “overstayed her visa” — It can take 10 YEARS or more for some asylum cases to be adjudicated. Also, you can’t renew a non-immigrant visa while your asylum is pending! Debora followed t...
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ICE detained a MaineMed registered nurse
August 5, 2026
Debora Kapisha is a registered nurse at Maine Medical Center in Portland. She came to the United States from Zambia and is legally authorized to work while her asylum case is pending. Last week, ICE detained Debora at Boston Logan Airport—part of a recent surge in airport arrests by the Trump Administration as it chases its cruel and arbitrary quotas. Debora could not be further from the “worst of the worst” this Administration claims to be targeting. She is a registered nurse in an incredibly d...
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Trump is obsessed with taking over the Kennedy Center
August 5, 2026
What Trump did to the Kennedy Center—installing himself as chair, slapping his name on the building, throwing it into financial chaos—gives us a glimpse into what he is trying to do with our other treasured institutions like the Smithsonian. It all comes down to control. He wants to turn these institutions into giant propaganda machines, while rewriting history and erasing anything he believes is “too divisive." Coming from the most divisive Administration in history, that’s pretty rich. Underst...
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Trump steals NPS money to fund his DC vanity projects
August 4, 2026
First, the Administration made massive cuts to the National Parks Service. Now, Trump is using the NPS to bankroll his vanity projects in D.C.—to the tune of $75 million (so far). The NPS has a project backlog of $24 BILLION. But Trump cares more about building monuments to his ego than preserving and improving our National Parks. Not to mention, people need HEALTH CARE and FOOD. Not gilded horses.
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Lee Zeldin called out for abandoning farmers hit with PFAS
July 31, 2026
In Congress, Lee Zeldin was part of the bipartisan PFAS Task Force. Now, as Trump's EPA Administrator, he's rejecting his own agency's science, dodging basic questions, and abandoning farmers whose lives have been destroyed by PFAS contamination. Kudos to @7NewsDC Lisa Fletcher for refusing to let him change the subject and holding his feet to the fire. There's nothing "hypothetical" or "hilarious” about losing your farm, euthanizing your herd, or wondering whether your family's land has been pe...
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Republicans tee up SAVE Act, Iran War funding
July 20, 2026
Gearing up for a jam-packed final week in Washington before the August district work period. Among Republicans’ priorities: advancing the SAVE Act’s voter suppression agenda and approving billions more for Trump’s war of choice in Iran. This has been the least productive Congress in modern history under Speaker Johnson’s leadership, and Republicans can barely agree among themselves. We’ll see how the week unfolds, but more chaos is surely in store. Stay tuned for updates.
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Pingree on @msnow: someone shouldn’t have to die for ICE to end traffic stops
July 15, 2026
I’m glad that DHS has agreed to cease all traffic stops. But it shouldn’t have taken two more tragic deaths to put an end to a practice they shouldn’t have been doing in the first place. Let’s be clear about how we got here: DHS got $170 BILLION for more officers, more guns, more body cameras (which they’re STILL not wearing), and more quotas. When they couldn’t get a warrant to enter someone’s home, they’d just grab them from their car. Limitless resources + complete lack of oversight = bad out...
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Speaker Johnson sends House home early over SAVE Act drama
June 30, 2026
Least surprising breaking news update from the House: Speaker Johnson canceled votes for the week and is sending us all home early for the second straight week. Why? Well, 1: Republicans cannot govern. 2: Some of their members are upset because the Senate won’t pass Donald Trump’s precious “SAVE Act” — a voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise about 69 million women in the United States, 25% of the eligible voting population. Hey, at least I get to head home to Maine a few days early!
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Breaking down the latest Supreme Court rulings
June 30, 2026
Some big SCOTUS rulings the past two days. The good news: ✅ Birthright citizenship remains intact ✅ Mail-in ballots CAN be counted after Election Day (a big blow to Trump’s voter-suppression efforts) ✅ Geofencing warrants are subject to Fourth Amendment protections The bad news: 🔴 Gave the Admin the green light to bully schools and states like Maine that refuse to target transgender kids. 🔴 Opened the floodgates to even MORE money in our elections, once again equating campaign spending to “fre...
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