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Today at 11 am ET, we're covering the latest developments at Delaney Hall, the California governor's race, Trump's lost slush fund deal, the upoar over his nomination for the DNI, and growing concerns about the suppression of progressive content on YouTube.

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Today at 11 am ET, we cover the escalating crisis at Delaney Hall, where detainees report being tear gassed inside locked housing units, ventilation being shut off, and multiple people suffering serious injuries during a violent crackdown. We also discuss the growing confrontations outside the facility, Governor Sherrill's announcement that health inspectors were denied access, and what supporters across the country can do to help.

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Most people think creating social justice is reserved for full-time activists, politicians, or people with massive platforms.

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We had to let go of our darling Sophie today.

After an accident last week where she fell off the couch– which in retrospect seems to have been fainting rather than knocking herself out– she had some tests. We learned late Thursday that there was a large, rare, inoperable tumor on her heart that had likely been growing for years.

She fainted previously seven weeks ago while we were away, with no discernible cause. She had also been showing some personality changes and struggling with things like steps and longer walks for about the last six months– things we attributed to old age at the time. I feel terrible now that she must have been in pain for a long while.

The vet told us that survivability with this was one to two months, with the possibility of the tumor rupturing and causing internal bleeding at any time, and described the condition like a “time bomb.” At minimum, if we waited, there would be more fainting, and fluid build up around her heart and lungs, before a painful death.

Treatment with chemotherapy and radiation would only have extended her lifespan by a year at most, and she would have been sick the entire time.

It was an impossible but obvious choice. And though it has absolutely broken me, I was with her until the very end, and it was as painless and peaceful as a passing can be.

Sophie came to us at a very rough time in our family nine years ago, just a few months after I left my marriage with my kids, and embarked on the journey of solo parenting.

She slept in my bed, gave the best snuggles, had wild zoomies, and got me through it every step of the way. She traveled across the country in a car with our beloved dogsitters Rocky and Laura when we moved to California, and back on a plane with me and the kids (which she hated) when we returned to New York.

She loved fresh air and the smell of grass after the rain. She could find any patch of sunlight on instinct and would lay in it sideways to warm her belly. She loved every person she ever met, and would sit on the feet of strangers until they gave her pets. Sometimes, she would stomp her feet if the pets stopped too soon.

She loved her brother Donut from the moment he came to us in the middle of lockdown. Donut doted on her, worried about her these last few months, and sniffed her and stayed close to her in the last few days. He knew something was wrong, and he wanted to make sure she knew that he loved her more than anything. I suspect he will be looking for her for a long time.

My kids are devastated, because they remember almost nothing of life without her. We’ve had so much loss already this year (public and not), and I don’t know how to walk through this one other than by loving everyone around here even more.

There must be light through this valley. There must be hope for better days.

But at the moment, there are just tears.

I felt the need to write this because many of you came to know Sophie in 2017 when she joined us periodically in the earliest days of my show. Someone nicknamed her Resistance Mascot at the time. It seems cringy to me now, given the old grizzled family defender she became, but I suppose we were all a lot younger then, and we are all tired, grizzled defenders now.

It’s been a decade of loss and horror and withering trauma. How naive we were to think back then that Trump wouldn’t last the year. So many have been lost, and more will be, and most have not had and will not have the dignity of a death surrounded by caretakers and loved ones, on a quiet path of peace, with someone sitting with them, telling them how precious their life is, how grateful we are for every bit of it, how loved and loved and loved again they are, at every step along the walk home.

It is a blessing to live this long. It is a blessing to be alive. It should be an easier journey for every single one of us, mapped with dignity and love and hope.

I hope we all never forget it.

I gave Sophie my No Kings shirt to sleep on for her last two nights. It will now go into her brother Donut’s crate to help him through this loss.

I know she was greeted on the other side by every dog we have ever loved, and by all those in our family of loved ones who are already there. I hope she has endless cheese and treats, a good bed with blankets to tuck herself into, wide open fields of grass to sniff, ducks to chase, lots of friends to play with, as many snuggles as she wants, and the knowledge that she will always be loved and never forgotten.

Farewell, sweet girl. Rest well now. You were the best dog.

We love you more than words could ever cover.

And I know I’ll see you again someday.

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