Steve Mistler
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![And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7sfqvvcpwyzjrai4xuz5xj7h/bafkreifvwozkhrr4oewcoeuzfpizmn6fjl3rwwucp3oirfhbwrdn7oywhu@jpeg)
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stephen fowler
@stphnfwlr.com
· 15d
DNC chair says special elections show Democrats are winning, even when they lose
DNC Chair Ken Martin says recent special election results show Democrats are on the right track for 2026, and tells detractors to "stop bitching" and help the party's efforts.
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Maine Public
@mainepublic.org
· 18d
Graham Platner draws hundreds to town hall kick off as Senate bid builds
Graham Platner is one of eight declared Democrats seeking to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, but his campaign has drawn outsize interest for a political newcomer. He's attacking Collins and...
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Maine Public
@mainepublic.org
· 22d
Maine joins states-led public health collaborative amid upheaval at U.S. CDC
The group was formed as a response to upheaval at the U.S. CDC where Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is carrying out his decades-long campaign to limit vaccines. It hopes to ...
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WIRED
@wired.com
· 23d
The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing
A House Oversight Committee hearing produced a flood of bizarre claims about cloud seeding, chemtrails, and solar geoengineering. Proven, human-driven changes to the weather were dismissed.
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