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Chef Joel B
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Retired chef, Blue all the way, Star Trek fan from the first episode. My pup Cooper keeps me going!
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And here we go again. Some federal employees are starting to receive furlough notices as lawmakers in Washington weigh how to end the partial government shutdown that began over the weekend.
February 2, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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Stephen Miller: [30 days from now] Look, the president shits himself in most meetings. The president shits where he wants. You people in the media, you're so obsessed with who shit whose pants, and by the time you're done figuring it out, we'll be shitting in a thousand different pairs of pants.
February 3, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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Woman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
After ICE release St. Paul woman, she says agents keep returning to her home
Thi Dua Vang legally came to the U.S. two years ago. So when ICE showed up, she thought it must have been a mistake.
www.kare11.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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I recently heard historian Robert Kagan say: “What's at risk right now is literally our democracy in the sense that I don't think Trump is going to allow free and fair elections in 2026.”

My job is to fight in court to prove him wrong even while I fear he may be right.
January 20, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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“We’re seeing our neighbors being kidnapped, peaceful protesters being assaulted and murdered, our civil rights being stripped...

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
January 19, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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She’s five years old.

She’s a citizen.

She’s just been deported.

www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/...
ICE deports 5-year-old US citizen from TX to Honduras, group says
Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos and her mom were arrested in Austin on January 5.
www.mysanantonio.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Hey @schumer.senate.gov
Don’t you dare
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS!
January 17, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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No. We don’t need to “modify ICE training.” We need to close DHS. Dismantle it. It’s an outdated expensive bureaucracy that’s been usurped by violent white supremacists. Shut it down.
January 18, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.
January 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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Trump lets another drug trafficker out of prison because his father happens to be a Republican member of Congress.
January 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.

" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."

www.al.com/news/2026/01...
Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
www.al.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Legend
January 14, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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January 9, 2026 at 10:48 AM
January 9, 2026 at 10:48 AM
January 9, 2026 at 10:47 AM