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Kathryn Leehane (she/her)
@kathrynleehane.bsky.social
Writer, humorist, upcycled doll artist—not necessarily in that order. Find me on McSweeneys, Hippocampus Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, The Washington Post, Dynamite Magazine, and more. kathrynleehane.com
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ICE data confirms:
•Only 3.1% of people sent to CECOT have a violent criminal record
•Only 3.4% of people they arrested in Chicago have a violent criminal record
•More than 75K people they've arrested have no violent criminal record
•Nearly 100% are Latino

This is not due process. This Is Fascism.
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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It's pretty fucking fearless to go back and do your goddamn oversight visit where they last framed you for assault.
‼️💥 Today, we are outside Delaney Hall in support of Congresswoman
@replamonica.bsky.social
and Congressman
@menendez.house.gov
as they conduct an Oversight visit following the devastating loss of Jean Wilson Brutus, a community member detained at Delaney Hall earlier this month.
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Traveling this holiday season? There are steps you can take to safeguard your privacy if your phone or laptop is searched by immigration agents at the airport or other port of entry.

Know your rights and protect your information.
Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated. | ACLU
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t simple.
www.aclu.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm
December 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison

Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social:

zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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A reminder that Donald Trump and Larry Ellison don't really care if Barry Weiss falls down on her face and looks like a clown. If she resigns, they'll replace her with another clown. Then another, then another. But that's still a good outcome for them. They just want CBS News defanged.
Wash Post, CBS News, next CNN?, etc are not money makers. The owners give the Trumpists what they want and get favorable treatment for their other businesses in exchange. Owners make money that way. The regime wants quiescence. No one in this exchange cares if the outlets have audience or profits.
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant

“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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“They want us to be overwhelmed. They want us to become benumbed to the mounting horror. They want us to think their success is inevitable & there’s nothing we can do about it. This is how they win. It’s our job in the coming year to prove how wrong they are.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-st...
We Can't Stop Caring
It remains in our power to create a more just future
www.americaamerica.news
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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They have always been concentration and death camps. The fact the media won’t admit it still smd outside reports had to leak the story only proves American media are wholly accomplices to the crimes against humanity being committed in our name.
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Trump’s corruption is sprawling & documented

We @democracydefendersfund.org are challenging abuses like the Qatari jet & crypto profits through over 237 legal cases & matters

Courts are pushing back—but but the ultimate guardrail is the American people

I explained on @ms.now👇
December 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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One of the revelations in the 60 Minutes CECOT story, as sourced by the UC Berkley students, is that Kristi Noem's torture porn video was filmed in a different part of the prison - not with the deported Venezuelans, but with domestic criminals from El Salvador.
December 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Guys if you're going to upload the bootleg CBS segment to youtube you have to overlay squiggly lines over the video and slightly distort the sound to get around the automatic content detector.
December 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM