Renee Ross Pratta
            
            @reneepratta.bsky.social
          
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          Married for 53 years, a Mom of six,   grandmom of 13.
Have lived NYC-NJ-CA-MD-TX-SC and 8 more!  Now AZ!
I “used” to be proud that I had worked at WAPO until Bezos!
Down after the election, but scraping myself up to RESIST again!
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              Ali Velshi
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            Caught on camera: ICE tactics intensify despite disturbing videos surfacing across the U.S.
            What does “minimum force” really look like? New videos surface showing ICE agents making arrests in broad daylight, near schools, in front of children, and on busy streets. The videos show federal agents intensifying their aggressive tactics in America’s big cities. Writer Radley Balko says, "The fact that we all have a camera in our pockets, and we have instant access to share these videos with the world, is an extremely powerful tool… These videos are having an effect."
          
            
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              Ali Velshi
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              · Sep 13
        
        
        
            Supreme Court greenlights racial profiling, shreds the Fourth Amendment
            This week, the Supreme Court gave ICE the green light to racially profile people during immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, undermining the Fourth Amendment’s core protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Using the shadow docket—without hearings or explanation—the Court effectively declared that constitutional rights sometimes depend on what you look like.
          
            
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              Ali Velshi
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              · Sep 13
        
        
        
            The shadow docket ruling Melissa Murray says brings us ‘dangerously close’ to ‘real tyranny’
            The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority this week effectively greenlit racial profiling during ICE sweeps in Los Angeles, undermining the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches. Individuals can now be targeted if they “look” like they don’t belong—a move Melissa Murray calls “after-the-fact justice.” She warns we are “moving dangerously close" into real tyranny and explains how Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence plays “fast and loose with other people’s lives,” ignoring the Constitution’s commitment to individual dignity and rights.
          
            
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              · Sep 3
        
        
        
            Veterans Stand Ground At Union Station; Tell President Take National Guard Out Of DC - DCMediaGroup
            Washington, DC—”Not on Our Watch” is the message Veterans’ are sending the President. The two beige Humvees parked on the bricks looked like they belonged at a military base instead of outside Union S...
          
            
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              Ali Velshi
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              · Aug 30
        
        
        
            'Public health should be bipartisan:' Fmr. CDC official on resignation as RFK Jr. pressures agency
            Dr. Jennifer Layden was the Director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for five years until this week, when she became one of four senior CDC officials to resign amid budget cuts and increased political pressure from President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Public health should be bipartisan,” Layden tells Ali Velshi, explaining that budget cuts made it “challenging to do my work.” Many don’t realize how dangerous this undermining of our public health agencies could be since Layden notes that “the work of public health often goes unnoticed until there is a major outbreak.” 
          
            
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