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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
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@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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Okay y'all, I'm ready to unveil this year's interactive squirrel pumpkin. I gave up on keeping the squirrels away from my Halloween jack o'lanterns years ago and decided to just work with them. Here are ones from the past four years: 1/2
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To be abundantly clear, ICE is violating everyone’s constitutional rights, citizens and non citizens alike.

The coup leaders commanding this ongoing illegitimate brutality want us to forget that core fact.

It’s intentional confusion arising out of the chaos they create.

Stay focused.

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On October 30, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois, ICE GOONS Backs into a U.S. citizen’s car and subsequently arrests her for documenting their actions.
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o... ...funding proposals currently being forwarded by HUD will roll the clock back to...the long misery of homelessness...Housing without services sets vulnerable people up for failure. Services without housing leaves people homeless on the streets and in shelters.
Opinion | We Found a Solution to Homelessness. Now the Trump Administration Wants to Throw It Out.
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