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Another immigrant died in ICE custody, aka GEO Group private prison.

Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, a 46-year-old Eritrean imam and lawful permanent resident from Ohio, died while in U.S.
ICE custody at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania on December 14, 2025.
December 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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this is an incredible little thread with a banger finish
A story I found about Haiti:

In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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December 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has found.
Chernobyl radiation shield has stopped working after Russian drone strikes, UN warns
The confinement facility “lost its primary safety functions” after a Russian drone strike in February, nuclear watchdog says.
www.politico.eu
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Holy f@$k!

“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”

This whole video is jaw-dropping.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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ORALÈ RESISTERS
NORTH CAROLINA
30,000 STUDENT WALKED OUT TO PROTEST LICE
#USDemocracy #NorthCarolina #NCStudents #Resist #NoKings
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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For Megyn…
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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It's been 46 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The House will be out again next week. That's 20 work days in 19 weeks.
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month.

The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (Netflix): Terrifying, especially given the unprincipled, waffling nitwit in the White House.
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Un-American insanity.

The 28-page letter — whose full contents have not been made public — also lays out in sweeping detail how it wants the university to enforce new policies that adhere to the president’s conservative agenda.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image
The Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.
www.latimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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People should look up Horst Wessel and how the Nazis used his murder to create a martyr and accelerate their movement and march towards fascism.
September 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.
September 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller
•MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions”

•FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people
September 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Surveillance company Flock is now using AI to report us to police if the bot registers *our everyday movements* as “suspicious”

www.aclu.org/news/nationa...
August 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Joe Rogan might call this a brutal KO, if it wasn't him getting knocked the F out.

A supremely delightful takedown by @climatetown.bsky.social of Rogan's confident, ignorant, and dangerous climate denial.
Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs
YouTube video by Climate Town
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

🔗 www.404media.co/constitution...
Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.
www.404media.co
August 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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There is no bottom...🤬🖕✊

Hegseth reposted a video from CNN that included a pastor from the Christian evangelical movement he follows calling to repeal women’s right to vote. At another point in the video Wilson advocates for making "gay sex" illegal.

apnews.com/article/wome...
Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote
The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...
apnews.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM