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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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A third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says.
Third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says
Camp East Montana on Fort Bliss in El Paso is one of the largest ICE detention centers in the country.
nbcnews.to
January 19, 2026 at 8:20 PM
A third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says.
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Finally. It took the #NYTimes 5 days to devote more than a couple of sentences to the as many as 100 people in #Venezuela who the U.S. military killed during the January 3 attack. The cable networks were even worse.
January 9, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Finally. It took the #NYTimes 5 days to devote more than a couple of sentences to the as many as 100 people in #Venezuela who the U.S. military killed during the January 3 attack. The cable networks were even worse.
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This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...
As DOJ Sues More States For Voter Rolls, Federal ‘Power Grab’ Comes into Focus
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...
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🚨BREAKING: More than 200,000 Missourians have signed a petition supporting a referendum to block Republicans’ new gerrymandered congressional map. But GOP officials are working to thwart them at every turn. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri Sec. of State Proposes ‘Dishonest’ Ballot Language to Thwart Anti-Gerrymander Referendum
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
🚨BREAKING: More than 200,000 Missourians have signed a petition supporting a referendum to block Republicans’ new gerrymandered congressional map. But GOP officials are working to thwart them at every turn. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This is how a real President is supposed to act
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is how a real President is supposed to act
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Oh — the situation has escalated.
Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in.
"Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...
Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in.
"Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Oh — the situation has escalated.
Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in.
"Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...
Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in.
"Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...
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The shutdown has left NOAA's network of cooperative research institutes locked out of federal labs and cut off from federal collaborators. In some cases, it's affecting research aimed at public safety—like toxic algae monitoring in the Great Lakes. My story 🔏 & quick 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/shu...
Shutdown disrupts research into Great Lakes’ toxic algae
At risk is the ability for researchers to forecast dangerous blooms weeks in advance.
www.eenews.net
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The shutdown has left NOAA's network of cooperative research institutes locked out of federal labs and cut off from federal collaborators. In some cases, it's affecting research aimed at public safety—like toxic algae monitoring in the Great Lakes. My story 🔏 & quick 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/shu...
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RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
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Astounding levels of aggression against obviously nonthreatening nonviolent protestors and bystanders. Border Patrol and ICE are so fundamentally broken as institutions.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Astounding levels of aggression against obviously nonthreatening nonviolent protestors and bystanders. Border Patrol and ICE are so fundamentally broken as institutions.
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Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...
A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
The U.S.
joycevance.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...
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Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.
Cardinal Dolan calls the late Charlie Kirk 'a modern day St. Paul.' I'm not making this up.
Cardinal Dolan joins the Catholic right's ever growing quest to lionize the late Charlie Kirk as a Christian martyr.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.
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On Earth 2.0, this would be The Story of the week, a firestorm of corruption, cover-ups, and scandal. Tom Homan, the thuggish head of Trump’s immigration brute squad was videotaped accepting a $50,000 cash bribe… and the Trump DOJ shut the investigation down.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Glitches in the MAGA Will to Power?
Watergate in plain sight
open.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
On Earth 2.0, this would be The Story of the week, a firestorm of corruption, cover-ups, and scandal. Tom Homan, the thuggish head of Trump’s immigration brute squad was videotaped accepting a $50,000 cash bribe… and the Trump DOJ shut the investigation down.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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He deserve credit for saying this.
There’s some incredibly dark rhetoric on the right tonight, but FWIW, here’s Matt Schlapp’s pinned tweet at the moment. A pretty responsible and sober sentiment that he has arguably zero incentive to share right now.
September 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
He deserve credit for saying this.
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Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance:
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
September 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance:
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
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This. This. This. It was predicted but that doesn't make it any less disgusting or dangerous.
Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too.
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This. This. This. It was predicted but that doesn't make it any less disgusting or dangerous.
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Senator Ted Cruz 2013 on Obama attacking Syria:
"The residual presidential authority to act militarily in the absence of a declaration of war is based on an imminent, direct threat to the United States."
"[Acting] would be contrary to the Constitution"
Senator Cruz 2025 on Trump attacking Iran:
"The residual presidential authority to act militarily in the absence of a declaration of war is based on an imminent, direct threat to the United States."
"[Acting] would be contrary to the Constitution"
Senator Cruz 2025 on Trump attacking Iran:
June 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Senator Ted Cruz 2013 on Obama attacking Syria:
"The residual presidential authority to act militarily in the absence of a declaration of war is based on an imminent, direct threat to the United States."
"[Acting] would be contrary to the Constitution"
Senator Cruz 2025 on Trump attacking Iran:
"The residual presidential authority to act militarily in the absence of a declaration of war is based on an imminent, direct threat to the United States."
"[Acting] would be contrary to the Constitution"
Senator Cruz 2025 on Trump attacking Iran:
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A vote for this new resolution barring war without congressional authorization would send a strong message that MAGA really does want Trump to resist foreign entanglements.
“It’s a test of whether the MAGA movement is really antiwar,” Ro Khanna tells me in this piece:
“It’s a test of whether the MAGA movement is really antiwar,” Ro Khanna tells me in this piece:
We keep hearing credulous pundits say MAGA is "antiwar." So how many MAGA Republicans will support the new resolution requiring Trump to get congressional authorization for war with Iran?
This resolution is important. People should pay attention to it. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/1969...
This resolution is important. People should pay attention to it. 1/
(link)
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
Trump Is Suddenly Raging at Tucker Carlson—and MAGA Is Deeply Rattled
Is opposition to “forever wars” really a core pillar of MAGA Republicanism? Looks like we’re about to find out.
newrepublic.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A vote for this new resolution barring war without congressional authorization would send a strong message that MAGA really does want Trump to resist foreign entanglements.
“It’s a test of whether the MAGA movement is really antiwar,” Ro Khanna tells me in this piece:
“It’s a test of whether the MAGA movement is really antiwar,” Ro Khanna tells me in this piece:
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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
June 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
June 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
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A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.
June 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.
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Dallas turned out with at least 10,000 marching for #NoKingsDay
June 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Dallas turned out with at least 10,000 marching for #NoKingsDay
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Americans turned out en masse in communities across the country Saturday, raucously pushing back on what they see as President Donald Trump’s widening authoritarianism, attacks on immigrants and federal cutbacks to lifesaving programs.
‘No Kings’ rallies draw huge crowds to protest Trump and his policies
Across the country, relatively few disruptions were reported during protests and marches where the mood ranged from joyful to defiant.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Americans turned out en masse in communities across the country Saturday, raucously pushing back on what they see as President Donald Trump’s widening authoritarianism, attacks on immigrants and federal cutbacks to lifesaving programs.
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Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
June 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
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Six House Rs, many from vulnerable districts, sent a letter to ICE explicitly saying deporting non-criminals makes us less safe.
It's a striking document. It undercuts Trump's rationale for mass deportations and reveals deep political vulnerability on the issue. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/1968...
It's a striking document. It undercuts Trump's rationale for mass deportations and reveals deep political vulnerability on the issue. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/1968...
June 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Six House Rs, many from vulnerable districts, sent a letter to ICE explicitly saying deporting non-criminals makes us less safe.
It's a striking document. It undercuts Trump's rationale for mass deportations and reveals deep political vulnerability on the issue. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/1968...
It's a striking document. It undercuts Trump's rationale for mass deportations and reveals deep political vulnerability on the issue. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/1968...