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atrupar.com
a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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andrewkostrub.bsky.social
Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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theonion.com
Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration https://theonion.com/diplomatic-talks-break-down-between-trump-motion-activated-ghost-decoration/
Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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jamellebouie.net
$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · Jul 1
It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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antheabutler.bsky.social
This is a concentration camp
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Jul 1
Alligator Alcatraz from within
July 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
My immediate thoughts on the most monstrous, immoral piece of legislation I’ve ever voted on in the Senate.

But I’m not done fighting. I know you aren’t either.
July 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
oh, so in the middle of this, we actually cut loose a bunch of high-ranking MS-13 members to help Bukele keep his truce?

there are just so many fucking layers of awful shit tied up in these 3 plane flights.
In exchange, MS-13 “agreed to reduce the number of public murders in El Salvador, which politically benefitted the government, by creating the perception that the government was reducing the murder rate.” Indeed, Bukele’s popularity is the result of his so-called “Territorial Control Plan,” which involved building his supermax prison and his plan of mass incarceration – a plan which he credits for the drop in violence since he took office. Of course, the citizens of El Salvador aren’t privy to the secret negotiations Bukele made with MS-13 – details that were going to be made public when the U.S. government’s case against the MS-13 defendants went to trial. Which may explain why the Trump administration quietly dropped these charges last week and put the charged MS-13 members on the third plane bound for El Slavador (and which included Abrego Garcia). Among the defendants was one of the highest-ranking leaders of MS-13, Cesar Humberto Lopez-Larios, who was arrested last June and added to the earlier indictment (and who almost certainly will not face real punishment in El Salvador). A former FBI agent who spent years working on this and other gang cases called it “a historical loss,” especially in terms of getting critical intelligence about MS-13’s operations and members in the United States. In short, both Trump and Bukele appear to be complicit in a plan to allow MS-13 to operate in El Salvador on its own terms, in exchange for making it look like both are “cracking down” on the gang in their respective countries. Of course, the fact that MS-13 will continue to operate in cahoots with the El Salvadoran government means that citizens of that country who are victims of the gang will continue fleeing to the United States, undercutting the Trump administration’s claim that it is trying to end the “invasion” of asylum seekers. Then again, Trump needs a steady influx of people to continue trying to cross the border in order to keep claiming the “national emergency” he …
April 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
What Trump Wants From the Nayib Bukele Presser

www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/14/w...
What Trump Wants From the Nayib Bukele Presser - emptywheel
Rather than talking about how Trump and his cabinet members made unsubstantiated claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a terrorist, those watching his staged press conference with Nayib Bukele immediate...
www.emptywheel.net
April 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
They're building concentration camps for political dissidents
titonka.bsky.social Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · Apr 14
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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April 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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repgwenmoore.bsky.social
All members of Congress swore allegiance to the Constitution. They didn't ask just Democrats to defend America against all enemies.

The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.
February 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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lolennui.bsky.social
gritty has seized control of the federal government
February 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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thefarce.org
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here."
- @warren.senate.gov

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
February 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Everything happening with TikTok this weekend is a show and happening outside the legal system. I’m looking at it this way: TikTok shut down to send the message to users that Trump wanted to fix it; TikTok is coming back up before the inauguration because Trump wants it up for his inauguration.
January 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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katewagner.wehwalt.net
my biggest anti-intellectual tif is I don’t want to read the power broker please for the love of fucking god
December 14, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Propublica reports this morning on how United Healthcare is strangling the gold standard therapy for children with autism—deliberately shrinking its provider network and authorizing fewer hours than the treatment demands. www.propublica.org/article/unit...
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:22 PM