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What we know about claim ICE deported Chilean grandad Luis Leon to Guatemala www.snopes.com/news/2025/07...
What we know about claim ICE deported Chilean grandad Luis Leon to Guatemala
The Guatemalan Institute of Migration denied having received the 82-year-old Pennsylvania man despite his family insisting ICE secretly deported him.
www.snopes.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
Keep Colbert on Air!
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...
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July 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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July 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The downsizing of the National Weather Service and the NOAA appears to be part of an effort to privatize the work of such agencies.

In several instances, the companies poised to step into the void have deep ties to people tapped by Trump to run weather-related agencies. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts
Downsizing at the National Weather Service appears to be part of an effort by Republicans to privatize such agencies.
apnews.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing. We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers what we spend on housing.
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
newrepublic.com
July 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 169. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics, including full coverage and reaction of MAGA to Trump’s latest post about Epstein. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 169.
… Trump attempted to put out the fire with his MAGA base on the Epstein files controversy with a lengthy post on Truth Social and only made things worse.
open.substack.com
July 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US
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