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"Graham, a 34-year old Greensboro, North Carolina police officer, is the seventh instance ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman in a state that significantly restricted abortion died after she was unable to access standard care..."
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www.propublica.org/article/nort...
A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
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January 18, 2026 at 7:52 PM
"Graham, a 34-year old Greensboro, North Carolina police officer, is the seventh instance ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman in a state that significantly restricted abortion died after she was unable to access standard care..."
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www.propublica.org/article/nort...
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PRIMARY EVERY DEMOCRAT WHO CONTINUES TO FUND & SUPPORT ICE. It's not just a no-brainer, it's a matter of morality. It's a matter of defending the tattered shreds of our Republic.
PRIMARY EVERY DEMOCRAT WHO CONTINUES TO FUND & SUPPORT ICE. It's not just a no-brainer, it's a matter of morality. It's a matter of defending the tattered shreds of our Republic.
Fury Grows Over Democrats Who Won’t Back ICE Funding Freeze
[This story was originally published by Julia Conley at CommonDreams.org and is republished here under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).] “Primary every Democrat who wants to fund and stil...
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January 18, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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PRIMARY EVERY DEMOCRAT WHO CONTINUES TO FUND & SUPPORT ICE. It's not just a no-brainer, it's a matter of morality. It's a matter of defending the tattered shreds of our Republic.
PRIMARY EVERY DEMOCRAT WHO CONTINUES TO FUND & SUPPORT ICE. It's not just a no-brainer, it's a matter of morality. It's a matter of defending the tattered shreds of our Republic.
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"Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full.” Ms. Leavitt said
“Yeah, we’re doing it, yeah,” CBS's Dokoupil responded.
Ms. Leavitt replied: “He (Trump) said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
“Yeah, we’re doing it, yeah,” CBS's Dokoupil responded.
Ms. Leavitt replied: “He (Trump) said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo
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January 18, 2026 at 10:59 PM
"Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full.” Ms. Leavitt said
“Yeah, we’re doing it, yeah,” CBS's Dokoupil responded.
Ms. Leavitt replied: “He (Trump) said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
“Yeah, we’re doing it, yeah,” CBS's Dokoupil responded.
Ms. Leavitt replied: “He (Trump) said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’”
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"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."
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In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters
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January 19, 2026 at 2:29 AM
"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
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The plain & simple fact is that we should be prepared, assuming elections take place and Democrats are swept back into control of Congress, for little to change. For the plain & simple fact is that the chosen leaders of the party have no stomach for the kind of justice that its base is demanding.
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The plain & simple fact is that we should be prepared, assuming elections take place and Democrats are swept back into control of Congress, for little to change. For the plain & simple fact is that the chosen leaders of the party have no stomach for the kind of justice that its base is demanding.
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And that's just one example. I guarantee, absent a sea change in leadership, Dems back in power will throttle back the madness, but will change almost nothing. And that's a bitter pill for me-- a yellow dog Democrat from the day I was old enough to vote 50 years ago-- to swallow.
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
And that's just one example. I guarantee, absent a sea change in leadership, Dems back in power will throttle back the madness, but will change almost nothing. And that's a bitter pill for me-- a yellow dog Democrat from the day I was old enough to vote 50 years ago-- to swallow.
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Take the idea of abolishing ICE, for example. A recent poll by The Economist shows a plurality of Americans support this idea, including 70% of all Democrats. Yet we have D Senators talking of INCREASED funding for ICE (for better training, of course). Senators, gentler Gestapo are still GESTAPO!!!
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Take the idea of abolishing ICE, for example. A recent poll by The Economist shows a plurality of Americans support this idea, including 70% of all Democrats. Yet we have D Senators talking of INCREASED funding for ICE (for better training, of course). Senators, gentler Gestapo are still GESTAPO!!!
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Small government. Minimal interference. I hope all the libertarians are paying attention.
January 18, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Small government. Minimal interference. I hope all the libertarians are paying attention.
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I know the story is going around. This is Morristown, New Jersey. Half an hour from Newark Airport. Its on the hinterlands of New York City. It's a fight I know ICE isn't ready for.
Also, this is People magazine. It's as normal supermarket America as it gets. Let's hope this lights something.
Also, this is People magazine. It's as normal supermarket America as it gets. Let's hope this lights something.
N.J. Girl, 6, Found Alone by Neighbors Crying, Asking, 'Where's Papi?' After Dad Was Detained by ICE While Picking Up Food, Mom Claims
The mother of a 6-year-old girl in New Jersey says her daughter was found walking alone outside their apartment crying and asking for her father over the weekend after he was detained by ICE agents wh...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:20 AM
I know the story is going around. This is Morristown, New Jersey. Half an hour from Newark Airport. Its on the hinterlands of New York City. It's a fight I know ICE isn't ready for.
Also, this is People magazine. It's as normal supermarket America as it gets. Let's hope this lights something.
Also, this is People magazine. It's as normal supermarket America as it gets. Let's hope this lights something.
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Watch this video of @milesobrien.com from a Korean Icebreaker in Antarctica. Glad he mentioned that the US no longer has this capability because of the Trump regime.
There are also two @nytimes.com reporters on the same ship. 🌊
There are also two @nytimes.com reporters on the same ship. 🌊
Scientists are worried about the melting of Antarctica's ice sheets and what it could mean for sea levels. There's a two-month-long journey underway to conduct research that will better explain what's happening. https://to.pbs.org/45WdVPh
On board the voyage to Antarctica to learn why a massive glacier is melting
Scientists are worried about the melting of Antarctica's ice sheets and what it could mean for sea levels. There's a two-month-long journey underway to conduct research that will better explain what's...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Watch this video of @milesobrien.com from a Korean Icebreaker in Antarctica. Glad he mentioned that the US no longer has this capability because of the Trump regime.
There are also two @nytimes.com reporters on the same ship. 🌊
There are also two @nytimes.com reporters on the same ship. 🌊
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European Union is silent:
"Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:"
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"Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:"
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Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:
January 20, 2026 at 12:27 PM
European Union is silent:
"Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:"
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"Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:"
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Canada's EV deal with China shows how U.S. belligerence is driving allies away. It also is stranding the once-powerful U.S. auto industry, now doomed to make domestic gas guzzlers and exist as a footnote globally. @ryanlcooper.com reports:
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How Trump Doomed the American Auto Industry - The American Prospect
Ford and GM made a big bet on electrification. Then Trump plunged a knife into their backs.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Canada's EV deal with China shows how U.S. belligerence is driving allies away. It also is stranding the once-powerful U.S. auto industry, now doomed to make domestic gas guzzlers and exist as a footnote globally. @ryanlcooper.com reports:
prospect.org/2026/01/20/h...
prospect.org/2026/01/20/h...
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I keep seeing posts stating that ICE cannot enter your home or a private business without a judicial warrant. While that is legally correct, in reality ICE routinely violates the law by forcing their way in, often by smashing down doors, before violently assaulting people.
Trumpism is fascism.
Trumpism is fascism.
January 20, 2026 at 8:41 AM
I keep seeing posts stating that ICE cannot enter your home or a private business without a judicial warrant. While that is legally correct, in reality ICE routinely violates the law by forcing their way in, often by smashing down doors, before violently assaulting people.
Trumpism is fascism.
Trumpism is fascism.
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Just dropping this here.
January 20, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Just dropping this here.
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Everything Aaron predicted is happening. All of it. We now know they have quotas and it doesn't matter what their record is. Just bodies.
We warned you they wouldn’t just go after the “criminals.” They have quotas to fill so scooping up the people who tried to do it right by paying taxes and filing for green cards are right there in the system. Box checked. Great chat with @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social tonight on @M at 11pm ET.
January 20, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Everything Aaron predicted is happening. All of it. We now know they have quotas and it doesn't matter what their record is. Just bodies.
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The U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II.
A critical read: degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...
A critical read: degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II.
A critical read: degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...
A critical read: degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...
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A January 6th insurrectionist who Trump pardoned is now being charged with molesting a child.
Trump’s pardon released him from prison.
Trump’s pardon released him from prison.
January 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM
A January 6th insurrectionist who Trump pardoned is now being charged with molesting a child.
Trump’s pardon released him from prison.
Trump’s pardon released him from prison.
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As with any of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletters, the whole thing is worth your time, but this quote alone (see image) was enough to stop me cold for a few seconds. Let it sink in.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19...
![Text in image reads: “We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tlh5xrlfjhlu3gcwduhbwunb/bafkreihzeapdzuncje44qmt2vm6lcjvea746wi3ohxz5riq7rbms5w66ga@jpeg)
January 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM
As with any of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletters, the whole thing is worth your time, but this quote alone (see image) was enough to stop me cold for a few seconds. Let it sink in.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19...
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This is pure, unabashed bigotry.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
January 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM
This is pure, unabashed bigotry.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
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"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...
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January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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This is Trump's America: his billionaire buddies get richer while working families are priced out of health care and struggle to put food on the table.
U.S. BILLIONAIRES GOT $1.5 TRILLION RICHER IN TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR - Americans For Tax Fairness
22% Boost in 2025 Lifted Total Wealth of Nation’s Billionaires to $8.2 Trillion Even as families struggle with unaffordable healthcare, housing and groceries, billionaires are flourishing in Donald Tr...
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January 18, 2026 at 1:37 AM
This is Trump's America: his billionaire buddies get richer while working families are priced out of health care and struggle to put food on the table.
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The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
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The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
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DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.
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January 18, 2026 at 1:11 AM