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FUN FACT: Indiana constituents made 6000 calls via 5 Calls to oppose this redistricting bill.
That's the largest number of state-level calls on an issue we have seen this year. 🤓📞🙌
That's the largest number of state-level calls on an issue we have seen this year. 🤓📞🙌
‼️ Indiana Senate VOTED DOWN the redistricting bill by a 19-31 vote!!!
To all the Hoosiers who made calls and made your voices heard... take a bow.
YOU did this. 🎉🙌🗳
To all the Hoosiers who made calls and made your voices heard... take a bow.
YOU did this. 🎉🙌🗳
December 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
FUN FACT: Indiana constituents made 6000 calls via 5 Calls to oppose this redistricting bill.
That's the largest number of state-level calls on an issue we have seen this year. 🤓📞🙌
That's the largest number of state-level calls on an issue we have seen this year. 🤓📞🙌
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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NYC Mayoral Debate
MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live
CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything
SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull
MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live
CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything
SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
NYC Mayoral Debate
MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live
CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything
SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull
MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live
CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything
SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull
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October 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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Paramilitaries, you say? 🤔
August 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Paramilitaries, you say? 🤔
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tapping the "please support billionaire-free, independent, and/or worker-run local newsrooms" special DC edition:
@51st.news
@washingtoninformer.com
@wcp.bsky.social
@streetsensedc.bsky.social
@51st.news
@washingtoninformer.com
@wcp.bsky.social
@streetsensedc.bsky.social
be real nice if DC had an actual hometown newspaper at the moment
August 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
tapping the "please support billionaire-free, independent, and/or worker-run local newsrooms" special DC edition:
@51st.news
@washingtoninformer.com
@wcp.bsky.social
@streetsensedc.bsky.social
@51st.news
@washingtoninformer.com
@wcp.bsky.social
@streetsensedc.bsky.social
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HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't:
- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls
- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls
Judge Lewis Kaplan has GRANTED a motion for a TRO sought by lawyers for detainees at 26 Federal Plaza. It requires DHS to provide migrants a clean and safe place to sleep, prescription medication, nutritious meals, access to counsel, & other necessities storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't:
- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls
- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls
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Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
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NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident.
She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.
She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.
July 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident.
She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.
She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.
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Video taken by detained migrant offers first look inside the contentious holding cells on the 10th floor of the ICE offices on 26 Federal Plaza in NYC.
Video obtained by New York Immigration Coalition and reported by The City:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
Video obtained by New York Immigration Coalition and reported by The City:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
Video Taken by Migrant Shows Overcrowded ICE Holding Cell in Manhattan
www.nytimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Video taken by detained migrant offers first look inside the contentious holding cells on the 10th floor of the ICE offices on 26 Federal Plaza in NYC.
Video obtained by New York Immigration Coalition and reported by The City:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
Video obtained by New York Immigration Coalition and reported by The City:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
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I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
July 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
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It is.
After ICE's acting director said agents would continue hiding their faces during operations, @mayor.lacity.gov says on @facethenation.bsky.social:
"These masked men pull up in unmarked cars ... so for the average citizen, it looks like it is a violent kidnapping."
"These masked men pull up in unmarked cars ... so for the average citizen, it looks like it is a violent kidnapping."
July 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It is.
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Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.
July 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.
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July 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
June 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
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Absolutely grotesque abuse of government power. Lying to educators in order to entrap children. No wonder they want to hide their identity.
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Absolutely grotesque abuse of government power. Lying to educators in order to entrap children. No wonder they want to hide their identity.
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If you're wearing a badge and obscuring your face, you're the bad guy.
June 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If you're wearing a badge and obscuring your face, you're the bad guy.