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Gizmodo - #TSA Sending Info on Domestic Travelers to #ICE for #Deportation Arrests
TSA now sends ICE lists “multiple times a week” of people who will be traveling through U.S. airports & those are compared to databases of travelers Trump claims are subject to deportation
gizmodo.com/tsa-sending-...

#PeterGreene, the actor known for his roles in #PulpFiction and The Mask, has died at the age of 60.
He was found dead at his New York City apartment on Friday, his manager said, and the cause of death has not been disclosed.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

#NPR - Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children
Gavin Weisenburg, 21 years old of Allen, and Tanner Thomas, 20 years old of Argyle planned to murder all men on Gonave Island and enslaving the women and children as "sex slaves,"
www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...

Should Pete Hegseth be prosecuted for a war crime?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/YABbAj/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Yes
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/YABbAj/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">No
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/YABbAj/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Undecided

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Which party will win the U.S. House next year?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/SB700C/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Republican Party
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/SB700C/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Democratic Party

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#CNN - Racists are now openly targeting Indian Americans
Dinesh D’Souza, the #right-wing commentator who has peddled racism against Black Americans for decades, mused: “In a career spanning 40 years, I have never encountered this type of rhetoric.”
#News #Politics #Racism
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...

#Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from #medicaldebt
apnews.com/article/medi...

#APNews - Trump threatens Nigeria with potential military action, escalates claim of Christian persecution
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday stepped up his allegations that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African country
apnews.com/article/nige...

#CNN - Student handcuffed after #Doritos bag mistaken for a gun by school’s #AI security system
#Omnilert.com the company that operates the AI gun detection system:
“While the object (Doritos)!was later determined not to be a firearm, the process functioned as intended”
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/u...

#Politico - ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and …..
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

#D'Angelo, R&B's reluctant icon, has died at 51
The songwriter and producer, born Michael Eugene Archer, a visionary R&B singer who helped pioneer the #neosoul sub genre, has died following a battle with cancer, according to a statement from his family.

#APNews - What to know about the fatal #shooting of #CharlieKirk, the co-founder of #TurningPointUSA

Authorities took one man, #GeorgeZinn, into custody who they later released after determining he was not the suspect

apnews.com/article/char...

#APNews - Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert
apnews.com/article/trum...

#Poll: Do you strongly approve, approve, disapprove or strongly disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the immigration issue?

#Reuter - U.S. Dist. Judge Sean Jordan appointed by Trump in 2019 grants Trump’s request to scrap Biden-era medical debt rule
Kamala Harris had championed the regulation because consumers incurred medical debts due to accidents/illnesses they did not choose to suffer
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

#CNN - This iPhone app alerts users to nearby #ICE sightings
#ICEBlock is designed to be an “early warning system” for users when ICE is operating nearby, Users can add a pin on a map showing where they spotted agents
www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/t...

@ajenglish.bsky.social - Trump says US has bombed 3 nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow
Iran official says Fordow ‘evacuated, has not suffered irreversible damage’
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

#Poll
Do you think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between #Israel and #Iran?
1- Should
2- Should not
3- Don’t care

#APNews - Iran hits Israel with a second wave of missiles
As Iranian projectiles and Israeli interceptor rockets left trails of smoke and flame across the night sky, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed not to let Israel “escape safely from this great crime.”
apnews.com/live/israel-...

Israel strikes Iran nuclear sites and military leadership, as Middle East braces for retaliation
Iran accuses the US of aiding Israel
The ministry said Israel’s strikes could not have taken place without assistance from the US
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

#NBC - Germany deploys permanent troops beyond its borders for the first time since WWII
Chan. Merz said that “Russia’s aggressive revisionism” since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022 meant it could seek to redraw the broader map of Europe and not just that of Ukraine.
www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

#APNews - #Utah Supreme Court orders new trial for Black Man on death row after police misconduct surfaces
While no physical evidence linked him to the crime scene, prosecutors convicted Carter- -
apnews.com/article/utah...

#CNN - Dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium found in store-bought rice
“Even at low levels, both arsenic and cadmium have been linked to serious health harms, including diabetes, developmental delays, reproductive toxicity and heart disease,”
www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/h...

#NPR - Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
- - the Trump administration has otherwise all but frozen the refugee program, with Afrikaners among the few — and possibly only — people granted entry as refugees since January
www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...