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My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.
May 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.
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My senator is promoting his tour of N.C. in the rear view mirror. He doesn’t announce where he’ll be because he doesn’t really want to meet with constituents.
May 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My senator is promoting his tour of N.C. in the rear view mirror. He doesn’t announce where he’ll be because he doesn’t really want to meet with constituents.
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Oh yeah and we’ve really been showing our commitment to the rules based international trade order recently
WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF MILLER: CHINA MUST SHOW ITS COMMITMENT TO A RULES-BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER
May 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Oh yeah and we’ve really been showing our commitment to the rules based international trade order recently
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Social mobility has been declining for decades but that's fine, we don't need the talents of 340 million people as long as we have the several dozen children of our stupidest oligarchs
May 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Social mobility has been declining for decades but that's fine, we don't need the talents of 340 million people as long as we have the several dozen children of our stupidest oligarchs
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Read the embedded piece. Should be no surprise to anyone who remembers 2008 crash and has even modest familiarity with crypto.
But nonetheless a great explanation of how this catastrophe in waiting has wormed its way into the financial & political system.
But nonetheless a great explanation of how this catastrophe in waiting has wormed its way into the financial & political system.
Simple story: when a politicians says "I support crypto," they are saying "I am a corrupt sleazebag who takes bribes." (You can get that from Google translate.) econjared.substack.com/p/crytpo-the...
Crytpo: There's just no legit use case for it. But, man, are these bros lobbied up.
Our looonnnggg take on why private digital currencies and the blockchain are an accident going out to happen.
econjared.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Read the embedded piece. Should be no surprise to anyone who remembers 2008 crash and has even modest familiarity with crypto.
But nonetheless a great explanation of how this catastrophe in waiting has wormed its way into the financial & political system.
But nonetheless a great explanation of how this catastrophe in waiting has wormed its way into the financial & political system.
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Overnight, Russian forces launched nearly 300 drones and 70 missiles in one of the largest air assaults on Ukraine since the start of the war, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 60.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
‘A ruthless strike aimed at civilians’ At least 12 dead, over 60 injured in one of Russia’s largest air assaults on Ukraine — Meduza
On the night of May 24-25, Russian forces launched nearly 300 drones and 70 missiles in one of the largest air assaults on Ukraine since the start of the war, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 60.
meduza.io
May 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Overnight, Russian forces launched nearly 300 drones and 70 missiles in one of the largest air assaults on Ukraine since the start of the war, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 60.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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Republicans in Congress are about to take health care away from tens of thousands of Minnesotans…
…to give tax cuts to billionaires.
…to give tax cuts to billionaires.
May 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Republicans in Congress are about to take health care away from tens of thousands of Minnesotans…
…to give tax cuts to billionaires.
…to give tax cuts to billionaires.
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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
May 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
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Congress literally created an Alien Terrorist Removal Court for the expeditious removal of aliens who are designated as terrorists, under a preponderance of evidence standard.
I think problem isn’t the time it would take, but the fact that the government would have to produce actual evidence
I think problem isn’t the time it would take, but the fact that the government would have to produce actual evidence
"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
April 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Congress literally created an Alien Terrorist Removal Court for the expeditious removal of aliens who are designated as terrorists, under a preponderance of evidence standard.
I think problem isn’t the time it would take, but the fact that the government would have to produce actual evidence
I think problem isn’t the time it would take, but the fact that the government would have to produce actual evidence
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I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
April 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
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🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."
Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.
April 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."
Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.