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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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They picked her up at a Taco Bell, and they are still arguing she was born in Mexico? www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
They picked her up at a Taco Bell, and they are still arguing she was born in Mexico? www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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Cuomo, the man who resigned in disgrace after a state attorney general’s report found that he had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women, was asked if he had any regrets.
He said he regretted not being better at social media.
He said he regretted not being better at social media.
Zohran Mamdani drags the Democratic Party into the future
This was a local race with national implications, whether the party's leaders liked it or not.
www.motherjones.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Cuomo, the man who resigned in disgrace after a state attorney general’s report found that he had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women, was asked if he had any regrets.
He said he regretted not being better at social media.
He said he regretted not being better at social media.
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Today marks 30 days of the government shutdown and federal workers -- 750,000 were furloughed -- are barely making ends meet.
@telliotter.bsky.social + @makenakelly.bsky.social spoke to federal workers struggling to pay bills, working side gigs, and relying on free food programs to get by:
@telliotter.bsky.social + @makenakelly.bsky.social spoke to federal workers struggling to pay bills, working side gigs, and relying on free food programs to get by:
Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown
The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Today marks 30 days of the government shutdown and federal workers -- 750,000 were furloughed -- are barely making ends meet.
@telliotter.bsky.social + @makenakelly.bsky.social spoke to federal workers struggling to pay bills, working side gigs, and relying on free food programs to get by:
@telliotter.bsky.social + @makenakelly.bsky.social spoke to federal workers struggling to pay bills, working side gigs, and relying on free food programs to get by:
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DC journo brain: Dems give a shit about norms, so they should follow them; Republicans don't give a shit about them, so they can do whatever they want. It's explicit!
HUNT: Dems have argued that the norms of our govt should be that you negotiate policy outside of a shutdown
GALLEGO: You're talking about norms in a time of Donald Trump?
H: But Ds have spent so much time arguing that maintaining norms is incredibly important
G: It's all out the window, Kasie. No
GALLEGO: You're talking about norms in a time of Donald Trump?
H: But Ds have spent so much time arguing that maintaining norms is incredibly important
G: It's all out the window, Kasie. No
October 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
DC journo brain: Dems give a shit about norms, so they should follow them; Republicans don't give a shit about them, so they can do whatever they want. It's explicit!
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Monstrous.
"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Monstrous.
"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
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"These denunciations of political violence are too tasteful. Piously expressing respect for Kirk’s work and incanting the importance of “debate” are capitulations standards which the right no longer pretends to adhere," writes @anamariecox.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2003...
Charlie Kirk and the Empathy Trap
Democrats will never be as cruel as Republicans after a political assassination. That’s to their credit. But it may not be to their advantage.
newrepublic.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"These denunciations of political violence are too tasteful. Piously expressing respect for Kirk’s work and incanting the importance of “debate” are capitulations standards which the right no longer pretends to adhere," writes @anamariecox.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2003...
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
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🚨 NEW from Drop Site News: Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda
The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
Story by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang
www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...
The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
Story by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang
www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...
Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
www.dropsitenews.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
🚨 NEW from Drop Site News: Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda
The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
Story by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang
www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...
The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
Story by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang
www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...
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"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in."
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling
Consumers “don’t have a clue what’s going on,” said Raymond Robertson, a labor economist.
fortune.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in."
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
aje.io
August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
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“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."
Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua
Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.
www.wmtw.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
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I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal."
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
June 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal."
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him.
#mapoli #Massachusetts
#mapoli #Massachusetts
Worker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemetery
A Massachusetts man said he told immigration agents multiple times that he's a legal resident and that he was brought to a cemetery where they assaulted him.
www.nbcboston.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him.
#mapoli #Massachusetts
#mapoli #Massachusetts
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Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff
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Cory Booker just passed the 24 hour mark. He's been speaking for a full day straight. 20 more minutes to break Strom Thurmond's record.
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Cory Booker just passed the 24 hour mark. He's been speaking for a full day straight. 20 more minutes to break Strom Thurmond's record.
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"I’m wagering that younger generations are even more disaffected. Those people will be lost forever unless you f—kers finally understand what’s happening outside your office window."
@drewmagary.bsky.social on the ineptitude of the Democratic Party for @sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
@drewmagary.bsky.social on the ineptitude of the Democratic Party for @sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
Hey Democrats, wake the f—k up
The Democrats have neither the ability nor the will to fight back against President Donald Trump, SFGATE columnist Drew Magary writes.
www.sfgate.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"I’m wagering that younger generations are even more disaffected. Those people will be lost forever unless you f—kers finally understand what’s happening outside your office window."
@drewmagary.bsky.social on the ineptitude of the Democratic Party for @sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
@drewmagary.bsky.social on the ineptitude of the Democratic Party for @sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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The Trump administration has started firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union. cnn.it/42Ymbxy
February 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Trump administration has started firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union. cnn.it/42Ymbxy
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The US health department fired employees Saturday across some of its biggest agencies including Medicare, Medicaid and the FDA.
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February 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The US health department fired employees Saturday across some of its biggest agencies including Medicare, Medicaid and the FDA.
trib.al/99QFCR9
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