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Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

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Newly-Elected Hungarian PM Says Orbán Was Paying CPAC, Calls It a ‘Crime’ That ‘Will Have to Be Investigated’ Péter Magyar, the Hungarian Prime Minister-Elect, announced that outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government had been paying CPAC, but he would put an immediate end to that -- and even went so f...

Orban's defeat is also a defeat for the US right-wing organizations he was funneling government funds to.

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The polls have closed in Hungary - and it appears that turnout will approach 80%, a post-communist record.

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Greek utility completes 2.13 GW solar cluster at former coal mine Greece’s PPC Group has finished construction of its 2.13 GW solar portfolio in northern Greece. The company is now working on its third large-scale battery storage facility in the area, with plans for...

There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms
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and, quiet as it's kept, this was the outcome of essentially a world war fought explicitly on the terms of achieving this outcome, much as people at the time and since have liked to portray the century as a bipolar struggle between two countries in particular

When Satellite Imagery Goes Dark: New Tool Shows Damage in Iran and the Gulf - bellingcat Bellingcat is introducing an updated damage assessment tool — called the Iran Conflict Damage Proxy Map — focused on destruction in Iran and the Gulf .

Just in time for Trump's scheduled war crimes, Bellingcat has updated our tool for identifying damaged buildings and structures in satellite imagery, ideally for investigating atrocities in Iran. Full details here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

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It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

3. “Flagrant Unconstitutionality”? Consider the following: Akhil Reed Amar, Speaking the Law, AMARICA’S CONSTITUTION, at 11:40 (podcast episode, July 9, 2025), https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-5m4rq-18fe9ee: [EO 14160] is not merely unconstitutional, it’s flagrantly unconstitutional. * * * It’s not merely in violation of a congressional statute that speaks to this issue with distinctive clarity. It’s flagrantly violative of the statute. * * * And it’s not merely in violation of a long string of Supreme Court precedents. Oh my gosh, it’s flagrantly in violation of those precedents * * * [I]t’s an open and shut question, basically. * * * It’s impeachable actually for Donald Trump. He might not be convicted because you’re going to need two-thirds of the Senate. But if the Democrats were to get control of the House, in 2026, they should impeach him on this. Third time won't be the charm, but it will be something because this is a crime against the Constitution, a misdemeanor against the Constitution. * * * [T]hat’s true for [Attorney General] Pam Bondi too. Eventually she [should] be disbarred for this because she’s now all in on this.

Akhil Amar in July 2025, on impeachment and the right-wing assault on birthright citizenship klhn.co/legomsky-et-...

N.J. pastor seeking asylum detained by ICE shortly before Easter A Union County minister is being detained by ICE at Delaney Hall in Newark, officials said.

ICE has kidnapped a Colombian asylee and evangelical pastor, Yeison Cortes Vasquez of Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the virtual eve of Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar

turns out Trump is screwing up yet another country in a more traditional imperialist fashion (helping the Ecuadorian would-be dictator consolidate power under the guise of the drug war)

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

"Some right-wing Israeli lawmakers enthusiastically adopted the noose as a symbol of their support for the law, wearing golden noose-shaped pins on their lapels in the Knesset...Israeli lawmakers frequently invoked the American practice of capital punishment when justifying the legislation."

I mean there it is.

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This Nazi retiree's career was destroyed by the brave people of Minnesota, who deserve our admiration and our thanks

This is a very important initiative and a possible way out of the Super PAC box that the party finds itself in. It leverages negative publicity in a measurable way to make outside spending toxic

Fantastic. Let people in Dallas and Houston and Jacksonville experience a bunch of masked thugs in their faces.

I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment

The IDF is a war crime
Everywhere it goes

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