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"Immigration officials confiscated the boy’s stuffed dinosaur toy and winter hat. At Dilley, they were provided with expired and spoiled food, which the child refused to eat."

The boy was 5. This wasn't Liam Conejo Ramos, but another 5-year-old boy from Minnesota.

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I don't think I've ever read a sentence as unappealing as "Jim Caviezel is Jair Bolsonaro."

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The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades on financial markets just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview by the US president was made public.

Read more: bbc.in/4sIO0TW

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Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won year...

NEW: Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago. @jeremykohler.bsky.social

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I knew all that work understudying Sarah Brown when I was 15 would pay off someday.

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“If I Were a Bell”

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While Patel’s camp will wave this off as the coordinated whining of disgruntled FBI holdovers, the sheer volume of people willing to talk makes that defense hollow. It's a lot of effort to coordinate NINE people to lie; takes very little if they're all just describing the chaos they witness daily.

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Donald Trump post "The U.S.A. is the “HOTTEST” Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore - Nobody’s laughing!!! President DJT"

Donald Trump post "The U.S.A. is the “HOTTEST” Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore - Nobody’s laughing!!! President DJT"

Trump slowly evolving into dril

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And so it begins.

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I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

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For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

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The Presidio is a success story — a military base now a self-sustaining national park.

Trump is the Destroyer President. He tears down institutions that make the world better — Medicaid, Kennedy Center, USAID, NIH — & replaces them with nothing since he’s incapable of building. He only destroys.

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Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.

Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.

Reporters should ask Trump to describe the pope's job.

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Not only are we the baddies now, we're now the dumbest baddies in the history of baddies

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Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB The credit bureaus have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.

Two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.

In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%.

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sol.jerseycity on Instagram: "This morning in Downtown JC, at the intersection of Barrow St and Wayne St, our neighbor was kidnapped by 5 ICE agents. Just a few …" This morning in Downtown JC, at the intersection of Barrow St and Wayne St, our neighbor was kidnapped by 5 ICE agents. Just a few feet away from a school where our children were playing—in the heart of Jersey City’s flourishing commercial district—agents of the state surrounded, intimidated, and abducted a young woman in an unmarked black car. All over our city, these kidnappings result in our immigrant community members being transported to, and suffering in, concentration camps and black sites. We should be deeply disturbed that the lack of awareness around ICE in our neighborhoods enables us to walk past this horrific event without intervening. Countless families live in fear around us and those who have already fallen victim to ICE’s terror are desperately fighting to locate and protect their loved ones. We’re eternally grateful for the Jersey City residents who happened to report this incident and mobilized in the aftermath to provide this footage. Urgently we must organize, mobilize, and continue to resist the invasion of ICE in Jersey City. Between the headlines, ICE is still here preying on our most vulnerable neighbors. We shudder to think of the countless people we may not have been able to assist simply because we couldn’t witness or intervene in what may become the worst moment of their lives. Today we weren’t able to stop ICE, but tomorrow always holds the potential for us to become stronger and more vigilant. As long as we remain isolated from each other, dependent on politicians, reliant on voting every few years, and disempowered to act: this will continue and it will get worse. Our communities will remain unsafe, our communities will continue to live in fear, and we will be unable to stop the expansion of this terroristic campaign. Take a training, join a network near you, organize for change, and resist fascism.#jerseycity #abolishice #iceoutofnj #chingalamigra #eyesoniceView all 1,014 comments

#ICE abducted an innocent woman in Jersey City #NewJersey

#EyesOnIce #AbolishICE #fuckICE #humanrights #ImmigrantsRights #FightFascism #FascismInAmerica

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The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

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A federal anti-SLAPP law would absolutely slap.

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shrouded figure on CBS

shrouded figure on CBS

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

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Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal.

Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big.

And here we are.

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you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.

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Trump insane Easter post

Trump insane Easter post

Mamdani warm and gracious easter greetings

Mamdani warm and gracious easter greetings

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

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Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:

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Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’ The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"

Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
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NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote
Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.

NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

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I cannot—and I honestly tried—think of an interpretation of ‘taking our country back from the radical left’ (or whatever iteration -objections to wokeness bla bla bla-) that is not ‘coercive government authoritarianism.’ What they mean by ‘radical left’ is ‘thinking and living as one chooses.’

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Early 20th c political cartoon depicting suffragettes as dowdy middle-aged women

Early 20th c political cartoon depicting suffragettes as dowdy middle-aged women

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

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3000 in attendance for No Kings 3 outside Maplewood Town Hall in Maplewood, NJ

3000 in attendance for No Kings 3 outside Maplewood Town Hall in Maplewood, NJ

3000 attend a No Kings rally in Maplewood, NJ

3000 attend a No Kings rally in Maplewood, NJ

3000 showed up for #NoKings in Maplewood, New Jersey today! Great organizing as always by @somaaction.bsky.social! It was a beautiful and uplifting event. Momentum is on our side, everybody!

@indivisible.org @njindivisible.bsky.social

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