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Posts by Karen Koski-Miller

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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.

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Any Olympians accepting an invitation to the White House should probably take a decoy medal, especially those who won gold.

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Thank goodness…this one is bad enough.

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He finally got his Nobel peace prize off layaway yall

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Stink, stank, stunk.

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Handwritten text on a notecard: My husbands ashes; I made me feel alone scared, empty, now I wonder where he is and if he's all still in his urn and if hes ok and I hope he's not in the dump

Handwritten text on a notecard: My husbands ashes; I made me feel alone scared, empty, now I wonder where he is and if he's all still in his urn and if hes ok and I hope he's not in the dump

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

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“A death row prisoner in Tennessee can be executed despite having an implanted heart device his lawyers say is likely to prolong his suffering… defenders say Byron Black is intellectually disabled & wouldn’t be on death row under modern legal standards…” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

🚨🚨🚨 While the fresh Palantir/Epi-X news post is bad, an EO today is much worse 🚨🚨🚨

As written, the point is to commit people "with mental illness who pose a danger to others OR are living on the streets"

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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We feed you.
They hunt us.

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So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!

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Thanks @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com - “Donny 2 Dolls” is an apt description. My husband and I can finally find something to snicker about amidst the horror of all of this.

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The Trump administration literally just cut the contract for ongoing audits of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, the extremely bipartisan law (unanimously passed in 2003) that requires jails and prisons to take rape seriously and adopt policies designed to make it less likely to happen.

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yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.

"His office leadership instructed appointees to act as servers for a multicourse meal. They dispatched a US Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation. On at least one occasion, a staffer was told to remake the cookies because the batch was subpar..."

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Secdef Lloyd Austin went to the hospital for prostate issues.

The GOP was trying to crush him.

Seems kinda small today huh

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Children's Health Defense (CHD), founded by HHS Secretary RFK Jr, has created an imposter webpage that closely mimics a CDC webpage on Autism and Vaccines. It is nefariously seeding disinformation by presenting a seemingly balanced argument on the science supporting and refuting autism and vaccines.

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What have we become? Oh, wait - don’t answer that as it’s pretty clear.

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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.

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So pleased to see that the new administration can rhyme like many of us could back in first grade - we just weren’t aware of that level of cruelty back then.

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How petty, but also not surprising.

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