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Let’s figure out criminal statutes these shakedowns violates—blackmail, coercion, protection racket—and get impeachment articles on the house floor.
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One insurance denial for Teressa’s husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” (Published Sept. 2025)
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“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple's Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necessary.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/mental-health-suicide-highmark-bcbs-insurance-denials?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1777683420&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Rep. Rob Menendez
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Cutting funding for public broadcasting is a disservice to our community. Our neighbors deserve to stay informed, and we will certainly miss these important conversations.
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The Washington Post
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Multiple scientists who served on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions by President Trump.
https://wapo.st/4vWaXpG
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Mississippi Free Press
6 days ago
Israel and Max Makoka were about to board their Hancock County High School bus on April 21 when 10 unmarked cars suddenly surrounded them. ICE agents ziptied the teen brothers, whose only offense was a clerical error they knew nothing about, and hauled them away.
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Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.
ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/max-and-israel-makoka-were-waiting-for-a-hancock-high-school-bus-ice-took-the-brothers-instead/
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Julie Johnson
8 days ago
Lawless, intimidating behavior like is why I voted NO to funding ICE. Due process has been entirely undone by this administration. I will never vote with Republicans to empower Trump.
#TX33
www.texastribune.org/2026/04/25/e...
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ICE re-arrests El Gamal family after judges freed them
Federal judges this week ordered the family of six released. They had been detained since June after the father was charged with attacking mostly Jewish protesters.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/25/el-gamal-family-dilley-family-detention-texas-redetained-egypt/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1777140158&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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Representative Becca Balint
8 days ago
They helped American servicemembers in a time of need, and now, Trump wants to betray them. We all know that ghoul Stephen Miller is behind this. For the sake of our country and what remains of our reputation around the world, he needs to be fired.
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Trump Talks on Sending Afghans to Congo Draw Bipartisan Ire
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/trump-afghans-congo-refugees.html
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics. Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Roger Parloff
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Yesterday
@aclu.org
filed this interesting damages suit for an engineer on an H-1B visa who was dragged from his car & detained under Operation Catch-of-the-Day. Sues under Maine's Civil Rights Act for illegal stop & detention, excessive force, race discrim.
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#1 in CARVAJAL-MUNOZ v. RAVENCAMP (D. Me., 2:26-cv-00190) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants with Jury Demand PAYMENT OF FILING FEE DUE WITHIN 48 HOURS. IF FILING FEE IS BEING PAID WITH A CREDIT CARD COUNSEL ARE INSTRUCTED TO LOGIN TO CMECF AND DOCKET Case Ope...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.med.70333/gov.uscourts.med.70333.1.0.pdf
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The Guardian
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‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
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‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations. The Guardian reviewed three videos posted by the Israeli military and on social media, which showed Israel carrying out mass detonations in the villages of Taybeh, Naqoura and Deir Seryan along the Israel-Lebanon border. Lebanese media has reported more mass detonations in other border villages, but satellite imagery was not readily available to verify these claims. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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After pager attack on Hezbollah, Hungary offered help to Iran “Our secret service has already contacted yours, and we will share all the info we have gathered during the investigation… Every possible document will be shared,” Hungary’s foreign minister told the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister.
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After pager attack on Hezbollah, Hungary offered help to Iran
Revelations about a 2024 call offering assistance raise questions about Hungary’s ties to Iran as the Trump administration backs Prime Minister Viktor Orban for reelection.
https://wapo.st/4soSj6S
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Democracy Forward
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CEO
@skyeperryman.bsky.social
: These emails — uncovered after months of work by our team — underscore the lawless way Elon Musk was allowed to run around Washington, wreaking havoc and abusing government resources, while American taxpayers are footing the bill.
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U.S. Marshals waived training rules for Musk's armed DOGE security, emails show
The U.S. Marshals Service allowed some members of Musk’s security team to sidestep experience and training requirements, according to emails.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-trump-government-doge-security-rcna266088
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Molly Jong-Fast
27 days ago
Reminder this guy is still doing the worst possible stuff to our most vulnerable
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Ron Filipkowski
27 days ago
This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.
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A very important detail is that it was CID who called ICE. Noteworthy.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
29 days ago
🚨 Ever Alvarenga, an asylum seeker, was driving to work Thursday morning when he was rear-ended by an ICE vehicle. He is still in the hospital after suffering significant injuries to his head, chest, back, & hands. [1/2]
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Brad Lander
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The horrors inside these ICE facilities are stunning. Don't look away. For a year, we’ve been working to call attention to the lawlessness & inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza and across the country. (1/2)
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Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/us/ice-detention-deaths-immigrants.html
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Eric Umansky
29 days ago
So the U.S. hid the extent of a strike on our embassy in Riyadh. An Iranian drone hit the CIA's floor. A minute later, another drone flew thru the hole created by the first drone. A fire lasted half a day. Parts of the embassy were "not recoverable."
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive | Iranian Strike on U.S. Embassy Caused More Damage Than Disclosed
Two drones hit the compound in Saudi Arabia, sparking a fire that raged for hours.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-us-embassy-iran-strike-damage-b924d29c?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_2
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Rep. Mike Levin
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This is unacceptable. Serving in Congress shouldn’t double as a side hustle. If you write the rules, you shouldn’t get to bet on the outcome. We need a ban on Congressional stock trading, and we need it NOW.
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Rachel Maddow
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"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...”
www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
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Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-detainment-harmed-immigrants-with-chronic-health-problems/601588583?utm_source=gift
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
‘My heart is breaking’: Lebanese family grieve daughter killed by Israeli bomb
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‘My heart is breaking’: Lebanese family grieve daughter killed by Israeli bomb
Narjis, one of 121 children killed in Lebanon this month, wanted to be a doctor and ‘was like a blossom’, her mother says * Middle East crisis – live updates Rania Jaber told her husband that if God blessed them with a daughter, she would be named Narjis, Arabic for daffodil. After having twin boys, Jaber wanted a little girl she could dress up. Jaber got her girl and made good on her promise: Narjis was born in 2020. Her mother was delighted to find that just like her namesake flower, her daughter’s hair was light. Narjis seemed “wise beyond her years”, Jaber said, recalling how her daughter would comfort her whenever she would cry. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/27/lebanon-family-grieve-daughter-killed-israeli-bomb?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Brad Lander
about 1 month ago
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
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The Hill
about 1 month ago
A jury on Friday found that Elon Musk misled Twitter’s shareholders by driving down Twitter’s stock price ahead of his $44 billion acquisition of the company in 2022.
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Jury finds Musk misled Twitter shareholders during takeover fight
A jury on Friday found that Elon Musk misled Twitter’s shareholders by driving down Twitter’s stock price ahead of his $44 billion acquisition of the company in 2022. The San Francisco …
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5795094-jury-rules-musk-defrauded-investors/
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Wayne Benner
about 1 month ago
More corruption in plain sight.
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Rep. Joe Neguse
about 1 month ago
My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at:
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
. I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!
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Elad Nehorai
about 1 month ago
From a piece I wrote about how every death is not a "death" but a murder. And how the conditions have been purposefully created to cause massive suffering, including but not in any sense limited to systemic murder.
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Joaquin Castro
about 2 months ago
ICE arrests father, Juan Chavez Velasco, on his way to deliver milk to his baby in the NICU. Please keep speaking up. You are making a difference!
youtu.be/f2scDCELWCI?...
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ICE arrests father, Juan Chavez Velasco, on his way to deliver milk to his baby in the NICU
YouTube video by JoaquinCastroTX
https://youtu.be/f2scDCELWCI?si=rCjXxkDW7zSBloHm
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Timothy Snyder
about 2 months ago
This man did far more fighting for the US than anyone in the cabinet or the White House. And he died one day after being taken to an American concentration camp. One day.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die in ICE detention this year.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-asylum-seeker-dies-ice-custody-us-advocacy-group-says-2026-03-15/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=69b70413ca3bad00018f5d22&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Independent Read more:
trib.al/fMtk1ko
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Rep. Mike Levin
about 2 months ago
We know all about Noem’s $220 million DHS ad campaign and the $143 million no-bid contract she handed to an 8-day-old company with no website, no headquarters, and no prior federal work. Now Noem and Lewandowski are gone at DHS.
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Molly White
about 2 months ago
The Binance crypto exchange has just filed a
defamation lawsuit
against the Wall Street Journal over its
article
reporting that Binance's own compliance investigators had found $1 billion in transfers to Iran-backed terror groups, and then were fired.
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Ilhan Omar
about 2 months ago
Five years after fleeing the last U.S. war, 1,100 Afghan refugees who risked their lives are stranded in a Qatar refugee camp as missiles rain overhead. 150 people are family members of U.S. servicemembers. Unconscionable.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
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Afghan allies, stranded at Qatar refugee camp, face 'hell' amid Iran war
More than a thousand Afghan allies at a Qatar refugee camp face terror and confusion as Iranian missiles rain down.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/03/05/afghan-allies-qatar-camp-iran/88978889007/
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Headquarters
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Rep. Swalwell: Ms. Gutierrez, a mother from my district, went to a routine immigration check. She wasn't hiding, she hadn't done anything wrong. She was snatched up, with her two children, 4 and 6, and deported.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
about 2 months ago
Students should be in classrooms, rehearsal rooms and on stages, not in detention centers. The story of these Texas teen mariachi musicians and their family is heartbreaking, and a reminder of why our members keep fighting for their students’ safety.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...
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ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/us/teen-mariachi-musicians-detained-ice-texas.html
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Mark Joseph Stern
2 months ago
By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured.
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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T. Krown
2 months ago
These people are monsters, man. An irredeemable evil. If your god approves this, reevaluate yourself at the core.
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ProPublica
2 months ago
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)
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A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save...
https://www.propublica.org/article/elizabeth-nakagawa-miscarriage-military-tricare-abortion-policy?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1772071207&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Will Bunch
2 months ago
They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads
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Asha Rangappa
2 months ago
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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NPR
2 months ago
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
https://n.pr/4qTItsU
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Joaquin Castro
2 months ago
Juana said that the stress is so bad that her hair is falling out—that she can’t take it anymore. I am gravely concerned that ICE is failing to meet the most basic medical needs of expecting mothers like Juana while imprisoned.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)
2 months ago
Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Ron Filipkowski
2 months ago
“I’m just saying …
bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
2 months ago
The life of this 59yo Cambodian refugee whose circumstances of death have *not been disclosed* matters.
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ProPublica
2 months ago
9-year-old Maria Antonia was supposed to go to Disney World. Instead, immigration agents sent her to Dilley, Texas.
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How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention
A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-maria-antonia-guerra-story?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1771459215&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
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Rebel with a Cause
3 months ago
STEALING OUR MONEY! tRumpstein ADDED $696 BILLION TO THE NATIONAL DEBT OVER THE PAST FOUR MONTHS ... Borrowing $94 billion in January alone!!! 100% of Gross Domestic Product! The HIGHEST PERCENTAGE THE NATIONAL DEBT HAS EVER MADE UP OF GDP WAS 106%, and that was immediately following World War II
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Report: U.S. added nearly $700 billion to national debt in four months - NewsBreak
(The Center Square) – The U.S. government added $696 billion to the national debt over the past four months, borrowing $94 billion in the month of January
https://share.newsbreak.com/h7jv7hcd
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Mica Rosenberg
3 months ago
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra from Colombia was detained on her way to Disney World. She told me when I met her that what was supposed to be a 10-day dream vacation to the park’s Halloween celebration turned into a 100+ day nightmare at Dilley. 6/
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Minnesota Star Tribune
3 months ago
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers in St. Paul that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.
https://bit.ly/4aePi1H
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The New York Times
3 months ago
Iranian authorities have sentenced the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a second prison sentence even before she had completed her last jail term, her family and lawyers said on Sunday.
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Iranian Nobel Laureate Gets Second Prison Sentence and Ends Hunger Strike
The activist Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to another seven years, bringing the total she must serve to 17 years, her foundation said.
https://nyti.ms/4tfGrFI
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Rachel Maddow
3 months ago
Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA:
lataco.com/captive-loti...
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note
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