Tompaul Wheeler
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Writer. Photographer. Filmmaker.
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Sarah J. Jackson
about 16 hours ago
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. Itâs always a matter of will not resources.
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Coach Finstock
1 day ago
Sorry but my favorite example of this was making the brain surgeon head of HUD. Just an all timer giveaway
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Jack Jenkins
1 day ago
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within âWestern Civilizationâ believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
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ryan cooper
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straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
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Scott Horton
1 day ago
Kristi Noem's DHS searches totalitarian states around the globe for ideas. 'In a Feb 11 social media post, the Department of Homeland Security listed oppressive regimes like Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE agents.'
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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DHS Cites Cuba And Venezuela As Law Enforcement Models For ICE
In a social media post, DHS listed Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2026/02/13/dhs-cites-cuba-and-venezuela-as-law-enforcement-models-for-ice/
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Mike Cookson đś đŞđşđłď¸âđđłď¸ââ§ď¸
2 days ago
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
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Movies Silently
1 day ago
What these sloppers canât explain is how or why anyone would pay to see someone elseâs slop when they can make their own bespoke slop with the same low effort. They arenât making movies, theyâre making junk mail
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Florida Lib đşđ¸
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How is this not all some AI Mad Libs?
www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...
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Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to âtake downâ Pope Francis | CNN
Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to US President Donald Trump, discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to âtake do...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/world/bannon-epstein-take-down-pope-francis-latam-intl
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Kat Tenbarge
3 days ago
The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them
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hammancheez
3 days ago
end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance
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Thereâs absolutely no rationale for any of this whatsoever, except to create targets for hate. And once they finish hating on one group they wonât say âJob well done, guys!â Theyâll just keep finding new targets.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-working-expand-effort-strip-citizenship-foreign-b-rcna255427
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Radley Balko
4 days ago
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
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Robert Reich
4 days ago
The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already. Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICEâs Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about t
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children
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Democrats believe in hiring experts to run things, and they believe in trying something else if the first thing doesnât work. Say what you will about them, that competence and flexibility makes a difference.
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John Pfaff
5 days ago
As powerful a visual as one can imagine about how insincere âtough on crimeâ types are when they claim they put victims first. They only see victims as useful tools for advancing their desire to engage in punitive social control. Victims who do not advance that goal donât count.
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Whereâs the âThey enslaved Irish people too!!!!11)!!!!â crowd now?
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Mark Copelovitch
5 days ago
Senator Avery Brundage would like you to know that criticism of authoritarians will not be permitted at the Olympics.
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A.R. Moxon
6 days ago
Well then play it. Play it again and again until thereâs an answer. Make them answer for sending Nazi death troops to wage a war of terror against the U.S. civilian population.
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Charles ĐŻ. Davis
6 days ago
This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people â never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners â are now dead.
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Molly Crane-Newman
7 days ago
âItâs just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,â he said of his detention camp. âIâm not in fear of the other inmates. Iâm afraid of the staff. Theyâre capable of anything.â
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capitolhunters
6 days ago
Yes. Miller knows those people can't all be deported. He knows they will be in camps. We need to understand: many, many people in Trump's circle read about the Nazis, openly admire Hitler, and want to emulate what Hitler did. We have to accept how serious this is - we cannot hide from it.
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So did Trump watch the TPUSA show or did he just hate watch the real one
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Chris Murphy
8 days ago
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. Heâs referenced 38,000 times.
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Cape Cod Demon Hunter
8 days ago
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
8 days ago
Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil. Wâs âwar on terrorâ incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went. Abolish.
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The Associated Press
9 days ago
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
https://bit.ly/4arBT6O
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Jeff Lazarus
8 days ago
They accuse anyone besides white christians of not being real Americans but it's the MAGA folks whose patriotism is conditional.
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Kevin M. Kruse
8 days ago
If Al Gore had done this as vice president, it would have been a 24/7 scandal on Fox News culminating in impeachment proceedings.
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Kaitlin Ruiz
22 days ago
this administration isn't leaning into AI from mere laziness. they're flooding your centers of discernment with hyper-real fakery so that those in power are those who determine what's real.
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Americaâs failure to reckon with all the abuses of the âwar on terrorâ is a big part of how we got to today.
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Brian Goldstone
12 days ago
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
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Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after ⢠Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/30/homeless-oregon-youth-got-1000-a-month-for-two-years-most-found-housing-after/
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Cato Institute
13 days ago
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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sarah jeong
13 days ago
A lot of the people had never been tear gassed before. I talked to someone in the center of the cloud who had never been gassed and had only been to big protests like No Kings. She said the march had felt like the exact same vibe, right up until she was gassed for the first time in her life.
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ICE is afraid of children protesting
âNext time, Iâll be back with a gas mask.â
https://www.theverge.com/policy/872783/tear-gas-children-portland-ice-labor?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ik82RXlIMFRrQmciLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84NzI3ODMvdGVhci1nYXMtY2hpbGRyZW4tcG9ydGxhbmQtaWNlLWxhYm9yIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwNTU5NDA5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzAxMjc0MDl9.NXDhQVZs0OcbLM77v7-6vvt15w2y84nywTGWgPgZ1uo&utm_medium=gift-link
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Sam Biddle
14 days ago
Trump has finally delivered the Jade Helm presidency the far right warned of in 2015: a techno-authoritarian assault on the White Houseâs enemies. Only now instead of raising an alarm over a hoax, theyâre cheering the real thing.
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
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Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency
Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now theyâre cheering it.
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/02/trump-ice-military-occupations-surveillance-state-violence/
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Everyone who opposed Trump, then bowed to him, never had an issue with him, they just feared heâd ruin the brand.
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Katelyn Burns
14 days ago
when you're planning on ending democracy but don't want the people to know until it's too late:
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Adopting a one-year-old from another country was stressful enough when we did it in 2012. The assistance the U.S. government gave at the time was much appreciated.
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molly conger
14 days ago
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Mark Copelovitch
14 days ago
Or, you know, like Trump & Elon Musk tearing down large swathes of the federal government, a set of entitled literally & legally designated & funded by Congress for a wide range of purposes. Again, there is one & only one constitutional solution to this problem, & everyone is just pretending now.
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Micah
15 days ago
the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
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Stephen Rodrick
16 days ago
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
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Governor Tim Walz
16 days ago
It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
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I think Iâm starting to understand why Jesus kept talking about how wealth corrupts people.
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Jeff Tischauser
17 days ago
âThey want to go about their lives and to enjoy life without being recognized as kidnappers and abusers in their community,â Riley said. âWe identify ICE and DHS agents for the same reasons we identify any violent, dangerous people intent on doing harm. They have chosen to prey on the community.â
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Larry Jackson
17 days ago
âIt is striking that the capital offense for which both Pretti and Renee Good ⌠were summarily executed was the crime of witnessâŚ. If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.â
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Matt Novak
17 days ago
Literally half the country wants to abolish ICE and the Democrats are going to make them pinky swear not to deport U.S. citizens anymore
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We need to expand the House, artificially frozen at 435 members a hundred years ago, when the U.S. had two less states and 220 million fewer people. 1500 members would be a decent adjustment for now.
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utopia deferred
18 days ago
The lynching of Francis McIntosh is widely considered the first public lynching in the United States modern history. Part of McIntosh's history as a victim is that they left his charred corpse, tied to the same tree at the same street corner he was burned in downtown STL, for years as an attraction.
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Will Stancil
18 days ago
The fact that Vance and Miller - the most powerful members of the administration - are publicly socially intermeshed with open and unapologetic Nazis is the Chekhovâs gun of Trumpâs second term, even if the press have refuse to acknowledge. Now itâs shooting us in the face.
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